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AuScope: its past present and future in Australia – a Victorian perspectiveDr Tim Rawling,
Acting CEO & Director, AuScope
For the last 10 years AuScope Limited has been the primary provider of national scale research infrastructure to support the Australian Earth and Geospatial communities. In this time over $80M of investment has lead to the development of a number of significant pieces of research infrastructure around the country: from the Very Long Baseline Interferometry telescope network to the acquisition of thousands of kilometres of deep reflection seismic profiles, the development of web based data delivery tools in all of the state surveys to the placement of research quality seismometers in secondary school classrooms.
During this time AuScope’s funding has primarily come from the federal governments NCRIS and EIF schemes. With the recent announcement of the renewal of the NCRIS scheme for another 10 years there exists exciting opportunities for future large scale investment in research infrastructure to benefit its communities. This talk will outline the history of AuScope and highlight some of its significant programs (with a Victorian perspective) and will look forward to the next ten years, present some aspects of its current strategic plan and provide an opportunity for discussion and feedback.
Tim is the Acting CEO of AuScope. Prior to this role he was Director Infrastructure Development of AuScope’s Australian Geophysical Observing System (AGOS). His recent research has involved the development of regional/crustal-scale 3D and 4D geological models as well as new exploration methodologies involving 3D modeling and finite element simulation. Tim’s background is in structural geology and IT and he has previously worked as a consultant exploration geologist, as the manager of the 3D modelling and simulation programs at GeoScience Victoria (DPI), as the MCA funded lecturer at the University of Melbourne, a commercial programmer and as a researcher at Monash University and the University of Arizona.
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