AIG members should have received an email advising members that the 2013 AIG Annual General Meeting will be held in Brisbane on 14th May at the Theodore Club, 333 Adelaide Street. The meeting commences at 6:15 pm and will be followed by the May AIG-BEDG technical talk.

The email sent to members includes a proxy form so that you can have your say in the election of Councillors to be conducted at the meeting. Nominations for Council positions must be received by the AIG secretariat office in Perth by 4:00 pm WST on 10th May 2013.

AIG Councillors are elected for two year terms. Half the Councillors are up for re-election every year. Council meets every two months by telephone conference, and there is usually one face to face meeting each year following the AGM and election. Business at other times is conducted using an on-line management system.

AIG uses an outsourced secretariat that provides essential back-office services and assistance with event organisation, but all other work of the institute is undertaken by volunteers on Council, Council Committees and State Branch committees.

We have been fortunate, and I think that AIG has benefitted, from having Council members throughout Australia who work in a variety of roles in different sectors of the geoscience profession in Australia.

If you are in Brisbane on 14th May, come along to the AGM. Details of nominees for Council will be posted here as they become available.

Andrew Waltho

28 March 2013