Living Life: June 27, 2019
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10<br />
LIVING<br />
LIFE<br />
UC STUDIES<br />
LURE OF THE ICE ENTICES<br />
BRIGHT YOUNG RESEARCHERS<br />
Antarctica continues to call bright young researchers to her<br />
icy shores, and scholarships are making their ground-breaking<br />
research at University of Canterbury (UC) possible.<br />
“They are the top of the top,” UC’s Gateway Antarctica director<br />
Professor Wolfgang Rack says of the two students who accepted<br />
scholarships last week, Shinae Montie and Rose Foster. “I am<br />
looking forward to the research they produce. It is amazing, the<br />
difference they can make, because they are really at the forefront<br />
of new knowledge that is relevant to global change.”<br />
The Christchurch City Council (CCC), ChristchurchNZ and<br />
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) contribute to<br />
scholarships for Antarctic research at UC.<br />
Montie was awarded a $5000 MFAT<br />
scholarship for her research using satellite<br />
remote sensing to detect heatwaves in the<br />
Antarctic Ocean.<br />
“We should be more worried about<br />
heatwaves in the ocean than gradual<br />
warming,” she says.<br />
Twice they flew to Antarctica, but adverse<br />
weather prevented the plane landing. For<br />
these passionate young researchers, who<br />
had only dreamed of visiting Antarctica, it<br />
was hard work.<br />
“It was an emotional rollercoaster,” Foster<br />
says. “When we finally walked out onto<br />
the ice, I just burst into tears!”<br />
Foster was inspired by David<br />
Attenborough’s pioneering Frozen<br />
Planet documentary to give up her flight<br />
attendant job and “do more to help the<br />
planet. The main aspects of polar ecology<br />
that interest me are understanding how<br />
species have adapted to living in such<br />
extreme environments, understanding<br />
the impact climate change is having<br />
on them now and in the future, and<br />
also participating in research which<br />
contributes to the development of effective<br />
conservation initiatives to mitigate these<br />
impacts,” she says.<br />
The trip to the ice was beyond everything<br />
she could have imagined, she says. “It has<br />
ignited my motivation for studying and<br />
conserving the vulnerable species that call<br />
the frozen parts of our planet ‘home’.”<br />
Montie’s interest in Antarctica developed<br />
earlier, during her final years of high<br />
school.<br />
“I began to explore electives that could<br />
accompany my degree in ecology. I<br />
have always been drawn to the marine<br />
environment; however, my focus has since<br />
shifted towards the Southern Ocean. I now<br />
know that I want to dedicate my career to<br />
understanding, learning, educating and<br />
protecting the Antarctic, and the Southern<br />
Ocean region in particular.”<br />
Both students paid tribute to the<br />
organisations who had helped to<br />
facilitate their research and as part of<br />
the Postgraduate Certificate in Antarctic<br />
Studies, UC offers an 8 to 10 day field<br />
course at Scott Base and in Windless<br />
Bight, Antarctica, comprising a mix of<br />
analytical projects (data and information<br />
gathering, analysis and interpretation)<br />
and interpretative exercises. Antarctic<br />
field training and the experience of living<br />
and working in the polar environment are<br />
additional components of this course.<br />
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SOLUTIONS PUZZLES FROM PAGE 9<br />
EASY<br />
QUICK CROSSWORD<br />
6/22/<strong>2019</strong><br />
Daily Quick Crossword: 22 <strong>June</strong> <strong>2019</strong><br />
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MEDIUM<br />
ACROSS<br />
1 Summer month (4)<br />
3 Sheath for a sword (8)<br />
9 Stray from the subject (7)<br />
10 Grown-up (5)<br />
11 Paved garden area (5)<br />
12 List of things to be done or<br />
discussed (6)<br />
14 In truth (6)<br />
16 Extortionate money-lender (6)<br />
19 Infuriate (6)<br />
21 Garden tools (5)<br />
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J U L Y S C A B B A R D<br />
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O I R A R S A<br />
9 10<br />
D I G R E S S A D U L T<br />
H H C U V N A<br />
11 12<br />
P A T I O A G E N D A<br />
U I L E P<br />
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23<br />
R E A L L Y U S U R E R<br />
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S L I T O<br />
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M A D D E N R A K E S<br />
O M E D A N P<br />
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L D S B N L C<br />
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