The Geoscience Society Ball is coming up soon!

The theme for this years event is cocktails! So don your suits and cocktail gowns and we will see you there.

Tickets for this event are strictly limited to 90 so jump on-line here and get your tickets now!

Where: The Art house Hotel – The Attic Room

When: Friday the 8th of June

Time: 7pm till 11pm

If you are unsure about whether or not you should come check out the photos from last years ball. Mad Hatter Ball 2011

Geoscience Australia will be visiting the school next Tuesday to talk about its graduate program for 2013. This is a great opportunity to get you foot in the door with this graduate program as well as a great time to see what they are looking for in candidates.

Geoscience Australia is a Australia’s national agency for geoscience research and geospatial information and they operate within the Australian Government’s Department of Resources, Energy and Tourism.

They are looking for undergraduates and post-graduates who are completing their Hons, Masters or PhD in an Earth science related field. For more information about what they are looking for in their candidates and how you can apply and contribute visit this link http://www.ga.gov.au/jobs/graduate-program/about.html

Living the Stereotype!

Wind down drinks at Hermans Bar after the meeting in the Madsen Boardroom on Thursday. This is a good chance to come and hangout  and meet some of the other members of the society over a couple of drinks at the end of the week.

Schooners of Beer and House Wine will have the following pricing:

• $2 for Access Members
• Normal Hermans prices for non-Access

This event will run after a quick meeting in the Madsen Boardroom. The other details are below.

• When:    17th May 3pm – 7pm
• Where:  Madsen Boardroom then Hermann’s

Look forward to seeing you all there. Check out the Facebook Event for more info

Delicious disasters!

Need a break from the long hours of uni and wanting to watch the world burn? Then come along to the disaster movie screening tomorrow night:

When?
Thursday 10th May 4:30pm – 7:30pm

Where?
Madsen Conference Boardroom upstairs

Cost?
Free for ACCESS, $4 for non-ACCESS

There was going to be a meeting at 3:30pm but that has been cancelled, so just meet up at 4:30pm for the movie.  We’ll have some pizza and soft drinks and the list of movies we will be choosing from include the following:

• The Core (2003),
• Heatstroke (2008),
• Lost City Raiders (2008),
• Meltdown: Days of Destruction (2006)
• and Arctic Blast (2010) in case some of you love the hilariously bad ones.

Hope to see you there!

The PESA NSW 2012 Study Grant Applications are closing real soon and the deadline has been specially extended for USYD students  studying geology, geophysics, environmental science, marine geophysics, or any petroleum geoscience related discipline up until the 4th May, 2012.   Apply now for your chance to win $1,500!

Every year PESA offers a number of study grants of $1500 to students who study sedimentary geology, geophysics, environmental science or petroleum engineering at a NSW Tertiary Institution. Applications for the 2012 grants are now open and full time 3rd year, Honors, MSc and PhD students are encouraged to apply! International students who meet this criteria are also able to apply!

Print out the easy-to-fill forms from the link below and scan and send them to pesa.nsw.student@gmail.com for your chance to get $1500.

Study Grant Application Form 2012

Where: Madsen Courtyard

When: 1pm Wednesday 2nd May

Come one come all! There is a BBQ tomorrow in the Madsen courtyard from 1pm for all who would like a good cheap feed. There is sausages, onions, mushrooms, salads and soft drinks. It is all you can eat so bring people along and have a good social lunch.

AGL Energy is keen on hiring a Geosciences student part time in a great opportunity in a Technical assistant/Trainee geologist role.

Hurry and apply  for this role today via www.aglcareers.com.au - Job number 491788 http://bit.ly/GUKSJj

For more information click the link: AGL Trainee Geologist

The next NSW PESA meeting will be held on the Tuesday the 8th of may.

Bookings close: Thursday the 3rd of May.

Subject: discovery of a frontier basin in Papua New Guinea – A seismic story.

Outline: Offshore South East Papua New Guinea is made up of the South Eastern Plateau and Papuan Plateau and onshore by young sediments at the surface with older thrusted metamorphics and oceanic crust. Two and a half years ago a very large thrust anticline, over 40 km long and indeterminate width became evident on regional deep water seismic line. The fact that this structure was so large (it would take half an hour to drive over it, if onshore) meant it was worth a serious look. A review of old seismic data and the results of two new seismic surveys will be presented to build a picture that indeed there are a number of plays, leads and prospects in a region where none were thought possible. This study has had to overcome the perception that the region was barren of source and reservoir. There has not been a well, of any description, drilled in the region and so this is a seismic stratigraphic story of a new Petroleum System(s). It is the story of possibly the last undrilled Tethyan Basin. It is the story of a basic exploration in a frontier basin that seems to gain more potential with every new look.

Dress code: no t-shirts, shorts, jeans or sneakers

For more info see this PDF

In case you missed it on TV tonight there was the American Dad! clip about geologists.