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officers. I am especially grateful to Donna for her expertise with laptop and digital projector
which has ensured that every lecture has run smoothly.
Lecture Programme
3 April Chris Hollis Cyclic Patterns of Global Climate Change
27 April Greg Browne Late Cretaceous Stratigraphy of Southwest Taranaki Basin
5 June AGM and Volcano video
3 July Cornel de Ronde Hydrothermal Activity along the Mariana Arc
24 July Bruce Hayward Deciphering NZ’s Geological and Environmental
History using forams.
8 August Joseph McKee Cold Seeps and Chemosynthetic Fauna
2 Oct Ron Lambert History of the Moturoa Oilfield
6 Nov Donna Ainsworth Rock Identification (hands on session)
5 Feb Barry Greenbrook Traveller’s Tales of South America
5 March Feike de Bock How Oil and Gas are formed and found
(another hands on session)
2 April Keith Lewis Lifting the Veils, examples from Marine Geology of
how we glimpse more.
Field trips
17 Feb Oakura beach section, led by Michael Turner.
24 March Onaero beach section, led by Ron Harris. Also Hector Day picnic, a week late
because of WOMAD.
Other
At the end of 2006 we had a change in venue as the A/V room at New Plymouth Girls’ High
that we have used for over 20 years has been converted to a flat floored drama room. On the
minus side the library cupboard and storage cupboard (geological maps, slide projector,
microscope, archives and old text books) are remote from the meeting venue; and we cannot
accommodate a large audience so we do not publicise meetings regularly in Midweek .On the
plus side we have the use of a science lab decorated with geological specimens and posters,
and set up with a digital projector and FLAT screen.
Last August we were sorry to learn of the death of Bob Duncan, a founding member of the
society. Bob was president at the time of the Taranaki Geological Society becoming a branch
of GSNZ in 1986, and he represented the branch on the national committee for several years
during which he was on the preservation committee. Bob wrote articles on geology for The
Sunday Express, (a precursor to Midweek), gave lectures, organised field trips (I particularly
remember a field trip visiting engineering projects in the city involving water: culverts, dams,
stream deviations and the former waterworks), made his house available for committee
meetings and social events and provided the tea urn in the days when we finished meetings
with a cuppa. Some years after Mary’s death, he moved to Hastings to be near his daughter,
Catherine, but he continued to regard himself as a member of our branch and attended
meetings and field trips when possible.
Susan Burgess, President
GSNZ Newsletter 143 (2007) Page 47