Frank Arnott (1951 – 2009) Innovation in Data Visualisation & Integration The exploration industry faces the challenge of finding mineral deposits to support a global population expected to grow beyond 9 billion in 2050. Geoscience data is critical to exploration success, and yet increased expenditure on acquiring more data has not translated into higher discovery rates. Exploration

Brisbane geoscientist, Helen Coles, was recently announced as a runner-up in the Queensland Government’s Science for Solutions open data competition. Helen works with Rio Tinto Exploration in Brisbane, specialising in GIS analysis of exploration data. Her award was for a smartphone app design that provides farmers and other rural landusers with access to groundwater data compiled by government