The Royal Society of New South Wales is the oldest learned society in the Southern Hemisphere, tracing its origin to the Philosophical Society of Australasia, founded in Sydney in 1821.
Analysis of extreme rainfall and flood events in Eastern NSW shows a link to the sun's 87-year Gleissberg cycle.
Michael Asten is a Professor of geophysics, now retired after 23 years in School of Earth Atmosphere and Environment, Monash University, Melbourne. He is a past-President of the ASEG, and served a recent three-year term as the AGC representative on the Australian Academy of Sciences UNCOVER Committee. He has published 208 scientific papers and has various research awards from the ASEG, BHP and CSIRO for innovations in electromagnetic, airborne gravity gradient and passive seismic methods. Using time-series analysis methods from past work he has also been researching for nine years the role of natural cycles in centennial and millennial global climate change; this work has been subject of eight papers at international conferences, the latest being the AGU in New Orleans, December 2021. Ken McCracken, Southern Highlands resident and Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, is well known to Royal Society of NSW Southern Highlands audiences, having given a number of lectures over many years. Research interests are cosmic ray modulation, solar energetic particle events, interplanetary magnetic field, geophysical techniques applied to deeply weathered terrains, and cosmogenic radionuclide studies.
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Dr David Suhy arrived to deliver his exciting lecture on the eve of his departure to the USA after spending one week at the Sydney Benitec offices...
