Femke and family have sadly left New Zealand shores but before she left she brought us #researchcake
https://waiber.com/research-cake/ to top-off a wonderful PhD thesis.
This week Aaron Wall had his first paper from his ongoing PhD accepted for publication in Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment. "Carbon budget of an intensively grazed temperate grassland with large quantities of imported supplemental feed". Looking forward to the published version
Femke had her PhD oral exam today and flew through and so now a Dr Rambags. Thanks to Jacqui Horswell (Massey Uni and MPI) for conducting an excellent oral exam.
I had an opportunity to participate in a joint Global Research Alliance and CIRCASA meeting focusing mostly on soil carbon as a mitigation tool against climate change. A wonderful location for us together formally and informally to discuss options and initiate the beginning of a refreshed research agenda. Photos are of the CIAT campus and Ngoni who took me and others on a tour of the facilities and around Cali.
Bryan successfully defended his PhD today at North Carolina State University. Bryan spent about a month making measurements of nitrate removal at a denitrifying bioreactor with our colleagues from Lincoln Agritech and Aqualinc. Louis was one of his external supervisors.
Dean Tully and Keith Martin (Toi Ohomai) combined with Thomas Corbett and Louis Schipper (University of Waikato) to shoot the low score at charity golf tournament for New Horizons Women Trust. Great event – lots of fun and some good money raised.
