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John Cooper, ALSA’s Principal Investigator, is attending the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) Open Science Conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia this week.  He will present a paper with the title  “Uncovering forgotten history: ship wrecks, fatalities and female pioneers at sub-Antarctic Marion Island” on Friday in a session entitled “Footprints in Antarctica, and Antarctica’s footprint: perspectives […]

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Dr Ryan Reisinger, a marine mammalogist and a SANCOR (South African Network for Coastal and Oceanic Research) post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Zoology, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University  (NMMU), Port Elizabeth, South Africa has been awarded a Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) 2016 Fellowship, announced today at the SCAR Open Science Conference being held in Kuala Lumpur, […]

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“Uncle Bill handed me a parcel which contained all his sketches.  He asked me to take charge of it, and deliver it to his wife, telling me it was his earnest hope that we might have a joint exhibition of our work – his sketches and my photographs” – Herbert Ponting, British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-1913. […]

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