New Zealand Geophysical Society
Newsletter No. 53 July 1999
CONTENTS

Officers & Council	2
President's Piece	4
From the Editor	5
Letter to the Editor	5
Geophysical Society News	6
Jim Ansell Scholarship	6
Call for applications for the 1999 New Zealand Geophysics Prize	6
Notice of the Annual General Meeting of the New Zealand Geophysical Society (Inc.)	8
Geophysical & Meteorological Societies Joint Conference	8
Plenary Session: Natural Hazards and Climate Change	8
Geophysical Society Sessions	10
Meteorological Society Sessions	12
Royal Society of New Zealand	18
Report on the meeting of the Council of the Royal Society of New Zealand held on the 16th March 1999	15
Report on the meeting of the Council of the Royal Society of New Zealand held on the 8th June 1999	18
New Zealand Science & Technology Medals	20
Obituaries	21
Murray Alleyn Lowry (1929-1999 )	21
Rex Carter Martindale (1926 - 1999)	23
Harold William Wellman 1909 - 1999 (1)	24
Harold William Wellman 1909 - 1999 (2)	26
General News	28
IASPEI Centennial Handbook	28
Overseas	29
WWW	31
Estimating Atmospheric Water Vapour Content from GPS Data	32
Conference Reviews	36
International Lithosphere Programme	36
IRIS USArray Workshop, Albuquerque, New Mexico	38
IRIS Meeting at Yosemite	40
Coming Events	42

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