South African Geophysical Association
(SAGA)

BEST SPEAKER / POSTER PRIZES

Best Paper: Horst Holstein, Gravi-magnetic anomalies of uniform thin polygonal sheets

Best Poster: Reece van Buren, Multi-Scale Depth Estimation

Best Student Poster: Warwick Hastie: Orthogonal AMS and SPO fabrics in the MORB-like Rooi-Rand dyke swarm of South Africa and Swaziland

Best student presentation: The Wits students' field school presentation

Honorable mentions

• Novelty: Edgar Stettler's blow-job (Airborne TDEM by He-filled balloon)
• Novelty: Mike Watkeys, Geomagnetic field strength recorded in Iron Age ceramics from southern Africa
• Excellence: Andrea Viezzoli, Increased accuracy in mineral and hydrogeophysical modelling of HTEM data via detailed description of system transfer function and constrained inversion

Geophysical Enterprise

• Terry Odgers
• Geoff Campbell*

*Special thanks to Geoff Campbell for serving many, many years on the SAGA Council.

Meritorious Geophysical Service

• Edger Stettler
• Gordon Cooper
• Johan de Beer
• Sue Webb

2009 SAGA Biennial Technical Meeting & Exhibition

"Ancient Rocks to Modern Techniques"

The Royal Swazi Kingdom,
home to "The Ancient Gneiss Complex",
the oldest rocks in Africa

13-18 Sept 2009

Field trips and gold mine visits
to the nearby Barberton Mountain land,
one of the best exposed Greenstone Belts in the world

Papers on any geophysical topic welcome

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