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Program – Draft

Registration to the virtual AESC will give you the opportunity to hear from invited plenary speakers, keynote speakers; participate in live Q & A sessions with presenters, interact with posters and virtual field trips as well as network with fellow delegates and industry. 

The program below is Provisional, changes will be made as final confimations are received.  All program times are listed in AEDT.  To check the different timezones view the PROGRAM AT A GLANCE or to convert the program times to your timezome, CLICK HERE. To view the presentations in each session click Session Details. To view the abstract, click on the presentation title.

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Tuesday 9 February

Welcome to Day 1 of the First Virtual AESC

10:30am AEDT – Official Opening

CONCURRENT SESSION 1
11:00am – 12:00pm AEDT
SESSION 1.1 | ENERGY & RESOURCES
Geophysics informing regional tectonic studies and mineral systems analysis
Chair: Robin Armit

Session Details

11.00 – 11.20 AEDT

KEYNOTE 

Lithospheric-scale magnetotellurics over the Eastern Goldfields Superterrane, Yilgarn Craton
Dr Kate Selway
11.20 – 12.00 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

Mineral Systems of the Capricorn Orogen through time
Dr Sandra Occhipinti

Gravity inversion constrained by probabilistic magnetotellurics models: methodology and application
Dr Jérémie Eugene Cyril Giraud

Unravelling the “late” evolution of the Gawler Craton: High T/P metamorphism, tectonism and magmatism of the Yorke Peninsula, South Australia
Mitchell Bockmann

Interpreting and validating trans-lithospheric faults in the Central Andes to investigate their control on the localisation of giant porphyry copper deposits
Alexander Farrar

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SESSION 1.2 | EARTH STRUCTURE
Tectonic and Paleogeographic evolution of Mesozoic Eastern Australia
Chair: To be advised

Session Details

11:00 – 11:20 AEDT

KEYNOTE 

Paleozoic and Triassic crustal evolution of the proto-Andes from detrital heavy minerals
Heinrich Bahlburg
11:20 – 12:00 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

Cretaceous Evolution of Zealandia dictated by congested subduction
Professor Peter Betts

Tectonic evolution and crustal growth processes revealed by detrital zircon petrochronology: Insights from dispersed Paleozoic-Mesozoic sedimentary basins of Zealandia
Dr Matthew Campbell

Jurassic Arc? Reconstructing the Lost World of eastern Gondwana
Elliot Foley

Jurassic physiography of southeastern Australia: Evidence from detrital zircon from the Nambour Basin
Professor Robert Henderson

Recognition of an Early Cretaceous Continental Arc in Eastern Australia
Carl Spandler

Raiders of the lost continental arc: Deciphering the tectonic regime of eastern Australia during the Jurassic from analysis of tuff beds in the Surat Basin
Dr Carmine Wainman

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SESSION 1.3 | CRUST, SURFACE & COSMOS
Carbonates as archives of the past
Chair: To be advised

Session Details

11:00 – 11:20 AEDT

KEYNOTE 

Trace element distributions in carbonate rocks: A sedimentologist’s perspective on sample targeting versus technique
Professor Gregory Webb
11:20 – 12:00 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

Neoarchean carbonates as archives of paleo-redox conditions on early Earth: Insights from metal isotope analyses of the Tumbiana Formation, Pilbara, WA
Dr Juraj Farkas

Descending into the “snowball”: Improving interpretations of Tonian palaeoenvironments with multi-proxy elemental and isotopic geochemistry
Georgina Virgo

Deep water cuspate stromatolites in the Cryogenian Trezona Formation, South Australia
Brennan O’Connell

Characteristics and diagenesis of the Upper Permian Beekeeper Formation from the Perth Basin, Western Australia
Muhammad Ridha Adhari

Quantifying the Dolomite problem and its impacts on Mg/Ca change through time
Dr Bradley Opdyke

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SESSION 1.4 | GEOSCIENCE AUSTRALIA 

From Core to Cosmos in a Post-COVID Earth: Our Opportunities and Roles as Geoscientists
Dr Steve Hill, Chief Scientist of Geoscience Australia
12:00pm – 12:45pm AEDT REFRESHMENT BREAK
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– meeting one-on-one with industry
– connecting with fellow delegates
– view ePosters
– view Virtual Field Trips

PLENARY SESSION #1
12:45pm – 1:45pm AEDT
Megan Clark

1:45pm – 1:55pm AEDT REFRESHMENT BREAK
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– meeting one-on-one with industry
– connecting with fellow delegates
– view ePosters
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AWARDS & MEDALS #1
1:55pm – 2:25pm AEDT

CONCURRENT SESSION 2
2:30pm – 3:30pm AEDT
SESSION 2.1 | ENERGY & RESOURCES
Geophysics informing regional tectonic studies and mineral systems analysis
Chair: To be advised

Session Details

2:30 – 2:50 AEDT

KEYNOTE 

The tectonostratigraphic evolution of the South Nicholson region, Northern Territory and Queensland: key discoveries from the Exploring for the Future and implications for resource exploration
Dr Chris Carson
2:50 – 3:30 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

Review of Australian Mesoproterozoic basins: Geology and resource potential
Dr Jade Anderson

Reconstructing the Soldiers Cap Group – Kuridala Group basin: Implications for BHT and IOCG mineralisation
Dr Karen Connors

Mapping the near surface architecture of the Amadeus Basin using magnetic data: Petrophysical properties and geophysics pitfalls
Dr James Austin

How to computationally include regional interpretations into the seismic imaging process
Mahtab Rashidifard

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SESSION 2.2 | CORE TO CRUST
Advances in Volcanic and magmatic processes
Chair: To be advised

Session Details

2:30 – 2:50 AEDT

KEYNOTE 

Shallow Conduit and Vent Processes in the 1886 Basaltic Plinian Eruption at Tarawera, New Zealand
Hannah Moore
2:50 – 3:30 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

Newly identified mafic and felsic tuffs of the Shoalhaven and Talaterang Groups, southern Sydney Basin: their volcanic significance and palaeoecological impacts
Dr Glen Bann

Timescales of magma ascent recorded by olivine zoning patterns from Mount Leura and Mount Noorat, Newer Volcanics Province, Australia
Dr Rosa Didonna

Geophysical and geochemical constraints on the formation of Holocene intraplate volcanism in East Asia
Jack Ward

Eruptive mechanisms of monogenetic volcanoes, Wiri Mountain, Auckland
April Foote

Transitions in Eruptive Style During the 2012 Deep Submarine Silicic Eruption of Havre Volcano, Kermadec Arc, New Zealand
Acacia Clark

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SESSION 2.3 | CRUST, SURFACE & COSMOS
Carbonates as archives of the past
Chair: To be advised

Session Details

2:30 – 2:50 AEDT

KEYNOTE 

On the foundering of carbonate platforms and coral reefs
Dr Moyra Wilson
2:50 – 3:30 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

Rafted benthic microfossils as proxies of Neogene ocean current history in the Bass Strait seaway, south-eastern Australia
Dr Mark Warne

Holocene microbialite records of terrigenous influence on water quality for the offshore southern Great Barrier Reef
Dr Marco Salas-Saavedra

Insights into palaeo-hydrology of the Coorong Lagoon, South Australia, based on Strontium Isotope Tracers (87Sr/86Sr and _88/86Sr) in fossil carbonates
Yuexiao Shao

Variations in mid- to late Holocene nitrogen supply to northern Great Barrier Reef Halimeda macroalgal bioherms
Mardi McNeil

