A slightly late congratulations to two members of WaiBER for awards from the New Zealand Society of Soil Science.

• Sam McNally was awarded the Morice Fieldes Award for most meritorious PhD thesis 2016

• Jasmine Robinson was awarded the Sir Theodore Rigg award for best masterate thesis 2016.

Sam is currently a postdoc at Plant and Food while Jasmine is conducting a PhD at Waikato University.