2024 Honorary Member:
Daphne Lee
Daphne Lee has made significant contributions to the Society’s endeavours to improve geological education in New Zealand schools and supported the GSNZ throughout her distinguished career. Daphne was the founding convenor of the Geological Society of New Zealand’s Geoeducation Subcommittee in 1983 and its successor the Geological Education Special Interest Group and for 20 years she led these groups and the Society’s campaign to increase geological literacy in New Zealand school children.
Daphne has also served on the National Committee as a committee member and Secretary and coauthored three large GSNZ Miscellaneous Publications with resources and activities for school teachers and also a GSNZ Guidebook Central Rocks. In 2017 she was awarded the McKay Hammer for her body of work on palaeontology and palaeobotany of southern Zealandia.
More recently she spearheaded the campaign, supported by GSNZ, to save Foulden Maar’s spectacular fossils from destruction by large-scale mining. She still serves on the GSNZ Geoheritage Subcommittee
Honorary Members
The GSNZ Honorary Member award is presented to an individual who has contributed significantly to the success of the GSNZ and/or its predecessors and to the advancement of the geosciences in New Zealand. It is not necessarily about recognising a lifetime contribution to geoscientific research but rather it acknowledges outstanding and sustained contributions made to the successful and continued operations of the GSNZ and the wider geoscience community.
Honorary Life Members
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Year |
Recipient |
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2023 |
Jarg Pettinga |
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2022 |
Vince Neall |
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2021 |
Julie Palmer |
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2020 |
Glenn Vallender |
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2019 |
Nick Mortimer |
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2018 |
Janet George |
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2017 |
Campbell (Cam) Nelson |
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2016 |
Mike Johnston |
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2015 |
Jack Grant-Mackie |
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2014 |
David Skinner |
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2013 |
Bruce Hayward |
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2012 |
Simon Nathan |
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2011 |
Bruce Thompson |
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1996 |
William Ian Reilly |