Solution Pipes and Focussed Vertical Water Flow in Carbonates with High Matrix Porosity
Dr Susan White

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SESSION 2.4 | GEOSCIENCE IN SOCIETY, EDUCATION & ENVIRONMENT
Natural Hazards and Engineering Geology
Chair: Claire Kain

Session Details

2:30 – 2:50 AEDT

KEYNOTE 

Tasmanian landslide fatalities and some implications for landslide risk
Dr Nicholas Roberts
2:50 – 3:30 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

Real-time tracking of the 2019 pumice raft in the southwest Pacific
Dr Martin Jutzeler

Displacement of mega boulders across coastal rock platforms south of Sydney, Australia, by big storm waves generated by East Coast Lows
Dr Glen Bann

Structural analysis of wavecut platform structures, Shellharbour, New South Wales
Dr Paul Lennox

Rock Stress in Tasmania
Peter Hills

Assessment of quartz in Sydney’s rock formations associated with recent engineering infrastructure projects; implications for workplace health and safety
David Och

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3:30pm – 4:00pm AEDT REFRESHMENT BREAK
Explore the many opportunities the AESC Online Portal can offer, including:
– meeting one-on-one with industry
– connecting with fellow delegates
– view ePosters
– view Virtual Field Trips

CONCURRENT SESSION 3
4:00pm – 5:00pm AEDT
SESSION 3.1 | ENERGY & RESOURCES
Unconventional Gas & Resources
Chair: Julie Pearce

Session Details

4:00 – 4:20 AEDT

KEYNOTE 

A very unconventional hydrocarbon play: The Mesoproterozoic Velkerri Formation of Northern Australia
Professor Alan. S. Collins
4:20 – 5:00 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

The Distribution and Origin of Hydrogen Sulphide Gas in the Triassic Montney; unconventional Play, British Columbia and Alberta, Canada
Dr Gareth Chalmers

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SESSION 3.2 | CORE TO CRUST
Advances in Volcanic and magmatic processes
Chair: To be advised

Session Details


4:00 – 4:20 AEDT

KEYNOTE 

Zircon trace element geochemistry as an indicator of magma fertility in iron oxide-copper-gold provinces
Claire Wade
4:20 – 5:00 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

Trace element sector zoning in clinopyroxene as a function of undercooling: An experimental evaluation in trachybasaltic magmas
Alice MacDonald

U-Pb ages and aluminium concentrations of colourful sapphire-related zircon megacrysts from Far North Queensland:  Merlot, Rosé and Champagne
Dr Charlotte M. Allen

Corundum Conundrum
Nick Raffan

QEMSCAN and PGE geochemistry to track sulfide saturation, magmatic evolution and fertility of porphyry suites (on the example of Mount Hagen, Papua-New Guinea)
Monika Misztela

Mineralisation around Mount Adrah, New South Wales: new observations by the Geological Survey of NSW
Dr Yamei Wang

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SESSION 3.3 | CRUST, SURFACE & COSMOS
Sedimentary deposits: Earth and planetary processes
Chair: To be advised

Session Details


4:00 – 4:20 AEDT

KEYNOTE 

Preservation of ancient eolian landscapes beneath flood basalt: an example from the Officer Basin, Western Australia
Dr Peter Haines
4:20 – 5:00 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

Correlation of stratigraphic sequences to evaluate downstream transitions within the Wonoka canyon at Umberatana syncline, South Australia
Sarah Giles

Quantifying lateral and distal variability within hybrid beds, case studies from Central and Northern Italy
Dr Hannah Brooks

Reviewing stratigraphic units defined in the ACT
Christo Marais-van Vuuren

A Pb Isotope Regolith Map of Australia
Candan Desem

Australian Rocks and the Search for Life on Mars
Professor David Flannery

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SESSION 3.4 | Australian Aboriginal History and its Influence  on Science (AAHIS)
5:00pm – 5:30pm AEDT REFRESHMENT BREAK
Stand up, stretch, connect with fellow attendees in the Meeting Hub, browse the Exhibition and Poster and Virtual Field Trip Gallery… and prepare for the final session of day 1!

CONCURRENT SESSION 4
5:30pm – 6:30pm AEDT
SESSION 4.1 | ENERGY & RESOURCES
Unconventional Gas & Resources
Chair: To be advised

Session Details


5:30 – 5:50 AEDT

KEYNOTE 

Unconventional gas and resources
Professor Andrew Garnett
5:50 – 6:30 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

Petroleum source rocks of Western Australia – an overview
Khwaja Ameed Ur Rehman Ghori

CO2 reduction and fermentation producing in situ CH4 in the majority of sampled GAB aquifers and alluvium overlying a coal seam gas field
Dr Julie Pearce

Lessons Ascertained from the U.S. Shale Revolution: Abating Fugitive CH4 Releases from Unconventional Shale Gas Extraction
Alexander Krokus

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SESSION 4.2 | EARTH STRUCTURE
From cratonic assembly to supercontinent cycles
Chair: To be advised

Session Details


5:30 – 5:50 AEDT

KEYNOTE 

Self-consistent geodynamic models through the supercontinent cycle — testing the introversion and extroversion supercontinent assembly and the stability of LLSVPs
Dr Chuan Huang
5:50 – 6:30 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

New interpretations of high-resolution aeromagnetic data and implications for stratigraphic correlations in the Tanami Region and northwest Aileron Province
Dr Teagan Blaikie

Unravelling the Palaeoproterozoic tectonic evolution of the Tanami Region and northwest Aileron Province
Dr Helen McFarlane

Assembly of proto-Australia prior to the formation of the Nuna supercontinent in the Paleoproterozoic
Dr Uwe Kirscher

Proterozoic crustal evolution of NE Australia during Nuna assembly: Insights from geophysical and radiogenic isotope data
Jiangyu Li

Palaeomagnetism argue against a stable supercontinent during the Archaean-Proterozoic transition
Yebo Liu

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SESSION 4.3 | CRUST, SURFACE & COSMOS
Sedimentary deposits: Earth and planetary processes
Chair: To be advised

Session Details


5:30 – 5:50 AEDT

KEYNOTE 

Allocyclic controls on shoreface sedimentation from the Late Cretaceous to Miocene, Gippsland Basin, SE Australia
Elizabeth Mahon
5:50 – 6:30 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

Paleoflora and environment of the Surat Basin at the time of the JK transition
Jennifer Cooling

All models of mangrove phenology are wrong, but some are useful
Nicholas Younes

High-resolution rapid thermal neutron tomographic imaging of fossiliferous cave breccias from Southeast Asia
Holly Smith

Ediacaran stratigraphy in the western part of the Northern Territory Amadeus Basin, central Australia
Charles Verdel

Investigating the Origin of Organic Matter in Archean Chert
Vanessa Zepeda

How the zebra rock got its stripes: Origin of hematite banding in East Kimberley siltstones
Andrew Coward

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Wednesday 10 February

Welcome to Day 2

CONCURRENT SESSION 5
11:00am – 12:00pm AEDT
SESSION 5.1 | ENERGY & RESOURCES
Reframing mine wastes as new resources to meet green economy metal
Chair: Anita Parhahakar-Fox | Moderator: Gavin Mudd

Session Details


11:00 – 11:20 AEDT

KEYNOTE 

Mine Waste as secondary raw material in the framework of mining circular economy: Legislation and applicability perspectives
Mostafa Benzaazoua
11:20 – 12:00 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

The suitability of Re-mining as remediation method of Be-W skarn tailings in Yxsjöberg, Sweden
Lina Hȁllström

