Tim Griffin reflects on some of his experiences as Director of GSWA.

Tim Griffin relates some of his more extreme experiences of GSWA field work. 

Former Director of GSWA, Tim Griffin, talks about studying and mapping very young rocks in Queensland and Papua New Guinea, which gave him clues to interpreting some of Western Australia’s oldest rocks, in the Yilgarn, during his early days as a mapping geologist at GSWA.

Paul Morris talks about of his last regolith sampling programs, which was in fact requested by the traditional owners of that country 

Paul Morris talks about the challenges and rewards of ambitious regolith sampling programs in the Kimberley region.

Paul Morris talks about tackling the problem of detecting low metal concentrations in wind-blown sand, culminating in dating and geochemical work that had significant implications for gold exploration in areas under sand cover.

Paul Morris talks about a remote regolith sampling program based out of Kiwikurra, near the Northern Territory border, that helped build new relationships with Aboriginal traditional owners 

Paul Morris, retired Chief Geochemist for GSWA, talks about his early days working for the survey when he made the leap from hard rock geochemistry to studying regolith – the unconsolidated surface material covering more than 80% of Western Australia .