Australian Geoscience Council (AGC) Updates
Geoscience Society participates in the Australian Geoscience Council (AGC)
Congratulations to David Turvey, Chair of the Geoscience Society, in his appointment to the AGC contact list.
Member society contacts as updated on January 2024 are:
- A/Prof David Cohen, AAG (Councillor)
- Leah Moore, AIG (President)
- Eric Battig, ASEG (President)
- David Turvey, AusIMM (GeolSoc President)
- Amber Jarret, GSA (President)
- Kelly-Jane Wallis, IAH (President)
- Sandra Bigza, ANZGG (Executive member)
- Helen Debenham, PESA (President)
The Australian Geoscience Council (AGC) represents The Association of Applied Geochemists, Australian Institute of Geoscientists, Australian Society of Exploration Geophysicist, Australiasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, IAH Australia, Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia, and the Australian & New Zealand Geomorphology Group.
Australian Geoscience Council (AGC) National Geoscience Champions
The National Geoscience Champions award is made on behalf of AGC’s eight member organisations who represent over 8,000 geoscientists around Australia. The award is modelled on the concept of a Hall Of Fame for geoscientists who are not otherwise recognised (yet) as National Living Treasures. This honour is bestowed on very few Geoscientists and will recognise lifetime contributions to our science, craft and art, evidenced by technical, leadership, mentoring and collegial endeavours. See; Australian Geoscience Council Inc. - National Geoscience Champions (agc.org.au)
Congratulations Peter Moore and Simon Lang for being recently inducted into the champions arena. Other national Geoscience Champions include Marita Bradshaw, David G. Roves and Roy Woodall.
Nominations for new National Geoscience Champions will be called from time to time. Nominations will be open to those geoscientists who have had a major impact on the advancement of Geoscience through their long and distinguished career as a champion for Geoscience and a role model for geoscientists. Recipients will be awarded lifetime recognition of their work and achievements in advancing Geoscience nationally and internationally.
Please forward nominations to president@agc.org.au or admin@agc.org.au.
Australian Geoscience Council (AGC) & Simon Lang - Watch this space
Simon Lang, professor of petroleum geoscience is the director of centre for energy & climate geoscience at the school of Earth Sciences, University of Western Australia.
Simon Lang has offered to work with the AGC in a number of engagements and conferences. One proposed title is “The Value of Geological Analogues for Unlocking the Subsurface for the Energy Transition”. The theme may be about the geometry and heterogeneity of reservoirs (aquifers) and their associated baffle and seal facies in all settings from fluvial to deepwater, and how this is critical for water, mineral, coal, oil & gas exploration, development & production, large scale carbon sequestration in either depleted fields or more likely saline aquifers, and gas storage. Other talks may suite the audience interests in the different capital cities.
Simon is now working on new LIDAR over Australia’s second largest delta that is in the Pilbara, the largest ooid shoal in the Southern Hemisphere, and many floodplain and tidal flats with red-beds and coarse grained fluvial deltaic meeting a shallow carbonate shelf realm with implications for critical minerals and oil, gas and possible CCS.
