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geoz 59 November 2012
NEWSBREAKERS
Geoscience Australia gets the nod
The Australian Government has announced Geoscience Australia will receive total funding of $114 million to improve understanding of Australia's onshore and offshore resource base. This includes an additional $34 million for 2013-14 and $40 million every year thereafter to fund a range of on-going activities and $26 million per annum for the pre-competitive data program. $5 million (increasing to $8 million in 2014-15) is earmarked for groundwater modelling and $3 million (increasing to $6 million in 2014-15) is to be used for the natural disaster planning and response program, the Australian Tsunami Warning System, and to further understand Australia's clean energy potential.
Ministers press release: http://bit.ly/TaFWYK
Geoscience Australia's FAQ: http://bit.ly/UPaylB
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
Tuesday 20th November 2012
Dr. Gavin Young, RSES-ANU
100 years of Antarctic science - Scott's tragic race for the South Pole, T. Griffith Taylor and the 1912 Canberra connection
John Curtain School of Medical Research (Finkel Lecture Theatre), building 131, ANU. 6.00 pm pm
24 - 27 November 2012
Geology Field Trip to the NSW South Coast
Contact Mike Rickard on mikejanrickard@bigpond.com or 6238 3117
Tuesday 11th December 2012
Geo-Societies Christmas BBQ
RSVP to Michelle michelle.cooper@ga.gov.au by Friday 7th December. See flyer for more details!
Geoscience Australia, Symonston. 5.00 pm
New South Wales
2013 meeting dates to be advised
For more information: meetings@nsw.gsa.org.au
Queensland
2013 meeting dates to be advised
For more information: info@qld.gsa.org.au
South Australia
Thursday 22nd November 2012 - AUSIMM Adelaide Branch
Annual Essington Lewis Memorial Lecture
Mr Terry Burgess, Oz Minerals
Modern Mining - New Directions
UniSA City West Campus. 5.45 pm for 6.00 pm
Friday 7th December 2012
9th South Australian Exploration and Mining Conference
Adelaide Convention Centre North Terrace, Adelaide
http://bit.ly/pZh2hF
Tasmania
Thursday 22nd November 2012
GSA Tasmania Annual Dinner
Dr Steve Boger, University of Melbourne
Antarctica: More than endless ice and open space
Alan Bray room, UTAS Staff Club, University of Tasmania, 6pm
RSVP to Rose Pongratz before November 20th: Rose.Pongratz@utas.edu.au
6-7 December 2012
Tasmanian Geoscience Forum (jointly with Aus.IMM)
Strahan Village. For more information contact andrew.mcneill@utas.edu.au
Victoria
2013 meeting dates to be advised
For more information: secretary@vic.gsa.org.au
Western Australia
Regular meetings: First Wednesday of each month (except December and
January)
Irish Club of WA, 61 Townshend Road, Subiaco, 5.30pm
For more information: info@wa.gsa.org.au
Friday 7th December 2012
AIG-GSA Christmas Cruise
On board the M.V. Captain Cook
Click here for booking form
GSA EVENTS
GSA Revised Rules and Governance News
Members were recently emailed advice that the Revised Rules of the GSA are now online and available for feedback, via member's affiliated Division, Branch or Specialist Group, by 14 December. However, it is important that members first read the article, available on the GSA web site, which will also be published in the December TAG.
GSA membership
Member renewals have been mailed; if you haven't received your renewal notice contact the office. Membership is due 1st January 2013. Members can update their details or renew their membership online. Need help? Don't know your membership number, not sure if you have renewed? If in doubt, please contact the GSA office: info@gsa.org.au.
Mega Memoir Sale
Memoirs 1 - 34 at heavily discounted rates for all of our Members. Limited time only, Sale ends 28 February 2013. Click here for the Order Form
The National Rock Garden - a rock solid idea
The National Rock Garden (NRG) now qualifies for Deductible Gift Recipient status (DGR). In other words, donations to the NRG are now tax deductible so now donating to the NRG can be a win-win!
The National Rock Garden will have up to 100 large specimens of the country's most iconic rocks.
