b'PeopleNewsVale: Peter Anthony Hopgood (1949-2020)Science, Australian National University\x08of scientific papers, encyclopaedia He then worked on modelling the Earthsentries, newspaper articles, radio response to electromagnetic signals inand TV interviews and contributed the Metalliferous and Airborne section atto the International Association of the Bureau of Mineral Resources, GeologyGeomagnetism and Aeronomy project and Geophysics\x08 In 1982 he transferred toautomating K-index scaling to monitor BMRs geomagnetism program where heplanetary geomagnetic activity\x08 His worked until retirement in 2008\x08 work on a real-time magnetic total intensity variability map of the Australian During his career Peter managed thecontinent remains an invaluable tool for Canberra geomagnetic observatory,magnetic surveying and research\x08undertook countless instrument and Peter Hopgood compass calibrations and oversaw manyPeter was also a dedicated cyclist and upgrades and improvements throughoutcommuted by bicycle to the office almost the Australian geomagnetic observatoryevery day throughout his entire career, It is with sadness that I report on theand continued his love of cycling into death of our friend and colleague Drnetwork\x08 He led the geomagnetism program until 2005 and was integral inretirement\x08Peter Hopgood on 01 November 2020 in Canberra, Australia\x08 the establishment of the geomagneticPeter provided quiet, confident scientific observatories at Charters Towers (CTA),leadership and mentored a generation Peter was an ionospheric physicist byLearmonth (LRM) and Gingin (GNG)\x08 Forof Australian geomagnetic observatory training, and completed his doctoratemore than 20 years his data processingscientists\x08 Peter passed away after a research on atmospheric air-glow atalgorithms and software were atperiod of illness and is survived by his Melbournes La Trobe University inthe heart of Australias geomagneticwife Elizabeth, children Paul, Christina 1976\x08 At that time La Trobe was a newlyprocessing and data disseminationand grand-daughter Lydia\x08 He will be established university, and Peter wassystem\x08 Another of Peters majormuch missed and remembered by among the inaugural intake of students\x08contributions was the task of compilingeveryone who worked with him\x08After completing his university studiesand distributing the annual Australian Peter re-located to Canberra to undertakeGeomagnetism Reports from 1993Andrew Lewis atmospheric studies with Dr Kurtto 2005, and its monthly predecessorGeoscience Australia Lambeck at the Research School of Earthfrom 1982\x08 Peter authored a varietyAndrew.Lewis@ga.gov.auVale: Leslie John Starkey (1934-2020)helped carry out a large number ofleaving those companies\x08 He was an commercial geophysical surveys ininnovative thinker when it came to Australia starting in the mid-late 1950s,new ways of filtering potential field served as a lecturer in geophysics atdata, especially trying to obtain depth the University of Melbourne in the earlyinformation from frequency content in 1960s, was involved in airborne anddatasets, which became superseded/ground geophysical surveying and dataforgotten when inversion modelling processing in Australia with McPhar intook over\x08the mid-1960s, and in Canada in the late 1960s, and carried on in Australia andLes also had a keen interest in applying PNG in the 1970s to 1990s working forgeophysics for detecting offshore Mobil Energy Minerals, and then withand buried coastal shipwrecks in WA, Les Starkey many of the same team at CEGB, as welland served on the board of mineral as Great Central Mines\x08 He lectured inexploration companies, most recently It is with sadness and pause that wegeophysics at Curtin University (WAIT) onCashmere Iron\x08 Although he wound back report a long standing ASEG Memberan off during this time\x08 He was always aa little, he never really retired and was and truly great mentor, Leslie Leskeen supporter of the Curtin Departmentstill involved in geophysical exploration Starkey, passed away on 3 August thisof Exploration Geophysics, and helpedup until the time of his death\x08year\x08 Les is survived by his wife Normamentor many graduates during hisLes joined the ASEG in its second year and children Robert and Julie\x08 association with the Department\x08 in 1971, and was always quietly working Les spent most of his career as aFor both of us (KF at Mobil in the earlyon something interesting when one met consulting geophysicist working80s and JM at Great Central Mineshim at local branch meetings\x08 Les the in oil and mineral exploration\x08 Hein the early 90s), Les was a gentlegentleman geophysicist will be truly obtained a BSc major in physics andmentor, always willing to openly sharemissed!minor in mathematics from Universityideas, while listening to others ideasJayson Meyers and Kim Frankcombe of Queensland in 1955, and an MScand helping make them a reality; andjaysonm@respot.com.au in geophysics from UWA in 1977\x08 Lesthis mentorship continued well afterkim@exploregeo.com.auFEBRUARY 2021 PREVIEW 12'