New Zealand Geophysical Society
Newsletter No. 55 March 2000
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
1999 New Zealand Geophysics Prize	7
Letter from Christchurch	8
Science & pseudo-science	8
A great schism?	9
A turn about	10
Royal Society of New Zealand	11
Council Meeting Notes, 13 December 1999	11
General News	13
Quake Trackers	13
Broadband seismic array deployment in the TransAntarctic mountains	15
The Summer's GPS Field Activities	16
Geophysical Institute at VUW	18
Seismology news from the IGNS	20
New Zealand Geophysical Society Conference - 2000	21
Geophysics in Industry	22
Earthquake research and the insurance industry	22
EQC Role in Reducing Impacts of New Zealand Natural Disasters	26
Estimating seismic site response	30
Conference Reviews	32
AGU Fall Meeting: First Impressions.	32
AGU Fall Meeting: Seismic Hazards	33
AGU Fall Meeting: Seismology	37
AGU Fall Meeting: Tectonophysics et al.	41
Change in the Geophysical Landscape	43
IUGG 1999	45
12th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering	46
Workshop Reviews	49
GPS99 in Tsukuba, October 1999	49
Coming Events	51
Next Geophysical Society Newsletter	52
Important Dates:	52

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