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The Positioning Australia Program – Delivering a National Positioning Capability
The Positioning Australia Program is delivering every day. Thousands of users from all around the country connect to our systems to access accurate and reliable data from a... -
Mapping electrical conductivity structure for geological interpretation and...
The magnetotellurics (MT) method maps the electrical conductivity/resistivity structure of the subsurface, which provides crucial information for mineral exploration. Geoscience... -
CO2 Storage in Australia: Mitigating Emissions and Securing Future Energy Resources
This talk will discuss the current state of carbon capture and storage (CCS) in Australia, and the role it plays for mitigating CO2 emissions. In the talk, work that has been... -
The Hydrogen Economy: Realising Jules Verne’s 1874 vision of the future
There is significant momentum in Australia to develop a hydrogen production industry. The Australian economy is highly reliant on fossil fuel exports and hydrogen is seen as a... -
The Flying Hellfish Digital Journey
The Flying Hellfish provide Geoscience Australia with web portals of an unprecedented quality and impact. They have achieved this by embracing automation, digital culture and... -
The release of the 2019 Australian National Gravity Grids and the new...
For the first time in Australia, ground gravity, airborne gravity/gravity gradiometry, and satellite gravity observations have been combined to produce a series of National... -
Isotopic mapping: Unravelling the evolution of Earth's continents and their...
Earth is the only terrestrial planet in the solar system with continents, and hence understanding their evolution is vital to unravelling what makes Earth special – our liquid... -
Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Assessment of Papua New Guinea: 2019 revision
Papua New Guinea (PNG) lies in a belt of intense tectonic activity that experiences high levels of seismicity. Although this seismicity poses significant risks to society, the... -
Cloudy with a chance of noise
One annoying geodetic variable is a treasure trove of information to meteorologists. This talk will focus on a project in partnership with the BoM, RMIT and FrontierSI turned... -
Earthquakes and tsunamis caused by low-angle normal faulting in the Banda...
As the world’s largest archipelagic country in Earth’s most active tectonic region, Indonesia faces a substantial earthquake and tsunami threat. Understanding this threat is a... -
HiQGA: High Quality Geophysical Analysis
From being a poorly understood qualitative mapping tool, airborne electromagnetic (AEM) geophysics has become a mainstay for rapidly imaging the top few hundred metres of buried... -
Satellite navigation and the Southern Positioning Augmentation Network (SouthPAN)
Satellite navigation is an important capability in our modern lives—we use it to find the nearest petrol station, order food at home, and track an arriving package. Accurate... -
Assessing the Status of Groundwater in the Great Artesian Basin
The Australian Government, through the National Water Infrastructure Development Fund, commissioned Geoscience Australia to undertake a 3-year project ‘Assessing the Status of... -
Building Australia's economic, social and environmental growth and...
Through Commonwealth and State/Territory government partnerships, the National Location Information (NLI) Branch implements cutting-edge approaches to integrate and deliver... -
Smoothing Out the Wrinkles in Australia's Aging Vertical Datum
• Vertical datums are a foundational piece of the positioning puzzle that allows us make sense of height measurements - they make it possible to align height data by defining... -
Geoscience Australia and the Wonderful World of Drones
The presentation will introduce the basic components of the drone/UAV/RPAs, summarise the rules for operating a drone as part of a business or undertaking (including operating... -
Food by Geoscience Design! The geoscience of food, from tectonic plates to...
Our planet provides everything we need for our lives, including the food we eat. As the human population increases and expectations for lifestyle quality increases, so too do... -
Investigating Australia's Under Cover Geology Using the World's Largest...
The AusAEM survey is the world's largest airborne electromagnetic (AEM) survey flown to date, extending across an area exceeding 3.5 million km2 over Western Australia, the... -
Lithospheric conductors reveal source regions of convergent margin mineral systems
The clean energy transition will require a vast increase in metal supply, yet discoveries of new mineral deposits are declining. Recently, several case studies have demonstrated... -
The Geoscience Australia Laboratory - today's quality is tomorrow's reputation
In geoscience we often use ‘quality’ to describe our activities and products, but what does ‘quality’ actually look like? How do we measure it and determine if something is the...