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[PUBLIC TALK] 🌃 For tens of thousands of years, Aboriginal peoples across Australia have looked to the night sky as a li...
29/05/2026

[PUBLIC TALK] 🌃 For tens of thousands of years, Aboriginal peoples across Australia have looked to the night sky as a living source of knowledge, storytelling, science, and connection.

Join us for our next public talk and explore the cosmos through an Aboriginal perspective.

We’re excited to welcome Dr. Kirsten Banks, astrophysicist, Wiradjuri woman, and science communicator, as she shares stories of Aboriginal Astronomy and how scientific knowledge is embedded in cultural traditions.

Learn about Sky Country – where meaning is found not just in the stars, but in the spaces in between them.
🗓️ 11am Wed 3 June
Register 👉 ga.gov.au/publictalks
📷 Dr Kirsten Banks, School of Science, Computing and Engineering Technologies, Swinburne University.

We'd love to see you there! 👋

Australia now has a new way to explore geological carbon storage data.The Australian Carbon Capture and Storage Data Hub...
25/05/2026

Australia now has a new way to explore geological carbon storage data.

The Australian Carbon Capture and Storage Data Hub brings together CCS data from across the country in one free, easy-to-use spatial tool.

It helps users explore where CO₂ geological storage projects are located, their development status, project scale, planned start dates and operators.

You can also view geospatial layers covering geology, boreholes, infrastructure and administrative boundaries – drawing on more than 25 years of research from Geoscience Australia and soon other trusted contributors.

The Hub is designed for industry, researchers, government, policymakers and anyone interested in understanding geological carbon storage in Australia.

It will continue to grow as new datasets become available, making information easier to find, use and build on.

Take a look 👉 https://bit.ly/4a6lpRQ

📷 The new Australian CCS Data Hub provides a single point of access to a range of spatial data and information relating to geological carbon storage and CCS projects across Australia

[PUBLIC TALK] 🌏 How could Artificial Intelligence better contribute to geoscience in Australia? The answer is coming in ...
21/05/2026

[PUBLIC TALK] 🌏 How could Artificial Intelligence better contribute to geoscience in Australia? The answer is coming in our next public talk!

Australia’s geoscience datasets, such as seismic, wells, core imagery, geochemistry, remote sensing, maps, reports and monitoring time series, are among our most valuable sovereign assets. With the advances in artificial intelligence technology, we have the opportunity to build our own sovereign capability: built on Australian data, for Australian conditions, and for Australia’s needs.

Join Dr Sue Keay and Professor Flora Salim from the UNSW AI Institute as they explore the opportunities that AI will bring to our national geoscience landscape and the benefits and new capabilities that will follow.

🗓️ 11am Wed 27 May
🔗 Register 👉 ga.gov.au/publictalks
📷 Dr Keay and Professor Salim from the UNSW AI Institute

🌏 Every language tells a story, and every voice shapes who we are. The languages spoken across our teams reflect the man...
21/05/2026

🌏 Every language tells a story, and every voice shapes who we are.

The languages spoken across our teams reflect the many cultures and lived experiences that strengthen both our workplace and the science we deliver.

From languages learned at home to those carried through family and culture, this diversity shapes how we connect, collaborate and solve complex challenges together.

We’re celebrating our people by sharing messages in their chosen languages, recognising that belonging is built through inclusions, respect and listening to one another, every day.

👉 Swipe to hear from our people.

19/05/2026

Geodesy helps us know where things are, how they are moving, and what time it is.

It measures Earth’s size, shape, orientation and gravity field, and how they change over time. That information supports many of the location-based services we rely on every day, including:
🚗navigation systems in vehicles
📱 telecommunications
💡 energy
🌾 agriculture
🚑 emergency services

Through our Positioning Australia program, we are helping deliver accurate, reliable and resilient national positioning capabilities.

This work supports the technology, services and infrastructure Australians rely on every day, and helps strengthen national prosperity and resilience.

Learn more 👉 https://bit.ly/3noPPFk

▶️ Alison Rose, Chief of Space Division, explains why geodesy matters to everyday life.

🛰️ Meet Eloise, one of our Earth Observation Scientist who processes satellite images of Antarctica for a living. 🛰️ She...
15/05/2026

🛰️ Meet Eloise, one of our Earth Observation Scientist who processes satellite images of Antarctica for a living. 🛰️

She is also a gay, aroace woman, an identity she’s passionate about making more visible. When she joined us fresh out of university, she found a workplace that was open and welcoming. She went on to become a Chair of our Pride Network.

‘I don't feel the need to tone myself down or hide who I am. People accept me for who I am, and that relieves a lot of mental load.’

