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geoz 132 July 2016
NEWSBREAKERS
Designing out gender inequity from the science community
Led as a joint venture by the Australian Academy of Science and the Academy of Technology and Engineering, Science in Australia Gender Equity (SAGE) is conducting an Australian pilot of the UK's Athena SWAN Charter. SAGE works towards a vision that women and men will be equally represented in STEMM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics & medicine) disciplines in higher education and research organisations, including in leadership roles.
News report: http://tinyurl.com/z8n4w6o
Read more about the Athena SWAN Charter here: http://tinyurl.com/pbgnoha
Read more about SAGE and participating institutions here: http://tinyurl.com/zv43f57
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 2016: 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: patrick.carr@anu.edu.au
New South Wales
2016 meeting dates to be advised
For more information: meetings@nsw.gsa.org.au
Northern Territory
Thursday 4th August 2016
Dr Grant Cox, Curtin University/University of Adelaide
Basin redox and primary productivity within the Mesoproterozoic Roper Seaway NT
NT Geological Survey office, 3rd Floor, Paspalis Centrepoint Building, 48-50 Smith St,, Darwin. 4.00 pm
Queensland
Wednesday 27th July 2016
Professor Joan Esterle (2016 recipient of the Dorothy Hill Medal)
Joan will be talking on aspects of her research into Queensland's coal basins.
Medal Presentations:
The 2016 Dorothy Hill Medal is awarded to Professor Joan Esterle (Chair of the Vale-UQ Coal Geoscience Program)
The 2016 Neville Stevens Medal is awarded to Mr John Siemon
Darcy Mitchell Room, Broncos Leagues Club, 92 Fulcher Road, Red Hill. 5.15 pm for 6.00 pm
Every Wednesday evening: GeoPub
Weekly Informal get-together for Explorers, Miners & other Geoscientists
O'Malleys Irish Pub - Basement Level, Wintergarden in the Queen Street Mall, Brisbane. 5.30 pm
South Australia
Thursday 4th August, 2016 Year: Ralph Tate Memorial Lecture
INCORRECTLY advertised for June previously.
Vic Gostin
Joint meeting with the Field Geology Club of South Australia
Mawson Theatre, University of Adelaide. 7.00 pm
Thursday 22nd September 2016
Annual Dinner
Award of Webb & Howchin Medals
Hyde Park Tavern, King William Road, Hyde Park.
Ticket price will be $50 per person for a three course meal. Drinks not included.
Contact Secretary Morgan Blades for more information.
Thursday, 20th October 2016
Student Careers Night Joint Meeting with the Adelaide University Geological Society.
Graduate speakers will discuss career options and personal journeys in geoscience.
More details TBA
Tasmania
2016 meeting dates to be advised
For more information: taryn.noble@utas.edu.au
Victoria
Thursday 28th July 2016
Dr Matthias Raab
CO2CRC Otway Project
Fritz Lowe Theatre, School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne, 5.30 pm for 6.15 pm
Thursday 25th August 2016
Student Night - speakers to be announced
Fritz Lowe Theatre, School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne, 5.30 pm for 6.15 pm
Geological Society of Australia, Victoria Division, Student Research Scholarships
The scholarship is valued at up to $500 for travel within Australia and $700 for travel outside
of Australia. The number of and value of the scholarships awarded each year is made at the
discretion of the GSA (Vic) committee. Funding will not be granted retrospectively and applicants are asked to submit forms no later
than 6 weeks prior to their trip to give the committee time to consider the application.
Follow this link for more information and the application form.
Western Australia
2016 meeting dates to be advised
For more information: info@wa.gsa.org.au
GSA EVENTS
Science Week in the Hunter
To celebrate the 2016 National Science Week theme of Drones, Droids and Robots, the Hunter Earth Science Discussion Group (HEDG) presents: The Space Age: minerals, wealth and robots. The talk, to be presented by Kim Ellis - Director of Earth Space Technology Pty Ltd - will be held on Tuesday 16 August 2016 at the Newcastle Museum. Drinks and nibbles at 6.00 pm, presentation at 6.30 pm. To assist with catering register for this free event here.
Discover Volcanism - Hawaii field trip: 11-19 February 2017.
See amazing volcanism first-hand and explore the active volcanoes of Hawaii for a week with a group of like-minded geoscience enthusiasts. The eight day Discover Volcanism trip is based in Hilo, Hawaii and takes the group though the basics of Plate Tectonics, hot-spot volcanism, volcano life cycles, volcanic products and more. Collect data, samples and learn how to develop scientific field notes and map in the field and in a lava cave. Participants also visit an active volcano observatory, a tea farm and winery, historical parks and learn about local traditions and culture that has developed through living with the hazards of volcanic activity. Also examine examples of engineering solutions to some unusual hazard problems in Hawaii. There is even time to walk on a black and green sand beach, swim in volcanically heated hot pools and snorkel on a coral reef with turtles and dolphins (if they appear).
