Exploration in the House 2025 program
8:30 am | Registration, tea and coffee
9:00 am | Welcome to Country
Yvonne Weldon, Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council
9:05 am | Introduction
Georgina Beattie, Deputy Secretary, NSW Resources
9:15 am | Geological Survey of NSW, 150 years of excellence in geoscience
Dr Phillip Blevin, Chief Geoscientist and Head of the Geological Survey of New South Wales (GSNSW)
9:25 am | Keynote address: A plate tectonic approach to targeting future exploration opportunities for critical minerals and high-tech metals in NSW
Dr Richard Glen, Adjunct Professor Macquarie University
9:55 am | Regional scale thermal and isotopic mapping, redefining the exploration space in NSW
Dr Joel Fitzherbert, Principal Geoscientist, GSNSW
10:10 am | 2025 – a stellar year for geophysics products in NSW
Dr Samuel Matthews, Senior Geophysicist, GSNSW
10:25 am | New datasets and functionality available in MinView
James Ballard, Senior Geoscientist Geospatial, GSNSW
10:40 am | Morning tea and MinView display
11:15 am | Insights into the Cobar–Hermidale–Yathong region from seismically constrained potential field modelling
Max Milz, Geophysicist, GSNSW
11:30 am | Advances in hyperspectral capability: the new HyLogger 4 and the potential of mid-infrared
Dr Jon Huntington, CSIRO Honorary Fellow
11:45 am | Updates on critical mineral and high-tech metal related projects being undertaken by the Geological Survey of NSW
Karen Montgomery, Geoscientist, GSNSW
12:00 pm | Core library refurbishment and preservation of our state significant collections
Dan Logan, Manager Mineral Systems, GSNSW
12:10 pm | Closing remarks
Dr Phillip Blevin, Chief Geoscientist and Head of the Geological Survey of New South Wales
12:20 pm | Networking lunch
1:00 pm | Close
Please note this program is subject to change.
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