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geoz 103 December 2014
NEWSBREAKERS
Spatial industry steps up
The 2014 Queensland Premier's Awards for Open Data recognises and celebrates the innovative use of publicly released Queensland Government data to improve service delivery to stakeholders. The winners of the 2014 Premier's Awards were announced in Brisbane on 2 December 2014.
http://tinyurl.com/p43h2qp
Happy Holidays
The GSA wishes all members, subscribers and partners a well-earned holiday over the coming weeks and a successful and productive year ahead.
FROM THE DIVISIONS
Divisional information is regularly updated at http://gsa.junctionworld.com/events/divisionmeetings.html
Check this site for more recent information on the following events:
Australian Capital Territory
Regular meetings 2015: Third Tuesday of each month (Except January)
Jaeger Lecture Theatre, Jaeger Building (Building 61), Australian National University. 5.00pm for 5.30pm start.
For more information: emma.mathews@ga.gov.au
New South Wales
2015 meeting dates to be advised
For more information: meetings@nsw.gsa.org.au
Queensland
Queensland Division launches a new App: a self-guided walking tour through the heart of Brisbane featuring the use of building stones from the early days of European settlement to the modern expansion of Australia's third largest City. Download it here.
2015 meeting dates to be advised
For more information: info@qld.gsa.org.au
Every Wednesday evening: GeoPub
Weekly Informal get-together for Explorers, Miners & other Geoscientists
O'Malleys Irish Pub - Basement Level of the Wintergarden in the Queen Street Mall, Brisbane. 5.30 pm
South Australia
The GSA SA Division is very pleased to announce a new partnership with the Playford Trust,
through which one scholarship will be offered annually, to the value of $5,000. The award will go to an
outstanding student entering a full time Honours year in Earth Sciences at a South Australian
university. The deadline for applications is 16 January 2015.
A copy of the application form is attached to the end of this month's newsletter. Potential supervisors of 2015 Honours students are encouraged to draw their attention to
this fantastic new opportunity.
There is no general meeting in December.
The next general meeting will take place Thursday 19th February 2015
Speaker and talk title will be confirmed in a forthcoming newsletter
Mawson Theatre, University of Adelaide. 5.30 pm for 6.15 pm
Sunday 22nd February 2015
Special event:
Building Stones of North Terrace
2 pm at Parliament House. Free, no RSVP required
Tasmania
2015 meeting dates to be advised
For more information: taryn.noble@utas.edu.au
Victoria
2015 meeting dates to be advised
For more information: secretary@vic.gsa.org.au
Western Australia
Regular meetings: First Wednesday of each month (except December and
January)
Irish Club of WA, 61 Townshend Road, Subiaco, 5.30pm
For more information: info@wa.gsa.org.au
GSA EVENTS
Urgent message to members. Please read carefully:
The GSA's membership email list has been fraudulently obtained by an as yet unknown third party.
We therefore advise all members to treat any communication that claims to be from the GSA with caution, even if the email includes the CEO's or the Membership Administrator's electronic signature. In particular, be wary of any requests for bank account details or requests for credit card information, which should not be provided under any circumstances.
Until further notice, the GSA will not request this information via email. Members should also carefully check the actual source (sender's address) and the address of any web links contained within any email claiming to be from the GSA.
GSA membership renewals for 2015
2015 Member renewals have been posted to all members. If you didn't receive your membership renewal and book sale information please contact the GSA office
Membership is from the 1st January - 31st December.
If you haven't paid your membership and want to make changes, please contact: info@gsa.org.au
We will shortly send an email reminder to members and provide the links.
To pay online:
Google Chrome or Internet Explorer are the most user-friendly browsers to enable online membership renewal.
Firstly, Click the member login area
Login: this is your member number
Password: on your member renewal form, unless you manually changed it.
The blue box on the left has your profile, click: Pay My Membership
This window has the details listed on your member renewal, if you do not want to change anything, simply add to basket to make the payment.
If you wish to make changes click on the tick boxes and add to basket. You will now be in the checkout window.
Insert your credit card details in this secure area and complete your transaction.
If you would like a receipt, please email: info@gsa.org.au
If in doubt please do not hesitate to contact the GSA by email info@gsa.org.au or phone (02) 9290 2194.
Specialist Group in Tectonics and Structural Geology.