Opportunities for reprocessing polymetallic tailings in western Tasmania
Dr Laura Jackson

Critical metal exploration in Queensland’s mine waste: identifying potential secondary resources
Dr Anita Parbhakar-Fox

The bioprocessing potential of Capricorn Copper mine waste for critical metal recovery
Ruby Fritz

Application of alkaline industrial wastes in remediation of acid and metalliferous drainage generated by legacy mine wastes
Annah Moyo

Critical Metals and Mine Waste Across Australia: Partners in Solutions?
Associate Professor Gavin Mudd

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SESSION 5.2 | EARTH STRUCTURE
From cratonic assembly to supercontinent cycles
Chair: To be advised

Session Details


11:00 – 11:20 AEDT

KEYNOTE 

The emergence of eclogites linked to global arc chemistry change at 2 Ga
Renee Tamblyn
11:20 – 12:00 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

When did Australia’s Cratons come together?
Dr Weronika Gorczyk

Detrital zircon record of Proterozoic strata in the Priest River region of western Laurentia: Evaluating “SWEAT” relationships for supercontinents Nuna and Rodinia
Daniel Brennan

Review of SHRIMP zircon ages for the Eastern Succession of the Mount Isa Province and its provenances and comparison with the Etheridge Province
Ian Withnall

Partial melting, granulites, retrogression and their control on late orogenic exhumation processes
Associate Professor Bénédicte Cenki-Tok

Mantle refertilization from 3.2 billion years ago points to an early start of plate tectonics
Hamad Gamal EL Dien

The Role of Isostasy in the Evolution and Structural Styles of Fold and Thrust Belts
Youseph Ibrahim

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SESSION 5.3 | GEOSCIENCE IN SOCIETY, EDUCATION & ENVIRONMENT
Geoscience education
Chair: To be advised

Session Details


11:00 – 11:20 AEDT

KEYNOTE 

Coping with COVID – Using Virtual Geological Objects for On-Line Earth Science Education
Dr Michael Roach
11:20 – 12:00 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

The real work of virtual teaching: Learnings from EESO Summer School 2021 development
Greg McNamara

Earth Science Education after 2020
Dr Rachel Przeslawski, Shona Blewett

100 iconic rocks for a proof-of-concept display at the National Rock Garden
Professor Brad Pillans

Geology comes alive for high school students with fieldwork near Yass, NSW
Colin Price

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SESSION 5.4 | Ian McDougall Symposium
Chair: To be advised

Session Details

11:00 – 11:20 AEDT

KEYNOTE 

Timescale of events around the Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary: Links between the Chicxulub impact, Deccan volcanism, and the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction
Courtney Sprain
11:20 – 12:00 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

Bitterroot and Anaconda Core Complexes: Cretaceous Ductile Flow and Eocene Detachment Faulting in the Northern U.S. Rocky Mountains Defined by Ar/Ar Thermochronology
David Foster

40Ar/39Ar geochronology of syn-kinematic phengite reveals the tectonic history of underthrusted European crust (W Alps): a synthesis
Yann Rolland

High resolution 40Ar/39Ar geochronology in continental margin settings – the Aegean plate margin as a natural laboratory for subduction processes.
Manuel de Paz Alvarez, Fraukje Brouwer, Jan Wijbrans, Rosanne Huybens, Bertrum Ununk

The implications of muscovite sub-spectra in phengitic white mica on the theory and practice of argon geochronology
Marnie Forster

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12:00pm – 12:45pm AEDT REFRESHMENT BREAK
Explore the many opportunities the AESC Online Portal can offer, including:
– meeting one-on-one with industry
– connecting with fellow delegates
– view ePosters
– view Virtual Field Trips

PLENARY SESSION #2
12:45pm – 1:45pm AEDT
Searching for life on Mars in our own backyard; the quest for a second genesis
Martin Van Kranendon
1:45pm – 1:55pm AEDT REFRESHMENT BREAK
Explore the many opportunities the AESC Online Portal can offer, including:
– meeting one-on-one with industry
– connecting with fellow delegates
– view ePosters
– view Virtual Field Trips

AWARDS & MEDALS #2
1:55pm – 2:25pm AEDT

CONCURRENT SESSION 6
2:30pm – 3:30pm
SESSION 6.1 | ENERGY & RESOURCES
MinEx CRC: National Drilling Initiative frontier precompetitive drilling to support greenfields discovery
Chair: Anthony Budd | Moderator: Wei Hong

Session Details


2:30 – 2:50 AEDT

KEYNOTE 

Mineral and petroleum potential in the South Nicholson region, and the NDI Carrara 1 stratigraphic drill hole
Dr Amber Jarrett 
2:50 – 3:00 AEDT

PRESENTATION

The MinEx CRC National Drilling Initiative
Dr Anthony Budd 
3:00 – 3:30 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

Multicommodity mineral systems analysis for the National Drilling Initiative: The TISA and Delamerian case study
Dr Vaclav Metelka

Characterising fluid composition and source in a greenfields terrane: west Arunta Orogen, Western Australia
Dr Emily Finch

Optimization of sequential drilling locations to reduce geological uncertainty
Dr Guillaume Pirot

Zircon Chemistry as an Exploration Tool for Iron Oxide-Copper-Gold Deposits
Adrienne Brotodewo

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SESSION 6.2 | EARTH STRUCTURE
From cratonic assembly to supercontinent cycles
Chair: To be advised

Session Details


2:30 – 2:50 AEDT

KEYNOTE 

Structural evolution of a 1.6 Ga orogeny related to the final assembly of the supercontinent Nuna: coupling of episodic and progressive deformation
Dr Silvia Volante
2:50 – 3:30 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

The first continuous global full-plate animation back to 2 Ga
Professor Zeng-xiang Li

Development of William’s Ridge, Kerguelen Plateau and Broken Ridge: tectonics, hotspot magmatism, microcontinents, and Australia’s Extended Continental Shelf
Professor Millard Coffin

Linking supercontinents to a convective mantle framework
Dr Erin Martin

Paleogeography of the western margin of Rodinia: New findings from Madagascar and Seychelles
Dr Jiu-long Zhou

Distinct formation history for deep mantle domains reflected in geochemical differences
Dr Luc Doucet

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SESSION 6.3 | GEOSCIENCE IN SOCIETY, EDUCATION & ENVIRONMENT
Geoscience education
Chair: To be advised

Session Details


2:30 – 2:50 AEDT

KEYNOTE 

How do we attract the next generation of Earth Scientists
Kate Selway
2:50 – 3:30 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

Geoscience Education Challenges and Opportunities – An Industry Perspective
Jillian Terry

Supporting the 3 Rs of earth science education – rocks, relevance and rapture!
Simone Meakin

Squiggly lines, mountains, organised chaos or Forrest Gump.  What is the image of a geoscience career?
Dr Caroline Tiddy

Gamification – A pathway into Earth Science and Resources Career Awareness
Suzy Urbaniak

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SESSION 6.4 | Ian McDougall Symposium
Chair: To be advised

Session Details

2:30 – 2:50 AEDT

KEYNOTE 

Sub-solidus replacement of rapakivi textures during high-temperature potassium metasomatism of the Mannum Granite
Naina Goswami
2:50 – 3:30 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

Hydrous polymetamorphic crustal rocks in an eclogite-bearing terrane record post-peak recrystallisation during arc-continent collision
Dillon Brown

Evaluation of the 40Ar/39Ar technique for kimberlite geochronology: Three case studies from Finland
Hayden Dalton

