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Discovery Day 2023 presentations

In 2023 Discovery Day focused on the theme New frontiers: transforming data and exploration. You can watch all of the presentations below from the Geological Survey of South Australia team and our key collaboration partners.

THE BIG PICTURE
Rebecca Knights
Executive Director, Strategic Policy & Delivery 
Department for Energy and Mining
Executive Director's update
Dr Bronwyn Camac
Director, Geological Survey of South Australia
Department for Energy and Mining
Director’s update
Christie Gerrard
SARIG Manager
Department for Energy and Mining
Digital Strategy project report
Sathvik Shetty
Chief Commerical Officer
QL Space
Precision mineral exploration using Earth observation technology
FUTURE MINERALS AND ENERGY
Dr Chris Cubitt
Deputy Director, Geoscience and Exploration
Department for Energy and Mining
New hydrocarbon plays in South Australia’s onshore Otway Basin
Carmine Grasso
Chief Petroleum Geologist
Department for Energy and Mining
Coorikiana sandstone play: Cooper Basin region – From little things, big things grow
Dr Carmen Krapf
A/Manager, Resources and Commodities
Department for Energy and Mining
Let’s get critical – update on GSSA’s critical minerals project
Dr Diana Zivak
Senior Geologist
Department for Energy and Mining
Rare earth element potential in South Australia
Dr Jarred Lloyd
Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Adjunct Researcher
University of Adelaide & Department for Energy and Mining
Lithium potential of South Australia and advances in geochronology
Holly Maddison Cooke
Geologist
University of Adelaide, University of Queensland (MIWATCH), BHP Innovation
Characterising critical minerals in Prominent Hill mine tailings
DIGITAL STRATEGY AND DELIVERY
Tracie Mohr
Change Manager, MERS Project
Hamish van den Ijssel
Director, MERS Project
Department for Energy and Mining
Mining and Exploration Regulation System (MERS) project
Peter Buxton
Program Coordinator, Geoscience Information Management and Delivery
Department for Energy and Mining
SARIG update
Liliana Stoian
Senior Geologist, Geoscience Databases
Department for Energy and Mining
The power of legacy data
Dr Mark Pawley
Senior Geologist
Department for Energy and Mining
SADM: Our new geological compilation and data delivery system
COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS
Dr Stephan Thiel
Next Horizon Geophysicist
CSIRO
First results and insights from the Gawler Phase 2 project
Dr Ian Roach
Stratigraphic Drilling Program leader, AIAA
Geoscience Australia
Darling-Curnamona-Delamerian AEM program: Regional AEM aiding under-cover geological mapping and mineral discovery in the Delamerian
Associate Professor Marnie Forster
MinEx CRC Research 
ANU Argon Facility, Research School of Earth Science
Characterisation of the Delamerian-aged deformation and exhumation histories using 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology age-data and potential temperature-time paths
Dr Giovanni Spampinato
Senior Research Geoscientist
CSIRO
Stuart Shelf 3D modelling and property-based inversion
Tom Wise
A/Program Coordinator, 4D Geodynamic and Metallogenic Evolution of South Australia
Department for Energy and Mining
National drilling initiative

Discovery Day 2022

Watch the Discovery Day presentations from 2022