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geoz 112 July 2015
NEWSBREAKERS
The GSA Office is moving!
Moving house or office is always hard work, no matter if it is across the road or across the country. Hopefully members will not notice any disruption but if the GSA office staff do prove hard to contact between now and mid-July spare a thought for them and all the extra work they are putting in to both move and keep the GSA operational!
The new mailing address as of July 1 will be:
Suite 8, Level 2,
141 Peats Ferry Road
Hornsby NSW 2077
Please note that all other company information will remain unchanged:
http://gsa.junctionworld.com/
International Earth Science Olympiad team announced
The Minister for Education and Training, the Hon. Christopher Pyne MP, recently presented students selected to represent Australia at the international Biology, Chemistry, Infomatics, Mathematics, Physics and Earth Science Olympiads with their team blazers at a Parliament House ceremony in Canberra. The first Earth Science team, chosen through a highly competitive national selection process and summer school training program, definitely breaks the geoscience gender stereotype. Team members assemble in Canberra for further training in July and are off to the 2015 International Earth Science Olympiad (IESO) in Brazil this September. The GSA wishes them every success.
News report: http://tinyurl.com/oxpaq36
Australian Science Olympiads: http://tinyurl.com/o85z36m
The 2015 IESO team, left to right: Timothy Hume, Zoe Thompson, Sacha Mann, Jade Pham
Image courtesy of Australian Science Innovations
FROM THE DIVISIONS
Divisional information is regularly updated at http://gsa.junctionworld.com/events/divisionmeetings.html
Check this site for more recent information on the following events:
Australian Capital Territory
Regular meetings 2015: Third Tuesday of each month (Except January)
Jaeger Lecture Theatre, Jaeger Building (Building 61), Australian National University. 5.00pm for 5.30pm start.
For more information: emma.mathews@ga.gov.au
New South Wales
Monday 17th August 2015
Public Forum as part of the Sydney Science Festival
Powering Sydney into the Future-the Science of Alternative Energy
The Wesley Conference Centre 220 Pitt Street Sydney. 06.30 pm to 8.30 pm
Tickets available here: http://tinyurl.com/p8zvzrv
Sydney Science Festival: http://www.sydneyscience.com.au/
Inspiring Australia: http://inspiringaustralia.net.au/
Find out more on Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/pqck3pf
Queensland
Monday 29th July, 2015
Student Awards Night
Details TBA
Every Wednesday evening: GeoPub
Weekly Informal get-together for Explorers, Miners & other Geoscientists
O'Malleys Irish Pub - Basement Level of the Wintergarden in the Queen Street Mall, Brisbane. 5.30 pm
South Australia
Regular meetings: Third Thursday of each month (except January)
The Mawson Theatre, Mawson Laboratories, Adelaide University, 5.15 pm for 6.15 pm
For more information: jim.jago@unisa.edu.au
Nominations for the Bruce Webb and Walter Howchin Medals in 2015 should be made to the Divisional Secretary by 1 July 2015. Nominations will remain current for a period of five years. Nominees do not need to be a GSA member.
Tasmania
Royal Society of Tasmania/GSA(Tas)Winter Lecture Series June - July 2015
Scientific Advances in Understanding The Evolution of Life on Earth over the Last 3.5 Billion Years
University of Tasmania, Stanley Burbury Theatre
Provisional program:
1: Evolution and Generation of Life on the Early Earth
Wednesday June 24th 7.30pm
Lecture 1. The Theory of Evolution - What have we learnt since Charles Darwin?
Professor John Long, Flinders University.
Lecture 2. The Early Earth and Generation of Life (the first billion years)
Professor Malcolm Walter, Australian Centre for Astrobiology, University of NSW.
2: Middle Earth - the Slingshot of Life
Wednesday July 15th 7.30pm
Lecture 3. The Boring Billion Years in Earth History and its Significance
Indrani Mukherjee, PhD student, University of Tasmania.
