New Zealand Geophysical Society
Newsletter No. 47 July 1997
CONTENTS

  • Officers & Council

2

  • President's Piece - John Taber

5

  • Guest Editorial - Helen Anderson

6

  • Editor's Page - The synergy of unbundling; Millenarianism; Changing the Watch

8

  • Letters to the Editor
R. V. Ewing

11

  • Geophysical Society News
Notice of the Annual General Meeting of the N.Z. Geophysical Society (Inc.)

12
Stefan Kleffmann named as third recipient of the Ansell Scholarship

12
Fourth Edition of Directory of New Zealand Geophysicists

13
Don McKnight to be next editor of Newsletter

13

  • Programme of the 1997 Symposium-Natural Hazards in New Zealand

14

  • General News
IGNS to vacate Kelburn site

18
Helen Anderson, Alan Hull appointed to positions with MORST

18
Science examinations and the NZQA

19
Meanwhile, south of the Waitaki.. - Chris Pearson

20

  • Royal Society of New Zealand
Call for applications of awards

21
Applications for Science and Technology Awards for beginning scientists

22
What IS going on at the Royal Society? - Steve Weaver

22

  • Budget 1997
Science budget in summary

25
Royal Society welcomes science budget

27

  • Looking back at two years in New Zealand and the GEODYNZ program - Geoffroy Lamarche

28

  • Contemporary velocity and strain fields of New Zealand - John Beavan, John Haines

30

  • Senior staff movements at IGNS - Derek Milne

35

  • Seismology and the Planet Earth Fund
The Fund - origin and purpose - Warwick Smith

36
The IGNS Seismogram Archive - Terry Webb

37

  • Apia Geomagnetic Observatory again operational - Lester Tomlinson

38

  • The International Scene
Postdoctoral Positions in Japan

40
International Lithosphere Program

41

  • Conferences reviewed
The IGS/PMSL Sea Level Workshop - Paul Denys

43
Seismogenic Zone Experiment (SEIZE) Workshop, Hawaii - Martin Reyners

45

  • Forthcoming Conferences
Science and technology: the human dimension: Wellington, 1997 Aug 12-13

48
Geological Society of New Zealand:Annual Conference, Wellington, 1997 Nov 24-27

49
Japanese Ocan Hemisphere Project: Japan, 1997 Nov 6-8

49
ASEG: 13th International Geophysical Conference, Hobart, 1997 Nov 8-12

50
Shalheveht Freier International Workshop: High precision hypocenter location and seismic tomography: Israel, 1998 Jan 12-15

51
International Conference on Modern Preparation and Response Systems for Earthquake, Tsunami and Volcanic Hazards, Chile, 1998 April 27-30

52
Geophysical Society to co-sponsor WPGM in Taipei in 1998

53
9th Intl. Symposium on Recent Crustal Movements: Egypt, 1998 Nov 14-19

53

  • Notices & Reviews
The New Fowler's Modern English Usage, Third Edition

54
Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences: Six month Report to December 1996

55

  • The New Zealand GeoHazards Service from IGNS - Alan Hull

56

  • Coming Events

58
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