Meetings programme

Schedule of upcoming meetings

The Society's meetings are open to Fellows, guests and members of the public.
Entry is free, but fellows and guests are reminded that if they wish to partake of refreshments before the meeting, there is a $4.00 charge to cover this.

Meetings are held on the second Thursday of each month, March to November inclusive. Meeting commence at 6.30 pm and are preceded by wine and nibbles at 6.00 pm. 

An invited lecture is normally arranged for each meeting. For ordinary meetings, the reading of papers and the presentation of exhibits of scientific interest.  

These meetings are usually held in the Society's Rooms. Meetings are occasionally organised jointly with other kindred societies and may be held elsewhere. Occasional Symposia on topical issues are also organised by the Society.

September 12th Dr Tom Raimondo (UniSA).
Australia is not only a sunburnt country but also home to some of the hottest rocks on Earth. Proterozoic rocks that dominate central and southern Australia have heat production values that are roughly twice that of ‘average’ granite. This anomaly is due to an extreme enrichment in the heat-producing elements uranium (U), thorium (Th) and potassium (K), which produce heat via natural radioactive decay. The consequences of such a profound subterranean heat engine are recorded across thousands of kilometres of some of Australia’s best-known geological heritage, and span hundreds of millions of years of Earth’s history – a significant yet often overlooked fingerprint of what lies beneath. This talk will explore some key localities where taking the Earth’s temperature has revealed the importance of Australia’s hot rocks at a local and global scale – from the melted crust of Arkaroola and central Australia that has changed our understanding of what drives long-lived metamorphism, to the buried secrets of the Nullarbor Plain that may help explain why the Antarctic ice sheet is melting.

October 10th Dr Vicki Thomson (Adelaide University). Tiger Snake evolution.

November – Small Research  Grant recipient presentations