New South Wales

Talks & Events

Monthly Division Meetings
Date: Talks are held the 2nd Thursday of the month

Monthly Meetings Presentations on YouTube
Click here if you want to watch the presentations from NSW Division Meetings online

Upcoming Meetings and Events  

8 October 2020 - GSA NSW Division Online Meeting 
Speaker: Jill Terry, BHP
Topic: Geoscience Education Requirements (an industry perspective) 
Abstract: The resources industry is transforming due to technology application, discovery and extraction of increasingly deep and complex orebodies, a changing future-facing commodity mix and environmental and social value commitments. At the same time, our ageing and experienced technical workforce is contemplating retirement, early career geoscientists require upskilling, universities are under financial duress and industry perception is influencing low numbers of enrolments in resources-related degrees. What disruptive initiatives could be adopted to assure the supply of diverse, quality graduates and to upskill the early career workforce to meet forecast industry demand?
 Bio: Jill Terry completed a BSc Honours in Geology at the University of Melbourne in 1984 and post-graduate Mineral Economics (Macquarie University) in 1987. She has worked in various Senior, Chief, Manager and Vice President roles in mine, project, resource and exploration geology in Australia and overseas. She joined BHP in 2006 and in her current role as Vice President Technical Capability is delivering an educational strategy to optimise future ways of working underpinned by technology and innovation. Jill is a strong advocate for diversity in teams and retention of mothers in the workforce.
Time: 6.00pm 
Details: Zoom links will be sent to NSW Div members on Thursday prior to the meeting. There will be a quiz and question time for those joining us live. For more information please contact: sabin.zahirovic@sydney.edu.au⁠

Past NSW Division Meetings, Events and Activities

10 September 2020 - GSA NSW Division Online Meeting 
Speaker: Luke Milan, University of New England
Topic: A review of the Great Serpentinite Belt in the Southern New England Orogen 

13 August 2020 - GSA NSW Division Online AGM
Speaker: Marissa Betts, University of New England
Topic: Assembling the Jelly Jigsaw

9 July 2020 - GSA NSW Division Online Meeting 
Speaker: Gresley Wakelin-King, Wakelin Associates & La Trobe University
Topic: Australia’s longest coastal cliffs: size, reasons, and rarity

14 May 2020 – GSA NSW Division Online Meeting 
Speaker: David Och (UNSW Adjunct Associate Professor, 2019 Churchill Fellow, WSP, Sydney Metro West - Geotechnical Lead)
Topic: Geotechnical and geological findings from the Sydney Metro project/s

April 2020 – GSA NSW Division Online Meeting 
Speaker: Patrick Smith (Aus Museum)
Topic: Trilobites and Isotopes

13 February 2020 - NSW Division Meeting
Speaker: Peter Haas (Institute for Geosciences, Kiel University, Germany)
Topic: Linking gravity gradient inversion with seismological regionalization – Implications for the crustal thickness of Western Gondwana cratons 

31 October 2019 - NSW Division Meeting
Speakers: Honours and Masters Night (combined with GESSS NSW)
Topic: Honours and students speaker pretensions

31 October - 1 November 2019 - GESSS NSW
Description: GESSS NSW provides a fantastic opportunity to engage with a variety of students in a range of disciplines under the umbrella term of Earth Science. These kinds of interdisciplinary meetings can foster collaboration and be a route of exposure to new areas of research. GESSS is a fantastic way of keeping students up to date with the state of the art research being carried out across the state. 

