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Improving how we engage with land-connected people about geoscience

Created 17/10/2025

Updated 17/10/2025

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Output Type: Exploring for the Future Extended Abstract

Short Abstract: Under the Exploring for the Future (EFTF) program, Geoscience Australia staff and collaborators engaged with land-connected stakeholders that managed or had an interest in land comprising 56% of the total land mass area of Australia. From 2020 to 2023, staff planning ground-based and airborne geophysical and geological data acquisition projects consulted farmers, National Park rangers and managers, Native Title holders, cultural heritage custodians and other land-connected people to obtain land access and cultural heritage clearances for surveys proposed on over 122,000 parcels of land. Engagement did not always result in field activities proceeding. To support communication with this diverse audience, animations, comic-style factsheets, and physical models, were created to help explain field techniques. While the tools created have been useful, the most effective method of communication was found to be a combination of these tools and open two-way discussions.

Citation: Sweeney, M., Kuoni, J., Iffland, D. & Soroka, L., 2024. Improving how we engage with land-connected people about geoscience. In: Czarnota, K. (ed.) Exploring for the Future: Extended Abstracts. Geoscience Australia, Canberra. https://doi.org/10.26186/148760

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Title Improving how we engage with land-connected people about geoscience
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/en/dataset/1463dc96-cf21-4c97-a605-5efc3b066b33
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clientservices@ga.gov.au
Reference Period 06/08/2024
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This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "Improving how we engage with land-connected people about geoscience". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/improving-how-we-engage-with-land-connected-people-about-geoscience