New Zealand Geophysical Society
Newsletter No. 48 December 1997
CONTENTS

  • Officers & Council

2

  • President's Piece - John Beavan

5

  • From the Editor

6

  • Geophysical Society News
President's Report to the 1997 Annual General Meeting

7
New Zealand Geophysics Prize for 1997

9
Society's accounts and balance sheet for the year to 30 June 1997

10
New Officers and Council members

14
1998 Symposium in Christchurch (Nov-Dec 1998)

15
John Haines' parting gift

15
Wellington Science Fair Prize

16
Society archives

16
1998 AGU Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting

16

  • General News
Sarah Beanland Memorial Scholarship

17
Comings & goings

17
Marsden Fund awards for 1997

18

  • Royal Society of New Zealand
Background of the relationship between the Royal Society of NZ and the NZ Geophysical Society - John Taber

19
What is the Royal Society of New Zealand now? - George Risk

20
Report on the meeting of the Interim Council of the RSNZ on 28 October 1997 - Ian Speden

22
Royal Society elects new Fellows

23
Royal Society 1997 Science Awards

23

  • Geophysics Section, Science Wellington, Report for 1997

  • Is it too early to start thinking of Operational Earthquake Forecasts? - Mike Kozuch, David Vere-Jones & David Harte

25

  • Lester King Lecture, 1997
Lester C. King (1907-1989) - Mike Kozuch

29

  • A Hot-water Heritage - Hugh Bibby

30

  • Recent PhDs in Geophysics
"Observation and synthesis of seismic wavefields in basin structures" by Jiashun Yu

38
"The 1991 Hikurangi Margin seismic refraction experiment" by Mark Chadwick

39

  • WWW - Stuart Henrys

40

  • Obituary

Werner Giggenbach (1937-1997)

41

  • Conferences reviewed
IAGA 97 - Uppsala - Malcolm Ingham

41
Science and Technology - the Human Dimension - Doug Sheppard

43
The Geophysical Symposium on Natural Hazards in New Zealand - Mike Broadbent

47
The NZ Geophysical Society Meeting: A Seismologist's point of view - Rachel Abercrombie

53
67th Annual Meeting of SEG (Society of Exploration Geophysicists - Stephen Bannister

54
Notes on the 67th Annual Meeting of SEG (Dallas, Texas, 2-7 Nov 1997) - Hugh Bibby

55
Hawke's Bay Engineering Lifelines Workshop: Napier, 8th October 1997 - Mike Broadbent

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  • Coming Events

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