Adelaide Technical Lunch - 19 August

Please join the Adelaide Branch for their August Technical Lunch at the Pavilion Function Centre, Veale Gardens.

About this event

Speaker: Associate Professor John Culton – the Director of the University of Adelaide's Andy Thomas Centre for Space Resources.

Topic: Using the resources of space to support human exploration.

Summary: John studied science and engineering at the US Air Force Academy and since 2011 has been involved internationally in the space sector, with a focus on the intersection of space policy, law, regulation, and technology as it relates to the use of space resources and its critical role in supporting long-term human presence beyond low-Earth orbit.

He is a champion of the Australian Rover Challenge (ARC) which is running again in 2022 in Adelaide and features university students building, operating and competing their semi-autonomous rovers in a simulated lunar environment, accomplishing navigation, resource utilisation, and construction tasks while assisted and mentored by international industry and government partners.

The event will also feature a student presentation from Mistrel Fetzer Boegheim.

Topic: Felsic volcanism in the Northern Peak Range Province: Peraluminous Implications for tertiary REE mineralisation in Central Queensland.

This event is brought to you by the AusIMM Adelaide Branch, our 2021 Branch Partners of Bureau Veritas & OZ Minerals and our 2021 Technical Lunch Partner, Thermo Fisher Scientific.

Speaker/s

Associate Professor John Culton

Director of the University of Adelaide's “Andy Thomas Centre for Space Resources”

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John studied science and engineering at the US Air Force Academy and since 2011 has been involved internationally in the space sector, with a focus on the intersection of space policy, law, regulation, and technology as it relates to the use of space resources and its critical role in supporting long-term human presence beyond low-Earth orbit.

Following commissioning, he served 27 years stationed around the globe, leaving the defence forces in 2018 as a Colonel following a career as a special operations pilot, intelligence officer, and U.S. diplomat.

He is a co-founder of the Australian Rover Challenge (ARC) which is running again in 2022 in Adelaide and features university students building, operating and competing their semi-autonomous rovers in a simulated lunar environment, accomplishing navigation, resource utilisation, and construction tasks while assisted and mentored by international industry and government partners.