New Zealand Geophysical Society
Newsletter No. 45 November 1996
CONTENTS

Officers & Council	2
President's Piece - John Taber	5
Editor's Page
A flawed model?	6
Let him who calls the tune pay the piper	9
Geophysical Society News
President's Report to the 1996 Annual General Meeting	10
AGM highlights	12
A note of thanks - John Taber	14
New Zealand Geophysics Prize for 1996	14
Society's accounts & balance sheet for year to 30 June 1996	15
New officers, Council members: biographical notes on
Martin Reyners, Steve Sherburn	18
New Geophysical Society logo - Martin Reyners	18
Contributions to Award Funds Requested - George Risk
Royal Society of New Zealand Science Awards	19
The Jim Ansell Scholarship Fund	20
Wellington-based members and Geophysics Section of Science Wellington	20
New Zealand Geophysics Prize to be administered by Geophysical Society -
George Risk	21
First Honorary Membership to Dr William Ian Reilly	21
Directory of New Zealand Geophysicists - 1997 Edition	23
1997 Symposium: Natural Hazards in New Zealand - John Taber	23
Restructuring at the Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences
IGNS declares staffing surplus: up to 20 scientists to go	24
Science Minister Simon Upton denies responsibility	24
Geological Society of New Zealand adds its voice	25
Loss of earth scientists: Will restructuring solve the problem? - John Taber	26
IGNS Chief Executive David Ross defends actions	26
General News
Dr Ian Speden elected a Vice-President of IUGS	28
NZQA wins annual Bent Spoon Award	28
IGNS to sell premises at Taita	28
IASPEI on the World Wide Web	28
Board of Directors, IGNS Ltd	29
Marsden Fund grants for 1996	29
Royal Society of New Zealand
New RSNZ Bill stalled; NZJGG reformed - Stephen Weaver	31
Comings & Goings
Crustal Dynamics at IGNS - Kathleen Hodgkinson - Des Darby	32
Obituaries
Thomas Athol Rafter (1913-1996) - John Hulston	33
Henry Piet Drury van Asch (1911-1996)	33
Sir Robin Irvine (1929-1996)	34
Stephen Thornley - Tim Little & John Gamble	34
Satellite derived gravity (continued) and the demise of geophysical
database maintenance - Bryan Davy	35
Receiver Function Analysis Workshop - Helen Anderson	36
Knowledge Base Project: Solid Earth Geophysics - Euan Smith	37
The inner core: the New Zealand connection continues - Martin Reyners	44
News from Auckland University - Supri Soengkono & Corinne Locke	45
Managing volcano crises in New Zealand - B. J. Scott	47
Conferences reviewed
Third Convocation of Geophysical Societies, Brisbane - John Taber	51
Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting of AGU in Brisbane - John Beavan	51
IAGA Workshop on Magnetic Observatory Operations - Lester Tomlinson	53
The 1996 Symposium on Volcanic & Extensional Processes, Wairakei -
Donna Eberhart-Phillips; Vaughan Stagpoole, Peter Whiteford	55
7th International Symposium on Deep Seismic Profiling of the Continents -
Stuart Henrys	58
Symposium on Climate Trends in Oceania since 1500 - Peter Whiteford	62
Forthcoming Conferences
GEODYSSEA - Penang, Malaysia - 1997 April 14-18	64
Workshop on Materials at High Pressure - Aspen, Colorado -
1997 June 15 to July 5	65
Notices & Reviews:
Mount Ruapehu: popular & pictorial -
Vaughan Stagpoole reviews two recent books	66
Life on a plate boundary -
Martha Kane Savage reviews
Caught in the Crunch by Rebecca Ansell and JohnTaber	66
Gaye Downes reviews
New Zealand Tragedies EarthQuakes by Anna Rogers & Geoff Conly	68
RS&T : 2010 - The Government's strategy for Research, Science & Technology
in New Zealand to the Year 2010	69
IGNS Ltd: Half-yearly Report, December 1995	70
International Geoid Commission's report for 1991-95 now available	71
The unmanageability of science - Jacqueline Rowarth	72
Diversity in university governance - Peter Perry	74
Coming Events	77
Sundry announcements	81

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