A summary for 2005

Early in 2005, several long-awaited papers in the Royal Society of Victoria on the volcanics of southeastern Australia finally came out.

In February the Australian Map Circle met in Melbourne, and I presented two papers: Back to the pre-European Landscape: an Exercise in Reverse Mapping for Inner Melbourne, and The Hills Model. These will be developed for future publication.

From 21-25 February 2005 I took part in running the Regolith Geology and Geochemistry Honours Shortcourse at Wilsons Promontory, Victoria, with Mehrooz Aspandiar and Ian Roach.

Resulting from the IAG meeting in Mexico in 2003, my paper “How can eruption risk be assessed in young monogenetic areal basalt fields? An example from southeastern Australia” appeared in a special issue on volcanic geomorphology of the Zeitschrift fur Geomorphologie.

I helped organise a Baragwanath Seminar in honour of Owen Pember Singleton, held at the University of Melbourne on July 15 2005, and details are on the web, and in The Australian Geologist, Newsletter No: 136, September 2005, pp.16-18, & p.19.

Overseas ebj 2005

Ireland

Shannon, Limerick, Killarney, Ring of Kerry 24-26 Aug

Whitegate Co. Clare near Lough Derg 27-29 Aug

Via Dublin to Belfast 30 Aug

Belfast & Queen’s University 31 Aug

Giant’s Causeway 1 Sep

Via Manchester to La Laguna (World Heritage), Tenerife, Canaries 2 Sep

IAG volcanoes field trip in Tenerife – 3-5 Sep

Via Madrid to Zaragoza, Spain 6 Sep

IAG conference in Zaragoza 7-11 Sep incl field trip Pyrenees 9 Sep

By car ~850 km to Braga in ~10 hours & welcome party 12Sep

Braga, Portugal, ProGEO conference 13-16 Sep incl evening Braga old town

Leave for Azores via Lisbon

Azores volcanoes 17-21 Sep

Terceira, city of Agua de Herisimo (World Heritage), 17-18 Sep

Pico by boat, large open volcanic vent, World Heritage 19 Sep,

Faial, city of Horta, Peter’s Café Sport & skrimshaw museum,

summit caldera, and Capelinos volcano - 1957-8 eruption, mid-Atlantic swim 20-21 Sep

To Lisbon 21 Sep

Lisbon, Portugal - city, Belem, castle 22 Sep

Plane to Orly, train to Clermont-Ferrand, southern France 23 Sep

Volcanoes of Chaine des Puys including scoria quarry of Lemptegy 24 Sep

Vulcania Museum and Clermont-Ferrand old city 25 Sep

To London by local train to Paris, then Eurostar 26 Sep

London British Museum Persian exhibition 27 Sep

London Kenwood & Heath 28 Sep

London Imperial War Museum and Piccadilly 29 Sep

Leave London 21:25 29 Sep and arrive Melbourne 1 Oct 04:20

Papers presented:

Joyce, E. B. 2005. The young areal volcanic field of Creswick in southeastern Australia; cones, clustering, chronosequence, and eruption risk. Sixth International Conference on Geomorphology, September 7-11, 2005 Zaragoza (Spain), The International Association of Geomorphologists, Abstracts Volume, p.307.

Joyce, E. B. 2005. Geomorphological sites of Australia: a new listing of sites, and its use in geotourism, Sixth International Conference on Geomorphology, September 7-11, 2005 Zaragoza (Spain), The International Association of Geomorphologists, Abstracts Volume, p.483.

Joyce, E. B. 2005. Geosites of Australia: preparing an inventory and framework for the Global Inventory of the IUGS. IV International Symposium ProGEO on the Conservation of the Geological Heritage, Abstracts, 13-16 September 2005, University of Minho, Braga – Portugal, p.23.