Transit of Venus Australia 2012

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Transit of Venus Australia 2012

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Committee

Graeme Rush

Graeme Rush is a retired public servant. He is a Fellow of SSSI and a Fellow of ISA. He was previously the General Manager, Land Management and Use, Dept. of Environment and Resource Management, where he had statewide responsibilities for Surveying and Mapping, State Land, Stock routes, Statutory Valuations and Vegetation Management.

He has served as a member of the Surveyors Board of Queensland, is past chair of the Intergovernmental Committee on Surveying and Mapping and was one of the Inaugural Directors of PSMA.

Ewan Sneddon

Originally from NZ Mr Ewen Sneddon has 40 years experience in the surveying industry working in WA, ACT, NSW and QLD. He has a wealth of knowledge in land and engineering surveying, experience in land development, mapping, photogrammetry and working with aerial imagery and data. He has managed his own small survey practice, worked in management or senior surveying positions and for the last 8 years has managed the Survey section at LCC which currently employees 4 Surveyors and 5 Assistant/Technicians.

Ewen is a member of Surveying and Spatial Sciences Institute and currently serves on that Institution's Qld Land Surveying Commission.

On behalf of SSSI he co presenters seminars on the "Reinstatement of land boundaries" to groups of Surveyors in various locations in Qld. He helps organise and run land Surveying practical exercises for final year Surveying students at QUT.

Ewen is married with 3 adult children.

Nicholas (Nick) de Weger

Cadastral Surveyor Fellow SSSI & ISAQ, KCHSJ

Born Gouda, Holland 02 November 1944, Speak Dutch.

Family migrated to Brisbane March 1952

Educated Iona College, Wynnum (founding pupil)

Authorised Surveyor 1972

Wife Cheryl with son Anton and daughter Monique

Senior Surveyor Dept Natural Resources and Mines, Northern Region Townsville till retirement 2000.

Part time consultant in Brisbane since 2008

ISA Councillor, SSI & ISAQ Northern Group Chair and SSI Qld Committee & Land Survey Committee member.

Favour Projects "Building Better Cities", Townsville; CPD for Surveyors and the Transit of Venus

Love Travel, last holiday was Skiing in Joetsu Japan and visiting family overseas.

Tim Pumpa – Director Pumpa Consulting Pty Ltd (Formally State Manager Bosco Jonson Pty Ltd)

SSSI Transit of Venus - National Project Management Committee Member (Founding member); providing initial written Project Concept & Outline; Proposing outline to conjoin with Astronomical Association Queensland (AAQ); Marketing; Schools Program; Australia wide TOV support and liaison with Surveyor and Spatial Associations; Web Master, Website Outline, Website authoring & Development.

Tim has over 30 years experience in development. He is a Licensed Cadastral Surveyor holding Survey Consulting and Cadastral Endorsements in Queensland; also previously both a Victorian and NSW Licensed Surveyor. His principal roles in the industry have been as a Survey Manager; Estates Manager; Queensland State Manager; Project Manager and Quality Manager, developing quality process to facilitate development.

Tim has a Bachelor of Applied Science and also has undertaken courses in Quality Assurance through JAZ-ANZ and UDIA QLD Property Essentials Development.
He has owned and operated businesses in affordable housing and industrial, commercial and residential sheds, including basic structural/architectural design (for engineering sign off).
Over many years Tim has been Project Manager on developments ranging from simple two lot subdivisions, strata developments in the suburbs, building subdivisions, Development in Vanuatu, managed NBN lease surveys on remote sites to Subdivision Manager on multi staged Greenfields development up to 2500 lots.

His broad experience allows him to provide leading skills in Team and Business development; Survey Services; Project Management; Project identification for acquisition; land survey due diligence; development of quality processes to assist with delivery of product (land) and other Development Projects.

His professional memberships have included: UDIAQ – Including member of the Planning and Planning Governance Committee 2011 to 2013; founding member of SSI and member of SSSI Land Surveying Commission Executive Queensland; former member of the Institution of Surveyors Victoria and Association Consulting Surveyors Victoria and a past member of the Australian Steel Institute.

Chris Swane

Chris is a Director of Bennett + Bennett and Registered Surveyor (Land QLD & NSW) with over 25 years experience in the land development industry, ranging from underground tunnel projects to highrise, mixed use residential, commercial, civil and environmentally sensitive rural developments. During his career he has undertaken many roles from chainman to Survey Manager and in more recent years Brisbane Office Manager / Director and companies HR Manager. He has taken a keen interest in the industry since being a young graduate and is passionate about the role the wider profession has in contributing spatial information to the community. He enjoys the friendships of likeminded people and has served the industry in many roles from unification committees to Town Group Convener, Chair of SSI QLD 2008 Conference Committee, 2011 Industry Natural Disaster Response Committee, Transit of Venus Committee and currently SSSI QLD Regional & Land Surveying Commission and National Land Surveying Commission.

Chris is married to Ann with three children and enjoys family time, the environment and soccer with the local old boys.

Terry Cuttle

Terry Cuttle is a retired engineer, a keen amateur astronomer and the immediate past Vice President of the Astronomical Association of Queensland. He has a keen interest in transient astronomical phenomena including transits, comets, meteor showers but especially eclipses. He enjoys the challenge of travel to, experiencing and photographing these events. Terry coordinated the preparation of the astronomical material used in the Transit of Venus Australia 2012 project and assisted in the successful webcast of the transit. He is coordinating the preparation of public and educational material for the total solar eclipse in Queensland in November 2012.

Jonathan Bradshaw

Jonathan Bradshaw is President of the Astronomical Association of Queensland and a sessional lecturer in Observational Astronomy at the Queensland University of Technology. He is passionate about video astronomy and uses custom astronomical CCTV cameras aboard his remotely controlled 14” LX200. He is one of the most prolific (though not necessarily successful!) scientific observers of asteroids in Australia and in 2009 he received the South East Queensland Combined Societies’ Achievement Award for this work. He holds the quite pointless world record for the faintest observation made of an asteroidal occultation which in his own words makes him ‘’the worlds dullest astronomer’’. Using the name Astrojunk, Jonathan promotes astronomy on-line with videos and webcasts of the superb night skies under which he is privileged to live.

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Michelle Brooks - Marketing Consultant

Moss Amor - Web Design

Queensland Spatial Excellence Awards 2012

The following links are placed here as part of a submission to the Queensland Spatial Excellence Awards 2012 and contain information relevant to the setting up and management of this project by the Transit of Venus 2012 Project Management Committee.

Overview of the Queensland Spatial Excellence Awards containing a brief summary of the project and its desired outcomes.

This link will download a 520KB Adobe PDF document QSEA nomination.pdf

Excellence awards submission in detail.

This link will download a 1.6MB Adobe PDF document QSEA Submission.pdf

Appendix 1 Support information for the submission.

This link will download a 11.5MB Adobe PDF document QSEA Submission Appendix 1.pdf

Queensland Spatial Excellence Awards 2012

The Transit of Venus Committee was the recipient two major awards at the Awards Ceremony held at the Brisbane Convention Centre on the 14th September 2012.