Each specimen will weigh approximately 10–15 tonnes. To find out how you can contribute follow
this link to the NRG web site: http://www.nationalrockgarden.org.au/
If you would like to join the Friends of the National Rock Garden and receive
newsletters and information directly by email please send a request to rockgarden@gsa.org.au
Image courtesy of Doug Finlayson
IN THE NEWS
History in the making
The Victorian Community History Awards for 2012 have recognised the publication, Burke & Wills - The Scientific Legacy of the Victorian Exploring Expedition by short listing it in the Collaborative Community History Award category. This award recognises the best community collaborative work which involves significant contribution from several individuals, groups or historical societies. While the book did not receive an award, it was one of only four submissions in this category to receive a commendation.
http://bit.ly/SXUFDG
Image: Editors Bernie Joyce and Doug McCann with the commendation.
GSA gets a write up in Europe
Professor Brad Pillans, past President of the Geological Society of Australia, was interviewed by European magazine International Innovation. Apart from providing readers with a good potted history of the GSA he also talked up his current passion, the National Rock Garden project.
http://bit.ly/H32GGF
ON THE WEB
Tsunami runup mapping on Hawaii
After the March 11 2011 magnitude 9.0 earthquake near the northeast coast of Honshu Island, Japan, a large tsunami devastated the east coast of Japan. However, the same earthquake also sent a tsunami east across the Pacific Basin. Hawaii was placed on tsunami alert and significant runup and inundation did occur. A new report published by the USGS documents the extent of inundation of Hawai‘i's coastlines by the tsunami.
http://on.doi.gov/S4MGao
That sinking feeling in Colorado
Large areas of Colorado are underlain by evaporite deposits that generate a significant hazard potential due to dissolution related ground subsidence and sinkholes A new report from the Colorado Geological Survey documents the severity of this hazard in the region.
http://bit.ly/QIXdtB
IN THE MEDIA
Exoplanets are everywhere - even rocky ones
It may not be Earth 2.0 but a planet about seven times larger than Earth orbiting in the habitable zone of a small orange star a mere 42 light years away is yet another example of the multitude of planets being discovered thanks to improved techniques and equipment. Researchers are confident it is only a matter of time before they start identifying small rocky planets in the habitable zones of many more stars. NASA estimates at least a third of all stars have one or more planets.
Super Earth news report: http://bbc.in/VGJaWy.
Exoplanet catalogue: http://bit.ly/MucmMa.
NASA's Kepler mission: http://1.usa.gov/UHp6Dz.
Some exoplanets are homeless!
Researchers have found a planet about four to seven times the mass of Jupiter wandering alone, without a star to orbit, about 100 light years away. It is too small to be a failed star but it could have formed as part of a solar system and then been flung out of its native system.
http://bbc.in/TIyKBt
Mars: the field trip (a weather report)
Nice day, pity about the dose rate.
http://1.usa.gov/TO49CG
Gale is sometimes windy.
http://1.usa.gov/TO8OVq
Pressure's up as spring arrives down south.
http://1.usa.gov/TOauhv
Tides on Mars?
http://1.usa.gov/TOaONf
Video report from NASA
http://bit.ly/WbYPNY
Image: Snapshot of the on-line weather report from Curiosity's Rover Environmental Monitoring Station (REMS) instrument built by Spain's Centro de Astrobiologia (CAB) on the CAB web site.
What's in AJES
The Australian Journal of Earth Sciences online is available through the Taylor & Francis' website: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/taje20. It is very easy to navigate and use.
Volume 59 Issue No.7
F. L. Sutherland, I. T. Graham, S. Meffre, H. Zwingmann and R.E. Pogson
Passive-margin prolonged volcanism, East Australian Plate: outbursts, progressions, plate controls and suggested causes.
R. M. Chmielowski and R. F. Berry
The Cambrian metamorphic history of Tasmania: the Metapelites
L. B. Reid, G. Bloomfield, L. Ricard, C. Botman and P. Wilkes
Shallow Geothermal regime in the Perth metropolitan area.