10 October 2019 - NSW Division Meeting
Speaker: Eleanor Bruce (The University of Sydney)
Topic: Emerging applications of CubeSat technology to Earth sciences

12 September 2019 - NSW Division Meeting 
Speaker: Benedicte Cenki-Tok (University of Sydney)
Topic: Rare metal concentration triggered by sulfide dynamic recrystallization
Location: Club York, 95-99 York Street, Sydney
Time: Drinks at 5.30pm, meeting at 6.00pm 

Details: Join us for a huge outdoor event to celebrate the environmental sciences! Explore the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney to get hands-on with science experiments, explore behind-the-scenes, visit state-of-the-art science facilities and use scientific equipment! The GSA NSW Division will also be involved in activities and will have a booth
Location: Royal Botanic Garden Sydney, Lawns near the Learning Centre, Closest Garden Gate: Woolloomooloo

11 August 2019 - NSW Division at Australian Botanic Garden ‘Science in the Wild- Dinosaurs vs Superpowers’
Details: Join scientists at their stalls and they will show what amazing superpowers you find in nature. Super sight, super hearing, super strength and camouflage are only some of the capabilities you will discover. The incredible roving Dinosaur will be coming back as well and show you a bit of pre-historic fauna. The GSA NSW Division will also be involved in activities and will have a booth
Location: The Australian Botanic Garden Mount Annan, Lakeside Lawn, Yandelora Drive , Mount Annan

8 August 2019 - NSW Division Meeting 
Speaker: Laurie Menviel (CCRC, UNSW)
Topic: Deglacial changes in ocean circulation and their impact on the global carbon cycle

11 July 2019 - NSW Division Meeting
Speaker: Sarah Kachovich (University of Queensland) 
Topic: Unlocking the biostratigraphical potential of radiolarians

17 June 2019 - Joint NSW Division Event - Distinguished Lecture
Speaker: Ross Large (UTAS)
Topics: Rhythms of Earth and Life through
Details: This event is brought to you by the AusIMM Geoscience Society, the AusIMM Sydney Branch, the Australian Institute of Geoscientists (AIG), the Sydney Mineral Exploration Discussion Group (SMEDG) and the Geological Society of Australia (GSA) NSW Division

13 June 2019 - NSW Division Meeting and GSA Annual General Meeting
Speaker: Steve Hill (Geoscience Australia)
Topic: Welcome to Planet, Continent and Country: and why geoscientists like YOU are key to this conversation

9 May 2019 - NSW Division Annual General Meeting
Speaker: Nathan Daczko (Macquarie University)
Topic: Impacts of reactive melt ascent through deep arc crust on melt evolution: recognising and investigating melt migration pathways/A cryptic Gondwana-forming orogen located in Antarctica

11 April 2019 - NSW Division Meeting
Speaker: Serge Smolonogov MAIG RPGeo
Topic: Changing Mine Geology Culture in Nevada - One Australian Expatriate, Two Years to Complete

14 March 2019 - NSW Division Meeting
Speaker: Titus Murray (FaultSeal)
Topic: Faulting and ground water in the Southern Coal Fields

 14 February 2019 - NSW Division Meeting
Speaker: Amanda Thran (University of Sydney)
Topic: Piles of dirt on the seafloor: what can they tell us about bottom current activity? 

Committee

Chair: Kelsie Dadd,
Curious Minds – Girls in STEM
E: kelsiedadd@gmail.com

Secretary and Newsletter Editor:
Vacant

Treasurer: Sabin Zahirovic, University of Sydney
E:  sabin.zahirovic@sydney.edu.au

Talk Co-ordinator:
Sabin Zahirovic, University of Sydney
E: sabin.zahirovic@sydney.edu.au

General Committee members:

Agi Burra
Graham Carr, formerly of CSIRO
Tara Curlewis
Elizabeth Dowding, UNSW
Marin Gudmundsdottir
David Och
Joanna Parr, CSIRO 
Patrick Smith, Australian Museum
Mira van der Ley, University of New South Wales

General Heritage Subcommittee:
Armstrong Osborne (Chair)
Phil Gilmore
Cressida Gilmore 
Paul Meszaros
Iain Paterson
Ian Percival

NOTE: Please contact Sabin Zahirovic if you have any ideas regarding speakers/topics for technical talks or require sponsors for membership