Editor's page: 4
Cui bono?;
Science and pseudo-science;
Ansell Prize
Letters to the Editor: Todd Report 8
Geophysical Society News:
Ansell Prize awarded to Vaughan Stagpoole 9
Standing Committee for Geosciences (SCG) 10
New edition of Directory of New Zealand Geophysicists 11
Royal Society News: more on SCG from Steve Weaver 11
Conferences Reviewed:
Geological Society, by Malcolm Laird, Paul White, Vaughan Stagpoole 12
Auckland Geothermal Workshop, by Peter Whiteford 18
Conference Announced:
Geophysical Society, 31 Aug-1 Sep 1995
Subduction-related processes in New Zealand 20
General News
Todd Report: Government chooses Option A 22
Honours: John Mackie, O.B.E. 22
Obit: James Healy, Cas Roper 23
Robin Falconer to head Hazards Group at IGNS 24
IUGG: Who's who; N Z delegates to Boulder General Assembly 24
Geoscience in Germany: GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam 27
Who's doing science?
Bryan Davy on Seismic Surveys on North Island Lakes 32
Fred Davey on the South Island Transect 33
Stuart Henrys on Cruising the Ross Sea on Nathaniel B. Palmer 37
Klaus Hehl on Kinematic Gravimetry 41
Notices & Reviews:
Bibliography and index of New Zealand Geology 1970-1989 44
FRST: Annual Report & Research Report 1993/94 45
Science funding in new round of priority-setting:
Minister announces new panel 47
Helen Anderson writes Beginner's Guide 48
Government sets strategic goals 49
Geophysical Society, SCG make submissions 51
Simon Upton on the Marsden Fund 52
The National Qualifications Framework:
Warwick Elley on Assessment System 56
University Vice-Chancellors' Response to Framework 59
Tertiary Lead Group reports 61
Wallie Clark on Student Illiteracy 63
Coming Events 66
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