E. Prendergast, R. Offler and H. Zwingmann
Adaminaby Group west of Batemans Bay: Deformation and Metamorphism of the Narooma Accretionary Complex, NSW
A. Abduriyim, F. L. Sutherland and E. A. Belousova
U-Pb age and origin of gem zircon from the New England sapphire fields, New South Wales, Australia
E. J. Heidecker Discussion of Gorter and Glikson
Talundilly, Western Queensland, Australia: geophysical and petrological evidence for a 84 km-large structure and an Early Cretaceous impact cluster
J. Gorter and A. Glikson
Response to: E.J. Heidecker's discussion of Talundilly, Western Queensland, Australia: geophysical and petrologic evidence for an 84 km-large impact structure and an Early Cretaceous impact cluster by J. D. Gorter and A.Y. Glikson (2012)
Erratum to J. R. Hunt and G. C. Young
Depositional environment, stratigraphy, structure and paleobiology of the Hatchery Creek Group (Early-?Middle Devonian) near Wee Jasper, New South Wales
Volume 59 Issue No.8
B. L. N. Kennett and M. Salmon
AuSREM: Australian Seismological Reference Model
D. F. Lascelles
Banded iron formation to high-grade iron ore: a critical review of supergene enrichment models
J. H. Cann and C. V. Murray-Wallace
Interstadial age (MIS5c) beach-dune barrier deposits in the Coorong Lagoon, South Australia
M. Honda, D. Phillips, M. A. Kendrick, M. K. Gagan and W. R. Taylor
Noble gas and carbon isotope ratios in Argyle diamonds, Western Australia: Evidence for a deeply-subducted volatile component
Discussion and Reply:
D. F. Lascelles Discussion on Microplaty hematite - its varied nature and genesis by R. C. Morris and Genesis modeling for the Hamersley BIF-hosted iron ores of Western Australia: a critical review by R.C. Morris and M. Kneeshaw.
Reply: R. C. Morris and M. Kneeshaw
Coming up in TAG
December TAG
Christmas and the December TAG will be here sooner than you think! If you missed the deadline make sure you get your submission in for the first issue of 2013!
Make TAG contributions via the web at:
http://gsa.junctionworld.com/publications/tag.html or email tag@gsa.org.au
WHAT'S ON
DEADLINES:
GeoEdLink: Call for articles - deadline 23 November 2012
The AGC geoscience education e-Newsletter
http://bit.ly/ZV6xfr
The VSSEC-NASA Australian Space Prize - Applications close Monday 3 December 2012
Open to all Australian undergraduate students completing their final undergraduate or honors year at an Australian University.
http://bit.ly/S4WfGD
The David Syme Research Prize 2012 - Applications close Thursday 13 December 2012
for the best original research work in Biology, Physics, Chemistry or Geology produced in Australia during the past 2 years.
http://bit.ly/XU0IiE
EVENTS:
Mineral Exploration Seminar 2012, Perth, 22 November 2012
Geosciences 2012 Conference, Hamilton New Zealand, 25 – 28 November 2012
Climate Change Adaptation Course, Adelaide, 26 – 27 November 2012
5% Discount for GSA members on all ICE WaRM Professional Short Courses
Download PDF flyer here
Second Australian Earth System Outlook Conference, Canberra, 26 – 27 November 2012
2nd Water in Coal Mines, Newcastle NSW, 28 – 30 November 2012
5% Discount for GSA members on all ICE WaRM Professional Short Courses
Download PDF flyer here
AIG-GSA Christmas Cruise, Perth, 2 December 2012
Joint SSA and NZSSS Soil Science Conference, Hobart, 2 – 7 December 2012
http://www.soilscience2012.com/
Mine site reconciliation 2012, Gold Coast, 4 – 6 December 2012
10% Discount for GSA members
http://bit.ly/PxYPjN
9th SA Exploration and Mining Conference, Adelaide, 7 December 2012
Water Essentials, Brisbane, 10 December 2012
5% Discount for GSA members on all ICE WaRM Professional Short Courses
Download PDF flyer here
Snowden Professional Development Courses, 2013 programme
10% Discount for GSA members
Download PDF flyer here
Environmental Geochemistry of Mine Site Pollution - An Introduction, Perth, 18 – 19 March 2013
Geology of Gold course, Melbourne, 18 – 22 March 2013
10% Discount for GSA members
Download PDF flyer here
Total Tailings Management Seminar, Perth, 20 – 21 March 2013
Advanced Tailings Management Seminar, Perth, 22 March 2013
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