Presentation by FireDST Team to the Victorian Fire Commissioner and the Service Delivery Group on Fri 31/ 5/2013

Presentation at the National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility Conference in 2013 (Sydney). This presentation is based on the "Reforming Planning Processes Trial: Rockhampton 2050" report (GeoCat 75085) Potential impacts of climate change present significant challenges for land use planning, emergency management and risk mitigation across Australia. Even in current climate conditions, the Rockhampton Regional Council area is subject to the impacts of natural hazards, such as bushfires, floods, and tropical cyclones (extreme winds and storm surge). All of these hazards may worsen with climate change. To consider future climate hazard within council practices, the Rockhampton Regional Council received funding from the National Climate Change Adaptation Research Grants Program Project for a project under the Settlements and Infrastructure theme. This funding was provided to evaluate the ability of urban planning principles and practices to accommodate climate change and the uncertainty of climate change impacts. Within this project, the Rockhampton Regional Council engaged Geoscience Australia to undertake the modelling of natural hazards under current and future climate conditions. Geoscience Australia's work, within the broader project, has utilised natural hazard modelling techniques to develop a series of spatial datasets describing hazards under current climate conditions and a future climate scenario. The following natural hazards were considered; tropical cyclone wind, bushfire, storm tide, coastal erosion and sea-level rise. This presentation provides an overview of the methodology and how the results of this work were presented to the Rockhampton Regional Council for planning consideration.

Australian Presentation for the International Seabed Authority Workshop on the 'classification of polymetallic nodule resources' from the deep seabed.The UNFC provides a universal framework for deep sea polymetallic manganese nodules and other seabed mineral resources; that can be collated and utilised in a consistent way by the ISA. The UNFC allows for alignment of various national and commercial mineral reporting systems, reconciling mineral resource assessments derived though these various frameworks.

PowerPoint presentation at the AusIMM Uranium Conference in Perth (June 2011)

Before the tragic events of the Indian Ocean tsunami on 26 December 2004, Australia was not prepared for the tsunami threat. The Australian Government and emergency managers needed information to develop plans on how to respond and to prepare the community. What kind of information did emergency managers need? How could the scientific community provide advice to emergency managers and help address their information needs? Some example questions included: - the maximum credible tsunami - the likelihood of large tsunami - the time between the earthquake event and arrival at the coast - the extent of inundation from a tsunami impact - the likely damage - the likely differences if the tsunami arrives at the location at different tide levels. Before the 2004 tsunami, Australians had very little experience with tsunamis. Historically there have been very few tsunami that have impacted the Australian coastline and globally, tsunamis are relatively rare. Modelling can be used to address some of the gaps in our knowledge so the scientific community can assist emergency managers. In this presentation, I will give an outline of the different modelling approaches, what information modelling can provide and importantly what information it cannot provide. I will also describe the partnerships between emergency managers and the scientific community that have lead to an improvements in our understanding of tsunami and an increased ability to respond if a tsunami was to impact Australia in the future. Short version: Before the tragic events of the Indian Ocean tsunami on 26 December 2004, Australia was not prepared for the tsunami threat. The Australian Government and emergency managers around Australia were asking the question - how wet could we get? Untangling this question raises yet more questions of how often will tsunamis occur, how big can tsunamis get and where will tsunamis come from? Here, we will look at tsunami history in Australia, how tsunamis are generated and how tsunami modelling can be used to fill the gaps in our understanding and estimate the potential tsunami impact to the Australian community.

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Powerpoint presentation for "Advanced Topics in Carbon Capture and Storage" 7-10 April, Porto Alegre, Brazil

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This PowerPoint presentation gives an overview of Australia's mineral and energy resources. It was used by Andy Barnicoat to brief the Diplomatic Corps at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade on 8 April 2014.

This keynote address was presented at the Australian Nickel Conference held in Perth, 19-20 October 2005. Australia's nickel sulphide industry has had a fluctuating history since the discovery in 1966 of massive sulphides at Kambalda in the Eastern Goldfields of Western Australia. Periods of buoyant nickel prices and high demand, speculative exploration, and frenetic investment (the 'nickel boom' years) have been interspersed by protracted periods of relatively depressed metal prices, exploration inactivity, and low discovery rates. Despite this unpredictable evolution, Australia's nickel industry has had a significant impact on the world scene. This presentation reviews the characteristics and resources of Australia's nickel sulphide deposits, and highlights some of the more important challenges and new opportunities confronting the nickel industry today.