2011 Honorary Lecturer Pacific South | Richard Lane Geoscience Australia - Canberra, Australia Building on 3D geological knowledge through gravity and magnetic modeling workflows at regional to local scales | | Biography  Richard Lane obtained a B.Sc. Hons in Geology and Geophysics from the University of Melbourne in 1983. He worked with CRA Exploration from 1984 to 1997, and was involved in a broad range of mineral and petroleum exploration activities across Australia and Southeast Asia. He joined World Geoscience Corporation (now Fugro Airborne Surveys) in 1997 to work with the Product Development Division. He was Program Leader of the Airborne EM Systems Program of the Cooperative Research Centre for Australian Mineral Exploration Technologies from 1997 to 2000, during which time the TEMPEST AEM system was successfully developed and commercialized by the AEM Systems Program team. In 2001, he joined the Australian Government geoscientific agency, Geoscience Australia (GA), where he is a senior geophysicist in the Onshore Energy & Minerals Division (OEMD). His present responsibilities include development of methodologies and tools for 3D geological mapping and geophysical modeling. In this capacity, he has coordinated the efforts of Geoscience Australia to support the development of GeoModeller since 2005 and has been intimately involved in the work to restructure and expand the GeoModeller geophysical modeling capabilities. This is complemented by a long association with UBC-GIF staff and projects dating back to the early 1990's. Other ongoing activities at Geoscience Australia include leadership of the OEMD efforts to develop a national rock property database, input into the development of the GeoSciML information model and data interchange format (with the goal of facilitating the exchange of geoscience information and processing services), and championing the use the high performance computing (HPC) facilities (e.g., multicore computers, internal distributed and parallel computer networks within GA, external GRID, and Cloud facilities, etc.) for geophysical processing and modeling. He is a member of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG), Australian Society of Exploration Geophysicists (ASEG), Environmental and Engineering Geophysical Society (EEGS), American Geophysical Union (AGU), and International Association for Mathematical Geology (IAMG). He was recognized by the SEG as an "outstanding reviewer" for Geophysics in 2007, received a Geoscience Australia Individual Award for Achieving Results in Science in 2004, and was the recipient of a Sir Harold Ragatt Award for Distinguished Geoscience Australia Lecturer in 2004. | | | | | | |