Lecture 4. The Cambrian Explosion of Life and Rise of Marine Species
Dr Diego Bellido-Garcia, University of Adelaide.
3: Life in the last 500 million years; Mass Extinctions, Volcanoes and Meteorites
Wednesday July 22nd 7.30pm
Lecture 5. The Five Great Mass Extinction Events - what was their cause, and when is the next?
Distinguished Professor Ross Large, University of Tasmania.
Lecture 6. Mega Volcanic Eruptions and the Greatest Mass Extinction of all Time
Professor Jocelyn McPhie, University of Tasmania.
Victoria
Thursday 30th July 2015
Student's Night
Four short talks from scholarship recipients over the past year
Fritz Loewe Theatre, Earth Sciences Building, University of Melbourne. 5.50 pm for 6.15 pm
Thursday 27th August 2015
Ken Grimes
Northern Australian sandstone pseudokarsts
Fritz Loewe Theatre, Earth Sciences Building, University of Melbourne. 5.50 pm for 6.15 pm
Western Australia
Wednesday 1st July 2015
Chris Elders, Chevron Professor of Petroleum Geology Curtin University
Enigmatic events in the evolution of the North West Shelf
Irish Club of WA (Inc), 61 Townshend Rd, Subiaco, 5.30 pm for 6.00 pm
GSA EVENTS
Member-for-Member discount
The Geological Society of Australia is offering a Member-for-Member discount on 2015 fees. If you are a full member and sign up another full member for 2015 you both will receive $50.00 off your 2015 membership. Already paid 2015 fees? Sign up a full member and we will reimburse you $50.
Contact Annika for more information: membership@gsa.org.au
AESC 2016: partnership prospectus now available
The AESC provides an ideal environment to promote emerging opportunities in your state, or organisation, for your managers and leaders to meet and talk with the new generation of professional geoscientists, to hear about the latest developments in geoscience, and to connect and network with your peers. The partnership prospectus is now available here.
Keep an eye on the web site and look out for updates on-line and in TAG. For more information contact Caroline Forbes: caroline.forbes@adelaide.edu.au or program information Alan Collins: alan.collins@adelaide.edu.au
http://aesc2016.gsa.org.au/
Sandy Steacy confirmed as a Plenary Speaker
Sandy Steacy is an earthquake scientist who is particularly interested in stress interaction and time dependent seismic hazard. After graduating with a geology degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, she went to the University of Southern California to complete a PhD with Professor Charlie Sammis. Sandy then moved to the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland where she became Professor of Earthquake Physics in 2007; she joined the University of Adelaide in January 2015.
Sandy's current research is in the general area of operational earthquake forecasting, in essence the determination of time dependent changes to earthquake probabilities. Her work focuses on the computation of Coulomb stress changes which affect earthquake likelihood in time and space, and in combining this physics based approach with geological and statistical models. Sandy was a member of the expert elicitation panel on future seismic hazard in the Canterbury region whose work informed the revised building codes in Christchurch, New Zealand. She was also lead editor of a special issue of the Journal of Geophysical Research on stress transfer, earthquake triggering, and time-dependent seismic hazard, and is lead author of the review paper that introduces the volume.
Data Metallogenica, the GSA and GSA member benefits
Data Metallogenica is the world's largest mineral deposit database, a unique technical information system made possible through the support of over one hundred international Foundation Sponsors from industry, government organisations and professional societies including the Geological Society of Australia. It already contains quality technical information on over 5,000 mineral deposits of all kinds from around the world and provides access to a vast library of other material. Because of the GSA's foundation involvement GSA members can subscribe as an individual to Data Metallogenica for $100 per year for unlimited access and downloads (this is a 50% discount compared to non-members). Find out more or subscribe via the Data Metallogenica website:
http://dmgeode.com/
Specialist Group in Tectonics and Structural Geology.