Riding the Wave: A conference to showcase current research and ideas in Structural Geology and Tectonics 22-27 November 2015
Pre-conference field trip: 14-21 November 2015
New Caledonia: ophiolite obduction, accretion and high-pressure metamorphism
Field trip convener: Geoffrey Clark
Post-conference field trip: 28-29 November 2015
Gympie Block/D'Aguilar Ranges: Oscillating deformation and the birth and death of the
final orogeny on onshore Australia - core complex, ophiolitic blueschist, rift systems and
terrane accretion.
Field trip convener: Rod Holcombe
Key dates:
Early Bird registration and submission of approximate titles for oral presentation
selection: 30 June 2015
Abstract deadline: 15 September 2015
Download the second circular here.
For queries and expressions of interest contact:
Gideon Rosenbaum,
Email: g.rosenbaum@uq.edu.au
Phone: 07 3346 9798
New AAP Memoir available now!
Memoir 46: Ordovician (Darriwilian-early Katian) trilobite faunas of northwestern Tarim, Xinjiang, China
Edited by Zhou Zhiyi, Yin Gongzheng & Zhou Zhiqiang
Download the order form here.
IN THE NEWS
Nature shares all?
All research papers published in Nature will be made free to read in a proprietary screen-view format that can be annotated but not copied, printed or downloaded. The new content-sharing policy, which also applies to 48 other journals in Macmillan's Nature Publishing Group (NPG) division is an attempt to let scientists freely read and share articles while preserving NPG's primary source of income - the subscription fees libraries and individuals pay to gain access to articles.
Report in Nature: http://tinyurl.com/me2q4nb
News report by AAAS: http://tinyurl.com/qbdwvba
Will Sophie tell all?
Sophie the Stegosaurus is an 80% complete skeleton of the famous dinosaur and is thought to be the most complete specimen in the world. Now Sophie's 360 bones have been scanned and she has been digitally recreated in a computer as a detailed 3D model. Using the model scientists hope to examine how effective her muscles were and eventually reconstruct how she moved.
http://tinyurl.com/nnfxzad
Speaking of Dinosaurs ...
Another one that was gathering dust.
http://tinyurl.com/n6eb3wd
ON THE WEB
The interactive Anthropocene
A new interactive atlas from the Smithsonian allows you to explore the globe with zoomable maps reveal the scope of humanity's influence on Earth and how people are trying to address the issues this has created.
http://tinyurl.com/mgh9fdu
Gravity data maps ocean circulation
Data from the Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer satellite have enabled a significant improvement in our understanding of ocean currents. By accurately mapping variations in Earth's gravity the most accurate shape of the geoid has been produced. The data enabled the production of a very accurate model of ocean currents and speeds which has been validated by ocean buoy studies.
http://tinyurl.com/k5ufrqb
... and speaking of gravity:
The Earth's gravitational model, popularly known as the Potsdam Potato, is an image based on data from the LAGEOS, GRACE, and GOCE satellites and surface data.
Image courtesy of Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ - German Research Centre for Geosciences
http://tinyurl.com/q53499e
IN THE MEDIA
The ABC is calling you
To mark 40 years of The Science Show the ABC is looking for outstanding early career researchers aged under 40 working in Australian universities and research organisations across the fields of science, medical research, technology, engineering and maths. A desire and flair for communicating your work is a must. Give it a go, you know you want to! Applications close Friday 16 January 2015 (midnight AEDT).
http://tinyurl.com/myl5s3m
UNCOVER on-line
CSIRO have published sixty presentations from the UNCOVER Summit and post-Summit Workshop, held in Adelaide between 31 March and 2 April. Follow the link below to a PDF that lists all presentations and provides a link to each one.
UNCOVER on-line links
2014 South Australian Exploration and Mining Conference presentations on-line
Visit the SAEMC website to download copies of all presentations at the most recent event as well as previous events right back to 2004.
http://tinyurl.com/lpttgvf
Mars: The field trip continued ...
Sedimentary rocks in Gale Crater suggest that Mt Sharp is a post-erosional relic of the sediments that filled Gale Crater when Mars was wetter.
http://tinyurl.com/mqddu9l
Image courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/ESA/DLR/FU Berlin/MSSS
Explore Mars one giant image at a time
http://tinyurl.com/ls8nhlg
Target area Alexander Hills up close
http://tinyurl.com/pdm9b7f
Stratigraphy and erosion. Nice!
http://tinyurl.com/qjxwthb
More news from the solar system ...
