2002 Annual Report Of The Royal Society of New Zealand

Incorporating the 2002 Academy Council Yearbook

Allocation of funding

The Marsden Fund

The Marsden Fund was set up by the Government in 1994 and from 1 December 1995 has been administered by the Royal Society of New Zealand. It was established to increase, through supporting excellent fundamental research and excellent researchers, the level of knowledge and research skills in New Zealand. The Marsden Fund was named after Sir Ernest Marsden, the founding Permanent Secretary of the DSIR in 1926.

The research supported by the Marsden Fund is investigator initiated and not driven by commercial outcomes or immediate government priorities. In supporting excellent research, the Government is ensuring that New Zealand is contributing to, and benefiting from, the advancement of knowledge globally, and is fostering diverse areas of research of a very high calibre. The Marsden Fund also provides for the long term and sometimes serendipitous aspects of research, which may lead to profound or unexpected discoveries. The work may also catalyse important developments in previously unrelated and strategically important fields of knowledge.

In 2002, the Marsden Fund Committee was renamed by the Minister of Research, Science and Technology. Now known as the Marsden Fund Council, the new body signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Royal Society of New Zealand on 20 September 2002, in which the respective roles of the Council and of the Society were formalised. The Memorandum indicates a strong role for Council in setting the strategic direction of the Fund, with executive support and policy advice from the Royal Society, and a continued active role for the Council in assessing applications to the Fund. Professor Diana Hill (University of Otago and Global Technologies) remained as Chair with the other members of the nine-member Council being Deputy Chair, Dr Garth Carnaby (WRONZ), Professor Rob Ballagh (University of Otago), Professor Sally Casswell (Massey University), Professor Marston Conder (The University of Auckland), Dr Ian Ferguson (HortResearch), Jonathan Mane-Wheoki (University of Canterbury), Professor Pat Sullivan (Massey University), and Dr David Wratt (NIWA).

For the 2002 funding round, applications were considered by eight broad discipline-based panels, comprising 59 panellists in all. The convenors of the panels were drawn from the Marsden Council, with the exception of the Social Sciences panel where Professor Anne Smith was a co-convenor with Council member, Sally Casswell.

Funding in 2002 was increased by $3 million, bringing total annual funding to $30.839 million. In September, the annual round of new Marsden awards was announced 86 new projects, including 18 Fast-Start grants which were allocated $12.6 million for their first year of activity, and $36.7 million overall. A total of 801 preliminary proposals (671 standard proposals and 130 Fast-Starts) had been received in February, of which 165 were asked to submit a full proposal. The final number of successful proposals represents a 10.7% success rate. For this funding round, the percentage of principal investigators who had received their highest degree in the previous 10 years stayed at 40%. The percentage of principal investigators who are women grew to 23%.

Marsden Update, the quarterly newsletter edited by Glenda Lewis, continued to publish research stories and news on the Fund. Extensive press releases on successful proposals again led to major press and radio coverage, with at least 41 articles appearing in 22 metropolitan and provincial newspapers throughout New Zealand, and good coverage on National Radio.

There were several research highlights during the year:

The long awaited biography of New Zealand journalist, poet, and novelist Robin Hyde has been published. The Book of Iris, which was started in 1965 and then put aside, has been completed by Hyde's son, Derek Challis. Collections of poems, letters, and autobiographical writings have also been completed by a team which includes Drs Mary Paul and Patrick Sandbrook, from Massey, and Dr Michele Leggott from The University of Auckland. These studies have attracted international attention and provided a platform for future scholarship.

Country of Writing, a survey and analysis of the travel writing which recorded the encounter between European and Maori in nineteenth century New Zealand, was published in December. The book, written by Dr Lydia Wevers of the Stout Research Centre, received significant publicity on radio and in the newspapers.

Dr William Tobin, from the University of Canterbury, completed his biography of the French physicist Léon Foucault. The French version of the biography was published to coincide with the opening of a major exhibition in Paris in October.

Dr Matt McGlone's team at Landcare has been studying why native deciduous trees are not common in New Zealand, and has unexpectedly found that the nutrient status of the soil is an important factor nutrient rich soils favour deciduousness.

A group led by Dr Michelle Kelly (NIWA) has been looking at the fossil record, taxonomy and phylogeny of ancient rock-like lithistid sponges, to determine their evolutionary history and relationship to other types of sponge. They have described 32 new species in New Zealand waters, and have found fossils in Oamaru that are very similar to living lithistids. From these findings they can make inferences about past climate change events.

Professor Charles Daugherty and doctoral student Nicky Nelson, from Victoria University, are finding out more about sex determination in tuatara. They have found that artificial incubation is a good method for conservation as it can be relied on to produce either males or females as required, by varying the temperature. However, tuatara incubated under natural conditions were faster, ran from predators and were probably more aggressive than those incubated in a laboratory, suggesting that they would survive better in nature.

