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Australian Capital Territory
Wednesday 22nd October
Special joint GSA & ASEG meeting to celebrate the 50-year anniversary of the active period in the "Old Magnetic Hut" (ANU).
Time: 5 pm, Gather for refreshments on the grass south of the southeast corner of the Forestry Building (48) ANU. A plague will be unveiled at 5:30 pm by Professor Kurt Lambeck (President of the Australian Academy of Science), with the session "Palaeomagnetism 1958, Revisited" to begin at 6 pm. At the session, Ted Lilley will present "The Old Mag Hug 1955-64, and Australian Continental Drift" and Ian McDougall will present "Establishing Geomagnetic Reversals".
Dinner will be at the nearby Vivaldi's Restaurant (cost $65 includes wine and vegetarian option). Book for the dinner by COB Friday 17th October with ted.lilley@anu.edu.au
Tuesday 18th November 2008
Topic: Uranium
Speaker: Roger Skirrow, Geoscience Australia
Venue: EMS Lecture Theatre, David Brown Building (Building 47), Linnaeus Way, Australian National University
Time: Drinks and Nibbles from 5pm, meeting starts at 5:30pm
Information: Michelle.Cooper@ga.gov.au
New South Wales
Next meeting date to be advised
Venue: Madsen Building, School of Geosciences, University of Sydney
Time: 6.00pm for 6.30pm start.
Information: Craig O'Neill
Northern Territory
Next meeting date to be advised
Venue: 3rd Floor,
Centrepoint Building,
Smith Street Mall,
DARWIN
Time: 10.00am
Contact: Julie.Hollis@nt.gov.au
Queensland
Wednesday 28th October
GSAQ Dorothy Hill and Neville Stevens medal presentations Seminar to Ian Withnall and
David O’Connell (both winners will give a short response presentation)
Where: Eves on the Park, Roma Street Parklands, 3 Parkland Boulevard, Brisbane
(10 minutes from Roma Street station!)
Time: 5:30pm for 6:00pm
South Australia
Thursday 16th October 2008
Venue: The Mawson Theatre, Mawson Laboratories, Adelaide University
Time: 5.15 pm for 6.15 pm
Speaker: Professor Paul F. Hoffman (Harvard University)
Topic: The Pleistocene Glacial Controversy and the Discovery of Global Warming
Donation: $5 per head
Info: Jim Jago
Thursday 20th November 2008
Venue: The Mawson Theatre, Mawson Laboratories, Adelaide University
Time: 5.15 pm for 6.15 pm
Speaker: Professor Paul F. Hoffman (Harvard University)
Donation: $5 per head
Info: Jim Jago
Tasmania
Monday 29th September
6.00 pm
Centenary Lecture Theatre (next to Science library), University of Tasmania
Speaker: Prof. Paul F. Hoffman, Harvard University, USA
Large base-level and glacioeustatic changes attending the 635 Ma snowball Earth
Contact: Andrew McNeill
Victoria
Thursday 30th October
Speaker:
Guy Holdgate
Topic:
Has Port Phillip Bay dried up since 6000 yr BP? Seabed evidence, core dating and modelling.
Venue: Fritz Loewe Lecture Theatre, University of Melbourne
Time: 5.30pm for 6.15pm
Cost: $2 per person
Western Australia
Tuesday 7th October 2008
Venue: Geography Lecture Theatre 1 Ground floor, Geology-Geography Building, University of Western Australia
Time: 5.30pm
Info: info@wa.gsa.org.au
Tuesday 11th November 2008
Venue: Australian Resources Research Centre, 26 Dick Perry Avenue, Technology Park,
Kensington, WA
Time: 5.30pm
Info: info@wa.gsa.org.au
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