Riding the Wave: A conference to showcase current research and ideas in Structural Geology and Tectonics 22-27 November 2015
Pre-conference field trip: 14-21 November 2015
New Caledonia: ophiolite obduction, accretion and high-pressure metamorphism
Field trip convener: Geoffrey Clark
Post-conference field trip: 28-29 November 2015
Gympie Block/D'Aguilar Ranges: Oscillating deformation and the birth and death of the
final orogeny on onshore Australia - core complex, ophiolitic blueschist, rift systems and
terrane accretion.
Field trip convener: Rod Holcombe
Key dates:
Abstract deadline: 15 September 2015
Download the third circular here.
For queries and expressions of interest contact:
Gideon Rosenbaum,
Email: g.rosenbaum@uq.edu.au
Phone: 07 3346 9798
New AAP Memoir #47
A Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian-Turonian) south polar palynoflora from the Chatham Islands, New Zealand
$55.00 including postage in Australia
Contact: info@gsa.org.au
IN THE NEWS
Have your say on the future of science in Australia
The Australian Government wants ideas and feedback from industry, the research and education sectors and the wider community on a long term strategy for boosting Australia's capability in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).
Read the consultation paper
Read the Chief Scientists September 2014 report
Complete the on-line consultation response form and/or upload a response document.
Consultation is open and runs from 22 June 2015 to 31 July 2015.
Late Triassic no fun for tropical dinosaurs
Palaeoenvironmental reconstructions of the late Triassic at Ghost Ranch in northern New Mexico reveal a hostile world where wild fires, droughts and rapidly changing climatic conditions were far from conducive for the flourishing of the dinosauria.
News report: http://tinyurl.com/pc2nov9
Research abstract: http://tinyurl.com/o3n3g5k
ON THE WEB
Titans lakes could be dissolution features
Research suggests that karst-like dissolution is a major cause of landscape evolution on Titan, and could be the origin of its lakes.
Image courtesy of NASA/ESA. The image covers an area approximately 420 x 350 km and it appears there are rivers draining into a sea known as the Ligeia Mare.
http://tinyurl.com/oftwnap
and speaking of Titan ...
Titan's atmosphere is Earth-like in unexpected ways.
http://tinyurl.com/nc4lvle
Building the Geotourism App talk on-line
See and hear Ken Moule speak in Brisbane on how and why the App was created.
Video and audio of the talk: http://tinyurl.com/qeorg5e
Where is all that gold?
A new interactive gold mining map lets you quickly see where all the action is!
http://tinyurl.com/pxqo4ql
IN THE MEDIA
Groundwater resource users in trouble
Human usage is rapidly depleting Earth's largest groundwater basins with about one third of them being unsustainably drawn down by every growing urban and agricultural usage.
http://tinyurl.com/pn7oev2
Before Rodinia there was Columbia
Using zircon dating researchers have concluded North American sedimentary basins were linked to sediment sources in Australia and Antarctica until the break-up of the supercontinent Columbia. Fragments of Columbia later created Rodinia around 1.0 billion years ago.
News report: http://tinyurl.com/p7myepx
Research abstract: http://tinyurl.com/p6dtuda
Mars: The field trip continued ...
Still waiting for the sun ...
Communications with Mars are currently suspended due to the position of Mars with respect to the Sun. Resumption of activity should occur soon!
http://tinyurl.com/nc8a3x6
Route planning for the coming months
http://tinyurl.com/otlgjsl
Japan plans to retrieve bits of Phobos or Deimos
http://tinyurl.com/paftz9k
More news from the solar system ...
All go for Europa
http://tinyurl.com/p3yj8nf
Dione and Rhea dancing
http://tinyurl.com/pjlxllj
Philae is alive!
http://tinyurl.com/q4245rq
The spots are getting bigger but ...
http://tinyurl.com/na6dwdt
The Moon is a dusty mistress
http://tinyurl.com/pm4eah2
Active volcanism on Venus?
http://tinyurl.com/qxdbkg8
... and elsewhere ...
