Talks & Events
Monthly Meeting
Date: First Wednesday of each month (except December and January)
Location: Irish Club of WA (Inc.), 61 Townshend Road, Subiaco, between Hay Street and Churchill Ave
Time: 5.30pm
Info: wittww@iinet.net.au
Upcoming Events
25 October 2019 - Geochemical methods of nickel exploration workshop (Joint GSA WA Division & CSIRO)
Description: This workshop provides advanced hands-on instruction on the use of lithogeochemistry of igneous rocks in mineral exploration, with major focus on magmatic Ni-Cu-PGE deposits. The workshop will present general principles of major and trace element geochemistry, specific application to komatiite and mafic-ultramafic intrusion hosted ore systems, discussions of applications to weathered and altered rocks, and a variety of classification/discrimination methods. The workshop will use ioGAS software and will also touch on the use of Python codes for data analysis.
Presenters: Steve Barnes (CSIRO), Morgan Williams (CSIRO), Margaux Le Vaillant (CSIRO)
Requirements: Participants should bring their own laptops for hands-on case studies using Excel spreadsheets and ioGAS geochemical plotting software. Free Trial licences are available to download via the ioGas website: http://reflexnow.com/iogas
Catering: Morning tea will be provided. Please advise of any dietary requirements when registering
Parking: ARRC front car park, Dick Perry Ave (front of building)
Cost: $60 GSA Members, $160 Non-GSA Members, $30 Students
Registration: Please click here
Contact: steve.barnes@csiro.au
6 November 2019 - WA Division Meeting
Speaker: David Mole (Laurentian University)
Topic: The Metal Earth project: Investigating multi-scale controls on mineral systems
Location: Irish Club of WA (Inc.), 61 Townshend Road, Subiaco
Time: 5.30pm
29 November 2019 - GESSS WA
Description: GESSS WA allows Honours, Masters and PhD students to present their research to the local scientific community, to gain experience in communicating their research findings through oral and poster presentations, to promote their talents to future employers, to discover areas of research at other universities, or departments, and to meet new people in the Earth Sciences field. 2018 held the first of the Western Australian GESSS series with the aim to continue the initiative into 2019 and alternate between the host universities; The University of Western Australia and Curtin University.
Location: Elizabeth Jolley Lecture Theatre, Curtin University
Website: Please click here
Abstracts: Please click here to submit your abstract
Registrations: Please click here
Previous Division Meetings and Events
2 October 2019 - WA Division Meeting
Speaker: Sarah Jones (Gold Fields)
Topic: Early gold deposition in the Eastern Goldfields, Western Australia
Location: Irish Club of WA (Inc.), 61 Townshend Road, Subiaco
Time: 5.30pm
4 September 2019 - WA Division Meeting
Speaker: Tsing Bohu (CSIRO)
Topic: Microbes and transition metals: insights into manganese and gold biogeochemical cycling
7 August 2019 - WA Division Meeting
Speaker: Greg Poole (University of Western Australia)
Topic: Hf-O isotopes of Permian intrusions related to porphyry and epithermal mineralisation in the Frontal Cordillera, Argentina
3 July 2019 - WA Division Meeting
Speaker: Siyu (Shirley) Hu (CSIRO)
Topic: Bugs in hot water - biotic and abiotic minerals in modern seafloor hydrothermal chimneys
12 July 2019 - Pilbara Coastal and Marine Science Symposium
Details: The Geological Society of Australia (WA Division) facilitated a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary day-long symposium on the Pilbara Coast and offshore regions, in collaboration with the Wetlands Research Association Inc. and Geoheritage Australasia. The Symposium was held in association with the AMSA 2019 Marine Science for a Blue Economy Conference (Fremantle) http://amsa19.amsa.asn.au/
The aim of the Symposium was to bring together and collate the up-to-the-present and state-of-the art science of universities, government agencies, researchers, and industry in a symposium to share information and exchange ideas towards the understanding and better management of the Pilbara Coast. The objective also was to produce a quality refereed publication from original work presented at the Symposium
If you are interested in presenting an oral paper or poster at the Symposium or alternately developing a poster paper, please send a 200-500-word abstract and the paper title to: PCMSS@iinet.net.au by April 30
Themes of the Symposium include:
(1) coastal geology and nearshore, geomorphology, and physical features of the Pilbara Coast;
(2) coastal, nearshore, and hinterland ecology (including coastal habitats, mangroves, rocky shore, saltmarsh, seagrass, coral reefs, fish, amongst others);
(3) link between geodiversity and biodiversity along the Pilbara Coast;
(4) Indigenous, archaeological, and rock art aspects:
(5) European colonisation and industry;
(6) conservation and management.
5 June 2019 - WA Division Meeting
Speaker: Valentina Taranovic (CSIRO)
Topic: Insights into the Nova-Bollinger Ni-Cu depost, Fraser Zone of Western Australia
29 May 2019 - WA Division Awards Night and Annual General Meeting
Speaker: Jim Ross
Topic: Geoscience illuminating archaeology: how mines, metals and money led to Alexander the Great
Details: Awarding of the Gibb Maitland Medal, Ross Medal, Geological Society of Australia (WA Division) Medal and Certificates for Long-Standing Members. The AAP Robert Etheridge Jr Medal will also be presented at the event.
29 May 2019 - Advanced Spectral Data Processing Workshop (GSA-WA, CSIRO, GSWA)
Details: This workshop will provide advanced hands-on instruction on how to extract mineralogical and lithological information from HyLogger-derived hyperspectral data obtained from diamond drillcore
Presenters: Carsten Laukamp (CSIRO), Monica LeGras (CSIRO), and Ian Lau (CSIRO), assisted by GSWA geologists Lena Hancock, Michael Wawryk and Paul Duuring
1 May 2019 - WA Division Meeting
Speaker: Katarina Miljkovic (Curtin University)
Topic: Studying Martian interior with InSight
7 March 2019 - WA Division Tamala Limestone Fieldtrip - Classic Carbonates & Pleistocene Sea-levels
Details: GSA WA & PESA are offering a short afternoon fieldtrip to the classic Peppermint Grove outcrops along the Swan River, led by Dr. Milo Barham (Curtin University). The Tamala Limestone crops out in a near continuous ribbon for over 1000 km along the southwestern coast of Western Australia. Although dominated by Pleistocene aeolianites, with increasing study and recognition of discrete members, the temporal and environmental complexities of the Tamala Limestone’s deposition are becoming clearer. At Peppermint Grove, several facies are well-exposed in a relatively small area, allowing for easy investigation of classic Western Australian lithofacies, and broader carbonate-dominated sedimentary features from a variety of paralic depositional environments (aeolian to shallow marine). Improved age constraints and investigation of facies-relationships at Peppermint Grove allow for the generation of simple sea-level curves for this section and a broader discussion of Pleistocene glacio-eustatic sea-level curves and their influence on sediment packages.
Location: Scotch College Boat Shed, The Esplanade, Peppermint Grove, Western Australia
6 March 2019 - WA Division Meeting
Speaker: Cecilio Quesada (Istituto Geológico Minero de España)
Topic: The Iberian pyrite belt: geological constraints in its formation and evolution
6 February 2019 - WA Division Meeting
Speaker: Prof. J. Brendan Murphy (St. Francis Xavier University, Curtin University)
Topic: Was there a late Neoproterozoic supercontinent? Why does it matter?