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Meetings are held generally on the third Wednesday of each month and usually
at the Rugby Club, near Circular Quay, Sydney CBD.
An up-to-date notice is listed here whenever details of a meeting are available.

2008  
October 15th: What determines the tectonics of rocky worlds?
Dr. Craig O’Neill – GEMOC/Earth and Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University
September 17th: A Physicist's View of Building the Auscope National Virtual Core Library Infrastructure
Dr Lew Whitbourn, CSIRO Exploration and Mining
September 1st: PESA One-Day Practical Trap and Fault Seal Analysis Course
Titus Murray, FaultSeal Pty. Ltd
August 20th: Petrophysical Data Acquisition
Grant Taylor, Oil Search Limited
July: Social Dinner
East Ocean Restaurant
June: A Geophysicist in Antarctica
Wayne Stasinowsky, Encom Technology
May: Results of Recent Data Acquisition in Onshore and Offshore Frontier basins
Edward Bowen, Geoscience Australia
April: Plate tectonics and paleo-stress field evolution of Australia since the Early Cretaceous
Dr Dietmar Muller, University of Sydney
March:
Robert (Bob) Musgrave, Senior Geophysicist, NSW Department of Primary Industries
February: Some Recent Australian Engineering & Environmental Geophysical Case Studies
Bob Whiteley and Simon Stewart - Coffey Geotechnics Pty Ltd
2007  
December: Detailed Refraction Statics with the GRM and RCS
Dr Derecke Palmer, University of New South Wales
November: Matching Magnetic Source Models to Geology – An Example from the Bendigo 1:250,000 Map Sheet, Victoria
Dr Clive Foss, Encom Technology
October: Student Night - The Wongwibinda Complex - A tilted block? - Cara Danis
Modelling the Contemporary and Paleo-Stress of the Indo-Australian Plate - Joshua Knight
September: Utilizing Tuning/AVO Phenomena in Predicting Oil Column Height
- Development Drilling in Tui/Amokura/Pateke Fields, New Zealand.
Balakrishnan Kunjan, AWE
August: Geophysical techniques around the borehole
Luke Fredericks,  Illawarra Coal
July: Social Dinner to be held at Spicy Island, North Sydney
June: Seismic Inversion - What is it and is it any good?
Prof. Peter Hatherly, University of Sydney
May: Illuminating Reservoirs With Electromagnetics
Dr Leonard J. Srnka, ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company
April: What's happening in the Geological Survey of NSW during 2007?
David Robson, Geological Survey of NSW
March: Imaging three dimensional ore-bodies using sparse borehole radar arrays
Iain Mason, T. Spindle, P. Manning, J. Harvey and A. Wolfmarans
 February: AGM
2006  
 
November:

Developments in mapping water and sediment depths in shallow coastal waters using airborne electromagnetic (AEM) methods
Dr Julian Vrbancich - Defence Science and Technology Organisation

October:

Student Night - Presentations by Honours students from the University of Sydney and University of NSW

September:

3D as a collaboration environment for geologists and geophysicists
Dr David Pratt - Encom Technology

August :

Magnetotelluric modelling and inversion: Brief review and case studies
Salah Mehanee - Macquarie University

June :

Magnetic gradient tensor measurements for exploration in the marine environment - CSIRO's OceanMAG project
Phil Schmidt - CSIRO Industrial Physics

May :

Data representation and de-noising paradigms based on nonlinear dimensionality reduction
Sureth Kumar - Australian Centre for Field Robotics, University of Sydney
Bruce Dickson - Dickson Research

April :

Geophysical Methods for Coal Exploration
Allen Rodeghiero - BHP-Billiton

March :

Making a difference in environmental management with airborne geophysics - Where are we now and where are we headed?
Tim Munday - CSIRO
 

