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Three ARC members in 2010 New Year Honours List
Three ARC members were awarded the New Zealand Antarctic Medal in the 2010 New Year Honours List. Peter Barrett, for services to Antarctic science, Alex Pyne, for services to Antarctic engineering, and Tim Naish, for services to Antarctic climate science. The New Zealand Antarctic Medal was formally instituted in 2006 as a replacement to the (British) Polar Medal and given to individuals or a team who have made an outstanding contribution to exploration, scientific research, conservation, environmental protection, or knowledge of the Antarctic region.

Post-graduate Research Excellence Award
PhD student Rachael Rhodes received a Victoria University Post-graduate Research Excellence Award valued at $3000 for her recent publication in Geophysical Research Letters (see her publication list). Rachel also received the prize for best science talk at the recent Post-Graduate Student Association Conference.

Rosie Cody wins GSNZ prize
Rosie Cody received the Hornibrook Prize from the Geological Society of New Zealand for outstanding research contribution by a graduate student in the fields of paleontology and biostratigraphy.

Talk by Ice core researcher, Dorthe Dahl-Jensen
View Dorthe's talk she gave on the 9th October at VUW.

RSNZ medal to ARC Director
Prof Tim Naish has been awarded a 2009 New Zealand Science and Technology Medal by the Royal Society of New Zealand. The award is in recognition of Tim’s scientific leadership and contribution to the knowledge on Antarctic ice sheets and their influence on global sea-level change and climate in a warming world.

Rosie Cody wins Student Poster award
ARC student Rosie Cody has won the Student Poster award at the Paleoclimatology Summer School in Urbino, Italy in July 2009. This is the second year an ARC student has one this prize.

Poles Apart: Gareth Morgan & John McCrystal book
Gareth Morgan couldn't decide whether he believed in climate change or not, so he consulted with the best international scientists, including ARC’s Peter Barrett, Lionel Carter, and ARC Adjunct David Lowe, to answer his questions and in conjunction with John McCrystal wrote a book about his findings.

2009 S.T. Lee Lecture
Prof George Denton is giving this year's S.T. Lee Lecture on the 15 May at the Soundings Theatre, Te Papa. George's pesentation will highlight the origin of this warming events which lie at the heart of solving the ice age puzzle.

Innocents in the Dry Valleys
Ex-VUW lecturer Colin Bull, has written an account of the first Victoria University Antarctic Expedition in 1958-59, in Innocents in the Dry Valleys.

Nature papers on ANDRILL
Nature, Vol 458, Issue 7236 (19 March 2009) published two papers and a News and Views article that reports on the ANDRILL Programs new insights into the behaviour of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. The publication has generated widespread international news interests with more than 300 media items. The articles can be viewed here.

Rachael Rhodes wins Student Oral Presentation
PhD student Rachael Rhodes won first place in the Student Oral Presentation at the 2008 GeoSciences Conference held at Te Papa from the 24-26th November, 2008. Her talk was entitled 'An ice core indicator of Ross Ice Shelf stability?'

ANDRILL-MIS Science Integration Workshop 2009
The ANDRILL-MIS Science Integration Workshop was held on the 10-13th February 2009.

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