The Australian Grand Prix is not necessarily the first place you’d think to go to if you wanted to learn about the fascinating technology that surveyors and geospatial scientists use in their day-to-day jobs. However, the 2018 Grand Prix hosted an Industry and Innovation Precinct. This precinct highlighted many of the Victorian businesses that fuel…
What does the Grand Prix mean for surveying? A chance for Victorian school students to learn all about the amazing technology that surveyors and spatial scientists use every day! That’s what went down at the Grand Prix Innovation and Industry Precinct this past March. Read on to find out about all the cool things that…
After another successful series of events in 2017, RMIT is again hosting their monthly Experience Surveying Days in 2018 – and they’ve just announced the new run of dates. Held in Fairfield at RMIT University’s field station, these events are the perfect chance for students from year 10 through 12 to step into the shoes of…
School students at Douglas Park Public School received a history lesson, a geology lesson and a surveying lesson all rolled into one when on November 10th they took part in the ANZAC Memorial Centenary Project. One of many schools from around New South Wales involved in the initiative, Douglas Park High School may be small…
It’s one thing to be taught the theory behind surveying – it’s another to be out there in the field putting theory into practice! That’s just what some of the University of Newcastle’s third year surveying students got to do as part of the university’s annual students survey camp. Running five days in length and…
Surveyors in the 1800s did not have the ease of transport and advanced technology enjoyed by surveyors today. Not only did they have limited resources to work with, they were also mapping uncharted territory and had to fight to survive as they crossed the harsh Australian terrain. While their work is impressive for its time,…
Final year Surveying and Geospatial Science students at the University of Southern Queensland (USQ) presented the results of their hard work this year at their annual project conference. Thirty-two students filled out a packed two day conference program attended by eighty of their peers and USQ staff. The students travelled to the USQ Toowoomba campus from…
Glencore’s Mount Isa Mines has awarded its first Tim Underhill Diversity Scholarship in Mine Surveying to a female surveying student in NSW. The 19 year old recipient, Katherine Lindsay is in her second year of a Bachelor of Surveying (Honours) at the University of New South Wales. She was thrilled to be recognised and receive…
New scholarship supports women in surveying Geomatic Technologies is offering a scholarship for women studying surveying or geospatial science at RMIT University to encourage young females to enter the currently male dominated sector. The ‘Geomatic Technologies Women in Geospatial Scholarship’ will provide the recipient with $8000 per year towards her degree. Women commencing semester 1…
The world of surveying is changing, with an increasing number of female surveyors in New South Wales entering the historically male-dominated profession. Currently numbers are still quite low, with 25 female Registered Land Surveyors in New South Wales – only 2.7% of the total, and 13 female Candidate Land Surveyors making up just 6.8% of…
