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meetings, taking minutes and making sure members pay their dues. The Council
thanks both Gorete and RCA for their contribution in 2007/8.
Monthly meetings and talks
A number of successful talks were hosted in the 2007/8 year. Talks were given
by:
Vic Simmonds (Crimesight)
Allan Place (MDA Geospatial Services)
Kazek Trofimczyk (Anglo American)
Ken Witherley (Condor Consulting)
Wayne Pettit (BHP Billiton)
SAGA was also privileged to host a SEG distinguished lecturer in May 2008. Tad
Ulrych entertained a packed CSIR auditorium with his talk:
“The role of amplitude and phase processing and inversion.”
Courses and workshops
SAGA ran two highly successful courses in the previous term, namely:
Magnetotellurics for Natural Resources by Dr. Alan Jones in March 2008, and
Geophysics in Exploration (in conjunction with GSSA) in April 2008.
AGM
The new SAGA council was elected at the AGM held on 6 June 2008 at the
Johannian club in Johannesburg.
Stefaans du Plessis (President)
Anton Wolmarans (Vice-President)
Geoff Campbell (Treasurer)
Stoffel Fourie (Newsletter Editor)
Terry Odgers
Declan Vogt
Anre Vorster
Kazek Trofimczyk
Lindsay Linzer
Petro du Pisani (Past president)
Sue Webb (Student affairs & SEG liaison)
New members elected to the council included Anton Wolmarans and Stoffel
Fourie (who will be the new Newsletter Editor). Standing down from the Council
were Magdel Combrinck and Dave Hatch. Thanks to Magdel and Dave for their
outstanding contribution during the many years they both served on the Council.
Manfred Hauger was awarded a SAGA meritorious award at the AGM for is long
term to contribution to South African geophysics.
President’s comment
2007/8 has been an excellent year of collaboration, with SAGA making their
voices heard at the First SEG General Assembly of all associated Geophysics
Societies In January 2008. This resulted in a distinguished lecturer gracing our
shores and will hopefully lead to many learning experiences in the future.
Editor: Stoffel Fourie
sfourie@csir.co.za
August 2008 No.1