A team of researchers led by Dr Jack Heinemann, of Canterbury University, has found evidence that horizontal gene transfer of antibiotic resistance genes between different species of bacteria is much more widespread than previously thought. This work was published in the high-impact American Journal of Bacteriology, and identified by the American Society for Microbiology as one of the journal's top papers.

In a cover article in Science, Massey University researcher Professor David Lambert reported that his group was able to directly measure a rate of evolution. They achieved this world-first by isolating and analysing ancient DNA from well preserved Adélie penguin bones from Antarctica.

Dr Richard Newcomb (HortResearch), Dr Dianne Gleeson (Landcare) and Dr Allen Heath (AgResearch) have collaborated to focus on the rapid evolution of insecticide resistance. They have successfully isolated DNA from blowflies that lived 50 years ago, before the introduction of insecticides, and have learnt about the mechanism by which insecticide resistance has evolved.

A team led by Dr Russell Poulter and Associate Professor John Cutfield, of Otago University, has been studying molecular evolution of a family of mobile genetic elements that readily integrate into the DNA of vertebrates. Their results suggest that these elements gave rise to vertebrate retroviruses such as HIV.

Professor Gaven Martin, from The University of Auckland, has co-authored a 560-page book, Geometric Function Theory and Non-linear Analysis, published by Oxford as part of their prestigious series of mathematical monographs. The book covers the foundations, recent developments, and new approaches for future research, on a topic that intersects many areas of modern mathematics.

A team of researchers including Professor Anne Smith and Dr Karen Nairn, of the Children's Issues Centre, has carried out a wide-ranging survey investigating the rights of children in schools, within the framework given by the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. The results will inform educational policy on participation, recreation, health and safety.

An Auckland University study, led by Dr Laurence Murphy, has revealed that the increasing socio-economic and racial stratification of this city makes it comparable to a city in the UK, but its racial concentration is still much less than typical of most US cities. The implications for local government are addressed.

A study on the effects of "social capital" led by Professor Dorian Owen and Dr Stephen Knowles, of the University of Canterbury, has suggested that countries with a high level of social divergence have a correspondingly poor economic performance.

Dr Juliet Gerrard and her team, from the University of Canterbury, have identified key aspects of the chemistry that leads to proteins reacting with sugars in the body, causing problems such as cataracts and Alzheimer's disease.

A statistician at The University of Auckland, Dr Renate Meyer, has a team that has been developing Bayesian methods and applying them to fields as diverse as wildlife management, financial indices (such as exchange rates and share values), and cosmology.

Professor Roger Neich, from the Auckland Museum and The University of Auckland, has compiled records of 274 nineteenth century Maori carvers, a unique situation within the nineteenth century ethnic world where, for other communities, just a handful of carvers are known.

Professor Cam Nelson, from the University of Waikato, has been leading an investigation of the process by which New Zealand "coolwater" limestone forms, yielding important information about past climate change events.

During the year, the Manager of the Marsden Fund, Dr Valda McCann, announced her retirement. Dr McCann started working for the Royal Society of New Zealand in 1997, in research assessment and monitoring for the Marsden Fund. She became Acting Manager of the Marsden Fund in 1998, before being appointed Manager in 1999. Following a successful bid by the Royal Society to administer the Centres of Research Excellence (CoRE) in 2001, Dr McCann was appointed as Manager, Research Funding, with responsibility for both the Marsden Fund and CoRE. As a fund manager, Dr McCann was widely respected for her ability, her judgement and her integrity. Following Dr McCann's retirement at the end of August, Dr Don Smith was appointed as Manager, Research Funding, and Dr Peter Gilberd as Deputy Manager. During the year, Dr Rachel Averill and Jason Gush continued to share the Research Assessor position, and Cameron Crabb worked 60% of his time as a database administrator for the Marsden Fund (with the remaining 40% as a network administrator for the Society). In April, Jenny Lawson was appointed to a part-time Marsden position (with the balance of her time on CoRE), to support the Administration Officer, Rochelle Barton.

Centres of Research Excellence Fund

The Centres of Research Excellence Fund (CoRE Fund) was set up by the Government in the 2001 Budget and is administered by the Royal Society of New Zealand. Its purpose is to encourage world-class research in New Zealand by establishing Centres of Research Excellence to contribute to New Zealand's development. Sufficient funding has been made available for two selection rounds to be held, the first being completed in March 2002 and the second in November 2002.

As a tertiary education sector initiative, all the selected Centres of Research Excellence are hosted by a university, but many have other tertiary education institutes and research providers as partners. They also have broad inter-institutional research networks. Centres of Research Excellence are expected to maintain high quality, innovative research and research training environments.

