Marsden Success! Keith Gordon part of a Marsden Fund Council Award.

Congratulations on Marsden success.  Keith Gordon is one of the assocaite investigators in the grant:

“Tales of time and scale: Looking back in time through Aotearoa’s rock art”

This is a Marsden Fund Council Award.  These seek “to support outstanding researchers to pursue ambitious interdisciplinary projects that seek to uncover new knowledge.”

The grant is led by by Dr Philip Novis from the Bioeconomy Science Institute and Amanda Symon from the Ngāi Tahu Māori Rock Art Trust.

Keith will be involved in the use of spectroscopy to investigate the pigments and analyse fragments from museums and other to understand the formulation of these ancient dyes.  The media release my be found at the Royal Society Te Apārangi site