Geoscience Australia

Geoscience Australia

 

.Geoscience Australia bụ ụlọ ọrụ gọọmentị Australia. Ọ na-eme nchọpụta geoscientific. Ụlọ ọrụ ahụ bụ onye ndụmọdụ ọrụ gọọmentị n'akụkụ niile nke geoscience, yana onye na-elekọta data ala na ala na ihe ọmụma nke mba ahụ.

Strategic priorities

:Ụlọ ọrụ ahụ nwere akụkụ isii dị mkpa dị mkpa:[1]

1. building Australia's resource wealth in order to maximise benefits from Australia's minerals and energy resources, now and into the future;
2. ensuring Australia's community safety so that Australian communities are more resilient to natural hazards;
3. securing Australia's water resources in order to optimise and sustain the use of Australia's water resources;
4. managing Australia's marine jurisdictions in order to maximise benefits from the sustainable use of Australia's marine jurisdiction;
5. providing fundamental geographic information in order to understand the location and timing of processes, activities and changes across Australia to inform decision-making for both natural and built environments; and
6. maintaining geoscience knowledge and capability in order to maintain an enduring and accessible knowledge base and capability to enable evidence-based policy and decision-making by government, industry and the community.

Geoscience Australia bịara na 2001 mgbe Australian Surveying and Land Information Group (AUSLIG) jikọtara na Australian Geological Survey Organisation (AGSO). Akụkọ ya malitere ihe fọrọ nke nta ka ọ bụrụ Federation na 1901 mgbe e kpebiri ịhapụ ala maka isi obodo. Mkpebi a mere ka e guzobe Officelọ Ọrụ Nnyocha Ọstrelia na 1910, mgbe a malitere nyocha maka Isi Obodo Ọstrelia.

The BMR was a geological survey with the main objective was the systematic geological and geophysical mapping of the continent as the basis for informed mineral exploration.

Geoscience Australia's activities have expanded and today it has responsibility for meeting the Australian Government's geoscience requirements. This role takes the Agency well beyond its historic focus on resource development and topographic mapping to topics as diverse as natural hazards such as tsunami and earthquakes, environmental issues, including the impacts of climate change, groundwater research, marine and coastal research, carbon capture and storage and vegetation monitoring as well as Earth observations from space. Geoscience Australia's remit also extends beyond the Australian landmass to Australia's vast marine jurisdiction.

Predecessor agencies
Name of agency	Start	End	Responsible department
Lands and Survey Branch	1911	1932	Department of Home Affairs (1911-1916)
			Department of Home and Territories (1916-1925)
			Department of Works and Railways (1925-1932)
Property and Survey Branch	1932	1951	Department of the Interior (1932-1938)
			Department of Works (1938-1939)
			Department of the Interior (1939-1951)
1951: surveying and mapping functions separated
Surveying agencies
ACT Development and Planning Branch	1951	1958	Department of the Interior (1939-1972)
Lands and Survey Branch	1958	1963
Survey Branch	1963	1974
			Department of Services and Property (1972-1975)
Survey Division	1974	1975
Australian Survey Office	1975	1987	Department of Urban and Regional Development (1975)
			Department of Administrative Services (1975-1984)
			Department of Local Government and Administrative Services (1984-1987)
Mapping agencies
National Mapping Section	1951	1956	Department of the Interior
Division of National Mapping	1956	1987	Department of National Development (1956-1972)
			Department of Minerals and Energy (1972-1975)
			Department of National Resources (1975-1977)
			Department of National Development (1977-1979)
			Department of National Development and Energy (1979-1983)
			Department of Resources and Energy (1983-1987)
1987: surveying and mapping functions reunited
Australian Surveying and Land Information Group	1987	2001	Department of Administrative Services (1987-1993)
			Department of the Arts and Administrative Services (1993-1994)
			Department of Administrative Services (1994-1997)
			Department of Industry, Science and Tourism (1997-1998)
			Department of Industry, Science and Resources (1998-2001)
			Department of Industry, Tourism and Resources (2001-2007)
Geoscience Australia	2001
			Department of Resources, Energy and Tourism (2007-2013)
			Department of Industry (2013-2014)
			Department of Industry and Science (2014-2015)
			Department of Industry, Innovation and Science (2015-2020)
			Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources (2020–present)