Welcome back to another year of geoscientific shenanigans
In 2018 we hope to maintain and build the great social atmosphere we’ve constructed over the last couple of years. We will be doing frequent networking at Shadows (starting this Friday 23 March at 4.00pm!) and continuing with sports games against the Geography Association. AUGA are the current champions, and if you want to help us keep that title watch out for details on the AUGA Facebook group - the first game will probably be dodgeball! We hope to organise a trip for later this year. Last year we visited Mt Tarawera and the Nga Awa Purua Power Station, which was thoroughly enjoyable and gave us the opportunity to learn more about the geothermal energy industry – this was a valuable experience, particularly for those who are still trying to figure out what path to take! We will be continuing with the Industry Talk Series established in 2017, with talks from professionals in geoscience related fields. This aims to give insights into the types of jobs and fields you can get involved with in the future. In 2017 we had talks from Romeo Rodriguez (Exploration/Mining Geology), Nathan Heazlewood (NZESP - NZ Emerging Spatial Professionals), Virginie Lacrosse & Rachel Pickett (Tonkin and Taylor) and Ross Roberts (Auckland Council). Building on this, we hope to get some alumni involved, so if you’re a past student working in a geoscience related field – we’d love to hear from you! Reaching the end of your degree and applying for jobs can be a daunting experience, and we’d love to have some of you who have been through this come and talk to our members about your job, the process of getting that job, and what you typically get up to on a day to day basis. AUGA will continue working with DEVORA on outreach events. We will be involved in a few events planned for 2018 – the MOTAT Super STEM Fair (8 April), the UoA Incredible Science Day (2 July), and the Auckland Heritage Festival. If you’d like to volunteer and help out with any of these, let us know and we can get you involved. Keep up with what we’re doing on our social media pages: Twitter: AUGA Instagram: @aucklandgeoscience Facebook: AUGA Or keep up with us here on our Website We also have a wall on level 5 of building 302 (the new science building) in between the two sets of lifts which will be kept updated with upcoming events and photos from past events. Again, our first event is on Friday 23 March at Shadows. This is a great opportunity to meet other members and your 2018 AUGA Committee. Cheers, AUGA Committee 2018
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