Events
Divisional Meetings
Australian Capital Territory
Tuesday 17 August 2010
Topic and Speaker: Phil Smart will be presenting ‘The Ulladulla Fossil Walk’
Venue: Jaeger Lecture Theatre, Jaeger Building (Building 61)
Mills Road, Australian National University
Time: Drinks and Nibbles from 5pm, meeting starts at 5:30pm
Parking details at ANU
Information: diane.jorgensen@ga.gov.au
Tuesday 21 September 2010
Topic and Speaker: Andrew Glikson will be presenting 'The asteroid impact connection of planetary
evolution with reference to Australia'
Venue: Jaeger Lecture Theatre, Jaeger Building (Building 61)
Mills Road, Australian National University
Time: Drinks and Nibbles from 5pm, meeting starts at 5:30pm
Parking details at ANU
Information: diane.jorgensen@ga.gov.au
Tuesday 19 October 2010
Topic and Speaker: Liz Truswell will present ‘Antarctica, Glossopteris and the sexual revolution'
Venue: Jaeger Lecture Theatre, Jaeger Building (Building 61)
Mills Road, Australian National University
Time: Drinks and Nibbles from 5pm, meeting starts at 5:30pm
Parking details at ANU
Information: diane.jorgensen@ga.gov.au
Tuesday 16 November 2010
Topic and Speaker: Richard Arculus, topic to be advised
Venue: Jaeger Lecture Theatre, Jaeger Building (Building 61)
Mills Road, Australian National University
Time: Drinks and Nibbles from 5pm, meeting starts at 5:30pm
Parking details at ANU
Information: diane.jorgensen@ga.gov.au
Monthly Meeting
Please note general meetings have now been moved on a permanent basis to the Jaeger Theatre (where they have been held for the last three months)
Date: Third Tuesday of each month (Except January)
Venue: Jaeger Lecture Theatre, Jaeger Building (Building 61), Mills Road, Australian National University
Time: 5pm for 5.30pm start
Information: diane.jorgensen@ga.gov.au
New South Wales
Thursday 17 June 2010
Topic and Speaker: Phil Smart - "Geological Tourism in Ulladulla – Present and Future"
Venue: Parsons Brinckerhoff, L27 680 George St, Sydney
Time: 6:30pm
Hunter Valley branch
2010 meeting dates to be advised
Northern Territory
2010 meeting dates to be advised
Venue: 3rd Floor,
Centrepoint Building,
Smith Street Mall,
DARWIN
Time: 10.00am
Contact: christine.edgoose@nt.gov.au
Queensland
Tuesday, 27 July,
Speaker: Nichole Boultbee
Topic: Engineering Geology and Construction Aspects of Tunnelling and
Temporary Rock Support for the North South Bypass Tunnel
Where: The Theodore Club, 333 Adelaide St, Brisbane (meet in the bar on the 1st floor;
the talk is on the 13th floor)
Time: 6pm
Cost: Free; includes finger food
Wednesday 6th September
Speakers:
Dr David Murphy & Dr Gary Huftile (QUT BioGeoSciences)
Event:QUT BioGeoSciences Seminar “Testing plume and plate models of ocean plateau
formation at Shatsky Rise, northwest Pacific Ocean” & “Using soft-sediment
deformation to date paleoseismic events in bore holes, IODP Leg 319,
Kumano Basin, Nankai Trough, Japan”
Where:GP-S-303, QUT Gardens Point Campus
Cost: Free
Time: 12-1pm
Friday 24th September
Speakers:
Tony Dutton (Golder Associates)
Event:Golder Technical Excellence & UQ Earth Sciences Seminar, Geological history and geotechnical properties of the moon
Where:Room 232, Steele Building (5), University of Queensland
Cost: Free
Time: 1-2pm
Wednesday 29th September
Topic:
Geo-Computing 2010: Uses and Abuses
Event: AIG Conference
Where: Rydges Hotel, Southbank, Brisbane
For more informaton email: michele@emenem.com.au
Wednesday 13th October
Speakers:
Friedrich von Gnielinski (Queensland Geological Survey)
Event:GSA student medal presentations, with talk “Geology of the
Mabuiag Island Group in the Torres Strait, Far North Queensland”
Where:To be determined
Cost: Free
Time: To be determined
South Australia
Thursday 15 July (Joint meeting with the AusIMM)
Short talks on environmental issues in mining.
Presenters are to be confirmed.
Info: jim.jago@unisa.edu.au
Thursday 29 August Annual Dinner and medal presentations at the Historian.
Please send email to Haggis at kiltman@senet.com.au if attending.
Friday 26 November SA Explorers Conference
Speakers:Paul Heithersay,Deputy Chief Executive, Resources and Infrastructure, PIRSA, Prof. David Giles, Head of the Centre for Mineral Exploration Under Cover, and Derek Carter, Chairman, Minotaur Exploration
Title: 7th SA Explorer' Conference
Venue: Adelaide Convention Centre
For online registration go to www.saexplorers.com.au
Info: grahamandcarol@bigpond.com
Tasmania
Annual General Meeting
Thursday, 27 May 2010
Speaker: Dr Fiona Holgate, Operations Manager- Australia,KUTh Energy Ltd
Topic: Geothermal Industry Update: Pitfalls, Progress & Promise in Australia and Tasmania
Venue: School of Earth Scienes, Lecture Theatre, University of Tasmania
Time: 6pm
Drinks and Savouries from 5:30pm before the meeting in the CODES tea-room at 5.30 pm.
All members and guests will be very welcome – particularly students!
Afterwards, members and guests will be invited to accompany the speaker to an informal dinner at a local restaurant.
Victoria
Thursday, 17 June meeting: The Annual AW Howitt Lecture
Royal Society of Victoria and the Geological Society of Australia (Victoria Division) present:
Speaker: Rick Squire
Topic: Supermountains Superlife: clues from Victoria’s geology
on the rise of animals, humans and human civilisation
Time: 7:30pm
Location: Lecture to be held at the Royal Society of Victoria, 8 La Trobe Street Melbourne
Thursday, September 30
Speaker: Brad Pillans, ANU, President, Geological Society of Australia
Topic: Selwyn Lecture 2010, Cliimate Change: A View From The Quaternary
Time: 6:15 pm
Location: The University of Melbourne, Loewe Lecture Theatre, McCoy Building (School of Earth Sciences) (Melways Map75A E15)
Cost:$2
Western Australia
Wednesday 30 June 2010
Topic:
Lu-Hf isotopic
system and WA crustal
evolution
Speaker: Chris Kirkland
Venue:
Irish Club of WA (Inc), 61 Townshend Rd, Subiaco
Time: 5.30pm start
City to Cape 2100 sea-level rise
Curtin University of Technology, Perth
Thursday 22 July 2010 (all day seminar)
For more information: download registration brochure
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