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10 November 2009 -- Final Year undergraduate thesis conference. Program here...

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21 September 2009 -- Seminar/exhibition for prospective postgraduate students in foyer of EE Building... photo gallery


11 September 2009 -- A/Prof Linlin Ge was named "NSW Scientist of the Year 2009" in the category Physics, Earth Sciences, Chemistry and Astronomy for his InSAR work in support of the Wenchuan earthquake of 12 May 2008. Click for more news ...


5 September 2009 -- The annual UNSW "Courses & Careers Day" was supported by the School, with a desk in the Scientia (to answer questions about courses & uni), as well as manning a marquee outside the Electrical Engineering building.

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Binghao & Craig demonstrating GPS-RTK?

Linlin, Michael & Bruce at the desk in Scientia

Nathan and Jinling in the marquee...

SSIS marquee on the lawn...


27-31 July 2009 -- 3rd year undergraduate students attending Survey Camp at Berry, supervised by Drs Bruce Harvey, Craig Roberts & Yincai Zhou.

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8 June 2009 -- Queen's Birthday honours were announced and the School is proud to announce that Prof Kurt Lambeck (one of the School's first graduates) was awarded Officer (AO) in the General Division, for service to science through the development of policy, the promotion of educational programs and as a researcher and educator in the field of geoscience, and Prof Bruce Forster (former staff) was awarded Member (AM) in the General Division, for service to surveying and mapping, particularly in the fields of spatial information and remote sensing and as a researcher and educator.

12 June 2009 -- The Dean's Honours List has been established to recognise high achieving undergraduate students within the Faculty of Engineering at UNSW. The Dean's Honours List is compiled in April/May of each year and is based on a student's overall accumulative weighted average mark up to the end of the previous year. The first Dean's Honours List was compiled in 2004. All courses, not just engineering courses, are included in the calculation of a student's weighted average mark. Students are eligible for inclusion on the Dean's Honours List for Stage One, Two and Three of their undergraduate degree program. The School of Surveying and Spatial Information Systems is proud to acknowledge the following Dean's List students for 2009:

  • Conway, David
  • Cooper, Matthew
  • Grace, Anthony
  • Haasdyk, Joel
  • Shahapurkar, Aditya
  • Wallace, Anthony
  • Wards, James
  • Woodward, Nicholas


20 April 2009 -- One of the highlights of the School Year is the Graduation & Prizegiving Dinner which takes place on the evening of the graduation ceremony itself... It was held at the Le Montage Reception Centre, Lilyfield, Sydney. Dr. Craig Roberts was the MC, and the guest speaker was Ms. Venessa O'Connell. This year Ms. Narelle Underwood won the University Medal for superior academic performance.

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Some of the 2009 graduating class (above & below)....

Narelle Underwood receiving the Gold Medal from the Surveyor General Mr. Warwick Watkins.

Approximately 170 people attended.

Fun on the dancefloor!

The following prizes & scholarships were awarded to students and graduates of the School...
Dean's Awards: Joel HAASDYK, James WARDS
NSW Surveyor General's UG Scholarship: Joel HAASDYK
RTA Scholarship: Matthew BEHLING
Peter Angus-Leppan Scholarship: Penny SINDEN
Xstrata Coal Scholarship: Jarrod BRAYBON, Russell BAKER
Board of Surveying & Spatial Information Scholarship for Women: Alish MACGILLICUDDY
The Association of Public Service Surveyors Prize, awarded to:Evan CHRISTODOULOU
The George Bennett Millennium Prize, awarded to:Jarrod BRAYBON
Sinclair Knight Merz Prize, awarded to: James WARDS
AAMHatch Prize in Surveying & Spatial Information Systems, awarded to: David CONWAY
E.G. Masters Memorial Prize, awarded to: Alexander SUCHY
Head of School Prize, awarded to: Joel HAASDYK
Board of Surveying and Spatial Information Medal, awarded to: Narelle UNDERWOOD
The Consulting Surveyors NSW Prize in Land Development, awarded to: Narelle UNDERWOOD
The Institution of Surveyors NSW Inc. Prize, awarded to: Narelle UNDERWOOD
Spatial Sciences Institute Prize for Photogrammety & Remote Sensing, awarded to: Ryan FIFIELD
R.S. Mather Memorial Prize, awarded to: Thomas BARKER
The Civilcad Prize, awarded to: Narelle UNDERWOOD


17 March 2009 -- First SurvSoc BBQ for the year, students, staff & members of the profession attended, with a special welcome to our first year students, and new SurvSoc shirts!... photo gallery


19-20 February 2009 -- Workshop on "RTK GPS/GNSS for the Modern Surveyor", run by Dr Craig Roberts.

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17 February 2009 -- The School hosted a visit by the Chinese ambassador to Australia, Mr. Junsai Zhang, to thank in person Dr Linlin Ge and his team of InSAR researchers, who had helped the Chinese authorities immediately following the 12.5.2008 M8.0 Sichuan Earthquake by providing up to date assessment of ground displacement using the Differential Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (DInSAR) technique... photos of visit, including with the V.C. Prof. Fred Hilmer here...

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A/Prof Linlin Ge and the Chinese ambassador Mr Junsai Zhang
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Part of the delegation visiting Linlin's lab, note on the left Warwick Watkins and in the centre John Trinder

11 February 2009: Linlin Ge and his team have been assisting the Victorian bushfire authorities by processing and providing images from Chinese satellites able to detect the signatures of the fires with unprecedented resolution... see Vic Bushfire website...


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