The trip caters for a small number of people so that personalised learning experiences can happen for all the participants. The trip is also not overly expensive, with all the land transport, accommodation, breakfasts, some dinners, park entry fees covered. All you need to do is get to and from Hilo, Hawaii and make your field lunches and you're almost set.
Cost: US$1575 per person (not including airfares to/from Hilo, HI Twin share)
Members of the Geological Society of Australia receive a US$75 discount
For more information you can visit http://geoetc.com/hawaiifeb17/ or email Gary Lewis on gary@geoetc.com for more details.
IN THE NEWS
Only slow at first
Continental rift margins develop slowly but are often followed by a rapid, unexplained, acceleration in the rifting rate that is at odds the normal plate tectonic motion. New modelling from the University of Sydney proposes a mechanism for this two step rifting process and provides an explanation for several previously unexplained rapid absolute plate motion changes.
News report: http://tinyurl.com/zwmxwte
Research abstract: http://tinyurl.com/zcdj9rh
Not so extinct
The Colli Albani hills outside Rome have usually been thought of as the remains of a long extinct volcano. However, despite no record of historical eruptions newly active steam vents, earthquakes and a steady rise in ground level have all pointed towards a slumbering rather than extinct volcanic system. Research indicates an episodic eruption style with an eruption cycle of 31,000 years. The last documented eruption was 36,000 years ago and, together with recent geophysical data, this suggests the system is entering a new eruptive cycle that could see volcanism return to Rome sometime in the next 1000 years.
News report: http://tinyurl.com/j28nhjr
Research abstract: http://tinyurl.com/hlnlore
ON THE WEB
The Warrumbungles: great rocks, great night sky
The geologically impressive Warrumbungle National Park has joined other international parks such as Death Valley National Park in the USA and Galloway Forest Park in Scotland as an officially designated Dark-Sky Park. This, however, is the first Dark-Sky Park to be declared in the Southern Hemisphere. Operated by the Research School of Astronomy & Astrophysics at the Australian National University, Siding Spring Observatory boasts the 4-metre Anglo-Australian Telescope, the largest in Australia and conservation of the dark skies in the area is recognised as significant investment in Australia's professional astronomy infrastructure.
News report: http://tinyurl.com/hz9t5hk
International Dark Sky Parks: http://tinyurl.com/hh99d3f
Annual Professional Scientist Employment and Remuneration Survey
Geological Society of Australia members are invited to participate in Professionals Australia's annual Professional Scientist Employment and Remuneration Survey. Participants go in the draw for a chance to win one of four prizes of $500.
Professionals Australia has been conducting regular surveys of professional remuneration for over four decades, working with Science & Technology Australia to benchmark Professional Scientists rates of pay since 2005. Results from the survey are compiled into an annual summary report on scientist remuneration that will be made available to members free of charge. This report provides the most comprehensive benchmark of Scientist remuneration and employment conditions in Australia.
The survey takes 10-15 minutes to complete, is entirely anonymous, and can be accessed from here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ScientistRemuneration2016. The survey will remain open until the 1st of August, 2016. All Australian based Professional Scientists are eligible to participate. Upon completing the survey you will be taken to an online competition entry form to go in the draw to win one of four prizes of $500 drawn randomly after the survey closes.
The more professionals that participate the better our snapshot of scientist remuneration so we strongly encourage you to share this invitation with your colleagues.
Follow this link to take the survey.
Professionals Australia: http://tinyurl.com/nnbc2ql
IN THE MEDIA
An earthquake disaster in waiting?
New research has identified a locked megathrust plate boundary beneath Bangladesh where strain has been building for at least 400 years. If all the strain was released in one event an unprecedented disaster would unfold across the area, one of the most densely populated regions of the world.
News report: http://tinyurl.com/gtazg7j.
Research abstract: http://tinyurl.com/hruto9b.
Lunar influence on earthquakes documented along the San Andreas fault
Researchers examining data on 81,000 low-frequency earthquakes along a section of the San Andreas fault have determined that these earthquakes were most likely to occur during the waxing period of the Moon, when the Earth tide was getting bigger the fastest.
News report: http://tinyurl.com/j94kuv2.
Research abstract: http://tinyurl.com/hu8efzd.
Mars: The field trip continued ...