The KBS Tuff Controversy fifty years on: New ultra-precise ages for the KBS tuff and correlates, Omo-Turkana Basin, Kenya
Professor David Phillips

Dating the timing of motion in major ductile shear zones
Marnie Forster, Professor Gordon Lister

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3:30pm – 4:00pm AEDT REFRESHMENT BREAK
Explore the many opportunities the AESC Online Portal can offer, including:
– meeting one-on-one with industry
– connecting with fellow delegates
– view ePosters
– view Virtual Field Trips

CONCURRENT SESSION 7
4:00pm – 5:00pm AEDT
SESSION 7.1 | ENERGY & RESOURCES
MinEx CRC: National Drilling Initiative frontier precompetitive drilling to support greenfields discovery
Chair: Anthony Budd | Moderator: Emily Finch

Session Details


4:00 – 4:20 AEDT

KEYNOTE 

Uncovering the Cobar Basin – new results from the NSW MinEx NDI areas
Chris Folkes

4:20 – 5:00 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

Between the Stavely and Koonenberry: a structure with no arc, or an arc hidden in structure?
Tom Wise

Greening up brownfields: Adding new timelines to mineral systems models for the Mesoproterozoic Gawler Craton
Dr Laura Morrissey

Constraining alteration in the buried Benagerie ridge, Curnamona province South Australia
Alex Simpson

Hydrothermal alteration and mineralisation characteristics at Anabama Hill: a porphyry Cu-Mo prospect in the Delamerian Orogen, South Australia
Dr Wei Hong

40Ar/39Ar step-heating geochronology on drill core samples reveals multiple alteration events in the Anabama Hill Cu-Mo prospect, South Australia
Naina Goswami, Marnie Foster, Anthony Reid

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SESSION 7.2 | CORE TO CRUST
The Australian lithosphere in 2021: What do we know and future challenges
Chair: To be advised

Session Details


4:00 – 4:20 AEDT

KEYNOTE 

Geoelectric Structure of Tasmania from Multi-Scale Magnetotelluric Data
Tom Osterton
4:20 – 5:00 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

New insight into the Carpentaria Conductivity Anomaly from high-resolution MT data in the Cloncurry region
Dr Janelle Simpson

Next-generation model of the Australian crust from synchronous and asynchronous ambient noise imaging
Dr Yunfeng Chen

Recent progress in laboratory studies of seismic wave attenuation relevant to the Earth’s upper mantle
Tongzhang Qu

Provenance of Late Cambrian-Ordovician sedimentary rocks in western, north-eastern Tasmania and southern Victoria: Constraints from U/Pb dating, zircon geochemistry and εHf isotope 
Umer Habib

Lapstone Structural Complex and uplift of the Blue Mountains, tectonic backdrop to western Sydney, Australia
Dr Peter Hatherly

Disorientation control on trace element segregation in fluid-affected low-angle boundaries in olivine
Tommaso Tacchetto

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SESSION 7.3 | GEOSCIENCE IN SOCIETY, EDUCATION & ENVIRONMENT
Geotourism: Enriching the visitor experience
Chair: Angus Robinson

Session Details


4:00 – 4:20 AEDT

KEYNOTE 

Immersive virtual reality in geotourism
Associate Professor Tom Raimondo
4:20 – 5:00 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

Augmenting the Geotourism Experience through New Digital Technologies
Professor Pat James

Geotales and geotrails – collaborative geotourism initiatives and implications for new visitor experiences in regional NSW
Guy Fleming

Building the Darwin City Geotrail. Reflections, experiences and lessons
Mark Asendorf

Larapinta Trail, Tjoritja / West MacDonnell National Park, central Australia – a potential geotrail
Dr Anett Weishelt

Geological Logging of a Proposed 305-km Recreational Geotrail in SE Queensland
Bill D’Arcy, George Winter

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SESSION 7.4 
Rapid Fire Presentations
Chair: Verity Normington

Session Details


4:00 – 5:00 AEDT

EARLY CAREER EARTH SCIENTISTS PRESENTATIONS 

When the dust settles
Dr Cynthia Faye Isley

Equilibrium Shapes and Geology of Transneptunian Objects and Centaurs
Hely Branco 

The Earth magnetic field is a dating tool
Dr Agathe Lise-Pronovost

The impact of rotational rifting on the East African Rift System
Frank Zwaan

Petrophysics database production 101
Andreas Bjork

STUDENT PRESENTATIONS 

How to form a world-class bentonite deposit in a volcanic island arc setting: An example from Milos island, Greece
Jo Miles

Unravelling the Himalaya: One intraoceanic arc at a time
Jessica Walsh

Plants and Microbes Unite to Clean Up Oil Spills
Michael Eze

Can neutron tomography detect in-situ density changes?
Vili Grigorova

Precise Orbit Determination of CubeSats
Amir Allahvirdi-Zadeh

Flying high – how geophysics can help with finding water in Cobar area
Millicent Crowe

Geophysical investigation of mine waste in Endurance legacy mine site, northeast Tasmania
Wei Xuen Heng

Cellular microstructures in Mid-Phanerozoic stromatolites, Western Australia
Liam Olden

2000 years of rainfall in the South Pacific: a first annual record from caves in the Cook Islands
Mohammadali Faraji

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5:00pm – 5:30pm AEDT REFRESHMENT BREAK
Stand up, stretch, connect with fellow attendees in the Meeting Hub, browse the Exhibition and Poster and Virtual Field Trip Gallery… and prepare for the final session of day 2!

CONCURRENT SESSION 8
5:30pm – 6:30pm AEDT
SESSION 8.1 | GEOSCIENCE IN SOCIETY, EDUCATION & ENVIRONMENT
Geoheritage and Geoconservation
Chair: Mark Asendorf | Moderator: Angus Robinson

Session Details


5:30 – 5:50 AEDT

KEYNOTE 

Driving Australia’s National Geotourism Strategy through the AGC
Angus M  Robinson
5:50 – 6:30 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

Geotourism in Tasmania
Michael Vicary

Telling the Earth’s Stories
Russell Boswell

Myths and Perceptions about Geoparks in Australia Challenged
Dr Alan Briggs

The Murchison GeoRegion & Aspiring Geopark, Western Australia
Professor Ross Dowling

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SESSION 8.2
Rapid Fire Presentations
Chair: TBA

Session Details


5:30 – 6:30 AEDT

STUDENT PRESENTATIONS 

Indicators of and vectors to porphyry mineralisation in the Northparkes district.
Tristan Wells

Comparing Devonian volcanics of Tasmania and Victoria
Till Gallagher

Structural complications for groundwater aprisal in a shear zone – reference to Dharwar Craton
Tejas K

A time machine for reconstructing sedimentary basins
Patrick Makuluni

Diagnosing the Earth’s most complex compound fracture
Megan Withers

Provenance of Late Cambrian-Early Ordovician sedimentary units in west, east and south Tasmania.
Umer Habib

A closer look at “King Kong’s” demise
Juliën Lubeek

Application of Lognormal Statistics for Coarse Gravity Separation of Base Metal Ores
Izzan Nur Aslam

Semi-automating and assisting geological logging using an unsupervised clustering approach
Fouad Faraj

How an ultra-low velocity zone in the top asthenosphere deflects mantle flow around the subduction zone: Insights into the evolution of congested plate margins
Roberta Carluccio

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Thursday 11 February

Welcome to Day 3

CONCURRENT SESSION 9
11:00am – 12:00pm AEDT
SESSION 9.1 | ENERGY & RESOURCES
Hydrothermal-magmatic ore-forming processes
Chair: To be advised

