Geoscience Australia

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.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]

 building Australia's resource wealth in order to maximise benefits from Australia's minerals and energy resources, now and into the future;
 ensuring Australia's community safety so that Australian communities are more resilient to natural hazards;
 securing Australia's water resources in order to optimise and sustain the use of Australia's water resources;
 managing Australia's marine jurisdictions in order to maximise benefits from the sustainable use of Australia's marine jurisdiction;
 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
 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 agenciesName of agencyStartEndResponsible departmentLands and Survey Branch19111932Department of Home Affairs (1911-1916)Department of Home and Territories (1916-1925)Department of Works and Railways (1925-1932)Property and Survey Branch19321951Department of the Interior (1932-1938)Department of Works (1938-1939)Department of the Interior (1939-1951)1951: surveying and mapping functions separatedSurveying agenciesACT Development and Planning Branch19511958Department of the Interior (1939-1972)Lands and Survey Branch19581963Survey Branch19631974Department of Services and Property (1972-1975)Survey Division19741975Australian Survey Office19751987Department of Urban and Regional Development (1975)Department of Administrative Services (1975-1984)Department of Local Government and Administrative Services (1984-1987)Mapping agenciesNational Mapping Section19511956Department of the InteriorDivision of National Mapping19561987Department 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 reunitedAustralian Surveying and Land Information Group19872001Department 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 Australia2001Department 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)