Back to work after safe-mode shut down scare
Curiosity is out of safe-mode and working again but precautions are being taken until the problem that generated the safe-mode shut down is fully understood. Curiosity has visited a blocky deposit known as Bimbe. Various targets en-route to and at Bimbe have been examined chemically and optically.
http://tinyurl.com/o39vrf9
http://tinyurl.com/ztjgw8p
Image courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
Jupiter as seen from Mars
http://tinyurl.com/jh9lp6z
Image courtesy of NASA.
More news from the solar system ...
Poked in the eye!
http://tinyurl.com/jhpcjda
... and elsewhere ...
X marks the spot
http://tinyurl.com/h4eslzd
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!
AJES Vol 63 No.3
J. W. Counts, F. Rarity, R. B. Ainsworth, K. J. Amos, T. Lane, S. Morón, J. Trainor, C. Valenti, and R. Nanson
Sedimentological interpretation of an Ediacaran delta: Bonney Sandstone, South Australia.
K. R. Regmi, R. F. Weinberg, I. A. Nicholls, R. Maas, and M. Raveggi
Evidence for hybridisation in the Tynong Province granitoids, Lachlan Fold Belt, eastern Australia.
M. W. Dawson
Cisuralian coals of the Mullaley Sub-basin, northern New South Wales.
D. Kulikowski, K. Amrouch, and D. Cooke
Geomechanical modelling of fault reactivation in the Cooper Basin, Australia.
S. C. Boone, C. Seiler, A. J. Reid, B. Kohn and A. Gleadow
A Upper Cretaceous paleo-aquifer system in the Eromanga Basin of the central Gawler Craton, South Australia: Evidence from apatite fission track thermochronology.
S. J. Gale
The mined-out phosphate lands of Nauru, equatorial western Pacific.
T. Hu, X. Pang, X. Wang, H. Pang, Y. Liu, Y. Wang, L. Tang, L. Chen, Z. Pan, J. Xu and Y. Pang
Tight oil play characterisation: the lower-middle Permian Lucaogou Formation in the Jimusar Sag, Junggar Basin, Northwest China.
Follow this link to see the most recent papers published on-line.
Coming up in TAG
Did you submit your editorial for the September issue of TAG?
The September deadline for TAG was 22 July! Late submissions are likely to be held over for the December issue. If you have an urgent article to submit please contact: tag@gsa.org.au.
JOB VACANCIES
Advertising space now available
Advertising positions are now available in Geoz.
Word length: 40-50 words (the shorter the more effective) plus link to a web site.
Text and a small logo linking to your online advert or business.
Logo a maximum of 180 pixels wide x 90 pixels high.
Adverts will run in Geoz for two issues.
Fee: $150.00
For more information: info@gsa.org.au
WHAT'S ON
DEADLINES:
Early bird registration closes August 19 2016
Volcanic processes, products, successions and resources short course 2016:
Merimbula 4 - 10 December 2016
For more information contact Professor Ray Cas
Call for Papers - Abstract deadline November 01 2016
Target 2017:
Perth 19 - 21 April 2017
Innovating now for our future
http://tinyurl.com/j3cpudt
Call for Papers - Abstract submission opens 1 September 2016, closes 31 January 2017
Future Understanding of Tectonics, Ores, Resources, Environment and Sustainability:
Townsville 4 - 7 June 2017
FUTORES II
http://tinyurl.com/zl5zqrw
EVENTS:
Innovation Showcase: Positioning, Earth observations and Minerals, Canberra, 27 July 2016
Introduction to Groundwater: Principles and Practices, Brisbane, 27 – 29 July 2016
Brownfields Exploration: Deep and Meaningful, Kalgoorlie, 30 – 31 July 2016
AIG & GSA Technical Seminar Series, Brisbane, 18 August 2016
Geology and Exploration in North-east Queensland
35th International Geological Congress, Cape Town South Africa, 24 August – 4 September 2016
5th International Conference on Geotechnical and Geophysical Site Characterisation, Gold Coast, 5 – 9 September 2016
13th International Nickel-Copper-PGE Symposium - Platinum sponsor: IGO, Perth, 5 – 9 September 2016
The program features workshops and a mix of speakers from academia, geological surveys and industry, and will emphasise the practical applications of research outcomes related to ore-deposit formation and exploration. Komatiite-hosted deposits, PGE-rich disseminated sulfide deposits and non-conventional polymetallic Ni(-PGE) ores from around the world are represented. A post-conference field trip focuses on komatiites, nickel deposits and associated volcanic stratigraphy of the Kalgoorlie Terrane, Yilgarn Craton.
Registration for the symposium is $900 (GST incl.) and a special rate of $275 is available to students or to unemployed or retired GSA, AIG and AusIMM members. For more information or to register, please visit:
http://tinyurl.com/jhurkrh.
Soil and Groundwater Pollution and Remediation Workshop, Melbourne, 13 – 16 September 2016
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