Activities that expand or develop technical knowledge within the professional community:

• Published maps and scientific papers
• Codes and standards
• Publishing and editing manuals
• Development of new field equipment, new techniques, technologies or methodologies etc. (either internal or external)

These examples may be of a “Geoscientific” nature, such as a published geology map, a geoscientific code or standard for a learned body, new geoscientific field equipment; or may be of an “Other” nature, such as a workplace safety manual, or a mentoring or business management manual, etc.