New Zealand Geophysical Society
Newsletter No. 54 November 1999
CONTENTS

Officers & Council	2
President's Piece	4
From the Editor	5
Geophysical Society News	6
Jim Ansell Scholarship	6
SAGE Field Program Award	6
President's Report to the 1999 Annual General Meeting	7
1999 Jim Ansell Scholarship Citation	9
1999 New Zealand Geophysics Prize Citation	9
Letter from Christchurch	10
A blueprint for a bright future?	10
Royal Society of New Zealand	15
Council Meeting Notes, 14 September 1999	15
General News	17
Auckland Science Fair	17
Wellington Science Fair	18
Geophysics in Industry	19
Optimising Designs of Geophysical Experiments and Surveys	19
The Petroleum Scene in New Zealand	23
Geophysics in the Petroleum Exploration Sector	27
Conference Reviews	31
IUGG 1999	31
A Conference Organiser's Perspective	34
Workshop Reviews	36
The 1999 UNAVCO Volcano Geodesy Workshop	36
The South Island Experiment: Final Workshop	38
Coming Events	43

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