This week, Eloise joined colleagues from CSIRO, Bureau of Meteorology and Australian Bureau of Statistics for an interdepartmental IDAHOBIT panel on the theme, At the heart of democracy.

The discussion explored changes to the 2026 Census and the role of data in helping governments, researchers and communities better understand Australia's population.

As a science agency, we understand the importance of reliable data in supporting evidence-based decisions. We are also committed to building a workplace where everyone can contribute fully 👉 https://bit.ly/4skzXV3

Understanding natural hazards helps protect communities and infrastructure. We monitor earthquakes through our National ...
14/05/2026

Understanding natural hazards helps protect communities and infrastructure.

We monitor earthquakes through our National Earthquake Alerts Centre operating around the clock to provide rapid alerts, model hazard impacts on buildings and infrastructure and provide critical geospatial data to support emergency management and planning.

Through our Hazards and Impacts focus area, our strategy will strengthen national capabilities to:

▪️ monitor and model hazards
▪️ provide impact insights
▪️ support safer infrastructure and communities.

This work is a key focus area in the Geoscience Australia Strategy 2026–2036: Shaping Our Future.

Learn more https://bit.ly/4m6VoHf

📍 From paddocks to Parliament. Our Historical Aerial Photography Explorer in the Digital Atlas of Australia lets you ste...
08/05/2026

📍 From paddocks to Parliament.

Our Historical Aerial Photography Explorer in the Digital Atlas of Australia lets you step back through time to see Australia change through images dating back to the 1920s. Here’s Parliament House Canberra Canberra’s stages of development captures over nearly 80 years.

📷 1945: Capital Hill, reserved for a major national building on the Griffin Plan, remained undeveloped for decades.
📷 1977: Surrounding roads and infrastructure take form.
📷 1980: The ground is ready for the first concrete to be poured in 1981.
📷 1985: During construction the iconic shape emerges.
📷 1993: Following its opening on 9 May 1988, the building became a familiar part of Canberra’s landscape.
📷 2023: Parliament House Canberra as we know it. (Basemap imagery from Vantor, provided by Esri Australia)

These images are part of our Historical Aerial Photography collection which holds over 1.3 million aerial photos. We’re working with the National Archives of Australia to digitise the collection and make it available in the Explorer so it’s easier for you to find, view and download images by location.

See how places have changed through time 👉 https://bit.ly/41qvLI7

[PUBLIC TALK] When the ground shakes, millions of Aussies turn to us for answers. But how does a media team prepare for ...
06/05/2026

[PUBLIC TALK] When the ground shakes, millions of Aussies turn to us for answers. But how does a media team prepare for something that can happen anywhere, anytime, with zero warning?

Australia records more than 100 earthquakes above magnitude 3.0 every year. When a significant one strikes, questions from journalists come fast. Getting information out swiftly and accurately really matters.

Join Laura White, Michelle Moran, Clarissa Thorpe and Pip Martens from our Media Team as they pull back the curtain on what it takes to always be ready.

🗓️ Wed 13 May 11am
🔗 Register now 👉 ga.gov.au/publictalks
We'd love to see you there! 👋

📷 Journalists visit the National Earthquake Alert Centre in Canberra while reporting on earthquakes.
📷 Dr Michelle Salmon addresses the media about earthquake safety for The Great during Earth Science Week 2025

05/05/2026

🌊 An island in motion: Bribie Island from space!

Bribie Island’s coastline has changed dramatically in recent years, and Digital Earth Australia’s (DEA) Coastlines shows just how quickly those changes can happen. Through the DEA 2025 annual product update, DEA Coastlines in DEA Maps captures the 2022 breach of northern Bribie Island during Tropical Cyclone Seth, an event that split the island in two.

🛰 Since then, DEA Coastlines has tracked the widening of the new opening, the gradual closure of the original Caloundra Bar entrance, and in early 2025, a second breach, providing a rare, time series view of natural coastal change as it unfolds.

These insights are made possible through DEA’s long-term, nationally consistent Earth Observation datasets, which build year on year for nearly 40 years. The data and analysis helps us understand how coastlines evolve and why long‑term, consistent data matters for communities, infrastructure and ecosystems.

Whether you’re a researcher, decision‑maker or simply curious about Australia’s environment, DEA Maps makes it easy to see change that isn’t visible from the ground.

🗺️✨ Explore the updated 2025 layers in DEA Maps and see Australia’s changing landscapes for yourself 👉 https://bit.ly/4tz0azn

📷 Annual DEA Coastlines showing the two breaches of Bribie Island (2022 and 2025) on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast

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