Beginning Scientists

March 2001 recipients

The Royal Society of New Zealand has recently allocated funding to enable 4 students enrolled for their PhD degrees at New Zealand Universities to attend their first international science or technology conference overseas. Eight applications were received. The successful applicants are:

Jeffrey Brown, Chemistry Department, University of Otago, Changing Water Environments: Research and Practice, 8-11 May 2001, Whistler, British Columbia, Canada

Daniel Fraser, Department of Physics & Electronic Engineering, University of Waikato, 10th International Conference on Near-Infra Red Spectioscopy "NIR 2001", 10-15 June 2001, Kyongju, Korea

Ruth Mortimer, School of Psychology, Massey University, Reconstructing Health Psychology Conference, 23-25 August 2001, Birmingham

Scott Osprey, Physics & Astronomy Department, University of Canterbury, General Assembly of the European Geophysical Society, 25-30 March 2001, Nice, France