CONTENTS Editor’s desk 1 ASEG News President’s piece 2 ASEG officeholders 3 Executive brief 4 Notice of Annual General Meeting (AGM) 4 Welcome to new Members 5 Committees: 6 • • ASEG Research Foundation: Celebrating three decades and calling for grant applications 6 • • ASEG Young Professionals Network: An update 7 • • 2019 ASEG Honours and Awards: Call for nominations 7 Branch news 8 ASEG national calendar: technical meetings, courses and events 11 News Conferences and events: 12 • • Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference 2019: Calling for abstracts 12 People: 13 • • Vale: Kevin Wake-Dyster (1953–2018) 13 • • Have SIROTEM, will travel 14 Geophysics in the Surveys: 15 • • GA: Update on geophysical survey progress 15 • • GSSA: Geophysical plans for 2019 17 Commentary Canberra observed: 18 • • Gold glitters in 2018 – while coal, iron ore and petroleum companies languish 18 Education matters: 20 • • The next two generations of earth scientists II 20 • • Inspiring the next generation of scientists 20 • • 2018 ASEG student awards and state branch prizes 22 Environmental geophysics: Evolution not revolution over the past 25 years 24 Minerals geophysics: Holiday reflections 26 Seismic window: Fracking 27 Data trends: Passive seismic file formats continued 28 Webwaves: Encryption 29 Book review: The spinning magnet 30 Feature The second lecturer in exploration geophysics in Australia – later to become Surveyor General of India 32 International calendar of events 35 Business directory 36 ADVERTISERS INDEX AEGC 2019. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .IFC, 12, 34 Alpha Geoscience. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36 Archimedes Financial Planning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 CoRMaGeo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Bartington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .IBC EMIT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .OBC Gap GeoPhysics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 GBG Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36 Geophysical Software Solutions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Groundwater Imaging. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36 Minty Geophysics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36 Mira Geoscience. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Model vision. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31 Planetary Geophysics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Tensor Research. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37 Thomson Aviation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 ASEG CORPORATE PLUS MEMBER Velseis Pty Ltd Tel: +61 7 3376 5544 Email: info@velseis.com ASEG CORPORATE MEMBERS Archimedes Financial Planning Contact: Noll Moriarty Tel: 1300 387 351 Email: Noll.Moriarty@ArchimedesFinancial.com.au Santos Ltd Tel: +61 8 8116 5000 Web: https://www.santos.com Southern Geoscience Consultants Pty Ltd Tel: +61 8 6254 5000 Email: geophysics@sgc.com.au Web: http://sgc.com.au/ FRONT COVER Dr Narain (wearing tie) reading what is possibly a Worden gravity meter in Australia in 1955. Image courtesy of the National Archives of Australia. NAA: A1501, A176/2. See the feature article in this issue for more about Dr Narain. Preview is available online at https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/texp20/current ISSN: 1443-2471 eISSN: 1836-084X Editor Lisa Worrall Email: previeweditor@aseg.org.au Associate Editors Education: Michael Asten Email: michael.asten@monash.edu Government: David Denham Email: denham1@iinet.net.au Environmental Geophysics: Mike Hatch Email: michael.hatch@adelaide.edu.au Minerals Geophysics: Terry Harvey Email: terry.v.harvey@glencore.com.au Petroleum Geophysics: Michael Micenko Email: micenko@bigpond.com Geophysical Data Management and Analysis: Tim Keeping Email: Tim.Keeping@sa.gov.au Book Reviews: Ron Hackney Email: ron.hackney@ga.gov.au ASEG Head Office & Secretariat Alison Forton The Association Specialists Pty Ltd (TAS) Tel: (02) 9431 8622 Email: secretary@aseg.org.au Website: www.aseg.org.au Publisher T&F Publishing Production Editor Kate Edmonds Email: Kate.Edmonds@tandf.com.au Advertising Email: advertising@taylorandfrancis.com.au