Examples of rotation topics undertaken by
Geoscience Australia Science Graduates
Environmental Geoscience:
Comparison of sampling
methods to assess marine
habitats and biodiversity.
Environmental Geoscience:
Vulnerability assessment of
Pacific Islands relevant to a
regional scale climate change
vulnerability assessment.
Energy Division:
Browse Basin: Acreage
Release and Prospectivity
Assessment.
Environmental Geoscience: Environmental Geoscience:
The use of 3D seismic data
Modelling biophysical
for bathymetry.
interactions at the benthic
interface to support marine
biodiversity conservation.
Minerals & Natural
Hazards:
The influence of offshore
wave shape on tsunami
inundation.
Minerals & Natural
Hazards:
Benchmarking software for
geophysical magnetic and
gravity inversions on the NCI
supercomputer at ANU.
Environmental Geoscience:
Education and
communication of
hydrogeological processes
using an aquifer
demonstration model.
Minerals & Natural
Hazards:
The influence of terrain and
land cover on the success of
satellite radar interferometry
in Australia.
Minerals & Natural
Hazards:
Measuring deformation of
Merapi Volcano (Indonesia)
using satellite-based
radarinterferometry.
Energy:
Assessing building
vulnerability to volcanic ash
in the asia pacific region.
Minerals & Natural
Hazards:
Using Geophysics to better
Understand Geological
Features.
Energy:
Contribute to a GIS based
targeting tool for geothermal
energy prospectivity.
Minerals & Natural
Hazards:
Seismic processing from
Newcastle.
Environmental Geoscience:
Preliminary analysis of
earthquake risk in Australia.
Energy:
Minerals & Natural
Multi-hazard risk assessment Hazards:
of Asia-Pacific.
Investigation of eastern
Australian serpentinites for
CO2 storage.
Energy:
Helium as a critical
commodity.
Energy:
Environmental Geoscience: Minerals & Natural
Developing short-term
Impact of Cyclone Monica on Hazards:
earthquake hazard forecasts. Land Cover.
Preliminary analysis of
earthquake risk in Australia
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Minerals and Natural
Hazards:
Landslide detection and
monitoring using satellite
radar data in PNG
Energy:
3D geophysical modelling of
the Browse Basin –
understanding the region’s
petroleum prospectivity and
CO2 storage potential
Minerals and Natural
Hazards:
Surface geochemistry in the
southern Thomson Orogen –
hunting for buried mineral
systems
Minerals and Natural
Hazards:
Magnetotelluric survey of
Victoria to map conductivity
structure of the lithosphere
Minerals and Natural
Hazards:
Passive seismic for depth to
basement modelling
Energy/Environmental
Geoscience:
Great Artesian Basin
hydrochemistry atlas
Environmental Geoscience: Resources:
Potential influence of
Filling holes in the
geological structures on
radiometric map
groundwater dynamics in the
Surat Basin
Resources:
Tracking the origin of helium
an CO2 in natural gas
reserves from the Browse
Basin using noble gas
isotopes
Resources:
Intrusion-related gold mineral
systems in the southern
Thomsen Orogen: A reality
Resources:
SHRIMP U-Pb detritial zircon
dating of selected Nation
Geoschemistry Survey of
Australia’s samples
Environmental Geoscience:
A further test on the effects of
spatial data projections on
the predictive accuracy of
spatial interpolation methods
using ArcGIS
Resources:
Understanding the controls
on hydraulic fracture
generation and propagation
unconventional hydrocarbon
reservoirs
Community Safety and
Earth Monitoring:
Assessing the volcanic and
tsunami hazards from the
Australian External Territory
of Heard Island and
McDonald Island
Environmental Geoscience:
Can integrating nationalscale geoscience datasets
improve our understanding of
groundwater – surface water
interactions?
Environmental Geoscience:
Mapping Paleovalley
Acquifers in selected case
study areas in tropical, subtropical and temperate zones
Resources:
Relict reef communities of
Balls Pyramid, the world’s
southernmost coral reef
Resources:
Geological time and space:
visualising geochronology on
maps
Resources:
Modelling fluid flow in a
Proterozoic basin prospective
for U or Pb-Zn mineral
resources
Community Safety and
Earth Monitoring:
Analysis of post-disaster
surveys
2014 Cross Division/Group
Rotation:
Synthesised workflows to
underpin integrated
geological basin
assessments for energy,
groundwater and mineral
systems.
[D2014-7084] January 2014