The initial funding for the Centres of Research Excellence consisted of operational funds of $2 million (2001/02), $10.225 million (2002/03), $12.475 million (2003/04), and $13.600 million ongoing (all including GST). There was also a contingency fund of $20 million for capital expenditure on strategic research assets (excluding buildings) for the selected Centres. With this funding, five Centres were chosen in March 2002 to begin operation in July 2002. These Centres will receive operational funding for up to six years.

A three-step evaluation process was established for the 53 applications received. The applications were first sent to international referees before being considered by six discipline-based panels consisting of 46 panellists. More than 50% of the panellists were from outside New Zealand. The panels short-listed 16 applications for final evaluation by the specially formed CoRE Fund Committee. The Committee was chaired by Sir Paul Reeves who was assisted by Dr Michael Dunbier, Dr Jean Fleming, Dr John Hay, Associate Professor Alison Jones, Associate Professor Pare Keiha, Ms Aroha Te Pareake Mead, Sir Neil Waters and Dr Andrew West.

The Committee further short listed down to eleven applications and, after making a series of site visits, selected the following five applications to be Centres of Research Excellence.

Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology and Evolution

Host Institution: Massey University

Directors: Professors David Penny and Mike Hendy

Partners: University of Canterbury, The University of Auckland, University of Otago, Victoria University of Wellington

The Allan Wilson Centre will undertake studies of the ecology and evolution of New Zealand plants, animals and microbes. Recent research, using new techniques such as sequencing of whole genomes and ancient DNA technologies, has revolutionised our understanding of New Zealand's biodiversity. The simplistic view that New Zealand is a "Moa's Ark" of relic species undergoing "ancient and slow " changes over long periods of time has been overturned by the information obtained with these new techniques. The Centre will enable a dramatic acceleration in the progress of our understanding of the processes underpinning the ecology and evolution of our biota.

Centre for Molecular Biodiscovery

Host Institution: The University of Auckland

Director: Professor Ted Baker

The Centre for Molecular Biodiscovery comprises a cluster of five leading research groups at The University of Auckland with complementary expertise in science, engineering and medicine. The Centre will focus on the use of new technology for genomic discovery and on the innovative development of new medicines for infectious disease, diabetes and cancer, based on new findings in molecular biology.

New Zealand Institute of Mathematics and its Applications

Host Institution: The University of Auckland

Directors: Professors Vaughan Jones and Marston Conder

Partner: New Zealand Mathematics Research Institute (Inc.)

This centre will focus on the use of high-level mathematical and computational techniques to solve problems in medicine, biology, engineering, industry and commerce, with particular emphasis in areas of emerging importance such as bio-engineering, bio-informatics, medical statistics, optimisation and risk assessment. The Institute will accelerate the use of mathematics across the spectrum of science and engineering through its research programmes and intensive periods of thematic activity.

Nga Pae o te Maramatanga (Horizons of Insight) - the National Institute of Research Excellence for Maori Development and Advancement

Host Institution: The University of Auckland

Directors: Professor Linda Smith and Associate Professor Michael Walker

The National Institute of Research Excellence for Maori Development and Advancement will focus and build on Maori strengths in education, health and science. It plans to bring together Maori and western intellectual traditions and experience to generate new knowledge that will lead to new technologies and significantly improve socio-economic outcomes for Maori. It will achieve this by (1) drawing on Maori and mainstream knowledge and thought to raise standards of research; (2) improving uptake of research through engagement with Maori social structures; and (3) expanding and deepening both Maori and national research capability.

The MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology

Host Institution: Victoria University of Wellington

Director: Professor Paul Callaghan

Partners: University of Canterbury, Industrial Research Ltd, Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences, University of Otago

The MacDiarmid Institute will be the premier centre for innovation and knowledge creation in fundamental and applied materials science and technology in New Zealand. Strong international links coupled with a multi-disciplinary approach will enable the Institute to discover and understand new advanced materials and technologies to create new products, technologies and industries for New Zealand. Materials and technologies currently attracting world-wide attention that will be addressed by the Institute include: nano-engineered materials and devices, opto-electronics, superconductors, conducting polymers, functional materials and coatings, energy storage systems, soft materials, bio-materials and complex fluids.

In the 2002 Budget the Government increased the operational funds by $5.5 million (2002/03), $10.0 million (2003/04) and $11.0 million ongoing (all including GST). A provision for a further $20 million for capital has also been approved. The new funds are being used to establish a further two Centres as well as providing additional funding for the existing five Centres. The new Centres have been chosen from the six short-listed applications from the first round that were visited by the CoRE Fund Committee, but were not funded.