Session Details


11:00 – 11:20 AEDT

KEYNOTE 

Thermodynamic modelling of ore transport and deposition: The good, the bad, and the ugly
Professor Joël Brugger
11:20 – 12:00 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

Yttrium speciation in sulfate-rich hydrothermal ore-forming fluids
Qiushi Guan (10 mins)

Effects of halogen in chemical exchange and porosity evolution during feldspar-fluid reaction interface
Guan Duan

Mineral redox buffer in ore forming processes – insights from scapolite
Jonathan Hamisi

New insights into gold enrichment process during the growth of chalcopyrite-lined conduits within a modern hydrothermal chimney from PACMANUS Basin
Dr Siyu Hu

Petrographically constrained in situ sulfur isotopes: why the “SEDEX” can’t be used as model for sediment-hosted sulfide deposits in the 1.6 Ga Edmund Basin, Australia
Heta Lampinen

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SESSION 9.2 | EARTH STRUCTURE
Understanding continental processes with low temperature thermochronology
Chair: To be advised

Session Details


11:00 – 11:20 AEDT

KEYNOTE 

Thermochronology Frontiers in Australia 
Brent McInnes
11:20 – 12:00 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

AusGeochem and the Future of Big Data in Low-Temperature Thermochronology
Dr Samuel Boone

Development of a digital apatite fission-track analysis training module
Dr Ling Chuang

Thermal Annealing of Implanted 252Cf Fission-Tracks in Monazite
Sean Jones

Integrating thermochronology with numerical plate-tectonic models: A case study for Central Asia
Stijn Glorie

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SESSION 9.3 | CRUST, SURFACE & COSMOS
Understanding basin formation and evolution from a plate-tectonic perspective
Chair: To be advised

Session Details


11:00 – 11:20 AEDT

KEYNOTE 

Mapping and modelling a future passive margin in Afar, East Africa
Dr Frank Zwaan
11:20 – 12:00 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

Dynamics of arc-continent collision: The role of crustal-mantle dynamics on controlling the formation of basins in continental margins
Andres Felipe Rodriguez Corcho 

A late Tonian plate reorganization event revealed by a full-plate Proterozoic reconstruction
Professor Alan Collins

Reconstructing the Mesoproterozoic palaeogeography of northern Australia through coupled detrital thermo- and geo-chronometers
Dr Bo Yang

Reconstruction of the North China Craton within the Meso-Neoproterozoic supercontinents: evidence from large igneous provinces and rift sediments
Dr Shuan-hong Zhang

Reconstruction of a Paleoproterozoic greenstone belt and tectonic implications (Toumodi Greenstone Belt, West Africa)
Dr Patrick Hayman

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SESSION 9.4 | GEOSCIENCE IN SOCIETY, EDUCATION & ENVIRONMENT
Geoheritage and Geoconservation
Chair: To be advised

Session Details


11:00 – 11:20 AEDT

KEYNOTE 

Three decades of geoconservation in retrospection
Enrique Diaz-Martinez
11:20 – 12:00 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

Geoheritage significance of the deltas of the Pilbara Coast, north-western Australia
Trudi Semeniuk

Geoheritage significance of the Holocene Yanrey Delta, Pilbara Coast, Western Australia
Vic Semeniuk

Geoconservation of ancient Pilbara stromatolite fossils as a multifunctional landscape
Clare Fletcher

Geoheritage values of Walluburnup Swamp, in the Yellagonga Regional Park, Western Australia
Joy Unno

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GSA ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

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12.00– 12.45pm (AEDT)
9.00 – 9.45am (AWST)
11.00 – 11.45am (AEST)
11.30 – 12.15pm (ACDT)

PLENARY SESSION #3
12:45pm – 1:45pm AEDT
The Energy Transition: Implications for Geoscience – a View from the North
Murray Hitzman

AWARDS & MEDALS #3
1:55pm – 2:25pm AEDT

CONCURRENT SESSION 10
2:30pm – 3:30pm
SESSION 10.1 | ENERGY & RESOURCES
Hydrothermal-magmatic ore-forming processes
Chair: To be advised

Session Details


2:30 – 2:40 AEDT

PRESENTATION

Using epidote U-Pb geochronology and multivariate statistics to unravel overprinting propylitic alteration around the Resolution porphyry-Cu-Mo deposit: Fingerprinting the fertile porphyry signal
Dr Joshua Phillips
2:40 – 2:50 AEDT

PRESENTATION

Gold in oil, and its role in the formation of epithermal gold deposits
Associate Professor Katy Evans
2:50 – 3:30 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

A morphotectonic analysis of the East Manus Basin, Papua New Guinea
Nick Dyriw

Differentiated Archean dolerites and orogenic gold: Influences on fertility
Dr Patrick Hayman

Copper isotope fractionation in volatile-fluxed enclaves: Modern analogues for the genesis of ancient ore deposits
Dr Lucy McGee

Geochemical and mineralogical signatures of IOCG and affiliated copper deposits in the Mount Isa Province, Queensland, Australia
Dr Vladimir Lisitsin

Trace element geochemistry of sphalerite from polymetallic sulfide mineralization in Betul belt, Central Indian Tectonic Zone, India
Bishnu Mishra

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SESSION 10.2 | EARTH STRUCTURE
Understanding continental processes with low temperature thermochronology
Chair: To be advised

Session Details


2:30 – 2:50 AEDT

KEYNOTE 

Keynote Presentation to be advised
2:50 – 3:30 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

Distal footprints of the Alice Springs Orogeny: An application of multi-kinetic thermochronology in the Pine Creek Orogen and Arnhem Province
Angus Nixon

Pangea Rifting Shaped the East Antarctic Landscape
Alessandro Maritati

The uplift history of the Nyika Plateau, Malawi: A long lived paleo-surface or a contemporary feature of the East African Rift?
Malcolm McMillan

Detachment fault and metamorphic core complex at the distal continental margin of the northern South China Sea
Dr Hongdan Deng

Exhumation of the Indus-Yarlung Tsangpo Suture Zone (NW India): New constraints from low-temperature thermochronology
Dr Renjie Zhou

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SESSION 10.3 | EARTH OBSERVATIONS & MODELS
Data-driven and computational methods to reveal hidden or changing surfaces
Chair: Anya Reading | Moderator: Tobias Staal

Session Details


2:30 – 2:50 AEDT

KEYNOTE 

Bayesian inversion of 3D groundwater flow within the Sydney-Gunnedah-Bowen Basin
Dr Ben Mather
2:50 – 3:30 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

Mapping subglacial sedimentary basin distribution in Antarctica using Random Forest method
Lu Li

The AuScope Geochemistry Network and AusGeochem
Hayden Dalton


Predicting Seafloor Lithology with a Neural Network Based Classification Model
Professor Dietmar Müller

Assimilation-Calibration Technique for Integrating Satellite Data with Hydrological Models
Dr Mehdi Khaki

Resolving multidisciplinary challenges of seamless integration of data on people, business, and the environment through applying a Discrete Global Grid System Framework
Shane Crossman

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SESSION 10.4 | ARGA SYMPOSIUM
Regolith and Landscape evolution
Chair: Carmen Nacho

Session Details


2:30 – 2:35 AEDT

WELCOME & INTRODUCTION

Nadir DeSouza Kovaks and Leah Moore
2:35 – 3:00 AEDT

KEYNOTE 

Australia and Brazil: Contrasting Weathering and Erosion Histories but Similar Cratonal Landscapes
Paulo Vasconcelos
3:00 – 3:15 AEDT

