ANTARCTIC BURSARIES
Work Of Two Students
Work done by two Antarctic bursary students at the Canterbury University biological unit at Cape Royds was quite outstanding, according to the Canterbury branch of the New Zealand Antarctic Society, which awarded the bur-sar'-s.
For the 1964-65 season a joint award was made to two honours students, Mr G. W. Yeates (zoology) and Mr J. E. Hay (geography). Mr Yeates was in the field for two months before he developed acute appendicitis and had to return to Christchurch for an operation. He then returned to Cape Royds, and his work included responsibility for routine counts on the Adelie penguin colony, a survey of nesting success, and collection of parasites from penguins and seals.
Mr Hay worked on the microclimate of the Adelie penguin colony, maintained a weather station, recorded temperatures and other data about fresh-water lakes, and investigated soil temperatures. The report says that the branch, which now has 155 members, has enough funds to fulfil its bursary obligations to the end of the 1966-67 season.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30757, 22 May 1965, Page 23
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172ANTARCTIC BURSARIES Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30757, 22 May 1965, Page 23
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