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Search begins for Australia's next Top GeoShot
28/03/2014
Geoscience Australia is on the look-out for Australia’s next Top GeoShot, with entries now open for the 2014 Top GeoShot photographic competition.
Vanuatu elevation data to benefit future planning
26/03/2014
High resolution elevation data acquired by the Australian Government on behalf of the Government of Vanuatu will become a significant asset to Vanuatu helping to facilitate better coastal planning and management.
Ancient groundwater systems of the Great Artesian Basin
21/03/2014
A new groundwater dataset has been released today by Geoscience Australia, collected as part of a comprehensive groundwater chemistry survey of the Surat and Bowen basins in Queensland.
New geophysical data helps identify suitable CO2 storage sites
05 March 2014
New geophysical data collected in the Browse Basin off the northwest coast of Western Australia has been released today by Geoscience Australia.
New standards for the surveying and geospatial industries
04/03/2014
The surveying and spatial communities working in Australia will be able to ensure greater integrity in their work following the release of a new standard.
Kalgoorlie-Boulder earthquake
26/02/2014
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake shook Kalgoorlie-Boulder residents on the morning of Wednesday 26 February 2014, shaking buildings and parked cars and causing minor damage near the epicentre.
New building assessment tool supports better risk analysis
12/02/2014
Geoscience Australia has released new open source software, produced as part of a recently completed international capacity building project in the Philippines, which can rapidly and remotely assess the geometric properties of buildings.
International work helps build safer communities in the Philippines
23/01/2014
Scientists from Geoscience Australia recently completed a major project working together with technical agencies and local authorities in the Greater Metropolitan Manila Area in the Philippines, to develop Philippine capacity for assessing the impacts of natural hazards.
A lifetime of rock solid achievement
21/01/2014
The former Chief Executive Officer of Geoscience Australia, Dr Neil Williams PSM, FTSE, has today been awarded the Australian Academy of Science’s prestigious Haddon Forrester King Medal, in recognition of a long and distinguished geoscience career.
A groundwater challenge for Australia's future scientists
09/01/2014
Top Year 11 science students are converging on Canberra this week to learn first-hand about a major challenge for Australia – how to secure the nation’s future water resource needs.