Cape Schanck - image courtesy Michelle Grosser

Talks and Events
Monthly Division Meetings

Date: Last Thursday of each month (Except January and December)
Location: 
Kathleen Syme Community Centre, Faraday Street, Carlton 
Contact: [email protected]
Details are also posted on the Victorian website 

Upcoming events   

21 March 2024 - GSA VIC
Details: Awards Evening & Talk by Dr. Kevin Hill. **In person only**
Location: Fritz Loewe Lecture Theatre, McCoy Building, University of Melbourne, 253 Elgin St, Carlton VIC 3053
Time: 5.30pm drinks & nibbles, 6.15pm start


Previous Meetings

29 February 2024 - GSA VIC
Details: Professor Karen Chin, 2023 Geolgical Society of America Bromery Award on "What coprolites tell us about a Cretaceous Arctic marine ecosystem in the Canadian High Arctic"
Location: Fritz Loewe Lecture Theatre, Room 201, in the Earth Sciences, McCoy building, University of Melbourne.
Time: 6.15pm

26 October 2023 - GSA Vic Division Seminar
Details:  Private tour of the geoscience and invertebrate paleontology collections by Collections Managers Oskar Lindenmayer & Rolf Schmidt. Places are limited.
Location:  Melbourne Musem (meet at front plaza)
Time: 6pm AEDT

23 November 2023 - GSA Vic Division Seminar
Speakers:  Susan White, Geoheritage
Location:  Kathleen Syme Centre, Multipurpose Rm 1
Time: 5.30pm for drinks and nibbles, 6pm presentation

31 August 2023 - GSA Vic Division - Awards Ceremony & Talks
Details: TBA
Location: Fritz Loewe Lecture Theatre, McCoy Earth Sciences Building, University of Melbourne
Speakers: Mana Ryuba and James La Greca (Uni Melb completed Honours/Masters students)

28 September 2023 - GSA Vic Division - Selwyn Symposium
Topic: "Geological time: old rocks, new ideas"
Details & Speakers: 2pm - Opening remarks
2.05pm- 2.30pm - Ellen Corrick, Monash University- Synchronous climate change during the last interglacial-glacial cycle
2.30pm-2.55pm - Richard Selwyn-Jones, Monash University: Antarctic ice sheet history of the last ~34 Ma
2.55pm- 3.20pm - Vera Korasidis, University of Melbourne: "New palynological and chronostratigraphic insight on the Australian highlands"
3.20-4.00pm - Afternoon tea+ Posters
4.00pm-4.25pm - Oliver Nebel, Monash University: "On the age-old problem of dating a granite"
4.25pm-4.50pm - Heidi Allen, Geological Survey of Western Australia- New dates on Precambrian carbonates of WA
4.50pm-6.00pm - Drinks and posters
6.00pm-7.00pm - Selwyn Lecture Alan Rooney (Yale University)
7.30pm - Selwyn Dinner (TBA, possibly Coretto pizzas)
Location: Fritz Loewe Lecture Theatre, McCoy Earth Sciences Building, University of Melbourne
Registration: TBA


27 July 2023 - GSA Vic Division Meeting
Speaker: Jessica Hamilton (Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation)
Topic: Earth and Environmental Science at the Australian Synchrotron
Location: Activity Room 2 (upstairs), Kathleen Syme Community Centre in Faraday St Carlton and online via Zoom

22 June 2023 - Howitt Lecture, GSA Vic Division & Royal Society of Victoria Meeting 
Speaker: Andrew Mackintosh (Monash University)
Topic: Glaciers and ice sheets in a warming world
Location: Royal Society of Victoria, 8 La Trobe St, Melbourne and online


25 May 2023 - GSA Vic Division Annual General Meeting and award presentations

Speaker: Laurent Ailleres (Monash University)
Topic: Loop - an interoperable, integrative, probabilistic 3D geological modelling platform

27 April 2023 - GSA Vic Division Online Meeting

Speaker: Juliet Sefton (Monash University)
Topic: Mangrove sediments as geological archives for reconstructing Holocene sea level


24 November 2022 – GSA Vic Division Hybrid Meeting

Speaker: Vera Korasidis (University of Melbourne)
Topic: Tiny but mighty; insights from fossil pollen about future climate change


27 October 2022 – GSA Vic Division Meeting
Speaker: Owen Missen (Monash University & Museum Victoria)
Topic: The importance of Critical Element biogeochemistry: A case study on gold’s metalloid sidekick, Tellurium
Note: Owen is a Bicentennial Gold Endowment Recipient


29 September 2022 – GSA Vic Division Meeting
Speaker: Dennis Arne (Telemark Geosciences)
Topic: Gold Exploration in Victoria: Renaissance, Resurrection, Replay?
 

