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Time and Tide: Mapping Australia's dynamic coastal zone through time and...
Australia has a vast and highly dynamic coastline of over 30,000 kilometres with many unique environments: sandy beaches, rocky cliffs, muddy tidal flats, and mangroves. Until... -
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Discovering a treasure map
Sustainable development and the transition to a clean-energy economy drives ever-increasing demand for base metals, substantially outstripping the discovery rate of new deposits... -
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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... -
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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... -
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Treading lightly: How geoscience is revealing human impacts in Antarctica
Antarctica conjures images of expansive white icesheets but what about the 1% not covered by ice? Though small, these exposed islands of rock are hotspots of human and animal... -
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An Isotopic Atlas of Australia: a window into the geological evolution of...
Australia as it exists today is a product of geological processes that have occurred over its 4.5 billion year history. Isotopic studies are one approach to understanding the... -
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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... -
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Zinc on the edge: global controls on shale-hosted zinc deposits
Studies of three global sediment-hosted zinc provinces (Mt Isa, Australia; Northern Cordillera, Canada/USA; Irish Midlands, Ireland) indicate that deposits in all three... -
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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... -
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Mapping Australia’s hydrogen future – release of the Hydrogen Economic Fairways Tool
Hydrogen can be used for a variety of domestic and industrial purposes such as heating and cooking (as a replacement for natural gas), transportation (replacing petrol and... -
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Tsunami inundation hazards from global earthquake sources: Towards...
Australia's coastline is exposed to tsunamis generated by large subduction earthquakes in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. While recent events had limited impacts in Australia,... -
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Nature's glass artists: Volcanoes, lightning and meteorite impacts
We are all the beneficiaries of glass - from the vessels that hold our drinks, fiber optics that carry our communications, and the solar panels that convert the sun’s energy... -
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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... -
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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... -
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The Future of location-based decision making with the Digital Atlas of Australia
This seminar will give a preview of the Digital Atlas and also look at the challenges and expectations driving the evolving, complex and misunderstood location data landscape.... -
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Charting New Frontiers Harnessing Global Navigation Satellite Systems for...
GNSS, one of which is the more familiar US Global Positioning System (GPS), have become part of our everyday life… in our cars, phones and even smartwatches – helping us know... -
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Flood Vulnerability Research at Geoscience Australia
This talk presents an overview of flood vulnerability research in the Community Safety Branch at Geoscience Australia. It covers work looking at the tangible and intangible... -
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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... -
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Planning for impact: mapping and quantifying the benefits of public-sector geoscience
Geoscience Australia is increasingly looking to quantify the impact and value of the scientific work that it undertakes. Quantifying impact helps to demonstrate the return on... -
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Hydrogen and Salt
Hydrogen for energy storage and transport is a key part of the energy transition. Caverns in salt formations can provide high integrity and large-scale storage (>200 GWh)....