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Topic: Geosciences Australia

	Andrew Bartlett - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bartlett was appointed to the Senate in 1997 to fill the casual vacancy caused by the resignation of Kernot, and went on to win the seat at the 2001 Federal election.
		A consistent and vocal campaigner for refugees and asylum seekers, Bartlett is the only Australian parliamentarian to have visited every refugee detention centre in Australia, as well as those on Christmas Island and Nauru (detention centres off the Australian mainland, see Australia's Pacific Solution) where he went twice to meet with detainees.
		Bartlett was a strong opponent of Australia's involvement in the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Andrew_Bartlett (953 words)

	Alexander's Gas & Oil Connections - Australia to offer incentive for deepwater oil search
		In a bid to stem Australia's falling oil production, the Government announced new concessions that will allow companies to claim 150 %, up from 100 %, of their exploration spending in designated areas as a deduction against their Petroleum Resource Rent Tax liability, which is levied at 40 % of taxable profit.
		According to government agency GeoSciences Australia, the country's remaining economic reserves of crude oil and condensate are only sufficient to cover 11.3 years of consumption, based on how much was guzzled last year.
		Resources Minister Ian Macfarlane said Australia had 40 offshore geological basins that had the potential to host oil and gas, but half remained unexplored because of the high cost of drilling in deep water far offshore.
	www.gasandoil.com /goc/news/nts42286.htm (568 words)

	International Economics - A Comparison of Various Nations
		Australia 's mineral and energy resource s sector is found on an impressive base of impressive base of intellectual capital, which results from sustained investment in the universities and in agencies funded by Commonwealth and State over some 40 years (supplemented by mining and petroleum industry support).
		Geosciences is required to document present environments identify impacts of development, plan remedial action and rehabilitation, determine the availability ad sustainability of underground water supplies, delineate and alleviate salinity problems and map soils suitable for agriculture
		Australia's mining sector is perhaps the only area of economic activity that has the potential to be of significance at a global scale, in the foreseeable future.
	www.k12.nf.ca /swiftcurrent/socio/australia.html (1811 words)

	Human Resources for Health \| Full text \| The remittances of migrant Tongan and Samoan nurses from Australia
		A specific study of this kind has never previously focused on health workers, other than in the case of migrant doctors from the Philippines, where it was concluded that their remittances were substantial enough to offset training and other costs [8].
		The precise population size of the Tongan and Samoan migrant community in Australia is unknown (in part because of mis-reporting, the significant proportion of illegal migrants and the New Zealand citizenship of many Samoans especially).
		Brown [10,11] found that the presence of a surviving parent or spouse in the home country increased the migrant's propensity to remit, while the larger the number of dependents of the migrant living in Australia, the less likely the migrant was to be remitting.
	www.human-resources-health.com /content/2/1/2 (12016 words)

	Geoscience Australia: What's New
		Australia’s resource stocks remain healthy overall, although there has been a levelling off of resource trends for several major commodities, according to the latest assessment released by Geoscience Australia.
		The new data is taken from a survey project managed by Geoscience Australia on behalf of the Northern Territory Geological Survey.
		Gazetteer of Australia is the authoritative source of Australian place names, and is the ultimate resource for any application that requires the names and location of Australian towns, natural features, built features and more.
	www.ga.gov.au /news/index.jsp (567 words)

	Peter McGauran MP, Australian Government Minister for Science - Media Centre
		An ambitious plan to secure Australia’s future research in the geosciences was launched today as part of Earth Science Week by Australian Government Science Minister Peter McGauran.
		“Australia is a world leader in geoscience research and it is critical that we maintain a vibrant and innovative geoscience community,” Mr McGauran said.
		With only 0.3% of the global population, Australia produces more than 5% of all geoscience publications and receives an equivalent share of citations, the highest of any scientific field in Australia.
	www.dest.gov.au /Ministers/Media/McGauran/2003/10/mcg001151003.asp (243 words)

