It was a busy summer in the McGraw group, which began with December’s announcement that Maserota, Rebecca and Wayne were each awarded Otago Ocean Acidification Research Theme funding to support new aspects of their research!
After well-deserved summer holidays, the group traveled to Wellington in February for the 13th annual New Zealand Ocean Acidification Conference. Denise gave an oral presentation on her latest optical fibre sensors; Christina spoke about MEDDLE resources and led a post-conference experimental design workshop for early career scientists. Three students gave poster presentations about aspects of their work: Habibeh (ship-board DMS sensor), Wayne (marine calcium) and Maserota (autonomous device for high frequency pH monitoring in Samoa).
We were sad to say goodbye to Rebecca, who started an exciting post-doc position at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research. However, this loss was balanced by addition of three new group members (Elliot, Grace and Alice) and visits from Jon Havenhand (University of Gothenburg) and Christopher Cornwall (Victoria University of Wellington).
Finally, the Otago Daily Times confirmed what we all suspected: Maserota has the best flatmates.
