South Australia

For questions regarding the SA Division please email annaepetts@gmail.com

Talks & Events

Monthly Division Meetings  

22 October 2020 – SA Division Meeting
Topic: Geology at Flinders Uni Lecture
Speakers: TBC
Location: Flinders Uni

19 November 2020 – SA Division Meeting
Topic: Zoom/Lunchtime Meeting at GSSA/DEM
Speaker: Dr Rachelle Kernan
Topic: Salt Diapirs of South Australia
Location: DEM/Level 4 or elsewhere

24 November 2020 – GESSS SA
Location: Alere Function Rooms, Flinders University and streamed online
Description: Students from Flinders University, University of South Australia and University of Adelaide can either attend or present their research in person or participate digitally online. Studentswill promote their talents to future employers, discover new areas of research at other universities, and meet new people within the Earth sciences field.
Registration and abstract submission: Coming soon
Website: Click here

Previous Division Meetings

17 September 2020 – SA Division Careers in Geoscience Event
Details: Are you an undergraduate, honours, masters or PhD student and would like the opportunity to network with professional geoscientists who can help shape your career?
Do you have questions you'd like to ask professional geoscientists about working in industry, government or academia?

20 August 2020 - SA Division AGM (via Zoom)
Details: The SA Division AGM will be held online via Zoom. An email with a link to register for the AGM has been sent to all SA Division members. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. For questions regarding the SA Division AGM please email annaepetts@gmail.com

16 July 2020 - SA Division Online Meeting
Speaker: Alan Collins (University of Adelaide)
Topic: Evolution of the McArthur Basin 

18 June 2020 - GSA SA Division / AusIMM Online Talk
Topic: Seven years of AusLAMP: What have we learn
Speaker: Graham Heinson, Professor of Geophysics at the University of Adelaide
 
21 May 2020 – SA Division Zoom Technical Meeting
Speakers: Dillon Brown and Teagan Romyn (University of Adelaide)
Topics: 
Evidence for Mesoproterozoic- & Cambrian-aged metamorphism from the high-grade rocks of central Tasmania: insights into the metamorphic history of western Laurentia and East Gondwana (Dillon)
Felsic metastability during continental subduction: The Norwegian Western Gneiss Complex as a case study (Teagan)
Click here to watch both presentations.

20 February 2020 - SA Division Lunchtime Meeting and Drill Core Viewing
Details: This month's meeting will be a special lunchtime event - in order to view core from the experimental drilling program in 2001 which was both an engineering survey as well as training for hopeful petroleum industry students. The Uni of Adelaide and SANTOS, as part of their planning and construction of the Australian School of Petroleum, had a professional rig to drill a 150-metredeep experimental well on the University's North Terrace campus. The well will be an important teaching tool and a feature of the Santos School of Petroleum Engineering and Management. The drilling operation marked the very start of construction on the school's new building, near Frome Road and the well had to be in place before work on the new building could start. A first for an Australian university and one of only a few purpose-built teaching wells anywhere in the world the data collected and results of the drilling have provided ample experience for students over the years. Also the drill core is an invaluable teaching tool, and has been used for teaching at the ASP as well as the Department of Geology and Geophysics
Speakers: Dr Wolfgang Preiss, Dr.  Ric Daniels & Prof John Kaldi

Student Group Sponsorship
Do you belong to an earth and environmental science-focused student group at one of South Australia’s universities? Are you looking for support for activities, excursions and events (up to $500)? The GSA SA Division would like to provide support for student activities and all is required is filling out an application form, provide a budget and commit to writing a short article for GSA’s quarterly magazine, The Australian Geologist (TAG). Want to know more? Please contact our Secretary, morgan.blades@adelaide.edu.au for an application form. Past sponsorship has been provided to the Adelaide University GeologicalSociety (AUGS) and the Flinders University Palaeontology Society (FUPS).

Committee

Chair: Alan Collins
E: alan.collins@adelaide.edu.au

Vice Chair: Vacant
E: TBA

Secretary: Morgan Blades
E: morgan.blades@adelaide.edu.au

Treasurer: Jarred Lloyd
E: jarredclloyd@gmail.com

Programme Secretary: Laura Morrissey
E: Laura.Morrissey@unisa.edu.au

Newsletter Editor: Mario Werner
E: mario.werner@sa.gov.au

SAEMC Representatives:
Dillon Brown
E: dillon.brown@adelaide.edu.au

Celina Sanso
E: casanso11@gmail.com

AUGS Representative: Georgina Virgo
E: georgina.virgo@adelaide.edu.au

General Committee:

Morgan Blades
E: morgan.blades@adelaide.edu.au

Barry Cooper
E: barry.cooper@unisa.edu.au

Graziela Miot Da Silva
E: graziela.miotdasilva@flinders.edu.au

John Foden
E: john.foden@adelaide.edu.au

Diego García-Bellido
E: diego.garcia-bellido@adelaide.edu.au

Anna Petts
E: anna_petts@yahoo.com.au

Wolfgang Preiss
E: Wolfgang.Preiss@sa.gov.au

Carl Spandler
E: carl.spandler@jcu.edu.au

Caroline Tiddy
E: caroline.tiddy@unisa.edu.au

Geological Heritage Subcommittee
Carmen Krapf (convenor), Ian Lewis, Bob Major

SA Stratigraphy Subcommission
Mario Werner (Convenor),Tania Wilson, Justin Payne, Jarred Lloyd

Education Subcommittee
Len Altman (Convener)

Field Guide Subcommittee
Barry Cooper (convenor), Bob Major, Nick Langsford, Colin Conor, Ian Lewis, Pat James, Cynthia Pyle, Vic Gostin

SA Geotourism Subcommittee
Ian Lewis (convenor), Carmen Krapf, Pat James, Vic Gostin, Phil Plummer, Kevin Hamdorf, Mark Bishop, Mark Asendorf