	AAS-Reports and submissions-28.06.02
		As Australia’s premier science body, the Academy has a vital interest in the health of Australia’s higher education system in general and in science in particular.
		Australia’s university system is ailing: class sizes are too large, salary levels are too low, current funding levels per student are too low, and morale is low. There is too much emphasis on redistribution of existing funding and on increasing activity as a means to increasing income.
		It is significant that one of Australia's most eminent biologists, Sir Gustav Nossal, has observed that students should 'do as much mathematics and statistics as you can in your degree – these skills will empower your professional lives'.
	www.science.org.au /reports/28june02.htm (1519 words)

	OptusNet News
		Seismologists say Australia is safe from major after-effects of the massive earthquake that hit south Asia yesterday.
		North-west Australian services were put on alert after an Australian Geosciences station in the Cocos Islands registered abnormal waves of about 50 centimetres.
		Dr Cvetan Sinadinovski of Geosciences Australia says there is no threat.
	www.optus.net /news/story/abc/20041227/13/tech/1272550.inp (190 words)

	SCI-BYTES: Science in Australia, 1998-2002
		Australia's world share of science and social-science papers over the last five years, expressed as a percentage of papers in each of 22 fields in the ISI database.
		As the right-hand column shows, the citations-per-paper average, or impact, of reports in plant and animal sciences from Australia exceeded the world average in that field by 11% (3.01 cites per paper for Australia, versus the world average of 2.72 cites).
		The relative impact of Australian research was also notably strong in geosciences, space science, agricultural sciences, and computer science.
	www.in-cites.com /research/2003/may_19_2003-2.html (289 words)

	Australian oil production declining fast : Melbourne Indymedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Geoscience Australia estimated that, “Australian stocks of crude oil (in the ground) will be exhausted in 8 (now 5) years if the current rate of production is maintained and there is no discovery of new reserves” (GA 2001a).
		As (foreign explorer) Japan Australia LNG (MMI) stated in their submission to the House of Reps (HoR SCIR 2003), “there are few impediments to oil exploration in Australia that rival the generally very low chance of success for finding crude oil.”
		Geoscience Australia (2001) 2000 Oil and Gas Resources of Australia.
	melbourne.indymedia.org /news/2004/07/73418.php (524 words)

	TerraSim, Inc.
		The Surat visualization is a focal point in the exhibit of the Australian Federal Government's Invest Australia initiative.
		The three contiguous visualizations are based on Landsat 7 imagery that was orthorectified, color-matched and mosaiced, as well as a Geosciences Australia DEM of the area.
		The fourth visualization, concentrating on Moura Mine, was based on aerial photography of the mine and topographic detail collected on the ground by surveyors at the mine.
	www.terrasim.com /pressreleases/2004/pr04_0901.html (516 words)

	SCI-BYTES: Science in Australia
		Australia's world share of science and social-science papers over the last five years, expressed as a percentage of papers in each of 22 fields in the Thomson ISI database.
		As the right-hand column shows, the citations-per-paper average, or impact, of reports in plant and animal sciences from Australia exceeded the world average in that field by 11% (3.27 cites per paper for Australia, versus the world average of 2.94 cites).
		The relative impact of Australian research was also notably strong in geosciences, space science, agricultural sciences, and mathematics.
	in-cites.com /research/2004/june_28_2004-1.html (270 words)

	GEsource World Guide - Australia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		More than five hundred homes were destroyed, and with regional cotton, wheat and other winter crops at roughly half their typical yield due to drought, farmers suffered another blow: thousands of livestock were lost in the fires, and millions of acres of forest, rangeland, and tree plantations were scorched.
		The Terra and Aqua satellites sometimes passed over Australia as many as four times each day, in theory providing plenty of opportunity for coverage of the area, but there always seemed to be bits and pieces of the data stream missing.
		As the fire season in the southern part of Australia began to pick up late in 2002, it gave every indication of becoming at least as severe as the fire season of 2001-02 that initiated the Sentinel Hotspots project.
	www.gesource.ac.uk /worldguide/html/817_articles.html (3010 words)

	Untitled Document
		The goal of the Coastal CRC is to bridge the gaps between science and the community, and between science and policy, planning and decision-making.Various assessment and monitoring, planning and restoration, ecosystem modelling, citizen science and decision support projects are undertaken using participatory approaches with stakeholders.
		Between October 27 and November 7 2003 research collaborators from Curtin University and Geosciences Australia will join colleagues from the University of Western Australia in making detailed surveys of areas around Woody Island and the Remark Island group to compare acoustic information collected from side scan sonar and a SWATH mapper.
		Researchers from Geosciences Australia will analyse sediment samples to determine the types of materials making up soft sediment materials and how these materials reflect acoustic signals.
	www.marine.uwa.edu.au /recherche/CRC.htm (358 words)

