GSAQ Roxette Volunteers
The project would not have been possible without the generous donation of time and effort on the part of the many volunteers who have been involved to date.
A ‘reasonably complete’ list of the volunteers who have been involved to date can be found in the panel to the right. Please let us know if anyone is missing from this list and it will be updated accordingly!
Activities that have been undertaken by the volunteers include –
- Materials sorting, identification and storage
- Cleaning and sand-blasting of weathered materials, and those specimens that have adorned geologists back yards over the years
- Sizing of the materials with the diamond saws and ‘knocktometers’ of various sizes.
- Assembly of the sample sets
- Photography of the assembled sets for the internal label
- Creation and application of the set labels
Recognition
This has grown to become a very significant project.
In 2020, the project was awarded the Neville Stevens Memorial Medal in recognition of its contributions to the community and education.
This year (2021) a GSAQ Gold Medal was awarded to Vanita Mens for her extensive contribution of time, taxi services and strawberries to the rock set assembly working bees.
Others have been recognised by the GSA in ‘The Australian Geologist’ for their voluntary services to this and other GSA activities.
Warwick Willmott (aka the ‘Rock Fairy’) deserves special mention for his efforts in collecting materials in the field and delivering these unannounced in the dead of night to the front of the GDD premises.
