N. Z. Geophysical Society: Newsletter No. 59

New Zealand Geophysical Society
Newsletter No. 59 July 2001
CONTENTS

Officers & Council	2
President's Piece	4
From the Editor	5
Geophysical Society News	6
2001 Jim Ansell Scholarship awarded	6
SAGE Field Program Award announced	6
Geophysical Society Inc Annual Symposium 2001	6
Notice of the Annual General Meeting of the New Zealand Geophysical Society (Inc)	7
2001 New Zealand Geophysics Prize, Call for Applications	7
General News	8
Dr Martin Reyners awarded a New Zealand Science & Technology Medal	8
Geological Society of New Zealand	8
Wellman Research Award - Call for Applications	8
Letter from Christchurch	9
It's a risky world we live in!	9
The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea	11
Newton's Laws of Motion	14
Quote from the media: Extract from the Evening Post, July 13 2001	15
Council's quake stand attacked by geologist	15
Earth sciences and television	16
Walking with Television Producers	16
Centenary of New Zealand's Magnetic Observatory	20
New Zealand's first seismograph network (of two instruments!)	24
Conference Reviews	26
Seismological Society of America, 96th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, 17-21 April, 2001	26
European Geophysical Society, XXVI General Assembly, Nice, France, March 25-30, 2001	27
The Second International Workshop on Statistical Seismology, Victoria University of Wellington, April 18-21, 2001	29
Next Geophysical Society Newsletter	32
Important Dates:	32