February :
AGM
2005  
September :
ATLANTIS Borehole Magnetometer System for EM
Andrew Duncan - EMIT
August :
Spectral Decomposition: An evolving technology for interpretation
Matt Lamont, DownUnder GeoSolutions Pty Ltd
July :
Current and future activities of the NSW Geological Survey
David Robson, Team Leader Exploration and Chief Geophysicist
Geological Survey of NSW, NSW Dept of Primary Industries
June :
Social meeting - Join the Committee at Zia Pina's Pizzeria
May :
Geophysical considerations for the new generation of oil and gas explorers in the South Australian Cooper Basin
Dr Ray Shaw, Managing Director of Great Artesian Oil and Gas Limited
April :
Overview of the Earth Resources Foundation (ERF)
Adam Wheatley, ERF, University of Sydney
March :
Mine scale three dimensional borehole radar imaging
Carina Simmat School of Geosciences, University of Sydney
Feburary :
AGM plus member interaction on Branch
Michael Moore (NSW ASEG President), Mike Smith et al
2004  
November :
Some recent developments in coal mining geophysics
Peter Hatherly, University of Sydney
October :
"Old light through new windows"
Chris Carty, Eastern Star Gas
September :
The shifting palaeostress of the North West Shelf
Tara Deen, GEMOC Macquarie University
July :
Use of potential field data and modelling to complement detailed geological
mapping in the Braidwood – Goulburn area, NSW
Steve Webster, Owen Thomas, Anthony Johnston & Gary Burton
June :
GETMAG – a new magnetic tensor gradiometer for exploration and other
applications
Phil Schmidt and Keith Leslie - CSIRO Industrial Physics
May :
Frogs in the Cooking Pot
Derecke Palmer - UNSW
April :
Discovery and Delineation – EM Software Strategy for the Minerals Industry
Art Raiche - CSIRO Exploration & Mining
February :
From Cosmic Geophysics to Geophysical Dust
Roger Henderson, Consultant Geoscientist
 
 
2003  
December :

Application of Geophysical Techniques on the Amery Ice Shelf, Antarctica
Mark Lackie, Macquarie University

October :

Student Night
Students from Macquarie, Sydney and NSW universities

September :

Integration of Seismic Data for Coal Mine Planning: A time-to-depth
conversion issue
Binzhong Zhou - CSIRO Exploration and Mining

August :

Chance to Assist the Recovery of the Mineral Exploration in Australia
Nick Sheard - Currently MIM Exploration

SPECIAL MEETING Marine And Airborne 3d Full Tensor Gradiometery:
A Gravity Gradient Measuring Technology that Enhances Prospectivity.
What is it, how does it work, and what can it do for you?
Dr Colm Murphy - Bell Geospace

July :

Ramblings of a Consultant Geophysicist
Steve Webster

June :

Evaluation of airborne EM for Opal Prospect Definition at Lightning Ridge
Michael Moore - NSW Department of Mineral Resources

May :

Potential use of airborne EM as a Rapid Environmental Assessment tool
Dr Julian Vrbancich

April :

ASEG NSW Branch AGM plus
Borehole radar imaging in three-dimensions by Naomi Osman
Improving the Resolution of Geophysical Data
Carina Simmat

March :
Estimation of dip from Interpretation of Magnetic Field Data
Dr Clive Foss - Encom Technology Pty Ltd
2002  
November :

A Mosaic of Petroleum Assets
Barry Smith

October :

Ocean Bottom Cable Seismic Surveys
Stephen Greaves

September :

Falcon Airborne Spreads Its Wings
Phil Harmon

August :

A Magnetic Signature for Tin Deposits in South-East Australia - Revisited
Steve Webster

July :

The Latest Tools Used in Capturing Bathymetry by the Royal Australian Navy
Shanti Jayaswal

June :

The Use of Geophysical Methods for Environmental Surveys
Mads Toft

May :

High-resolution Geophysical Investigations at the Muweilah
Archaelogical Site, United Arab Emirates

Ryz Evangelista

April :

Annual General Meeting
Combined Branch and Federal AGM

March :

New Developments and Case Histories of 3D IP surveys
Bob White and Steve Collins

February :
Salinity - Mixing Politics and Pico-Teslas
Dr Andy Green
2001  
December :

EM Emission Monitoring to Warn of Wind Blasts and Gas Outs in Coal Mines
Professor Keeva Vozoff

November :

Interpreting the Environmental Record of Magnetic Minerals
Tim Rolph

October :

Prediction of Facies, Structure and Mineral and Petroleum
Prospect Localities in Sedimentary Basins, Rifts and Elsewhere
by Recognising and Mapping Large, Magnetic Intracrustal
Intrusions Related to Mantle Plumes and Crustal Extension.
Dr Peter Gunn - Consulting Geophysicist