Gliese 436b has an atmosphere to boast about
http://tinyurl.com/nskxkq9
WASP-33b has a stratosphere
http://tinyurl.com/ps765ad
What's in AJES
The Australian Journal of Earth Sciences online is available through the Taylor & Francis website. It is very easy to navigate and use.
AJES is available to financial members of the GSA. Don't miss the next issue because your membership has lapsed!
Volume 62 No.3 Published on-line
M. J. Van Kranendonk, W. Altermann and R. Mazumder
A squall by the seashore ca 2.3 billion years ago: Raindrop imprints in a Paleoproterozoic tidal flat deposit, Kungarra Formation, Western Australia.
C. Heine, L. G. Yeo and R. D. Müller
Evaluating global paleoshoreline models for the Cretaceous and Cenozoic.
H. K. H. Olierook, N. E. Timms, R. E. Merle, F. Jourdan and P. G. Wilkes
Paleo-drainage and fault development in the southern Perth Basin, Western Australia during and after the breakup of Gondwana from 3D modelling of the Bunbury Basalt.
M. Kh. Khalifa, B. G. Jones and O. Hlal
Sedimentary facies analysis and paleogeographic significance of the latest Silurian to Early Devonian Winduck Interval in the Darling Basin, Western New South Wales, Australia.
R. F. Berry
Late Mesozoic strike-slip faulting In Tasmania.
G. Taylor and R. A. Eggleton
Bauxites of the NSW Southern Highlands.
S. H. Xu, Y. M. Wang, G. Q. Xu, G. D. Zeng, C. L. Gong, C. E. Cai, W. Guo, W. Tang, H. T. Zhuo and H. Q. Wan
Linking shelf delta to deep-marine deposition in reservoir dispersal of the upper Oligocene strata in the Baiyun Sag, the northern South China Sea.
Other papers published on-line recently
M. C. Garthwaite, M. Hazelwood, S. Nancarrow, A. Hislop and J. H. Dawson
A regional geodetic network to monitor ground surface response to resource extraction in the northern Surat Basin, Queensland
N. Folcher, B. Sevin, F. Quesnel, V. Lignier, M. Allenbach, P. Maurizot and D. Cluzel
Neogene terrestrial sediments: a record of the post-obduction history of New Caledonia
Follow this link to see the most recent papers published on-line.
Coming up in TAG
TAG for June 2015
The June TAG has been mailed to all GSA members. If you haven't received your issue, please contact the GSA office, so you can read features: Leaving St Helena for Ascension Island, by Bill Birch, Elgin Marbles' of Australian paleontology by Gavin Young and by Andrew Glikson a feature titled the Tail end of the Late Heavy Bombardment? The September TAG is in the planning stages with Part 2 of the Elgin Marbles' of Australian paleontology by Gavin Young scheduled for the September issue.
TAG is mailed to all financial members of the GSA. As always if you are submitting a Feature or Special Report please send your article in as soon as possible and if you need information about word lengths and submitting contact: tag@gsa.org.au.
JOB VACANCIES
Advertising space now available
Advertising positions are now available in Geoz. Be the first to advertise here.
Word length: 40-50 words (the shorter the more effective) plus link to a web site.
Text and a small logo linking to your online advert or business.
Logo a maximum of 180 pixels wide x 90 pixels high.
Adverts will run in Geoz for two issues.
