NEWS ARCHIVES
2010 Eight awards made
Glenn Crossin (Simon Fraser University, Canada) - Feather corticosterone as a measure of post-migratory stress physiology and links to breeding fate. £4650
Susana Clusella-Trullas (University of Stellenbosch, South Africa) - Variation in heat shock responses on marine invertebrates of sub-Antarctic Marion Island:effects of acclimation temperature and methodology. £4450
Laura Grange (University of Hawaii, USA) - West Antarctic Peninsula fjords: benthic community structure and function in climate sensitive systems. £4400
Katherine Hendry (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, USA) - Deep-sea sponges as sediment traps:archiving carbon export using zinc isotopes in spicules. £3665
Bastien Queste (University of East Anglia, UK) - Influence of primary productivity and carbon export on dissolved oxygen in the Ross Shelf sea. £3960
Louise Newman (PAGES International Program Office, Switzerland) - The palaeobiogeography and palaeoecology of East Antarctica freshwater fauna. £4700
Chester Sands (British Antarctic Survey, UK) - Integration of morphological and molecular techniques to facilitate accurate identification of Southernh Ocean brittle stars. £4170
Clare Woulds (University of Leeds, UK) - Sources and the fate of organic carbon in chemosynthetic and other Southern Ocean benthic ecosystems. £4700


2009 Five awards made
Amber Annett (University of Edinburgh, UK) for a determination of near-shore mixing rates for a nutrient budget of Ryder Bay by means of short-lived radium isotopes. £4100
Timothy Hawes (University of Otago, New Zealand) to study the effect of UV exposure on the DNA of Antarctic Collembola. £4526
Nanna Karlsson (University of Hull, UK) to study the North Polar Ice Cap on Mars. £1500
Melanie Massaro (University of Canterbury, New Zealand) to investigate whether fluorescent yellow penguin feathers are reliable indicators of fitness and health? £4960
Nerida Wilson (Scripps Oceanographic Institution, USA) for testing gene flow along the Scotia Arc. £4400


2008 Seven awards made
Katherine Hendry (University of Oxford, UK) to investigate if deep sea sponges provide a record of ocean chemistry. £4000
Katherine Hendry - bursary research report - 2008.pdf [7.74MB]
Joanne Johnson (British Antarctic Survey, UK) to fund cosmogenic dating of rock samples from NW Alexander Island to understand glacial retreat. £4994
Kristen Kuhn( Yale University, USA) to undertake a phylogenetic investigation of the fish genus Trematomus. £3054
Amelie Lescroel (CNRS, France) to purchase electronic tags to investigate diving behaviour and foraging areas of juvenile emperor penguins. £5000
Christian Ohneiser(Otago University, New Zealand) to measure magnetic properties of mineral grains from the CIROS-2 core at an Italian facility. £3600
Jan Strugnell (University of Cambridge, UK) to investigate population genetic structure and cryptic speciation in Antarctic octopus. £4980
Cath Waller (University of Brighton, UK) to investigate the ecology and physiology of Antarctic inter-tidal communities. £4969
Cath Waller - bursary research report - 2008.pdf [905KB]


2007 Five awards made
Guilia Airoldi (University of Otago, New Zealand) to consult on dyke emplacement in oceanic and continental large provinces, and present a paper at IAVCEI in Iceland £2060
Guilia Airoldi - bursary research report - 2007.pdf [10KB]
Anna Hey (University of Cardiff, UK) to present a paper on palaeoclimate reconstructions from the Antarctic Peninsula at ISAES in California £1194
Anna Hey - bursary research report - 2007.pdf [12KB]
Elizabeth Mortimer (University of Stellenbosch, South Africa) to present a paper on the molecular phylogeny of Antarctic ameronothroids at Evolution 2007 in New Zealand £1694
Vanessa Thorn (University of Leeds, UK) to consult on identifying palynomorphs from Seymour Island, and to present a paper at ISAES in California £1341
Vanessa Thorn - bursary research report - 2007.pdf [110KB]
Ewan Wakefield (British Antarctic Survey) to purchase satellite tags for tracking foraging in albatrosses £4729
Ewan Wakefield - bursary research report - 2007.pdf [1.11MB]


2006 Four awards made
Victoria Metcalf (University of Canterbury, NZ) to visit the USA to search for the albumin gene in Antarctic fish genomics libraries £4000
Claire McDonald (University of Leeds,UK) for a study of insect herbivory in Magellanic forests in Chile to compare with Antarctic fossil records £2325
Claire McDonald - bursary research report - 2006.pdf [1.45MB]
Vanessa Thorn (University of Leeds) to take a course on dinoflagellate cyst identification in The Netherlands £916
Vanessa Thorn - bursary research report - 2006.pdf [46KB]
Roberto Pujana (Museo Argentina de Ciencias Naturals, Buenos Aires, Argentina) to visit the UK to consult collections of fossil wood £2070