TRIBUTES have poured in from around the world to honour the man who has inspired generations of scientists across Australia and internationally.

THE recently developed True TriAxial Stress Cell (TTSC) has been modified to anaylse a wider variety of underground conditions which could help improve the safety of drilling for oil and gas deposits.

THE development and adaptation of new seismic imaging technology by local company HiSeis may change the future of mineral mining worldwide.

WESTERN Australia’s Pilbara region is home to some of the oldest rock formations on Earth and now further evidence from these rock samples reveal new information on the very earliest crustal evolution.

WHILE climate change can be catastrophic for many forms of life, the ability of others to adapt is the key to survival.

WITH WA’s rich magnetite resources in demand locally and overseas, the expertise of engineering firm Engenium has allowed mining company Atlas Iron to take maximum advantage of the Ridley Magnetite site, 90kms east of Port Hedland.

THE University of Western Australia is moving to the forefront of global imaging and analysis with the addition of a powerful and sensitive instrument that can search for evidence of the earliest life on Earth, help find new ore deposits, and detect weapons-grade uranium in minute dust particles.

WA oil and gas explorations will have a better understanding of the conditions deep beneath the Earth with the release of a new technology from Curtin University.

CURTIN University will begin exploring mineral deposits hidden deep beneath the Earth’s surface as part of its involvement in a nationwide deep exploration research centre announced recently.

TRAVELLERS through the Pilbara region will see the landscape as it was 3500 million years ago, with a new publication from the Geological Survey of Western Australia.

EXPLORATION for all minerals, including uranium, will help Western Australia emerge from a downturn brought on by the global financial crisis, Mines and Petroleum minister Norman Moore told a recent symposium.

AFTER over 40 years of research, a comprehensive report on Western Australia’s Devonian Great Barrier Reef was officially launched by the state government recently.

PETROLEUM exploration could become a much cheaper and more accurate science thanks to a new predictive model for analysing deposits under the earth’s surface.

WA RESEARCHERS have developed a model for fluid migration in deformed rocks which has applications in earth quake triggering and the formation of mineral deposits.

THE increase in certainty provided by development of the new Stochastic Reservoir Engine (SRE) will have massive repercussions on project finance and resource optimisation, according to Stochastic Simulations Limited’s (SSL) directors.

DRILLING wells is largely a gamble, so it is fitting that the latest software designed by Stochastic Simulation Limited (SSL) is based on Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) mathematics, as well as a lifetime of in-depth field knowledge.

TO understand how a Perth-based company could change the face of oil and gas production, it is necessary to first understand a little of the complex world of subsurface exploration.

GOLD explorers represented 17 of the 35 successful applications announced on Monday as recipients of funding from the State Government’s co-funded Industry Drilling Program.

A NEW report on the geology of the Western Australia’s most spectacular reef system will help improve mineral explorations of reef systems around the world, according to one of the project’s senior researchers.

RESEARCH conducted in Western Australia’s Pilbara region has provided a view of what life may look like on Mars – as well as other planets and prehistoric Earth.