Tim Griffin reflects on some of his experiences as Director of GSWA.
Feb 27, 2022
17 min
Tim Griffin relates some of his more extreme experiences of GSWA field work.
Feb 20, 2022
9 min
Former Director of GSWA, Tim Griffin, talks about studying and mapping very young rocks in Queensland and Papua New Guinea, which gave him clues to interpreting some of Western Australia’s oldest rocks, in the Yilgarn, during his early days as a mapping geologist at GSWA.
Feb 13, 2022
13 min
Paul Morris talks about of his last regolith sampling programs, which was in fact requested by the traditional owners of that country
Feb 6, 2022
20 min
Paul Morris talks about the challenges and rewards of ambitious regolith sampling programs in the Kimberley region.
Jan 30, 2022
18 min
Paul Morris talks about tackling the problem of detecting low metal concentrations in wind-blown sand, culminating in dating and geochemical work that had significant implications for gold exploration in areas under sand cover.
Jan 23, 2022
17 min
Paul Morris talks about a remote regolith sampling program based out of Kiwikurra, near the Northern Territory border, that helped build new relationships with Aboriginal traditional owners
Jan 16, 2022
10 min
Paul Morris, retired Chief Geochemist for GSWA, talks about his early days working for the survey when he made the leap from hard rock geochemistry to studying regolith – the unconsolidated surface material covering more than 80% of Western Australia .
Jan 9, 2022
17 min
Kath Grey talks about her work on some of the oldest fossils on Earth, three and a half billion year old stromatolites from the Pilbara
Jan 2, 2022
13 min
Kath Grey talks about the challenges and successes of her years devoted to using stromatolites to develop a Precambrian biostratigraphy for Australia.
Dec 26, 2021
19 min
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