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Today Electra successfully defended her PhD. A great occasion and impressive achievement. Awesome job!

Check out research cake page. Doreen submitted her PhD thesis on Allophane and DNA binding. Meanwhile we also received a photo from a group of adventurer kids.

Tanya was received the Margaret Phillips Science Award and made the front cover of the Hamilton News

Susanna Rutledge produced a stunning research cake depicting her recently published paper on the carbon balance of a dairy farm.

Aaron Wall and Jack Pronger feature in a University of Waikato video about our work on diverse pasture swards.

In conjunction with NZAGRC, we have produced a fact-sheet on soil carbon including descriptions of how carbon is cycled in soil and approaches that are being tested for increasing carbon stocks.

Megan Balks, with co-author Prof Darlene Zabowski of University of Washington and support from graphic designer Marianne Coleman, recently got her book, provisionally titled “Celebrating Soil” submitted to Springer Publishers. See her research cake here.

Congrats to Tanya for getting a proposal funded by the British Antarctic Survey to support her research on temperature dependence of soil respiration in cold soils!

Louis was interviewed behind “People Behind the Science” about his work and how he came to be a scientist.

Last year Louis presented a talk summarising the development of MMRT and its implications for temperature dependence of soil biogeochemistry which can be viewed here.