September :

The Search for Opal at Lightning Ridge and
Outline of Exploration NSW Geophysical Activities
David Robson - Geological Survey of NSW

July :

An Expert System Approach to Potential Field Modelling
Dr David Pratt - Encom Technology

June :

Hydrology of the Hawkesbury Sandstone
John Lee

May :

Use of UTS for Geophysical Applications - A Review
Catherine Foley

April :

AGM for NSW Branch followed by Quo Vadis Explorator
Don Emerson

March :

Geophysics in the Shallow Regime
Tim Pippett

February :
Seismicity in the Appin area of NSW and its association with mining activities
Peter Hatherley
2000  
November :

Annual Student Evening - Borehole Radar
Carina Simmat - Sydney University - An Analysis of Borehole Radar,
Acquisition, Processing and Interpretation, with a Detailed
Study of the Propagation Characteristics of the Radar Wave
Matthew Levinson - Sydney University - Orebody Characterisation
for Borehole Radar Applications

October :

A Comparative Study of Modern Airborne EM Systems
Ken Witherley, Condor Consulting

July :

The Change of Australia’s Geodetic Datum (Joint ASEG/SMEDG presentation)
Glen Jones

June :

Nifty Copper Deposit, W.A. (Joint ASEG/SMEDG presentation)
Bruce Hooper

May :

Principles and Examples of Magnetic Petrophysics
Dr Phil Schmidt, CSIRO

April :

Science and geophysics in the next 10 Years
Dr Ken McCracken, Consultant

February :
Can The Convolution Section Modernize Seismic Refraction Methods?
Derecke Palmer,University of New South Wales
1999  
November :

Annual Student Evening -
Caroline Burge Sydney University - Structural Evolution
and Compartmentalisation of the Onshore Foreland
Basin of Papua New Guinea
Tara DeenMacquarie University
3-D Tomographic Seismic Inversion of a Palaeochannel
System in the Lachlan Fold Belt, Central NSW
Duncan Bradey Macquarie University
Electromagnetic Modelling in 2-D

October :

The Electrical Image Method For Environmental Engineering
and Groundwater Investigation
Ian Acworth - Senior Lecturer,
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UNSW

August :

ASEG NSW Branch Annual Dinner and Trivia Night
Different Drummer Wine bar and Restaurant, Glebe - 18th August

July :

The aeromagnetic Connection: A new look at the Gondwana
Geology of Antarctica and Australia
Dr Carol Finn, USGS

June :

Magnetic depth estimates – how good are they ?
Dr Clive Foss, Encom Technology Pty Ltd

March :
Branch AGM plus The Recent Tsunamigenic Earthquake near
Sissano Lagoon in Papua New Guinea.

Kevin McCue, AGSO
1998  
December :

The Gympie Gold Discoveries - New Exploration Methods
in an Historic Goldfield

Ian Levy, General Manager Development - Gympie Gold Limited
Steve Webster, Geophysical Consultant

December :

December : Annual Student Evening -
The structure and composition of the crust beneath the Agulhas Plateau
Michael Seargent, Macquarie University

Geophysical Exploration in China Today, Chinese Tectonics and
Non-Linear Techniques Applied in Geophysical Exploration.

Professor Liu Guanding - President of Chinese Society of Geophysics
Professor Guan Zhining - Chinese Nat. Modern Exploration
Dr Zhang Minghua, Senior Research Geophysicist

October :

Recent Results From the Hummingbird Towed Boom HEM System
Roger Henderson - Geo Instruments Pty Limited
Mike Smith - Geo Instruments Pty Limited
and

An application of the DIGHEM for bathymetry over the
Sydney Harbour and Long Reef

Michael Hallett - Geoterrex-Dighem Pty Limited
Julian Vrbancich - DSTO, Maritime Operations Division.

September :

Gravity Data Acquisition - Ground or Airborne?
John Peacock; Geoterrex-Dighem Pty. Limited
Ray Lockwood; Geoterrex-Dighem Pty. Limited

August :
Annual Dinner - Guest Presentation - "The Undiscovered Country"
Rag and Famish Hotel, North Sydney