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Waikato success at NZSSS awards
Celebrations. The University of Waikato and WaiBER had success at the recent NZSSS national awards:
Manawa Huirama won best MSc thesis (Sir Theodore Rigg award).
Femke Rambags won best PhD thesis (Morice Fieldes memorial award).
Thomas Corbett won best PhD entering 3rd year.
Annabelle Carrington best 3rd yr student in soil science.
- Thomas Corbett
- Annabelle Carrington
- Manawa Huirama
Newspaper article and video about our plantain study
Starring Aaron Wall –
Soil carbon podcast interview with Sarah’s Country
Louis had an opportunity to speak with Sarah on her podcast “Sarah’s Country” about soil carbon.
Video: https://youtu.be/AVmHrSZg1uY
Podcast: https://bit.ly/34dxx0U
Our latest member
Long time connections
One of the wonderful aspects of teaching is seeing former student’s success. Florian Brinkmann came from Germany to undertake Master’s level courses in 2005/2006 and visited while the country with his family. After a number of careers, Flo is now integral in establishing a venture capital fund for sustainable start-ups with a strong ecological impact – Planet A.
Television appearance
Our work on paddock scale nitrous oxide and carbon balance measurements appeared on
New video on soil quality
Alumni Sheree Balvert (Ballance Feartliser) teamed up with Louis to make a short video on soil quality/health.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bh0BMWzLJTA&feature=youtu.be
Filming with Rural Delivery
Louis, Aaron and Anne went out to Troughton farm to do some filming with Rural Delivery crew, Kirsty and Richard. Photo credit: Anne Wecking
MMRT marsden funding success made the news!
With Vic Arcus and colleagues Bella Duncan (University of Victoria, Welington) and Liyin Liang (Manaaki Whenua-Landcare Research) we were recently successful in obtaining a Marsden grant on temperature response of the biosphere.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/environment/news/article.cfm?c_id=39&objectid=12298321