Geological Society of Australia
Victoria Division
joint meeting with
The Royal Society of Victoria

The Howitt Lecture
Thursday 27th June at 6:15 p.m.
Royal Society of Victoria, 8 La Trobe Street, Melbourne
Entry registration is essential to ensure a place, and they are selling out fast. Food and drinks at 6:15pm ($20 RSV and GSAV members, $25 otherwise). See https://monsoons-desert.eventbrite.com.au for registration and use discount code GSAV19.

From Monsoons to Desert: 50 Million Years of Australian Climate History

Associate Professor Stephen Gallagher
School of Earth Sciences the University of Melbourne

Geoscience in Australia can be uniquely challenging. The harsh, arid and intense monsoonal climate of our continent generally destroys much evidence of its past activity over millions of years on land.

Offshore, however, the story is different. The ocean floor receives and preserves huge quantities of dust and sediment derived from river outflow, recording dry and wetter conditions over millions of years, rather like many tree species' rings record the seasons.

The International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) is the largest geoscience research program in the world. Over the last 50 years this program has used a variety of floating platforms and ships to drill cores from the sea bed beneath them in order to investigate Earth’s history, leading to extraordinary discoveries about our paleoclimate and plate tectonics. In the last 5 years, the IODP vessel RV Joides Resolution carried out several expeditions in Australasian waters.

This talk will focus on a two-month expedition off northwest Australia led by Associate Professor Stephen Gallagher. This expedition cored over 6 kilometres of sediment beneath the sea bed to obtain a 50 million years record of Australian geological history, an archive that reveals a story of the waxing and waning of the Australian monsoon, Indonesian Throughflow and onset of continental aridity.

Speaker bio...

Associate Professor Stephen Gallagher is a reader at the School of Earth Sciences the University of Melbourne. His research focusses the use of (micro)fossils and sediments to interpret ancient marine environments and to establish their age. In the last few years he has been on two International Ocean Discovery Program expeditions. He was an invited scientist on an expedition to the Japan Sea in 2013 and co-chief scientist on another expedition in 2015 off Northwest Australia. He has published over 100 publications including 80 journal papers, 12 book chapters and dozens of major reports. He was chair of the Geological Society of Australia Victoria division from 2006 to 2008.

New members

In the past few months we have received a number of applications for new GSA members with affiliation to the Victoria Division. The GSAV would like to welcome the following new members:

Samuel Waugh Achyut Mishra
Dr Sara Moron Anne Whitworth

Vale Dr Tony Norman

The Geological Society of Australia is very sad to announce the unexpected sudden passing of one of our long standing members, Dr Tony (Anthony) Norman. As Doug Brewster describes him, he was a 'Master field geologist, fisherman, erudite conversationalist and nature's gentleman.' Please feel free to contact me if you would like to keep abreast of the funeral arrangements through Doug at gsavictoria@gmail.com.

Forthcoming events

Unless otherwise noted, all 2019 talks will be held at the School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne.

July 25th: Students Night
Speakers to be advised

August 29th: Monthly Meeting
TBC

Please note that the planned 30th May talk has now been rescheduled to Nov to fit the speaker's diary.

Student Scholarships

The GSAV are pleased to offer scholarships for honours and postgraduate students in geological sciences for assistance with travel costs associated with attending conferences (fieldwork excluded). The number and value of the scholarships awarded each year is made at the discretion of the GSA Victoria committee. Up to $500 for travel within Australia and between Australia and New Zealand and $700 for travel elsewhere is available, paid half before and half after the conference. More information, including the eligibility criteria and application form, is available at http://www.gsavic.org/scholarship.html.

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