New Zealand Geophysical Society
Newsletter No. 56 August 2000
CONTENTS

Officers & Council	2
President's Piece	4
From the Editor	5
Geophysical Society News	6
Geological Society of New Zealand (Inc.) & New Zealand Geophysical Society Joint Conference 27 - 30 November 2000 at Victoria University of Wellington	6
Notice of the Annual General Meeting of the New Zealand Geophysical Society (Inc)	6
American Geophysical Union, Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting 2002	6
Submission to the Parliamentary Select Committee for Education and Science on The Inquiry into Student Fees, Loans, Allowances, and the Overall Resourcing of Tertiary Education	7
Letter from Christchurch	9
Gotterdämmerung, or The Twilight of the Physicists?	9
Before Gutenberg?	10
Tragedy in Tuvalu	11
A Tale for all Seasons	12
Royal Society of New Zealand	13
Council Meeting of the Royal Society of NZ, 30 March, 2000	13
Council Meeting of the Royal Society of NZ, 20 July, 2000	15
General News	16
Geophysics at Otago	16
Marine Geophysics at NIWA	19
Petroleum Exploration	24
Geophysics in Industry	25
Digital Gravimeters and Microgravity Applications	25
Conference Reviews	32
AGU Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting, Tokyo, June 27-30, 2000	32
Travel to Taiwan and Tokyo - the Western Pacific AGU	34
Delving Deep at Ulvik - The 9th International Symposium on 'Deep seismic profiling of the continents and their margins'	35
Workshop Reviews	37
The 17th Course of the International School of Geophysics "Fault Interaction by Stress Transfer: New Horizons for Understanding Earthquake Occurrence"	37
Coming Events	39
Next Geophysical Society Newsletter	41
Important Dates:	41

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