b'PeopleNewsVale: Professor Ron Green 19302023It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Ron Green (FIEAust, CPEng, College ITEE) on 9 July 2023. Ron was born in Brisbane on 22 July 1930 and graduated with BSc (Hons Physics); U of Q, 1953. From 1953 to 1955 Ron worked at the Bureau of Mineral Resources, Canberra, on magnetic surveys in WA. He then undertook research in geophysics at ANU with a PhD awarded in 1961, followed by a lecturing position in geophysics at the University of Tasmania, 1961-66.Ted Irving was Rons PhD supervisor, and one of their first findings was that at the time the Jurassic Tasmanian Dolerite was intruded, Tasmania was very close to the South Pole. This finding opposed the conventional polar wander interpretation of results from Europe and North America and was probably one of the outcomes of Sam Careys Continental Drift Symposium in Hobart in 1956, setting earth sciences in the southern hemisphere well ahead of elsewhere.In 1967 Ron was appointed to the UNE as Associate Professor and given the task of establishing an independent Department of Geophysics. The Ron Green department Ron established primarily Table 1. Ron Greens legacy: Some achievements of some of his former students.Award Year Recipient Citation detailASEG Gold Medal2015 Terry Lee2021 Mal Cattach2023 Phillip SchmidtASEG Grahame Sands Award 1988 John Stanley and Malcolm Cattach The TM-3, Caesium Vapour magnetometer1991 Terry Lee Theoretical research into transient electromagnetics1995 Malcolm Cattach and John StanleyThe TM-4 magnetometer and its application to Sub Audio Magnetics method for simultaneous acquisition of TMI, TFMMR, TFEM and TFMMIP data2006 Duncan Massie and Jim CullAdvances in TEM methods and instrumentation2012 Malcolm Cattach, Keith Matthews,Development of the HPTX-70, high power (70 kW) transmitterEdward Campbell and Symon Bouwman2015 Phillip Schmidt Development of the Q-Meter2023 Andrew Duncan and Greg Street Development of the Loupe electromagnetic (EM) systemASEG Laric Hawkins Award2007 Andrew Duncan, Malcolm Cattach and Stephen Griffin2018 Malcolm Cattach, Christopher Parker and Russell MortimerASEG Lindsay Ingall Memorial2001 Gregory StreetAward2015 Mike Dentith and Steve Mudge for their combined effort in promoting geophysics to the wider community with the publication of Geophysics for the Mineral Exploration Geoscientist.ASEG Service Medal2012 Phillip SchmidtComenius University Medal2008 John Stanley and Malcolm Cattachfor advances in geophysical exploration technologies(Bratislava)OCTOBER 2023 PREVIEW 10'