New Zealand Geophysical Society
Newsletter No. 49 April 1998
CONTENTS


  • Officers & Council

2

  • President's Piece - John Beavan

4

  • From the Editor

4

  • Geophysical Society News

New Council Member

5

1998 Symposium in Christchurch (Nov-Dec 1998)

5

Society Archives

6

An early attempt to form a N.Z. Geophysical Society - George Risk

6

Changes of address

7

New Zealand Geophysics Prize Rules (revised)

7

Call for applications for the 1998 New Zealand Geophysics Prize

9

List of awards of the of the New Zealand Geophysics Prize, 1968-1997

9


  • General News

Comings and goings

13

Earth sciences at Te Papa - Dallas Midldenhall

13

IGNS's Kelburn Research Centre closes - George Risk

17

Ode to Kelburn - Terry Mumme

18


  • Royal Society of New Zealand

Report on meeting of the Interim Council of RSNZ on 11 December 1997 - Ian Speden

21

New RSNZ Council elected

23

1997 Royal Society award winners

24


  • SIGHT 98

South Island continental deformation - how does it work? - John Beavan

27

Deep crustal reflection profiling in central South Island - Anne Mulhuish

29

South Island magnetotelluric transect - Grant Caldwell

32

Rain - Anonymous

34


  • Foresight Project & priority setting for Govt's investment in R,S&T - Ian Graham

35

  • WWW - John Taber

38

  • Conferences reviewed

The Geological Society of New Zealand Conference - Brad Field

39

San Francisco in December - AGU Fall Meeting - Gaye Downes

41

1997 Fall AGU Meeting - Stuart Henrys

42


  • Coming Events

45


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