MSA News November 2025
Dear Members, Supporters and Visitors
We are drawing to a close of a significant milestone year in metrology. Key highlights for the MSA include:
- Launching the new website at the end of 2024 and commissioning it through the start of 2025. It’s a new, fresh look and we’d be happy to receive your feedback (see the survey below).
- Celebrating the appointment of our own Dr Annette Koo from MSL as Director Designate of the BIPM – the first woman to take the role in the history of the BIPM.
- World Metrology Day events were held in May, including celebration of the 150th Anniversary of the signing of the Metre Convention in Paris.
- Our highly successful biennial conference, the RapidTech MSA2025 Conference was held in Sydney.
- We became a member of Science and Technology Australia.
Joining Science and Technology Australia will help us to engage with other scientific societies and associations, to spread the word about metrology and promote our events and the MSA measurement lecture series. It will also give us access to a lobbying platform to influence Australian government policy.
We are looking at ways that we can engage people from outside our traditional areas, including third tier laboratories and others who may be metrologists but not work in a laboratory. This will continue to be a big focus for us in 2026.
I’d like to thank the MSA Committee for their ongoing support and also a big thanks to the MSA2025 conference organising committee.
Tony Bergen
MSA President
MSA2025 Organising Committee: Owen Brace, Daryl Pettit, Cynthia Lendrum, Mary Ryan (front), Tony Bergen, Jason Dortmans
Member Survey
The MSA Committee would like your feedback about how you value your membership of the MSA and how we can do better. We also welcome non-members to complete the survey and tell us what would entice you to join us. Click below to start, it should only take a few minutes to complete.
MSA2025 Presentations
We are pleased to offer members access to the MSA2025 conference presentations. These are accessed via the member only forum or click the button below. You will need to be logged in to the website.
MSA NZ Emerging Metrologist Award
Nominations are now open for the MSA NZ Branch Emerging Metrologist Award 2026. We are seeking applications from early-career metrologists who are less than five years into their career and who have demonstrated excellent qualities and competence. We are looking for a New Zealand–based member employed within a metrology-related organisation. Applications close 31 March 2026.
Click below to learn more and for the nomination process.
Member Forums
Did you know you have a place to have discussions, ask your questions and post your vacancies is in the Forum in the Community Page. We’ve made this really easy for you to engage with, add new content and be notified when someone comments by creating a ‘Forum User Guide’. As well as some public facing forum content, we also have member only spaces. Being an MSA member gives you exclusive access and the ability to add new topics. Read the User Guide first, then click below to go to the Community Page for our forums and have a go.
Industry and Partner Events
The time between MSA events may be long, so we want to highlight some related industry and partner events that may be of interest to our members. We are pleased to be able to now host these on our website, on the events page. Click below to go to the events page and find the space dedicated to these events. Please let us know any other industry and partner events that you think may interest visitors to our website!
As 2025 draws to a close, the MSA Committee would like to wish our members and supporters a very happy holiday season. We hope you are planning a nice break to spend time with family and friends and return in 2026 feeling recalibrated.