Fee: $150.00
For more information: info@gsa.org.au
WHAT'S ON
DEADLINES:
Early bird registration - Deadline July 27 2015
Ninth International Symposium on Field Measurements in Geomechanics
Sydney 9-11 September 2015
Early bird registration - Deadline July 31 2015
Society of Economic Geologists (SEG/CODES) 2015 Conference
Hobart 27 – 30 September 2015
World-Class Ore Deposits: Discovery to Recovery
For more information http://www.seg2015.org/
Call for nominations - Deadline July 31 2015
Bruce Hobbs Medal for Structural Geology and
Chris Powell Medal for Postgraduate Research in Tectonics and Structural Geology
Early bird registration - Deadline July 31 2015
Clean up Conference
Melbourne 13 – 16 September 2015
CRC CARE brings together industry, government, science and engineering to prevent, assess and clean up environmental contamination
For more information http://tinyurl.com/oa2y6h2
Call for Papers - Abstract deadline August 31 2015
5th International Conference on Geotechnical and Geophysical site characterisation:
Gold Coast 5-9 September 2016
11 years of mine closure excellence
http://www.isc5.com.au/
Top GeoShot photography competition - Entries close 1 September 2015
The theme for this year's competition is "Rock Stars"
http://tinyurl.com/luxw38g
EVENTS:
NCGRT Distinguished Lecture Tour 2015, Canberra and all State Capitals, 02 June – 30 July 2015
Check the program for the session date in your state: http://tinyurl.com/nlqlz3u
Dinosaur and Sea Monster Dig, Marathon Station, Richmond QLD, 4 – 10 July 2015
More information and Booking form
Iron Ore 2015, Perth, 13 – 15 July 2015
Four-dimensional simulations of marine dispersal at a continental scale, Canberra, 15 July 2015
Tailings and Mine Waste Management for the 21st Century, Sydney, 27 – 28 July 2015
Saying goodbye to a 2D Earth, Margaret River, 2 August – 7 August 2015
NGWA Henry Darcy Lecture Series, Canberra and all State Capitals, 10 August – 25 August 2015
Check the program for the session date in your state: http://tinyurl.com/p4wsmye
Sydney Science Festival, Sydney, 13 – 23 August 2015
Public Forum as part of the Sydney Science Festival, Sydney, 17 August 2015
Powering Sydney into the Future-the Science of Alternative Energy
The Wesley Conference Centre 220 Pitt Street Sydney. 06.30 pm to 8.30 pm
Tickets available here: http://tinyurl.com/p8zvzrv
11th International Symposium on Rock Fragmentation by Blasting, Sydney, 24 – 26 August 2015
Australian Mine Ventilation Conference, Sydney, 31 August – 2 September 2015
Soil and Groundwater Pollution: Characterisation, Remediation and Risk Management, Perth, 1 – 4 September 2015
Groundwater Modelling for Beginners, Perth, 1 – 4 September 2015
MetPlant 2015, Perth, 7 – 8 September 2015
AAPG-SEG International Conference and Exhibition, Melbourne, 13 – 16 September
Introduction to Groundwater: Principles and Practices, Brisbane, 21 – 23 September 2015
Society of Economic Geologists (SEG/CODES) 2015 Conference
Hobart 27 – 30 September 2015
World-Class Ore Deposits: Discovery to Recovery
Early bird registration deadline: 31 July 2015
For more information http://www.seg2015.org/
Third International Future Mining Conference, Sydney, 4 – 6 November 2015
International Mining and Resources Conference, Melbourne, 9 – 13 November 2015
Groundwater Modelling using GMS and MODFLOW-USG, Sydney, 16 – 19 November 2015
2D Hydraulic Modelling with SMS and TUFLOW (expanded), Sydney, 16 – 19 November 2015
Introduction to ArcGIS, Sydney, 17 – 19 November 2015
International Seminar on Design Methods in Underground Mining, Perth, 17 – 19 November 2015
GSA Specialist Group in Tectonics & Structural Geology Conference, Caloundra Qld, 22 – 27 November 2015
Introduction to Coal Seam Gas, Mining and Groundwater , Melbourne, 2 – 4 December 2015
6th Annual Earth System Governance Conference, Canberra, 9 – 12 December 2015
CONTACTS
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Suite 8, Level 2,
141 Peats Ferry Road
Hornsby NSW 2077
ph 02-9290 2194
fax 02-9290 2198
www.gsa.org.au
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