The 32nd Australian Institute of Mine Surveyors Annual Conference will be held 14-16 August 2013 at the Adelaide Convention Centre.
This is the first time that the event is being held in the City of Churches, and the conference has attracted a wide variety of technical papers, covering surveying challenges from Mongolia to Olympic Dam, that will both inform and challenge the delegates.
A great partners program has been developed to showcase some Adelaide’s finest sites and activities, and, for early arrivals, the conference committee has booked North Adelaide Golf Course, allowing delegates to enjoy a quick round before the conference commences.
The opening night will see an informal street-style food fair theme which will cater to all tastes, while the formal dinner on Thursday 15 August will sit at the other end of the spectrum, combining dinner with a wine appreciation class.
Also, this year the Gold sponsors will host a rotational workshop, where you can see practical demonstrations of the latest in surveying technology, as well as have any tricky questions answered by the experts.
The conference will feature a host of interesting speakers and presentations, including keynotes from the surveyor general of South Australia, Michael Burdett, and Olympic & world champion cyclist, Anna Meares.
Other presentations include:
- Christie Gerrard – South Australian Resources Information Geoserver
- David Bruce – The purpose, politics and positioning of Goyder’s line in 1865 and a 150 years on
- Brett Grocock – Don’t tell mum I’m a contractor, she thinks I’m a surveyor with BHP
- Rebecca Taylor – A Mine of Olympic Proportions
- John Dawson – Geoscience Aust – Proposed Datum Changes
- John Taylor – Subsurface Imaging for Void Management – Where to From Here?
- James Moncrieff – Laser Scanning Mine Incidents
- Chris Hutchison – Effects of the Geiod on Deep Mine Control Surveys
- Michael Nicholson – The Changing face of Mine Subsidence Measurement
- Martin Brook – Subsurface geophysical surveys
- Gavin Docherty – UAS for Positioning Applications
- David Ralph – Machine Vision turning Digital cameras into surveying tools
- Kyron Taaffe – Managing Self-Minded Voids
The full agenda is available here.