25 August 2022 – GSA Vic Division Meeting

Speaker: Mark Warne (Deakin University)
Topic: Tracking ocean current history and deep time faunal migrations: Case studies from the Cenozoic fossil record of SE Australia
Time: 6.15pm AEST


28 July 2022 – GSA Vic Division Meeting

Speaker: Anindita Samsu (Monash University)
Topic: Fractures and their ancestors: The multi-scale expressions and mechanisms of structural inheritance


23 June 2022 – GSA Vic Division & RSV Howitt Lecture
Speaker: John Webb (La Trobe University)
Topic: Australian Caves: Diversity, Wonder and Risk


26 May 2022 - Vic Division Online Meeting
Speaker: Tim Ziegler (Melbourne Museum)
Topic: Make Emblems Kool Again: Electing The State Fossil of Victoria, Koolasuchus cleelandi

28 April 2022 – GSA Vic Division Annual General Meeting
Speaker: Agathe Lise-Pronovost (University of Melbourne)
Topic: Australia's vantage point on Earth magnetic field history


21-22 April 2022 - Victorian Universities Earth and Environmental Science Conference

Location: Monash University

31 March 2022 - GSA Vic Division Online Meeting

Speaker: Liz Mahon (University of Melbourne)
Topic: 3D seismic geomorphology of the Early Cenozoic incised channels, Gippsland Basin, SE Australia: Evidence for submarine origin

24 February 2022 - GSA Vic Division Online Meeting

Speaker: Simon Barker (Victoria University of Wellington)
Topic: Tonga's recent volcanic eruption

GSAV Student Research Scholarships
The scholarship is valued at up to $500 for travel within Australia and $700 for travel outside of Australia. The number of and value of the scholarships awarded each year is made at the discretion of the GSA(Vic) committee. Funding will not be granted retrospectively and applicants are asked to submit forms no later than 6 weeks prior to their trip to give the committee time to consider the application. For more information and application form click here

Eligibility
Applicants must be members of the GSA and enrolled in a full-time degree at a Victorian Tertiary institution and undertaking research in Geology. The scholarship will be awarded to assist with conference travel for honours and postgraduate students, who are presenting (either poster or talk) at the conference. Honours and postgraduate students that receive this scholarship will be required to submit a report for publication in ‘The Victorian Geologist’ newsletter following their trip. A presentation may also be requested by the committee, which will consist of a short 10-15 minute presentation prior to the monthly seminar. Students who have previously received a GSAV research scholarship are not eligible. Scholarships and bursaries from other sources are acceptable.

Applications forms can be scanned and emailed to: [email protected] or mailed to:
Geology Research Scholarships Victoria
Geological Society of Australia (Victoria Division)
GPO Box 2355
Melbourne VIC 3001

More information can be found by contacting Barbara Wagstaff, [email protected]

GSAV Postgraduate Research Grant Scheme
The Geological Society of Australia (Victoria Division) is pleased to announce the launch of a new Postgraduate Research Grant Scheme for the encouragement of research in Earth Science. Projects should address Victorian problems, although research that extends beyond the State will not be excluded.


Under this Scheme, beginning in 2019, each year two Ph.D. students will be given grants of $5000 per annum for two years. The award applications must be lodged online through the GSA Victoria website, www.gsavic.org, and will include an outline of no more than 300 words of the proposed project.  Applications for the 2019 grant year will open Thursday the 1st of November 2018 and close at 5 pm Friday the 14th of December.

A selection panel appointed by the GSA Victoria will judge the submissions and the panel will reserve the right to make as many awards as they feel appropriate, within the constraints of the budget.

Successful applicants will be notified no later than the 2019 February committee meeting.  The awards will then be announced to the members at the April Annual General Meeting and will be published in The Victorian Geologist.

Each successful awardee will generally be required to provide a presentation to the GSA Victoria Division.  If this is not feasible, the awardee will provide a short report of an aspect of their research to be published in The Victorian Geologist. 

Committee

Chair: Anne-Marie Tosolini 

Secretary: Ashleigh Hood

Treasurer: Oskar Lindenmayer

Awards Subcommittee:
John Webb (Chair)
Samuel Boone

Education Subcommittee: James Driscoll (Chair)

Geoheritage Subcommittee: Susan White (Chair)

Investments: Rick Squire

The Victorian Geologist Editor: 
Position Vacant

GSA VIC Division Webmaster: 
Stefan Vollgger

General Committee:
Emily Finch