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June 2024

Read the latest ARGA News HERE

March 2024

Call for expressions of interest - 2025 Australian Journal of Earth Sciences ARGA special issue!

November 2023

October-November 2023 ARGA Newsletter including the AESC 2023 ARGA Symposium report.

31 January 2023

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Submit an abstract to the ARGA session at the AESC 2023! ARGA members Walid Salama (CSIRO) and Anna Petts (GSSA) will be convening a session titled 'Mineral exploration in weathered and covered terrains' at the AESC 2023. Deadline 1 March 2023.

ARGA session at AESC 2023

23 July 2022

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20 March 2022

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24 December 2021

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22 February 2021

Successful ARGA Symposium at the AESC2021! Read the symposium report here.

ARGA 2021 AGM image

12 March 2020

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS - ARGA Symposium AESC 2021

Regolith in Australia: A global and multidisciplinary view

The Australian Regolith Geoscientists Association merged with the GSA in 2019 to become the Society’s newest Specialist Group, the Australian Regolith Geoscientists Alliance (ARGA). To celebrate this, ARGA is proposing a special Regolith Symposium for the upcoming AESC 2021. ARGA builds upon the legacy of several decades of Australian regolith research and promotes the important role that regolith science plays in Australia.

This Symposium aims to promote the science of regolith with a holistic approach including and beyond geoscience, with special emphasis on the emerging international critical zone research. In this Symposium, we invite research contributions that showcase or assist elucidating a better understanding of novel and innovative approaches to the research on regolith, spanning from environment, hydrogeology, economic geology, archaeology, landscape evolution, sedimentary systems, agriculture and soil quality, geoheritage, geochemistry, mineralogy, to surface processes, and technical challenges to greenfields and brownfields technologies for mineral exploration.

The ARGA Symposium includes following four sessions:
Session 1: The physical controls on water movement and regolith-hydrogeochemistry (Conveners: Leah Moore, John Keeling, and Carmen Krapf)
Session 2: Mineral exploration in and through the critical zone (jointly with MinEx CRC; Conveners: Ian Roach, Anna Petts and Walid Salama)
Session 3: Regolith and Landscape evolution (Conveners: Ignacio González-Álvarez, Carmen Krapf, Nadir de Souza)
Session 4: Planetary and regolith oddities (Conveners: Nadir de Souza, Savannah McGuirk, and Ian Roach)

In addition to the Symposium we will offer:

  • 2-day fieldtrip “Salt distribution in different parts of the Tamar landscape due to effects of deep bedrock weathering” (led by Leah Moore et al.)
  • ½ or 1-day fieldtrip “Periglacial deposits in the Hobart area” (led by Leah Moore et al.)
  • Social drinks function following the Symposium
  • SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACT HERE: https://www.aesconvention.com.au/

    1 November 2019

  • ARGA has joined the Geological Society of Australia! By a majority vote at the 2018 ARGA Conference in Wallaroo, members voted to join with the GSA as a Specialist Group. The ARGA Committee has been working towards this since the vote, and in November 2019 ARGA was accepted by the GSA as its newest specialist group. ARGA has changed its name to the "Australian Regolith Geoscientists Alliance", but keeps the same acronym (ARGA) and the same website.

    Specialist group membership for GSA members is set at $5.50 per annum initially, but ARGA members who do not wish to join the GSA can still come along to the ARGA field conferences as a "Friend of ARGA" and pay the usual conference fees. Non-GSA members are also welcome to register for any ARGA symposia at GSA conferences at a day rate as you would for attending any other GSA Specialist Group symposia.

    The ARGA Comittee is very excited about the merger, and the benefits that joining the GSA will bring.

    25 April 2018

    Don't forget the Soil Science Australia national conference in November!
    http://soilscienceconference.org.au/

    16 April 2018

    New photos from the ARGA 2018 conference in Wallaroo, South Australia

    23 November 2017

    ARGA 2016 papers published in the Australian Journal of Earth Sciences

    15 May 2017

    ARGA 2018 conference update

    10 May 2017

    ARGA 2018 conference venue announced!

    15 March 2017

    Vale D. C. Bear McPhail

    23 February 2017 - 5th ARGA conference dates agreed

    The ARGA Committee have agreed the 5th ARGA Conference will be held over 8-11 April 2018, somewhere in South Australia. Stay posted!

    10 February 2016 - 5th ARGA Conference announcement

    Stay posted for announcements on the 5th ARGA Conference in South Australia!

    13 June 2015 - 4th ARGA Conference announcement

    ARGA Conference 2016

    3 March 2014

    Added new ARGA Committee members

    Added link to ARGA 2014 Conference proceedings

    24 July 2013 - 3rd ARGA Conference First Circular

    ARGA Conference 2014

     

    24 April 2013

    Vale Keith Scott.

