GeoPub get-togethers provide an opportunity for geoscientists to catch up on the industry “goss”, have a few drinks, talk technical, reminisce, and/or generally socialise. Starting on the 8th of July, and continuing every second Friday of the month, GeoPub Melbourne aims to become a regular event on any geologist’s social calendar. GeoPub Melbourne will be held

  The AIG Victorian Branch is offering a bursary to Third Year, Honours and Post Graduate Students studying full time for a degree in earth sciences to assist with the cost of attending conferences, workshops or field trips. Funding is available to provide Victorian based AIG student members, who can demonstrate a need for support,

The Australasian Land and Groundwater Association is running this course throughout Australia and in New Zealand during November.   This is an introductory organic geochemistry course for scientists and engineers working in the field of groundwater site characterization, contamination, and remediation. It is designed to provide basic information on organic contaminants and their fate/transport in aquifer

A Geologist in Afghanistan – the adventures of a foolish geoscientist? GPIC February talk, Tuesday 10th February 2015, presented by James Llorca FAIG, FAusIMM, FSEG, Team Leader – Component II Mineral & Capacity Development, USAID – MIDAS Project. The talk is a presentation on the adventures of a possibly misguided geologist working in a war zone. It covers

AIG Victorian Branch Visit to the Australian Synchrotron We were a happy team of geos that ventured beyond the MCG on the Monday after the AFL Grand Final in September to visit the Australian Synchrotron, which is about the size of the MCG! Earlier this year Kaylene Camuti met the Synchrotron’s Dr Tamsyn Ross, who

Gold14@Kalgoorlie: an International Symposium in the home of Australia’s gold industry, 8-10 October 2014 Kalgoorlie, home of the Super Pit, is the perfect location for the Australian Institute of Geoscientists (AIG) Gold14@Kalgoorlie Symposium to be held between 8-10 October. The symposium will be a truly international event, with delegates attending from Africa, the Americas, Asia,

Activities of the Vic branch of the AIG during the first half of 2014 comprised a series of monthly technical talks, which have included such esoteric subjects as the geology of various gold deposits from China to Nevada – and computer applications and remote sensing. The latest talk was by Bruce Kay (see Fig 1),

A letter published in Nature 508, 245-248 (10th April, 2014) by researchers at Monash University and the Geological Survey of Victoria on mathematical modelling of crustal elements involved in continental collision and subduction, can be applied to the understanding of the development of the Macquarie Arc and the evolution of the Tasmanides in SE Australia. Subduction