Lecture Program of the RGS

Please note that lecture meetings are generally held on a Thursday at  5.30 pm, in the Goodman Lecture Theatre, Ground Floor, Goodman Building, Hackney Road, (large brick building) within the Botanic Gardens (enter and park in Hackney Road car parks).  

Meetings may be followed by an optional light dinner at a venue on the nearby Norwood Parade. Details will be advised at meetings and in the bi-monthly members newsletter GeoNews. 

Supper will be available after most lectures and student cameo presentations may precede some lectures during the year.

23rd February 2012
Inland River Systems
Rex Ellis
Author, Ornithologist and Naturalist


22nd March
Visit and Lecture - Salisbury Wetlands
Colin Pitman
General Manager - Salisbury City Projects


26th April
From Continental Drift to Plate Tectonics - Life on a very Active Planet.
Hon. Assoc. Prof. Dr Victor Gostin


24th May
RGSSA AGM
Celebration of South Australia
Keith Conlon OAM


28th June
Brock Lecture, Mawson Huts: Their Conservation and Future.
Rob Easther
Expedition Manager Mawson's Huts Foundation


26th July
11.30am: Tour of the RGSSA Library, optional lunch.
2.00pm: John McDouall Stuart, celebrating 150 years since the crossing of Australia.
(Hetzel lecture theatre, Institute Building)
Valerie Sitters, SLSA & Rick Moore President JMcDS Soc.


23rd August
Bees - the battle for honey or pollination.
Dr Richard Glatz
Entomologist, SARDI