FAST TALKS

Southwestern Australian paleovalleys evolution: A case of landscape evolution on Archean basement
Kelly Heilbronn

A fresh Look at the Stratigraphy of the Lefroy Palaeodrainage System, Eastern Goldfields, WA.
Leah Lynham

(U-Th)/He-dating of Iron oxides: Towards establishing a temporal framework for landscape evolution and regolith development in Southwest Western Australia
Dr Martin Wells

POSTER

Understanding the cover in the Gawler Craton, South Australia: combining landscape variability, linear structures, and regolith mapping to assist mineral exploration
Dr Carmen Krapf
3:15 – 3:30 AEDT Panel Discussion

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3:30pm – 4:00pm AEDT REFRESHMENT BREAK
Explore the many opportunities the AESC Online Portal can offer, including:
– meeting one-on-one with industry
– connecting with fellow delegates
– view ePosters
– view Virtual Field Trips

CONCURRENT SESSION 11
4:00pm – 5:00pm AEDT
SESSION 11.1 | ENERGY & RESOURCES
Au systems: Archean to the modern Earth
Chair: To be advised

Session Details


4:00 – 4:20 AEDT

KEYNOTE 

Controls on gold endowments of porphyry deposits
Chiaradia Massimo

4:20 – 5:00 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

Evolution of magmatic fertility for porphyry Au & Cu deposits through the prism of zircon chrono-chemistry, Balkan Peninsula, SE Europe
Tim Ireland

The unusual Imou porphyry Au-Cu deposit, Western Highlands PNG
Tim Ireland

Stability of gold nanoparticles in sulfur-bearing hydrothermal fluids: An experimental study
Dr Weihua Liu

Lifting the cloak of invisibility: Gold in pyrite from the Olympic Dam deposit, South Australia
Dr Kathy Ehrig

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SESSION 11.2 | GEOSCIENCE IN SOCIETY, EDUCATION & ENVIRONMENT
Geoheritage and Geoconservation
Chair: To be advised

Session Details


11:00 – 11:20 AEDT

KEYNOTE 

Mapping the geology that matters – the role of Australia’s geological surveys in supporting mineral discovery in the 21st century
Dr Christopher Yeats
11:20 – 12:00 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

How the GSNSW is helping to preserve data from the NSW infrastructure boom
David Adewuyi

The urban geochemical baseline of Canberra: Does it provide dirt on criminals?
Michael Aberle

Enhancing NSW statewide geophysics with high resolution company data
Dr Sam Matthews

Regional Geological mapping; the perspective from a small Survey
Andrew McNeill

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SESSION 11.3 | EARTH OBSERVATIONS & MODELS
Next Generation 3D Geological Modelling – development and applications
Chair: To be advised

Session Details


4:00 – 4:20 AEDT

KEYNOTE 

LoopStructural 1.0: Time aware geological modelling
Dr Lachlan Grose
4:20 – 5:00 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

LoopResources – Reducing the Mining Footprint
Dr Laurent Allieres

Reproducible 3D model construction using map2loop
Professor Mark Jessell

Constrained Gravity Geometry Inversion with Sparse Seismic Sections
Mahtab Rashidifard

Propagation of data and algorithmic uncertainty based on borehole calibration and perturbation – a sensitivity analysis
Dr Guillame Pirot

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SESSION 11.4 | ARGA SYMPOSIUM
Planetary regolith and regolith in mineral exploration
Chair: Ian Savannah

Session Details


4:00 – 4:05 AEDT

WELCOME & INTRODUCTION

Savannah McGuirk and Ian Roach
4:05 – 4:30 AEDT

KEYNOTE

Martian regolith: from cryolithosphere to atmosphere
Dr Graziella Caprarelli
4:30 – 4:45 AEDT

FAST TALKS

Inverted Hunder dune swales, Ladakh, India
Dr Jonathan Clarke

Regolith-Hosted Ferrihydrite: A Forgotten Sorbent in the Search for REE’s?
Tobias Bamforth

Hydrogeochemistry to explore the Georgina Basin’s phosphate potential
Ivan Schroder

POSTER

Soil geochemistry imaging gold prospectively in the South West Terrane of Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia
Nadir DeSouza Kovacs
4:45 – 5:00 AEDT Panel Discussion

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5:00pm – 5:30pm AEDT REFRESHMENT BREAK
Stand up, stretch, connect with fellow attendees in the Meeting Hub, browse the Exhibition and Poster and Virtual Field Trip Gallery… and prepare for the final session of day 3!

CONCURRENT SESSION 12
5:30pm – 6:30pm
SESSION 12.1 | ENERGY & RESOURCES
Au systems: Archean to the modern Earth
Chair: To be advised

Session Details


5:30 – 5:40 AEDT

PRESENTATION 

Do rocks deposited during time periods with high gold in sedimentary pyrite host more gold mineralization?
Associate Professor Daniel Gregory 
5:40 – 5:50 AEDT

PRESENTATION 

Source of gold in Neoarchean orogenic-type deposits in the North Atlantic Craton, Greenland: Insights for a proto-source of gold in sub-seafloor hydrothermal arsenopyrite in the Mesoarchean
Dr Nicolas Saintilan
5:50 – 6:30 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

Apatite chemistry indicates that oxidized auriferous fluids along the world-class Boulder Lefroy – Golden Mile fault system were significantly different to fluids from global porphyry systems
Dr Adam Bath

The Late Archean Au epoch: By-product of Earth degassing
Dr John Walshe

A view of orogenic gold deposits as nonlinear systems: Nonlinear analysis of data
Dr Alison Ord

River(ina) of gold – historical activity and structural controls
Dr Cait Stuart

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SESSION 12.2 | ENERGY & RESOURCES
New geology analytics and machine learning in data-rich and datapoor environments
Chair: To be advised

Session Details


5:30 – 5:50 AEDT

KEYNOTE 

Random Forest Based Mineral Potential Mapping for Porphyry Cu-Au Mineralisation in the Eastern Lachlan Orogen
Dr Arianne Ford
5:50 – 6:30 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

Are giant ore deposits rogue waves or dragon kings?
Dr Bruce Hobbs

Propagating sparse basement markers through inversion volumes using graph convolutional neural networks
Tasman Gilfeather-Clark

Extending FaultSeg to Minerals Seismic: Part 1 – A model to generate synthetic seismic volumes modelling faults via elastic dislocation theory while incorporating multifractal features
Robindra Chatterjee

Statewide mineral potential mapping of New South Wales using a combined mineral systems and spatial data approach
Dr Phillip Blevin

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SESSION 12.3 | CRUST, SURFACE & COSMOS
Building a boundary – Processes, products, and consequences of Neogene collisional geodynamics in Eastern Indonesia
Chair: To be advised

Session Details


5:30 – 5:50 AEDT

KEYNOTE 

To be advised
5:50 – 6:30 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

Seismic Structural Evidence of Australian Continental Lithosphere Beneath Timor at the Banda Arc Collisional Zone
Ping Zang

Geology of the Mutis Complex, Miomaffo, West Timor
Dr Ron Berry

Cenozoic affinity of the Gondwanan rocks of eastern Timor: evidence from geo-thermochronometry
Dr Brendan Duffy

Earthquakes and tsunamis caused by low-angle normal faulting in the Banda Sea, Indonesia
Dr Phil Cummins

