Abstract
Human beings are naturally curious about their home planet. There is so much to see, but there is much, much, more that we can't see directly. This talk uncovers a whole tool box of ideas, based on different physical concepts, that allow us to find out about unseeable parts of the Earth. We might need to find objects or ore-deposits buried at shallow depths or we might want to understand the deep workings of the Earth's mantle and core. At small or large scales, we use our instrumental data to build accurate pictures of these hidden regions. These images help us to 'see' things that were previously unseeable. Geophysical images certainly save time, not to mention a lot of digging, but also help us to understand the Earth processes that can have huge impacts on our lives.

Speaker Profile
Anya Reading has always been fascinated by the world around her. She studied astrophysics and geophysics at university and then carried out Ph.D research using earthquake energy to image tectonic plate boundaries. She is a Senior Lecturer in Geophysics at the University of Tasmania and applies a variety of different geophysical techniques to finding out about buried structures near the surface and processes occurring deep within the Earth.