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Getting Down To It

Posted on January 31, 2012 by newenglandkiwi

I’m staring down the barrel of this semester at uni with some trepidation. There are a number of major deadlines coming up, starting next week and not really stopping until mid-May. It’s basically like a preview of, you know, life … Continue reading →

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Te Ao Nui

Posted on January 15, 2012 by newenglandkiwi

The non-graduate-student members of the department are gradually starting to drift back in from their winter holidays (the university shuts down for a month, but most grad students take about a week off, if that) to a slightly-more-snowy-but-not-really Massachusetts. Our … Continue reading →

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Originality

Posted on November 27, 2011 by newenglandkiwi

So I hear New Zealand had a general election the other day, which I did not cajole my American friends into staying up until 4am watching the results of and am not deeply depressed over. (On the other hand: Mike’s … Continue reading →

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Twenty Years And Counting

Posted on October 11, 2011 by newenglandkiwi

One of the major, if not the major, differences between the US and NZ postgraduate educational systems (apart from the fact that Americans call it the “graduate” system and we call it the “postgraduate” system) is that you can be … Continue reading →

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One Year On

Posted on August 15, 2011 by newenglandkiwi

A year ago last Friday, I was sitting in Christchurch Cathedral, listening to Helen Clark give a talk about development in the third world. It was three days before I was due to get on a plane and leave New … Continue reading →

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Seafloor at 4am

Posted on July 15, 2011 by newenglandkiwi

The telepresence cruise in Seattle we’re involved with has finally got underway, after several delays which illustrated why I really couldn’t be a full-time oceanographer (I have a tendency to get wound up by upcoming travel and even more wound … Continue reading →

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You Can Be A Woman

Posted on July 5, 2011 by newenglandkiwi

I’m a microbiologist, and I work in a microbiology lab, but my supervisor is actually technically an oceanographer – that’s what he got his doctorate and so forth in, and that’s why our lab works with deep-sea microorganisms. It’s also … Continue reading →

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Sulphurous

Posted on June 28, 2011 by newenglandkiwi

One of the things that people find slightly problematic about our lab is the results of some of the things we grow. While most of the highly flammable gases floating around our lab are odourless (thankfully), some of the organisms … Continue reading →

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The Art of Science

Posted on May 26, 2011 by newenglandkiwi

I’ve talked quite a lot on this blog about the American weather, wildlife, the house we live in, and the places I’ve visited, but it occurs that I haven’t really talked very much about the place I’m spending most of … Continue reading →

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Summer

Posted on May 22, 2011 by newenglandkiwi

It’s now pretty officially summer at UMass, even though it technically doesn’t start until, what, the 21st of June? (I am never going to get used to this “starting seasons on the solstice” thing, seriously.) The undergrads have all cleared … Continue reading →

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