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SESSION 12.4 | ARGA SYMPOSIUM
Mineral exploration in and through the critical zone
Chair: Leah Nadir

Session Details


5:30 – 5:35 AEDT

WELCOME & INTRODUCTION

Nadir DeSouza Kovacs and Leah Moore
5:35 – 6:00 AEDT

KEYNOTE 

Application of indicator minerals in mineral exploration
Dr Walid Salama
6:00 – 6:15 AEDT

FAST TALKS

Anomalous high REE content in clay sediments linked with coastal progradation in the SW Murray Basin: source of REE and role of regolith processes
John Keeling

Regional Cover Characterisation of the Central Gawler – Clipping regolith-plant associations to better constrain geology and prospectivity
Anna Petts

Airborne electromagnetics for regional cover thickness mapping
Dr Ian Roach

POSTER

Mapping landscape domains in Western Australia: Developing a tool to link geology, geochemistry and landscape variability at large scales
Dr Ignacio Gonzalez-Alvarez
6:15 – 6:30 AEDT Panel Discussion

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 7:30pm AEDT An Eventing Exploring a Selection of Fine Tasmanian Gins
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Friday 12 February

Welcome to Day 4

CONCURRENT SESSION 13
11:00am – 12:00pm AEDT
SESSION 13.1 | ENERGY & RESOURCES
Advancing technologies in mineral exploration
Chair: To be advised

Session Details


11:00 – 11:20 AEDT

KEYNOTE 

Extracting more from exploration soil samples. The evolution of UltraFine+ and next generation analytics
Dr Ryan Noble
11:20 – 12:00 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy integrated with Multi-variate Wavelet Tesselation – a new and rapid methodology for lithogeochemical analysis and interpretation
Fernando Fagundes Fontana

Digitalizing the Mining Industry – Core scanner for geochemistry, images, RQD, structures, specific gravity and volume bulk density
Mikael Arthursson

Building a cloud-hosted exploration data platform and its application
Dr Fabian Kohlmann

Multi-Scale Characterisation of Australia’s Deepest Drill Hole
Renee Birchall

Better laser focusing on improved reproducibility of U-Pb isotope analysis by LA-ICP-MS
Dr Hui-Qing Huang

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SESSION 13.2 | EARTH STRUCTURE
Recent advances in the geology and mineral potential of the eastern Australian Tasmanides
Chair: To be advised

Session Details


11:00 – 11:20 AEDT

KEYNOTE 

New constraints on the tectonic and metallogenic history of Lachlan Orogen
Sebastien Meffre
11:20 – 12:00 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

Devonian-Carboniferous regional deformation in the northeastern Lachlan Orogen, southeastern Australia
Dr Chris Fergusson

Substrate of the Macquarie Arc: geophysical evidence and implications for tectonic setting
Dr Robert Musgrave

Revisiting the break-up evolution of the SE Australian rifted margin: New perspectives from larger data sets
Professor Andrew Gleadow

Life Cycle of the Ordovician Macquarie Arc, Lachlan Orogen, Eastern Australia
Dr Qing Zhang

Unravelling the Tumut Trough: A Middle Ordovician age for the Brungle Creek Metabasalt, eastern Lachlan Orogen
Dr Michael Bruce

Early Tasmanides evolution: Passive to convergent margin history in New South Wales, Australia
Dr John Greenfield

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SESSION 13.3 | CRUST, SURFACE & COSMOS
The Proterozoic Earth System and Plate Tectonics—correlations andcausation?
Chair: To be advised

Session Details


11:00 – 11:20 AEDT

KEYNOTE 

Extending Whole-Plate Tectonic Models into Deep Time: Linking the Neoproterozoic and the Phanerozoic
Andrew Meredith
11:20 – 12:00 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

The Impact of Snowball Earth Glaciation on Ocean Water δ18O Values
Dr William Defliese

Oxygenation of Mesoproterozoic Ocean and its Consequences for Eukaryotic Evolution
Dr Xiangkun Zhu

Redefining the Basement Architecture of the Southern Mount Isa Inlier
Dominic Brown

Detrital Zircon Age and Provenance of the Tonian-Cryogenian of the Adelaide Superbasin
Jarred Lloyd

In-situ Rb–Sr dating of Precambrian sediments
Darwinaji Subarkah

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SESSION 13.4 | EARTH OBSERVATIONS & MODELS
Geoheritage and Geoconservation
Chair: To be advised

Session Details


11:00 – 11:20 AEDT

KEYNOTE 

The status of geoheritage and geoconservation in Australia
Ian Creswell
11:20 – 12:00 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

A geoheritage treasure – a case study of the Hornsby Diatreme
Trudi Semeniuk

Recognising and preserving mineral diversity: An updated catalogue of type mineral specimens in Victoria’s State collections
Oskar Lindenmayer

Patina: A microscopic feature of palaeo-environmental and geoheritage significance
Penelope Clifford

Geoheritage significance of three contiguous Holocene wetlands 161, 162, & 163 in the Becher Wetland Suite, south-western Australia
Christine Semeniuk

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12:00pm – 12:45pm REFRESHMENT BREAK
Explore the many opportunities the AESC Online Portal can offer, including:
– meeting one-on-one with industry
– connecting with fellow delegates
– view ePosters
– view Virtual Field Trips

PLENARY SESSION #4
12:45pm – 1:45pm AEDT

Engagement, diversity and interdisciplinarity to tackle future challenges
Jess Melbourne-Thomas

AWARDS & MEDALS #4
1:55pm – 2:25pm AEDT

CONCURRENT SESSION 14
2:30pm – 3:30pm AEDT
SESSION 14.1 | ENERGY & RESOURCES
Advancing technologies in mineral exploration
Chair: To be advised

Session Details


2:30 – 2:50 AEDT

KEYNOTE 

Keynote Presentation to de advised
2:50 – 3:30 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

Cr-Zoning in pyroxene as a prospectivity indicator for magmatic Ni-Cu sulfide deposits
Dr Louise Schoneveld

New strato-tectonic model and geochemical tool for revitalised IOCG targeting
John Anderson

Using gases for mineral exploration through cover: Importance of microbial activity
Dr Chloe Plet

Geophysical Data Optimisation for Modelling: Data collection in a value-of-information framework
Dr Mark Lindsay

dh2loop 1.0: An open-source python library for automated processing and classification geological logs
Ranee Joshi

Scale reduction magnetotelluric survey in the East Tennant region, Northern Australia
Dr Wenping Jiang

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SESSION 14.2 | EARTH STRUCTURE
Recent advances in the geology and mineral potential of the eastern Australian Tasmanides
Chair: To be advised

Session Details


2:30 – 2:50 AEDT

KEYNOTE 

Orogenesis terminated by mafic underplate delamination at prior passive rift margins: The Delamerian-Ross example
John Foden
2:50 – 3:30 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

Apatite as as indicator of porphyry fertility in the Northparkes district
Tristan Wells

Evolution of the Lachlan Orogen in the East Riverina region, NSW: Insights from 100 new SHRIMP dates
Dr Simon Bodorkos

Structure of the Silurian Quidong Basin: New observations on a microcosm of Eastern Lachlan Orogen tectonic and metallogenic problematica
Dr David I. A. Hood

Approaches to structural history in areas of weak to moderate upright folding
Dr David Durney

Late Cambrian – Middle Ordovician extension of the northern Tasmanides: thinned crust that facilitated intense Silurian (Benambran) shortening deformation
Professor Robert Henderson

Regional scale folding in the Arthur Metamorphic Complex: structural constraints for the Keith River – Lyons River area, NW Tasmania
Grace Cumming

