Journeys to the ice

In the realm of the Earth sciences (within the cramped offices of competitive post-graduate students at least) there has always been a playful antagonism between ‘hard rock’ and ‘soft rock’ geologists. So I was certainly fraternising with the enemy when I recently caught up with a good friend, Jodi Williams, to hear about her travels south during the … Read More

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While I was still busy sunning myself on Coromandel beaches during the first few days of 2010, the research vessel JOIDES Resolution was approaching Wellington Harbour after a record-setting drilling leg off the Canterbury coast. The Resolution’s sole purpose is to carry out the research objectives of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP), … Read More

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’Great God! This is an awful place…’ So wrote Robert Falcon Scott in January of 1912 upon discovering that the Norwegian, Roald Amundsen, had beaten him to the South Pole. A rather unfair review you might say, but then again, Scott was about to find out just how unforgiving a place the … Read More

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