THEO MURPHY (AUSTRALIA) HIGH FLYERS THINK TANK

Preventative health: Science and technology in the prevention and early detection of disease

University of Sydney (Eastern Avenue Complex), Thursday 6 November 2008

Session 3: Reporting back and discussion
Chair: Professor Kurt Lambeck FAA FRS

Kurt Lambeck is a distinguished professor of geophysics at the Australian National University and President of the Australian Academy of Science. His research interests cover the disciplines of geophysics, geodesy, geology, climate and environmental science, and space science. He has been at the Australian National University since 1977, including ten years as director of the Research School of Earth Sciences. He is currently also strategic science advisor to National Geospatial Reference System of Geoscience Australia. Kurt was elected to the Australian Academy of Science in 1984 and to the Royal Society in 1994. He is a foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (1993), Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (1994), Academia Europaea (1999), and the Académie des Sciences, Institut de France (2005).

Kurt's recent work has focused on aspects of sea level change and the history of the Earth's ice sheets during past glacial cycles, including field and laboratory work and numerical modelling. Past research areas have included determination of the Earth's gravity field from satellite tracking data, examination of tidal deformations and the rotational motion of the Earth, the evolution of the Earth–Moon orbital system, and lithospheric and crustal deformation processes.