	Research and Innovation
		The Australian Geoscience Council believes research is fundamental to the long-term wellbeing of the geosciences in Australia, and therefore to the future of the resource industry, the environment and sustainable development.
		Australian geoscience research, which is globally recognised for its high standards, is driven in large part by the importance of geosciences to the Australian economy in a wide range of applications which include mineral and petroleum exploration and resource extraction, land degradation studies and groundwater assessment.
		The Australian Geoscience Council also supports the encouragement of innovative behaviour, a better appreciation of new technologies and the value of intellectual property.
	www.aig.asn.au /agc/res_innov.htm (575 words)

	SWSZ Proposal 09/04/2004
		According to Geoscience Australia (AGSO), more than 12,000 earthquakes have been recorded in the area since September 2001 with most of these events being aftershocks of larger events.
		Geoscience Australia for access to locally generated seismic recordings which are telemetered to Canberra.
		Geoscience Australia currently has six locations of monitoring stations within the South-West Seismic Zone.
	www.allshookup.org /remote/swsz.htm (663 words)

	School of Geosciences
		We are consistently rated as one of the most successful Geoscience schools in Australia, and have a large and vibrant community of academic, research and general staff and students.
		We have active collaborations with other universities within Australia and overseas, research institutions such as CSIRO and Geoscience Australia, industry, and state and federal government agencies.
		Professor Pat Vickers-Rich was recently awarded the medallion, at the inaugural ceremony, for her role as world expert on fossil birds and their environments, and for her work on avian fossil sites around the world, especially the southern continents that once formed Gondwana.
	www.earth.monash.edu.au (226 words)

	EO Study: From Space to the Outback
		As 2002 drew to a close and summer approached in the Southern Hemisphere, parts of eastern and southern Australia were in the midst of one of the worst multi-year droughts on record.
		The Australians harness the MODIS direct broadcast signal at three receiving stations: one near Alice Springs in central Australia, one in Perth, on the southwest coast, and one in Hobart, in southern Tasmania.
		The Alice Springs and Hobart Facilities are operated by the remote-sensing division of Geosciences Australia (the Australian version of the United States Geological Survey); the Perth receiving station is run by Geosciences Australia in conjunction with the Department of Land Administration in Western Australia and the Australian Bureau of Meteorology.
	earthobservatory.nasa.gov /Study/Sentinel (995 words)

	Clarke > Staff > People > School of Geosciences > University of Sydney > Australia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		From February 1989 to June 1990 Clarke was employed by the Regional Mapping section of the Geological Survey of Western Australia, preparing geological maps in the Rudall River area.
		Decompressional corona and symplectite textures in granulites of the Musgrave Complex, central Australia.
		Metamorphism in the Olary Block, South Australia: compression with cooling in a Proterozoic fold belt.
	www.geosci.usyd.edu.au /about/people/staff/clarke.html (588 words)

	Trans-Tasman partners find new ways to respond to climate change Joint Media Statement 4 November 2004
		For example, Australia and New Zealand are establishing networks between local councils to strengthen their responses to climate change.
		This project involves Australia, New Zealand, the United States, and Pacific Island partners highlighting the benefits of comprehensive climate observations for both short-term decision making and capacity building to understand and deal with climate change in the Pacific region.
		Australia: Bruce Stewart, Bureau of Meteorology, +61 3 9669 4179
	www.deh.gov.au /minister/env/2004/mr04nov204.html (1002 words)

	SCOTLAND'S INVENTIONS
		James Harrison, who emigrated to Australia from Scotland, invented a cooling system for a brewery in Bendigo, in 1851.
		His idea was used in the first refrigerated ship, the SS Strathleven, which carried a cargo of meat from Australia to England, a voyage of several months, in 1876.
		Refrigeration was a major force in the economic development of both Australia and New Zealand.
	www.magicdragon.com /Wallace/thingscot.html (3871 words)

