Promoting Inter-polar Understanding

NZ Antarctic scientists are joining Bulgarian and American researchers at the Canadian high Arctic this year in a bid to exchange information about their respective poles. By pooling their findings, the scientists hope to better understand the factors behind global warming, and convince those with decision-making powers that significant damage is indeed being done. Ian Hawes of NZ’s National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research: “I don’t get a real strong sense that people at large are taking it seriously and I guess people in some decision making positions aren’t perhaps taking it seriously until they see it in action.”


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Microbiologist Tanu Gupta Wins Basil Jarvis Prize

Microbiologist Tanu Gupta Wins Basil Jarvis Prize

Palmerston North AgResearch senior scientist Tanushree Gupta has received the Basil Jarvis Prize at the Applied Microbiology Awards, which was presented to her in London, AgResearch communications specialist Gred Ford writes…