Maren RichterUniversityof Otago students Olivia Truax, Maren Richter and Rilee Thomas have received three of four national scholarships to support study in the Antarctic. Ms Truax and Ms Richter have been awarded Antarctica New Zealand Sir Robin Irvine Doctoral Scholarships, and will each receive $20,000, spread over two years. Olivia TruaxMs Truax, of the Otago geology department, hopes this detailed record will help reconstruct past climates. Ms Richter, of the Otago physics department, will study sea ice temperatures in McMurdo Sound and investigate sea ice and ocean temperatures there over more than the past 20 years. She will head to the Priestley Glacier in the Antarctic this summer to study the mechanical behaviour of ice.

Source: Otago Daily Times July 19, 2019 16:41 UTC