Officers & Council 2
President's Piece - John Taber 5
Editor's Page
Science & pseudo-science (continued) 7
Responsibility 12
Geophysical Society News
Council admits new members 14
When was the N. Z. Geophysical Society formed? - George Risk 14
Society's Web pages up & running 14
Proposed 1998 Joint N.Z. Earth Science Societies Conference 15
1996 Symposium - Volcanic & Extensional Processes in N.Z. 16
Revised Constitution & Rules 18
Rules of the Jim Ansell Geophysics Scholarship 23
General News
Geophysical staff vacate Dominion Observatory building - George Risk 25
International Geothermal Association moves headquarters to Wairakei 25
Dr Russ Ballard to head restructured DOSLI 26
Dr Ian Axford created Knight Bachelor in New Year's Honours 26
New Zealand Geophysics Prize 1996 27
Royal Society of New Zealand
New RSNZ Bill runs aground 28
Standing Committee for the Geosciences 28
Professor John Harper elected a Fellow 28
New awards for overseas travel 29
Comings and Goings
Seismic hazard research - Michael J. Kozuch 29
Summer Migrants: James Jackson & Bill Holt - John Haines 30
From the Aegean to California to Kelburn - Rachel Abercrombie 31
Obituaries
Professor Stanley Keith Runcorn (1922-1995) - Gillian Turner 32
Robert Sidney Unwin, D.Sc. (1918-1996) - Gordon Keys 34
Stella Hatherton (1926-1996) 36
New Zealand Antarctic Research Programme
Minister announces establishment of Antarctic Institute 37
Prime Minister enunciates Government's strategic objectives 38
Sir Robin Irvine to head Antarctic Institute 38
The Antarctic programme - a personal perspective - Bob Norman 39
Southern Alps Passive Seismic Experiment - Helen Anderson 42
Position-fixing in geophysics 45
GPS: the Global Positioning System - Vaughan Stagpoole 46
Crustal deformation with GPS - Des Darby 49
Cook's chart of New Zealand - George Risk 51
Satellite gravity - Bryan Davy 52
GPS and gravity surveys - Derek Woodward 53
The meaning of "height" - Ian Reilly 55
Conferences reviewed
17th New Zealand Geothermal Workshop - George Risk 58
1995 AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco - Martin Reyners 59
Geological Society's 1995 Annual Conference - Malcolm Laird 61
Meteorological & Hydrological Societies Conference 1995 - Paul White 63
Forthcoming Conferences
European seismologists to meet in Iceland in September 1996 65
Gravity, geoid & marine geodesy in Tokyo, Sept./Oct. 1996 66
IASPEI Regional Assembly in Asia 1996 67
Notices & Reviews
Southern Alps proceedings published in NZJGG 71
FRST: Annual Report & Research Report 1994/95 71
Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences: Annual Report for 1995 73
IGNS: List of Research Publications 1992-1993 74
Science and pseudo-science at Aoraki Polytechnic - Neville Blampied 75
Research in New Zealand: Working through a cultural revolution - Philippa Black 78
Coming Events 87
Sundry announcements 90
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