Dwarf-planet enthusiasts excited about 2015
http://tinyurl.com/kslfadr
Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in colour
http://tinyurl.com/m5ak9kg
Orion Flight Test a success
http://tinyurl.com/k8x5dyn
MESSENGER (MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging) lives another year
http://tinyurl.com/otbtkps
The Lure of Europa
http://tinyurl.com/p3weryw
http://tinyurl.com/kd6zkoy
Finding Philae
http://tinyurl.com/pu6dc4c
Why the Moon was magnetic
http://tinyurl.com/pj9s3jv
... and elsewhere ...
Catalogue of habitable exoplanets
http://tinyurl.com/crf8ymr
Young stars throw gas away!
http://tinyurl.com/np4ml43
What's in AJES
The Australian Journal of Earth Sciences online is available through the Taylor & Francis website. It is very easy to navigate and use.
AJES is available to financial members of the GSA. Don't miss the next issue because your membership has lapsed!
Volume 61 No.8
M. Lipar & J. A. Webb
Middle-late Pleistocene and Holocene chronostratigraphy and climate history of the Tamala Limestone,
Cooloongup and Safety Bay Sands, Nambung National Park, southwestern Western Australia.
R. A. Henderson & M. A. P. Nind
Pliocene aridity and Neogene landscape evolution recorded by a fluvial sediment system
(Campaspe Formation) in northeast Queensland.
S. K. Hamilton, J. S. Esterle & R. Sliwa
Stratigraphic and depositional framework of the Walloon Subgroup, eastern Surat Basin, Queensland.
S. Schmid & M. Quigley
Fluvial architecture and diagenesis of the Mt Eclipse Sandstone at the Bigrlyi uranium deposit,
Ngalia Basin, Australia.
D. T. Flannery, M. J. Van Kranendonk, R. Mazumder & M R. Walter
The ca 2.74 Ga Mopoke Member, Kylena Formation: a marine incursion into the northern Fortescue Group?
D. Hoy, G. Rosenbaum, R. Wormald & U. Shaanan
Geology and geochronology of the Emu Creek Block (northern New South Wales, Australia) and implications for oroclinal bending in the New England Orogen.
I. D. Lindley
Suckling Dome and the Australian-Woodlark plate boundary in eastern Papua:
The geology of the Keveri and Ada'u Valleys
Other papers published on-line recently
D. I. Cendón, C. E. Hughes, J. J. Harrison, S. I. Hankin, M. P. Johansen, T. E. Payne, H. Wong, B. Rowling, M. Vine, K. Wilsher, A. Guinea & S. Thiruvoth
Identification of sources and processes in a low-level radioactive waste site adjacent to landfills: groundwater hydrogeochemistry and isotopes
E. Swierczek, G. Backe, S. P. Holford, E. Thentorey & A. Mitchell
3D seismic analysis of complex faulting patterns above the Snapper Field, Gippsland Basin: implications for CO2 storage
Follow this link to see the most recent papers published on-line.
Coming up in TAG
TAG for December 2014
The December TAG is in the mail. We want to share your local news and report on what matters to the geoscience community. The copy deadline for the March 2015 issue is 27 January 2015. If you are submitting a Feature or Special Report please send your article in as soon as possible and if you need information about word lengths and submitting contact: tag@gsa.org.au
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Fee: $150.00
For more information: info@gsa.org.au
WHAT'S ON
DEADLINES:
Call for Papers - Abstract deadline December 15 2014 (but late papers may be accepted)
4th annual Australasian Universities Geoscience Educators Network meeting: 12 – 13 January 2015
Submit abstracts and expressions of interest here.
AUGEN web site: http://tinyurl.com/lzjvszv.
Nomination deadline January 16 2015
David Syme Research Prize - $7300 plus medallion
For more information including the guidelines and nomination form: http://tinyurl.com/ly9nfh4
EVENTS:
Australasian Universities Geoscience Educators Network meeting, 12 – 13 January 2015
Australian Groundwater Modelling School, Adelaide, 23 – 26 February 2015
An introduction to porphyry Cu-Au exploration, Orange NSW, 27 February – 5 March 2015 Download flyer here
2D/3D slope stability analysis for open pit mines short course, Perth, 6 March 2015
Follow this link for the flyer
Emerging Technologies in Waste Management Seminar Series, Perth, 9 – 13 March 2015
2015 Australian Groundwater School and Field Trip, Adelaide, 16 – 20 March 2015
Big Data, Inspiring Information and Strategic Knowledge, Perth, 23 March 2015
The Yilgarn, Perth, 30 – 31 March 2015
Open Pit Slope Stability and Ground Support Seminar - metalliferous and coal mining, Brisbane, 14 – 16 April 2015
CONTACTS
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