Wednesday 19 November 2014
5:30 socialising, 6:00 pm program start
FMG Training Rooms, Level 3, 87 Plain Street corner of Adelaide Terrace and Plain Street.
The Western Australian Chapter will hold their Annual General Meeting and the 2014 Student Night at a new location at Fortescue Metals Group (full directions below).
This is an important opportunity for you to get involved and become a committee member for 2015. Last year’s committee, and nominations for 2015 are shown below. Note that you can nominate yourself (or a friend, with their permission) for ANY position on the board. The position descriptions are shown on a separate page. Fill out the nomination form and BRING IT ALONG or mail it to the Secretary Mariajose Romero-Segura. You can also get a form on the night (and even a pen).
We will also be going out to dinner afterwards as a group to Joe’s Oriental Diner. Please let Mariajose Romero-Segura if you’d like to join the fun so we can reserve tables.
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Position |
Current Officer |
Nomination |
Retiring |
| Chairperson – State Liaison | Grant Bolton | Ian Brandes de Roos | Grant Bolton |
| Vice Chairperson | Ian Brandes de Roos | Mariajose Romero-Segura | Ian Brandes de Roos |
| Secretary | Mariajose Romero-Segura | Mariajose Romero-Segura | |
| Treasurer | Peter de Broekert | Peter de Broekert | |
| Meetings Secretary | Todd Hodgkin | Todd Hodgkin | |
| Ministerial Liaison | Keith Brown | Keith Brown | |
| Education Representative | Ryan Vogwill | Ryan Vogwill | |
| Media Liaison | Robin Smith | Ryan Vogwill | Robin Smith |
| Membership Champion | Mariajose Romero-Segura | Mariajose Romero-Segura | |
| Presenter Coordinator | Geoff Pettifer, Pauline Amez-Droz | Pauline Amez-Droz | Geoff Pettifer |
| Seminar Coordinator | Geoff Pettifer, Pauline Amez-Droz | Geoff Pettifer | Pauline Amez-Droz |
| Sponsorship Champion | Bradley van Blomestein | Bradley van Blomestein | |
| Newsletter Champion | Keith Brown | Keith Brown | |
| Newsletter Assistant | Melissa Nyga | Melissa Nyga | — |
| Web Champion | Eduardo de Sousa | Eduardo de Sousa | |
| Web Assistant | John Enkelmann and Lynn Reid | Lynn Reid and John Enkelmann | |
| State Liaison | Philip Commander | Grant Bolton | Philip Commander |
| ECHN Champion | Rachel Wroe | Rachel Wroe | |
| Student Champion | Gemma Bloomfield | Gemma Bloomfield |
Student Night
Presentations will follow the brief AGM. Three hydrogeology students will present their research and vie for a monetary prize.
- Daniel Hearn – UWA Honours Degree: Source, fate and mobility of groundwater nutriends, metals/metaloids, and organic wastewater contaminants in the unconfined Broome Aquifer.
- Evan Heazlewood – Curtin University Honours Degree: Analytical techniques employed to gauge the redox conditions in a shallow aquifer; a comparison of ion selective electrode (ISE) analysis versus ion chromatography (IC)
- Malinda Kay – UWA MSc Student: Hydrogeology of the North Gnangara Groundwater System
Getting to FMG:
To reach the training rooms, enter FMG’s main entrance on the corner of Adelaide Terrace and Plain Street. Take the elevator to the 3rd floor.
–There are bus stops in each direction just outside FMG on Adelaide Terrace. It is within the Free Transit Zone, so all buses to/from the city are free.
— There is ample City of Perth paid parking just around the corner on Plain Street, towards the river. There is also parking underneath FMG/Hyatt for those who don’t want to walk a block., and valet parking is available.
— There is a public taxi stand located at the Hyatt next door.
