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ASEG ACT Branch Annual General Meeting

Event Type

Event Date

Thursday, March 30, 2017

Event Location

Event Address

Sir Harold Raggatt Theatre, Geoscience Australia

Event Start

4pm

Event End

6pm

Event Details

 ASEG ACT Branch members,

You are invited to the ACT Branch’s Annual General Meeting with a special presentation from guest speaker Ron Hackney (details below). Drinks and snacks are provided.

Date: Thursday, 30 March 2017
Time: Drinks and snacks from 4pm followed by the AGM at 4:30pm.
Location: Sir Harold Raggatt Theatre, Geoscience Australia

AGENDA:

1.    Opening of meeting 4:30 pm 

2.    Guest speaker presentation (Ron Hackney) – 4:35 pm

3.    Minutes of the 2016 Annual General Meeting

4.    Report on the activities of the Society during the last year: 
       i.    President

5.    To receive and consider the financial accounts:
       i.    Treasurer

6.    The Annual General Meeting for 2017 - nominated in accordance with the Society's Constitution and are unopposed:
       i.    President                            
       ii.    Secretary                             
       iii.    Treasurer                            

7.    Appointment of Committee members:

8.    Thank  you to outgoing Executive

Meeting Close.

Guest Speaker Presentation by Ron Hackney - Title: From geophysics to deep stratigraphic drilling for tectonics, climate and ancient life in northern Zealandia
 
Abstract: The Lord Howe Rise, a submerged and extended continental ribbon that separated from Australia in the Late Cretaceous, is the key to understanding one of Earth’s last remaining scientific frontiers – the continent of Zealandia. Geoscience Australia and the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology are now leading an international effort through the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) to realise deep stratigraphic drilling of a sedimentary basin in northern Zealandia. If funded, this drilling will provide insight into Cretaceous tectonics, paleoclimate and paleoceanography at the eastern margin of Gondwana and help define the limits to deep microbial life in extreme environments. This presentation will provide a brief overview of the geophysics involved in selecting the ideal drill site and defining the crustal framework of the region to be drilled.

Biography: Dr Ron Hackney is a Senior Geoscientist in Geoscience Australia's Resources Division. He completed a BSc (Honours) degree at the Australian National University in 1993, before undertaking a MSc in Geophysics at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. Ron's PhD at the University of Western Australia (2001) examining the crustal structure related to the iron-ore bearing Hamersley Ranges was followed by a post-doc at the Free University of Berlin and a Junior Professorship in Solid Earth Geophysics at the University of Kiel. He returned to Canberra in 2008 to work at Geoscience Australia, where he has since contributed to a range of studies in Australia's offshore sedimentary basins.

I hope to see you there!

James Goodwin  |  Secretary
ACT Branch |  Australian Society of Exploration Geophysicists
 
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