	The Environmental Literacy Council - Bushfires in Australia
		The Environmental Literacy Council - Bushfires in Australia
		In the last week of December 2001, the early summer weather in the southeast of Australia was hot and the inland bush was tinder-dry.
		It took only a few lightning strikes (and, authorities suspected, some arson) to start widespread fires that, pushed along by prevailing westerly winds, burned their way to the heavily populated coast.
	www.enviroliteracy.org /subcategory.php/157.html (219 words)

	MM20 Feature - Machine Guidance
		The division is also the national body for geodesy in Australia, and as such is responsible for the national geodetic infrastructure.
		In Australia, these international GPS processing services were being widely used by the geodetic GPS community.
		The authors are with the National Mapping Division of Geosciences Australia; ph: +61-2-6201-4201.
	www.gisuser.com.au /MM/content/2002/MM20/feature_2/MM20_feature_2.html (1437 words)

	SCI-BYTES: Science in Australia, 1997-2001
		Of those papers, the highest percentage appeared in journals classified under the heading of geosciences.
		As the right-hand column shows, the citations-per-paper average, or impact, of geosciences reports from Australia exceeded the world average in that field by 20% (3.94 cites per paper for Australia, versus the world average of 3.29).
		The relative impact of Australian research was also notably high in plant and animal sciences, agricultural sciences, space science, and engineering.
	in-cites.com /research/2002/april_22_2002-1.html (262 words)

	Native Title Resource Guide \| States and Territories \| WA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Former Aboriginal reserves held by the Native Welfare Department and a number of other State government agencies are vested in the Aboriginal Lands Trust (ALT) under the Aboriginal Affairs Planning Authority Act 1972 (WA).
		For many years Aboriginal people in Western Australia have expressed concerns to Government about the recovery of lands which had once been reserved for their use and benefit.
		In 2004 the Department of Indigenous Affairs published the Lost Lands Report which identifies all lands in Western Australia that were at one time reserved with the intention that they be used by or for Aboriginal people and also identifies such lands that are not currently vested with the ALT, Aboriginal corporations or individuals.
	www.aiatsis.gov.au /rsrch/ntru/research/resourceguide/statesandterritories/WA/wa10.html (891 words)

	JACKSON WELLS MORRIS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		GeoSciences Australia have been reported to claim that Australia’s remaining economic reserves of crude oil and condensate are only sufficient to cover 11.3 years of domestic consumption, based on 2003 transport fuel consumption rates.
		A robust renewable fuels industry in Australia, would extend the useful life of Australia’s current oil reserves, and reduce the impact of future uncertainty in the Middle East, and their potential impacts on both fuel prices and the Australian economy.
		But all that could change if the Howard government moved to mandate a 10 per cent ethanol blend in all petrol.
	www.jackwell.com.au /newsroom/Release_17-05-04.htm (462 words)

	Shark Bay, West Australia (World Heritage site) Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The township of Denham and the areas around Useless Loop and Useless Inlet, although within the main boundary are specifically excluded from the World Heritage property.
		Above is a map (Australia GeoSciences) and an older satellite photo of the Shark Bay area of Western Australia.
		At Denham, the trash was suitably deposited and the vehicle was refuled, transforming it to the Shark Bay Taxi Transport (phone 099-481-331), or as their business card logo (a shark about to swallow a small fish) states, S.W.A.T. taxi.
	nicholnl.wcp.muohio.edu /DingosBreakfastClub/Australia/SharkBay.html (1140 words)

	Radio Australia Tok Pisin: Australia i safe long despela guria long Indonesia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Australia Gavman seismologist itok, Australia i safe or ino bungim ol heve bihainim despela guria na tsunami em ibin kamap long Indonesia longen.
		Bihain long wanpela Australia Geosciences station insait long Cocos Islands ibin registerim or painim aut long mak bilong bigpela sea bruk ibin ikam antap long samting olsem 50-centimetres,ol ibin tok lukaut or toksave long North West Australian services long lukaut.
		Tasol Dr Cvetan (Svet-dan) Sinadinovski (Sina-dinov-ski) bilong Geosciences Australia itok - ikam inap nau Australia i abris pinis em inoken poret longen.
	www.abc.net.au /ra/tokpisin/news/s1272579.htm (129 words)

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