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19 FEBRUARY
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20 FEBRUARY
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21 FEBRUARY
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PROGRAM

TUESDAY 20 FEBRUARY
From Faxes to FaceTime: Building Intergenerational Relationships through Networking and Mentoring - C3.4 @ ICC Sydney - 0700

POSTER PROGRAM

1040-1220 SESSION 4
  A B C D E F G H
  PNG and NZ West Australian Basins Symposium Non Conventional Geophysics Technology Strategic and Industrial Magnetotellurics Regional Mapping Groundwater Case Studies
  C2.1 C2.2 / C2.3 E3.10 E3.2 C2.4 Pyrmont Theatre C2.5 / C2.6 E3.1
  Chair: Scott Keenan Chair: Marita Bradshaw Chair: Malcolm Bocking Chair: Alan Oertel Chair: Steve Collins Chair: Kim Frankcombe Chair: Ian Roach Chair: Dr David Allen
0830-0855 Keynote Presentation

Innovative exploration in Papua New Guinea; past, present and future
Kevin Hill
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Onshore inventory – targeting new basins (Officer, Perth, Canning Basins)
Lidena Carr
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Integrated Seismic (IS) for shale gas exploration and management
Shastri Nimmagadda
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Mathematical properties and physical meaning of the gravity gradient tensor eigenvalues
Carlos Cevallos
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Keynote Presentation

Strategic & industrial minerals leading the next production revolution
Richard Flook
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Particularities of 5-component magnetotelluric soundings application for mineral exploration
Igor Ingerov
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Keynote Presentation

National mineral exploration strategy: A vision for unlocking Australia's hidden mineral wealth
Richard Blewett
Characterizing the Spiritwood Valley Aquifer, North Dakota, using helicopter time-domain EM
Jean Legault
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0855-0920 Linear trends of paleo-pockmarks and fluid flow pipes in the Jurassic and Triassic sediments of offshore northwest Australia
Tayallen Velayatham
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Using multiazimuth seismic data for anisotropy estimation in an unconventional reservoir
Surabhi Mishra
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Application of frequency domain induction EM soundings with controlled source (FDEMS method) for precise tracing of boundaries in geoelectrical sections
Igor Ingerov
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Sferic signals for lightning sourced electromagnetic surveys
Lachlan Hennessy
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Reinterpretation of wireline log data in the eastern Galilee Basin, Queensland: stratigraphic and hydrogeologic implications
James Hansen
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0920-0945 4D characterisation of PNG’s Petroleum Systems
John Warburton
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The effect of flexural isostasy on delta architecture: Implications for the Mungaroo Formation
Sara Morón-polanco
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A new computational model to predict breakdown pressures in cased and perforated wells in unconventional reservoirs
Muhammed Asad Pirzada
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Application of passive seismic in determining overburden
thickness: North West Zambia
Nikhil Prakash
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The Pilgangoora Lithium-Tantalum Deposit - Geological overview and evolution of discovery
John Holmes
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Keynote Presentation

What is new in magnetotellurics?
Graham Heinson
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An integrated approach to mapping crustal geology and structures in the NE Capricorn Orogen, Western Australia: Implications for uranium exploration
Ashley Laurence Uren
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Keynote Presentation

 

Groundwater in Mining - problems and solutions
Katarina David
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0945-1010 Structural and reservoir development of the western Papuan Basin gas and condensate fields
Michelle Spooner
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Mesozoic to Cenozoic depositional environments & fluid migration within the Caswell Sub-basin: Key insights from new interpretation & modelling of the Schild phase 2 3D
Jarrad Grahame
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An optimised hydraulic fracturing treatment on challenging Rizq Field
Muhammad Asad Pirzada
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Scintillators for PGNAA in mineral exploration
Anton Kepic 
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Evaluating Rare Earth Deposits
Phil Hellman
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Archean controls on basin development and mineralisation in the southern Capricorn Orogen
Sandra Occhipinti
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1010-1040

Morning tea (Exhibition | The Gallery)

1040-1220

SESSION 5

  A B C D E F G H
  PNG and NZ West Australian Basins Symposium Non Conventional General Geology Strategic and Industrial  EM Inversion Modelling Regional Mapping & Thomson Orogen Groundwater Case Studies
  C2.1 C2.2 / C2.3 E3.10 Pyrmont Theatre C2.4 E3.2 C2.5 / C2.6 E3.1
  Chair: Scott Keenan Chair: Marita Bradshaw Chair: Malcolm Bocking Chair: Bruce Hooper Chair: Richard Flook Chair: Dave Annetts Chair: Dave Robson Chair: Trent Bowman
1040-1105 Plio-pleistocene river drainage evolution in New Guinea
Gilles Brocard
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Canning Basin – petroleum systems analysis
Andrew Murray
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New method for monitoring steam injection for Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) and for finding sources of geothermal heat
Gordon Stove
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Keynote Presentation

