A chance for Earth and Marine Science students from Tasmania to get together and discuss their research in a welcoming and fun environment!
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At GESSS-TAS we're hoping to help earth and marine scientists build relationships and develop skills to stay strong in a turbulent world. For some this is the first conference you attend in your academic career and we are excited to see what you've been doing and help you find your way.
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We want to help you showcase your research to the broader academic, government and industry communities.
GSA Earth Sciences Student Symposium November 2017
The Conference
What is GESSS-TAS?
16th November 2017
8:30 am
The first student-run, student-focussed, GSA Earth Sciences Student Symposium of Tasmania (GESSS-TAS) will be held on the 16th of November, 2017, at the Institute of Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), located on Hobart’s scenic Salamanca waterfront.
Convened by Earth and Marine Science students from the University of Tasmania (UTAS), the symposium will provide students with a unique opportunity to be the stars of the show, promoting themselves and their interests and talents to prospective employers, mentors, academic supervisors and fellow students in a variety of fields. This conference is a new initiative of the Geological Society of Australia’s (GSA) Governing Council, and we hope it will be widely attended by appreciators of water, rock, the environment, and life. We aspire for this conference to benefit students at all levels by providing broader exposure to other Earth Science sub-disciplines, as well as providing examples of good scholarly research and project management.
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Abstracts, posters and talks are invited from students at all levels, covering topics that include tectonics and structural geology, geochemistry, geophysics and remote sensing, environmental sciences, oceanography, biogeochemistry, climate systems, petrology, and economic geology.
Abstract submissions close September 30th 2017
About the GESSS-TAS
Much progress has been made in organising the inaugural Tasmanian GESS Symposium. We have secured our venue at IMAS on Hobart’s scenic waterfront, our registration and abstract submission portals are open, we have two exciting keynote speakers organised, Richard Arculus and Anita Parbhakar-Fox, and we have been actively seeking support from industry, government and research institution allies.
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Abstracts, posters and talks are invited from students at all levels. Presenting authors of the highest quality abstracts will be invited to share their work through oral or poster presentations during four sessions: 1) Igneous, Metamorphic and Structural Geology, 2) Geoenvironmental Sciences and Biogeochemistry, 3) Economic Geology, and 4) Geophysics, Computational and Analytical Geoscience. Our sponsors will also be giving short introductions to their business activities, which include Tasmanian geology, ore deposit and environmental geology, and technological and training development. An evening social event and catered poster sessions will encourage an informal atmosphere for student, academic and industry conference participants to share discussions on current and future works.
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Don’t forget to check out our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/GESSStasmania/ to keep up to date in the run up to the conference!
Students organising and participating in the conference are members of the following University of Tasmania groups:
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The Australia Research Council’s Industrial Transformation Research Hub for Transforming the Mining Value Chain (TMVC)
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The Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS)
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The Discipline of Earth Sciences
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The Australian Research Council’s Centre of Excellence in Ore Deposits (CODES)
Participants
70
Topics
10
Sessions
4
Speakers
16
Speakers
We are hosting Anita Parbhakar-Fox and Richard Arculus as keynote speakers at the conference.
Anita is a Research Fellow specialising in environmental geochemistry and mineralogy at the Transforming the Mining Value Chain Industrial Transformation Research Hub at the University of Tasmania. Anita is focussed on mine waste characterisation in order to improve mine planning and waste management practices. During the course of her research, Anita has developed new tests and protocols, particularly for acid rock drainage prediction. Anita is also involved in identifying remediation options for abandoned/historical mine sites.
Richard is a Professor Emeritus at the Research School of Earth Sciences at Australian National University. Richard has dedicated his academic career to the study of volcanoes and the products of their eruptions. Richard’s primary interest is the differentiation of the Earth, particularly the formation of the continental crust and global geochemical recycling. He pursues this through the study of island and back arc magmatism, and the geochemical changes accompanying subduction of crustal materials.
Sponsors
So far, we must say a big thank you for the financial support pledged from the Australian Research Council’s Transforming the Mining Value Chain Industrial Transformation Research Hub (TMVC Hub) and Centre of Excellence in Ore Deposits (CODES), the Tasmanian Branch of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (AusIMM), First Quantum Minerals (FQM), Mineral Resources Tasmania (MRT), PYBAR Mining Services, Bureau Vertias, the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre (ACE CRC), and Tony Hope (Hoji Pty Ltd). Most of all, thank you to the GSA Governing Council and broader GSA for their intellectual, financial, and emotional support during the setup and run up to the GESS conferences!
Registration
Please register below or visit https://gesss-tas.eventbrite.com.
Alternatively, send us an email at gess.symposium.tas@gmail.com, or use the contact form below.
Abstract submissions
Submissions are invited from all disciplines within the fields of earth, ocean, atmospheric and environmental sciences. We are seeking research that you are particularly proud of, and work that can benefit other students through sharing of your process, findings, and experience. We also welcome submissions from research professionals and academics, particularly of past work presented at other conferences that showcase your own method/process and development as a successful researcher.
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If you are interested in participating, please email gesss.abstracts.tas@gmail.com with your abstracts before the 30th of September 2017.
