Day 3 at 37th IGC, Busan (#2024IGC)
Marina and Steve from Geoscience Australia share the latest from 37th IGC in Busan from Day 2 (yesterday) where Marina had plenty of meetings especially with Koreans (which she seems to have picked up a few new words!) while Steve got to the poster displays and was “parochially proud” to see some great posters especially from Australia (such as from Mosayeb Khademi and the team at MinEx CRC and from Jonghyun Lee and team at James Cook University, sorry that he missed Jenna M.’s that was up on Day 1). One notable feature of the Australian posters is how they have such a strong geospatial foundation … they all have maps and a strong spatial context for materials. Sharing “Where” is important in Australian geoscience.
Looking ahead to Day 3 (today), Marina will be attending some of the scientific sessions, especially on geoscience education (I look forward to hearing about these tomorrow). Steve’s day has already started with hearing bagpipes at the breakfast reception for the Glasgow bid for the 38th IGC (including British Geological Survey) and he will then head to the International Union of Geological Sciences Council where he will be representing Australia. Marina and Steve then join forces at the General Assembly of the World Community of Geological Surveys (WCOGS) where Steve is leading several of the sessions before they then head to the reception for the IGC 2028 Melbourne bid. The day concludes with a dinner with WCOGS members.
Its looking like a big fun day! Stay tuned for tomorrow’s update … we now seem to be doing a regular update video!!!
Hi, everybody. Welcome again to the 37th International Geological Congress in Broussard, South Korea. This is, as I said, day three, where we're at the hump day of the conference. You can see we're in a busy part of the conference. Everyone's getting ready for the day ahead. Marina, how was day 2 day? It was fantastic. I was really lucky to be Senator stringed colleagues from Keegan and we've discussed. Joint projects on critical minerals. It was really fantastic. Yeah, yeah, terrific. The Koreans are so unwelcoming, accommodating, keen to engage and that's fantastic, isn't it? Yeah. I had a, I had a great day too. Lots of meetings as well. But I did go to the posters were fantastic. The couple that I really liked and I'm very parochial about this. Really good one from the team at James Cook University about the, about some of the rare earth. Potential in, in some of the is complexes in, in in far North Queensland. And also the Minix CRC team did a great one. You know, one thing I noticed with the posters is that Australians, we are very spatially nutrient. We love projecting things on maps and showing things spatially. And that really came through in the Australian work. So that was really great to see. Day three, How's it looking Marina? I plan to learn a little bit. On young, how's your is? I think it's hello, but I've gotta get the pronunciation a little bit better. I plan to attend some education sessions, see what the rest of the world are doing and probably struggling with and learn something. Yeah, good one. Well, day three has already started for me. I just went to the Glasgow reception, which is all around the bid for the next I GC. That was fun to hear bagpipes early in the morning, but I've got a really busy day. Today I'm representing Australia at the IU GR Council meeting that goes from we're supposed to go all day today, but I'm I've gotta run out at one stage and also get involved in the World Congress of Geological Surveys meetings. And then we have the Australian reception at the end of the day today. So very busy day. That's that's what we're here for though. Isn't that absolutely good on your Marina? Look forward to catching up again. Day four, day four. See. Everybody.
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