Geophysical detection of the hydrothermal alteration footprints of ore deposits
John McGaughey
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Industrial minerals - evaluation and profitability
David Turvey
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Trans-dimensional Monte Carlo inversion of short period
magnetotelluric data for cover thickness estimation
Wenping Jiang
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AusAEM; acquisition of AEM at an unprecedented scale
Alan Ley-Cooper
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Rate of success for a groundwater drilling program planned from AEM, Gascoyne River, WA
Aaron Davis
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1105-1130 Geophysical and geological characterisation of dredge locations from RV Southern Surveyor voyage ss2012_v06 (ECOSATI): Hotspot activity in northern Zealandia
Maria Seton
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The Ungani oil field, Canning Basin - evaluation of a dolomite reservoir
David Long
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A new system for efficiently acquiring vertical seismic profile surveys
Tim Dean
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Mineral deposits in the Ontario Cobalt Belt
Ian Pringle
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Comparative analysis and joint inversion of MT and ZTEM Data
Wolfgang Soyer
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Application of AEM for cover thickness mapping in the southern Thomson Orogen
Ian Roach
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Geophysical investigation to support characterisation of structurally controlled groundwater flow into an open pit mine
Michael Carroll
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1130-1155 Compressional evolution of the PNG margin from an orogenic transect from Juha to the Sepik
Kevin Hill
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Depositional, diagenetic and mineralogical controls on porosity development in the Ungani Field, Canning Basin
June Then
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What we know, what we don’t know, and things we do not know we don't know about hydraulic fracturing in high stress environments
Raymond Johnson
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Creating a new frontier in detection and data integration for exploration through cover
Robert Hough
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The Sinclair Zone Caesium Deposit, Pioneer Dome, W.A.
David Crook
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1, 2.5 and/or 3D inversion of airborne EM data - options in the search for sediment-hosted base metal mineralisation in the Mcarthur Basin, Northern Territory
Timothy Munday
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Estimating cover thickness in the southern Thomson Orogen – a comparison of applied geophysics estimates with borehole results
James Goodwin
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Uncovering the Musgrave Province in South Australia using airborne EM
Camilla Soerensen
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1155-1220 Tectonic and geodynamic evolution of the northern Australian margin and New Guinea
Joanna Tobin
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Laurel gas play, Canning Basin - recent stratigraphic learnings
Simon Sturrock
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The role of diagnostic fracture injection testing to improve reservoir evaluation and stress characterisation in compressive stress regimes
Raymond Johnson
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Episodic mineralising fluid injection through chemical shear zones
Thomas Poulet
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  Spatially and conductivity log constrained AEM inversion
Alan Ley-Cooper
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Increasing prospectivity in a covered terrain – the southern Thomson Orogen, northwestern NSW
Rosemary Hegarty
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A multidisciplinary study of groundwater conditions in sedimentary strata at Thirlmere Lakes (NSW)
Katarina David
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1220-1320

Lunch (Exhibition | The Gallery)

1320-1345

Poster Session (Pyrmont Theatre Foyer)

1345-1410

SOCIETY PLENARIES

SESSION 6
  A B C D E F G H
  PNG and NZ International Non Conventional Geochemistry Industrial - Sands  EM Inversion Modelling Regional Cobar Innovation
  C2.1 C2.2 / C2.3 E3.10 Pyrmont Theatre C2.4 E3.2 C2.5 / C2.6 E3.1
  Chair: Kevin Hill Chair: Mark Taylor Chair: Bruce McKay Chair: David Cohen Chair: David Turvey Chair: Mike Asten Chair: Ian Neuss Chair: Simon Williams
1410-1435 A method for assessing earth model uncertainty in the Taranaki Basin, New Zealand
Edward Lewis
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On the geothermal potential of the Heyuan Fault, South China
Lisa Tannock
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The use of coring-induced petal fractures in coal to
supplement and ground truth the interpretation of image logs
David Titheridge
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Keynote Presentation