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SESSION 14.3 | CRUST, SURFACE & COSMOS
Sedimentology and Geomorphology of Dryland Continental Systems
Chair: To be advised

Session Details


2:30 – 2:50 AEDT

KEYNOTE 

Australian Drylands Depositional Environments: Local News, Globally Relevant
Dr Gresley A. Wakelin-King
2:50 – 3:30 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

Circadian rhythm of dune-field activity
Andrew Gunn

Lacustrine littoral landforms in drylands: diversity and significance with examples from Quaternary megalakes of Africa and Australia
Dr Mathieu Schuster

Late Holocene landscape dynamics and sediment cycling around Lake Callabonna, Central Australia
Dr Jan-Henrik May

Dryland Coastal Deltas of Western Australia – Reservoir Analogues for Mixed-influenced Fluvial-deltaic Depositional Systems
Professor Simon Lang

Cenozoic Channel Deposits of the Bowen Basin, Queensland
Tianjiao Yu

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3:30pm – 4:00pm AEDT REFRESHMENT BREAK
Explore the many opportunities the AESC Online Portal can offer, including:
– meeting one-on-one with industry
– connecting with fellow delegates
– view ePosters
– view Virtual Field Trips

CONCURRENT SESSION 15
4:00pm – 5:00pm
SESSION 15.1 | ENERGY & RESOURCES
Applications of Spectral Geology
Chair: Georgina Gibson

Session Details


4:00 – 4:20 AEDT

KEYNOTE 

Validation of spectral data: A critical step towards accurated prediction
Dr Erick Ramanaidou
4:20 – 5:00 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

HyLoggerTM mineralogy from chips: A RoXplorer pilot study
Jake Moltzen

HIGH RESOLUTION VS. STANDARD RESOLUTION: How an increase in spectral resolution using a field portable spectrometer affects quality of data – a case study on Nickel exploration
Lori Shelton Pieniazek

Modelling of petrophysical from hyperspectral drill core data collected from the Osborne Cu-Au deposit, Mount Isa Inlier, Queensland
Dr Carsten Laukamp

Deriving Quantitative Alteration Mineralogy from TIR Hyperspectral Data in IOCG Systems
Dr Jessica Stromberg

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SESSION 15.2 | CORE TO CRUST
Architecture, composition and geodynamic history of cratons and craton
Chair: To be advised

Session Details


4:00 – 4:20 AEDT

KEYNOTE 

Contrasting growth of the Pilbara and Yilgarn cratons from hafnium and neodymium isotopes
Dr Tony Kemp
4:20 – 5:00 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

Records of the Earth’s early crust from apatite inclusions in zircon – development and applications of in situ 87Sr/86Sr analysis by SIMS
Dr Jack Gillespie

Neodymium and oxygen isotope maps of Western Australia
Dr Yongjun Lu

Way out west – does the Arunta Orogen continue westward beneath the Canning Basin?
Dr David E. Kelsey

Multiple ages of rutile from a single sample of granulite
Durgalakshmi

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SESSION 15.3 | CRUST, SURFACE & COSMOS
Scientific results of the International Ocean Discovery Program: A decade of success
Chair: To be advised

Session Details


4:00 – 4:20 AEDT

KEYNOTE 

The isotopic footprint of a submarine mineral system: Cr and Sr isotopes in the Iheya North hydrothermal field, Okinawa Trough (IODP expedition 331)
Dr Lucy McGee
4:20 – 5:00 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

East Antarctic meltwater influx from the Wilkes Subglacial Basin since the Last Glacial Maximum as determined by beryllium isotopes
Bethany Behrens

85,000 years of polar front, warm current variability, and ice rafting in contourites off southwest Ireland
Adele Westgård

Hydrocarbons in a new early Paleocene sedimentary section recovered from the Campbell Plateau, south of New Zealand, by IODP Expedition 378
Professor Simon George

A microbial mayhem in the Chicxulub crater
Professor Kliti Grice

Late Cretaceous turmoil in the southern high latitudes: a story of environmental stress, basin restriction and  deltaic sedimentation from IODP Site U1512, Bight Basin, Australia
Dr Carmine Wainman

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5:00pm – 5:30pm AEDT REFRESHMENT BREAK
Stand up, stretch, connect with fellow attendees in the Meeting Hub, browse the Exhibition and Poster and Virtual Field Trip Gallery… and prepare for the final session of the Convention!

CONCURRENT SESSION 16
5:30pm – 6:30pm AEDT
SESSION 16.1 | ENERGY & RESOURCES
Applications of Spectral Geology
Chair: Jessica Stromberg

Session Details


5:30 – 5:50 AEDT

KEYNOTE 

Characterising the hyperspectral SWIR features of tourmaline from two western Tasmanian granites
Dr Cassady Harraden
5:50 – 6:30 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

From proximal to remote sensing: analysing the pyrophyllite-muscovite association in the Buckskin range , Yerington district, Nevada (USA)
Bruno Portela

Alteration signatures and footprints of the Ernest Henry deposit and camp: Spectral mineralogy and geochemistry
Courteney Dhnaram

Tracing mineralogy and alteration intensity using the spectral alteration index and depth ratios at the Northwest Zone of the Lemarchant VMS deposit, Newfoundland, Canada
Dr Jonathan Cloutier

White Mica Chemistry from the Vulcan IOCG Prospect, South Australia
Georgina Gordon

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SESSION 16.2 | CORE TO CRUST
Architecture, composition and geodynamic history of cratons and craton
Chair: To be advised

Session Details


5:30 – 5:50 AEDT

KEYNOTE 

Geodynamic influences on volcanological, paleoenvironmental and tectonic evolution of the Archean Kalgoorlie Terrane LIP, Western Australia
Professor Raymond Cas
5:50 – 6:30 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

Lithospheric-scale magnetotellurics over the Eastern Goldfields Superterrane, Yilgarn Craton
Sinan Özaydin, Dr Kate Selway

Evidence for a 3.2–3.1 Ga accretionary orogeny along the south-eastern edge of the Kaapvaal Craton: a regional setting for late-stage gold mineralisation in Barberton
Dr Jeanne Taylor

On the destructive tendencies of cratons:  3D geodynamics modelling of cratons and subduction
Rebecca Farrington

Crustal-scale controls on the evolution of the Yeneena Basin
Dr Fariba Kohanpour

Joining the dots: Insights into the magmatic nickel sulphide potential of the western Gawler Craton
Dr Anthony Reid

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SESSION 16.3 | ENERGY & RESOURCES
Geomechanics for Energy and Resources
Chair: To be advised

Session Details


5:30 – 5:50 AEDT

KEYNOTE 

Exploring for the Future: New Canning Basin geomechanics and rock property data
Dr Adam Bailey
5:50 – 6:30 AEDT

PRESENTATION SUMMARIES AND Q&A

Characterising the Uncertainty of Rock Stress and Strength Estimates
Matthew Musolino

Re-defining the morphology of the Darling Basin in NSW using 3D modelling and data integration – introducing the Yathong–Ivanhoe Trough
Larissa Gammidge

Seismic structure of the crust across central Australia from the joint inversion of radial and vertical teleseismic body-wave autocorrelations
Dr Mehdi Tork Qashqai

A Multi-Physics Elasto-Visco-Plastic Constitutive Framework for Geomechanics
Dr Mustafa Sari

Compressional Wave Velocity Estimation Using Gaussian Processes Regression
Mobarakeh Mohammadpour

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Closing Session

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