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NEWS ARCHIVES
2008
Seven awards were made this year:
- Katherine Hendry (University of Oxford, UK) to investigate if deep sea sponges provide a record of ocean chemistry. £4000
- 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


2007
Five awards were made this year:
- 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
- Anna Hey (University of Cardiff, UK) to present a paper on palaeoclimate reconstructions from the Antarctic Peninsula at ISAES in California £1194
- 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
- Ewan Wakefield (British Antarctic Survey) to purchase satellite tags for tracking foraging in albatrosses £4729


2006
Four awards were made this year:
- 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
- Vanessa Thorn (University of Leeds) to take a course on dinoflagellate cyst identification in The Netherlands £916
- Roberto Pujana (Museo Argentina de Ciencias Naturals, Buenos Aires, Argentina) to visit the UK to consult collections of fossil wood £2070