21st century exploration geochemistry – the good, the bad and the ugly
Ryan Noble
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Frac sand supply & demand  Australia
Murray Lines
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Large scale 3D airborne electromagnetic inversion – Recent technical Improvements
Mike McMillan
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Metamorphism and skarn mineralisation in the Cobar Basin: Implications for exploration
Joel Fitzherbert
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Source Assisted Marine Refraction Microtremor (ReMi) for marine material strength assessments – New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea
Trent Bowman
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1435-1500 Modelling and visualizing distributed lithospheric deformation of Australia and Zealandia using GPlates2.0
Dietmar Müller
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The discovery and development of oil rim fields in the Beibu Gulf, China
Andrew Fernie
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Automatic fracture identification using x-ray images
Ankita Singh
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High-grade silica sands in the Eastern Murray Basin NSW
Graham Lee
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3D time-domain airborne EM inversion with finite-volume method
Xiuyan Ren
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Cobar Deposits – structural control 
Vladimir David
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Bootstrapping reliable noise measure in time-gated nuclear magnetic resonance data
Brian McPherson
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1500-1530

Afternoon tea (Exhibition | The Gallery)

1530-1710 SESSION 7
  A B C D E F G H
  PNG and NZ International Non Conventional Geochemistry  Brine Deposits New Airborne EM Techniques Regional Mapping Methods Innovation
  C2.1 C2.2 / C2.3 E3.10 Pyrmont Theatre C2.4 E3.2 C2.5 / C2.6 E3.1
  Chair: Kevin Hill Chair: Mark Taylor Chair: Bruce McKay Chair: Neal Rutherford Chair: Murray Lines Chair: Tim Munday Chair: Vladimir David Chair: Andrew Spyrou
1530-1555 Investigation of possible shallow gas accumulations associated with pockmarks on the Otago slope southeast of New Zealand
Jasper Hoffmann
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Shelf-margin architecture and shoreline processes at the shelf-edge: Controls on sediment partitioning and prediction of deep-water deposition style
Victorien Paumard
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Fraccing onshore Australia
Maxwell Williamson
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A new blasthole xrf probe for mining grade control
Phil Hawke
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Lithium: fundamental supply/demand, the lithium brines of South America and exploration/development methodologies
Steve Promnitz
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Characterising the subsurface architecture and stratigraphy of the McArthur Group through integrated airborne EM and gravity inversion
Teagan Blaikie
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Low noise, multichannel surface NMR receiver system with wireless connections to receiver coils
Jakob Juul Larsen
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1555-1620 Characterisation of focused gas hydrate accumulations from the Pegasus Basin, New Zealand, using high-resolution and conventional seismic data
Andrew Gorman
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Sedimentary characteristics and lithological trap identification of distant braided river delta deposits: A case study on the Upper Cretaceous Yogou Formation of Termit Basin, Niger
Zhao Ning
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Impact of artificially matured organic matter on the dielectric and elastic properties of compacted shales
Matthieu Cauchefert
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Cassiterite and rutile as indicator minerals for exploring
the VMS system
Walid Salama
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Evaluating brine deposits using borehole magnetic resonance
Tom Neville
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Sub-Audio Magnetics (SAM) – Ground-based and HeliSAM FLEM trials at the Forrestania EM test range
Malcolm Cattach
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Self organising maps - a case study of Broken Hill
Tasman Gillfeather-Clark
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ECloud – Magnetotelluric Webapp
Andrew Pethick
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1620-1645 Comparing shale gouge ratio and juxtaposition analysis using stochastic trap analysis: Examples from Gippsland, Taranaki, Otway and Southern North Sea Basins
Titus Murray
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Airborne gravity gradiometer survey over the Pelarang Anticline onshore Kutai Basin Indonesia
Asbjorn Norlund Christensen
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The stratigraphic architecture, distribution and hydrocarbon potential of the organic rich Kyalla and Velkerri shales of the Upper Roper Group (McArthur Basin)
Mattilda Sheridan
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Can geophysics and geochemistry combine to detect mineralisation under transported cover?
David Cohen
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CGG’S new Helitem-C AEM systems
Adam Smiarowski
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The utility of machine learning in identification of key
geophysical and geochemical datasets: a case study in lithological mapping in
the Central African Copper Belt
Stephen Kuhn
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Groundwater assessment in a coal measures sequence using borehole magnetic resonance
Benjamin Birt
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1645-1710 New Regional Data and Advances in Understanding of the Stratigraphy, Tectonics, Structure and Prospectivity of the Gulf of Papua (Papua New Guinea)
Dariusz Jablonski
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The effect of deep burial and folding on sandstone reservoirs in Giant Gas Fields, South America
Gregory Smith
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Geomechanical prestack depth migration of the Kraken 3D (Browse Basin, Australia)
Jarrod Dunne
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Field analysis of low ppb gold using pXRF and new
detectORE technology
Melvyn Lintern
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Passive EM processing of megatem and helitem data
Daniel Sattel
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Terrain correction correction Tasmania – results and implications
Mark Duffett
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Geologically-constrained interpretation of airborne electromagnetic data for definition of prospective groundwater resources, Albany Hinterland, Western Australia
James Reid
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