    3 April 2013 - 3rd ARGA Conference

    The third Australian Regolith Geoscientists Association Conference will be held in Perth/Bunbury from 6th-7th February 2014. This conference will be held immediately following the Australian Clay Minerals Society Conference in Perth (3rd-4th February). There will be a joint conference field trip on 5th February with a focus on bauxite and minerals sands. Please mark the dates in your diaries and check the website (http://regolith.org.au/conferences.html) for regular updates. Feel free to forward this to any interested colleagues. If you would like to add addresses to the mailing list for updates, please email : secretary@regolith.org.au

    28 January 2012 - notice of ARGA General Meeting 2012

    A General Meeting of the Australian Regolith Geoscientists Association will be held at 12:10 PM on the Thursday 9th of February during the combined Australian Regolith Geoscientists Association and Australian Clay Minerals Society Conference (Quality Hotel Mildura Grand 7th – 10th February 2012). The primary purpose of the meeting will be to elect new office bearers and committee members, and to decide on a time and place for the next ARGA conference. A nomination form can be obtained from the ARGA website, http://regolith.org.au/. Completed forms may be returned via email to secretary@regolith.org.au, posted to PO Box 3146, Rundle Mall, South Australia, 5000 (to arrive before the 6th February 2012) or handed to a current committee member at the Mildura conference. A copy of the rules of the association is available on the ARGA website, http://regolith.org.au/.

    17 October 2011

    See the Conferences section for important updates on the 2012 ARGA Conference.

    22 September 2011 - new ARGA website

    ARGA has changed its ISP, and can now offer image-packed full colour webpages, in colour! ARGA abstracts can now be extended abstracts and can be published in full colour, so please register for the 2nd ARGA conference, and get writing!

    7 September 2011 - 2nd ARGA Conference update!

    See the Australian Clay Minerals Society website for important news on registration, student bursary and abstract submission dates for the 2nd ARGA and 22nd ACMS conference, Mildura 2012!

    1 August 2011 - CRC LEME legacy maps on Geoscience Australia website

    As part of ensuring the legacy of the Cooperative Research Centre for Landscape Environments and Mineral Exploration (CRC LEME), the CRC LEME legacy regolith-landform maps are now available on the Geoscience Australia website. The maps can be accessed simply by typing "CRC LEME" (without the "quotation marks" into the Product Search box within the Product Search link on the front page. Or, follow this link: CRC LEME Regolith-landform maps.

    31 March 2011 - 2nd ARGA Conference update

    The 2nd ARGA conference will be held 7-10 February 2012 in conjunction with the Australian Clay Minerals Society (ACMS). The conference venue will be a site in Mildura, Victoria, with day trips to regolith sites in New South Wales and Victoria, possibly including the Arumpo Bentonite Mine and a working heavy mineral sand mine.

    Register your expression of interest to attend by contacting the ARGA Secretary Dr Robert Dart (University of Adelaide) Email: Robert.Dart@adelaide.edu.au.

    3 December 2010

    New ARGA Committee, AGM minutes posted. See "Committee"

    16 November 2010

    ARGA Annual General Meeting

    The 2010 AGM of the Australian Regolith geoscientist Association will be held at 4.00 PM on the 25th November in the Mawson Lecture Theatre, Mawson Laboratories, University of Adelaide.

    As per the rules of the association all office and committee positions will be open for nominations. The nomination form is attached should you wish to nominate. Completed forms may be handed to the secretary before the start of the meeting or posted to Robert Dart (address below) to arrive before the 25th November 2010. A copy of the rules of the association is available on the ARGA website, http://regolith.org.au/membership.html.

    21 August 2010 - ANZGG Conference, Oamaru New Zealand

    See the ANZGG website.

    29 November 2009 - regolith discussion forum

    Trial of regolith discussion forum - "Ask Reg" - begins. Visit the forum using the menu link or click here.

    12 November 2009 - Lecturer B/C UWS - closes 30 November 2009

    The University of Western Sydney Parramatta Campus is advertising for a Lecturer Level B/C in Geochemistry/Biogeochemistry with consideration of a Regolith Geoscientist. Learn more at the UWS website:
    http://www.uws.edu.au/makeadifference

    10 October 2009 - First ARGA Annual General Meeting

    The first Annual General Meeting of the Australian Regolith Geoscientists Association will be at:

    1120-Jun-2024 14:58adger Laboratories
    Building D3 (Gates 12 or 13, off Kintore Avenue or Gate 10 of Victoria Drive)
    University of Adelaide

    Download a site map here (555 Kb). Download notice here (220 Kb)

    Members are urged to attend, non-members sign up for membership at the door. Don't forget to lodge a proxy form if you can't make it!

    8 October 2009 - First ARGA Conference

    The first Australian Regolith Geoscientists Association conference will be held in Arkaroola, SA, from Sunday 21 February to Saturday 27 February 2010.

    Read the invitation and registration form for more details.

    22 September 2009 - First ARGA committee formed

    In somewhat of a democratic coup, the first ARGA committee elected itself unopposed.

    6 November 2008 - Australian Regolith Geoscientists Association (ARGA) is formed

    ARGA, the Australian Regolith Geoscientists Association Inc. (not to be confused with the Australian Rubus Growers Association) was incorporated in South Australia by Public Officer John Keeling on 6 November 2008.


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