Mrs Verity Normington

Biography/ Background

Verity completed her South Australian Certificate of Education (SACE) in 2003 at Thebarton Senior College. In 2004 she then commenced a Bachelor of Science Degree at the University of Adelaide concentrating her studies on Geology and Geophysics. In 2008, Verity completed her degree with a major in Environmental Geoscience and in 2009 continued her studies in the environmental geoscience honours program. In the same year Verity completed her honours degree where she was awarded a First Class Award.

In March 2010, Verity commenced a Phd in environmental geoscience after receiving an Australian Postraduate Award scholarship. Verity’s research will concentrate on Permian Palaeolandscape Reconstruction in Southern Australia with a view to creating a framework for mineral exploration in deeply covered settings. Verity will be concentrating her research in the Troubridge and Arckaringa Basins in South Australia as well as working in Western Australia and Victoria.

Verity’s research will be supported by the newly formed Deep Exploration Technologies Cooperative Research Centre (DET CRC) as well as the Centre for Tectonics Resources and Exploration (TRaX). Verity will be supervised by Steven Hill and Robert Dart.

Further information about TRaX can be found at http://www.adelaide.edu.au/trax/research/landscape.html

Further information about Steven Hill’s research can be found at http://www.adelaide.edu.au/directory/steven.hill

Further information about Robert Dart’s research can be found at http://www.adelaide.edu.au/directory/robert.dart

Further information about the DET CRC can be found at https://detcrc.centric.com.au/

While Verity was an undergraduate she also worked part-time as a checkout supervisor and relieving checkout and store support manager at a large supermarket chain. In 2009 Verity was also employed at PIRSA as a cadet geologist working on a variety of projects. Over the summer break of 2009/2010 Verity continued her employ with PIRSA as a full-time graduate geologist through SACOME’s Graduate Assistance Program (GAP). Verity generated isopach maps of the Adelaidean and Post-Adelaidean sediments in the Stuart Shelf region as well as working on several ongoing uranium and groundwater investigations.

 

  

Qualifications

BSc (Hons) 1st class (The University of Adelaide)

Thesis Title: Preservation: The key to a new mineral system model for the exploration for secondary uranium deposits within the Four Mile Embayment, Northern Flinders Ranges, South Australia

Supervisor: Steve Hill

External Supervisor: Steve Hore (PIRSA)

Completed: 2009

Teaching Interests

Verity demonstrates in the following classes:

1st Year

Earth Systems I (Geology 1103)

 

2nd Year

Landscape Processes and Environments II (Geology 2503)

     - including the Fowlers Gap fieldtrip

Sedimentary Geology II (Geology 2500)

 

3rd Year

Environmental Geoscience Applications III (Geology 3014)

      - including the Kangaroo Island fieldtrip

 

Publications

2011

Verity has presented some preliminary results of her PhD at several conferences including:

2011 TRAX Exploration Under Cover Conference - presentation titled "Learning to Swim in the deep end of an icy pool: Exploring the deep cover of the Olympic Domain in South Australia"

International Congress of Carboniferous and Permain, Perth 2011 - presentation titled "Late Palaeozoic regolith and palaeo-landscape features in southeastern Australia"

Goldschmidt 2011, Prague Czech Republic - poster titled "Geochemical and physical characterisation of palaeo and contemporary redox interfaces within the Late Palaeozoic sediment sequences in South Australia". For the abstract please follow the link:

http://goldschmidt2011.org/abstracts/view

25th International Applied Geochemistry Symposium 2011, Rovaniemi, Finland - poster titled "Deep Cover Geochemistry from an Ancient Glacial Landscape: geochemical exploration framework for Permain sedimentary profiles of the Troubridge Basin, South Australia". For the abstract please follow the link:

http://www.iags2011.fi/technical_programme.htm

2010

Verity presented her honours work at the inaugural Australian Regolith Geoscientists Association (ARGA) conference. For the abstract please follow this link:

http://regolith.org.au/docs/ARGA2010_abstract_volume.pdf

Verity also presented her honours work in poster form at the 2010 SA Explorer's Conference

 

 

Professional Associations

Member, Geological Society of Australia (GSA) http://www.gsa.org.au/

Commitee Member (student representative), Australian Regolith Geoscientists Association (ARGA) http://regolith.org.au/

Member, Association of Applied Geochemists (AAG) http://www.appliedgeochemists.org/

Entry last updated: Tuesday, 6 Sep 2011