The two new Centres, which will also receive up to six year's funding, are:

National Centre for Growth and Development

Host Institution: The University of Auckland

Director: Professor Peter Gluckman

Partners: University of Otago and Massey University

The National Centre for Growth and Development will combine basic biomedical techniques with experimental and clinical physiology to develop new preventative and therapeutic approaches to human health and improve animal productivity in agriculture. The Centre's research focuses on the early periods of life, such as the causes and consequences of low birth weight and prematurity. This focus also will see investigation into how genes and the environment interact to regulate growth, development and disease; how to prevent brain injury in newborn babies; and developmental biology therapies for neurological disease in adults.

National Centre for Advanced Bio-Protection Technologies

Host Institution: Lincoln University

Director: Professor Alison Stewart

Partners: Massey University, New Zealand Crop and Food Research Ltd and AgResearch Ltd

This Centre brings together a multidisciplinary group of researchers to meet the pest management and biosecurity needs of New Zealand. It aims to lead the world in biosecurity, developing state of the art sensor technologies, molecular identification systems and mathematical models to protect against pest and disease incursions. The Centre will also develop new generation biocontrol and superior crops with enhanced pesticide resistance. Another aim is to develop agricultural technologies that value and sustain matauranga and tikanga Maori. A unique feature of the Centre will be world's third Biotron, a purpose-built facility that allows complex ecosystems to be modeled under precisely controlled environmental parameters.

Science, Mathematics and Technology Teacher Fellowships

The Royal Society of New Zealand administers the New Zealand Science Mathematics and Technology Teacher Fellowships, established in 1994 and funded by the New Zealand Government. The scheme enables teachers to develop their understanding of science, mathematics, social science and technology by being released from school to participate in programmes with industry and research institutions.

Teacher fellows report that this programme has a major impact on their understanding of their subject specialism, teaching practice, and academic/professional interests. Theirschool colleagues also observe this effect. All fellows believe their new knowledge and skills were seen as valuable to the schools. Evaluation clearly shows that the scheme significantly increases teachers' enthusiasm and understanding of science, mathematics, social science and technology.

The majority of fellows felt that the program is important in identifying new links between the school curriculum and real world. On returning to school, fellows make significant contributions to the professional development of their colleagues, and use their experience to influence both curriculum content and practice.

Most schools continue to be involved with the host organisation beyond the fellowship placement.

Teacher fellows are active, during and after their fellowship, in:

participating in professional development programmes with other teachers and students through profiling careers of successful scientists and running seminars and workshops
developing practical programs emphasising the application of science, mathematics, social science and technology in the real world
continuing and establishing links with universities
bringing real world examples of science into the classroom
increasing the attractiveness, enthusiasm and awareness of students and teachers for science, mathematics, social science and technology
promoting direct contact with scientists via visits to businesses, seminars, etc to demonstrate to students that scientists were normal people and their careers were interesting and attainable

The Royal Society awarded 49 New Zealand Science Mathematics and Technology Teacher Fellowships for 2002 from a total of 111 applications, a further increase upon last year. One Fellowship was subsequently declined as the teacher had resigned from his position. One 2001 Fellowship was deferred for 6 months and ran instead from July 2001 until June 2002. Fellowships were undertaken very satisfactorily with a markedly increased feeling of "fellowship" amongst the group. This has undoubtedly been aided by the regular email communication and the attempt to bring those in a region/local area together whenever possible.

Of the 48 fellowships 26 were male, 22 female; 38 were secondary teachers, 10 primary teachers; and three fellows identified as Maori. Of the 45 different host organisations, 13 were private enterprise/industries these ranged from large industries such as the NZ Aluminium Smelters Limited and Edsoft to small industries such as Heron's Flight Vineyard, Kelly Tarlton's Underwater World, and Wanaka Wastebusters. Also acting as hosts were seven Crown Research Institutes, seven universities, four museums, environmental trusts or similar organisations, eight local or regional councils and two Government departments.

The 2002 Teacher Fellows, their projects and their hosts were:

Social sciences

Sherryl Allen, Mangaroa School, Upper Hutt

Project: Developing research and information skills through working in real research situations

Host Institution: Ministry for Culture and Heritage and Waiouru Army Museum

Howard Baldwin, East Otago High School Otago

Project: The inter-disciplinary applications of information technologies; the Caversham project

Host Institution: University of Otago

Mike Connor, St Augustine's College, Wanganui

Project: Te Reo Maori and Tikanga in social sciences

Host Institution: Whanganui Regional Polytechnic

Lois Hawthorne, Cobham Intermediate School, Christchurch

Project: A living port, past, present and future

Host Institution: New Zealand Historic Places Trust/Pouhere Taonga

John Watson, Glenfield College, Auckland

Project: One aircrew, one country: experiences and legacies 1941-1944

Host Institution: Museum of Transport, Technology and Social History, Auckland

Mathematics

Geoffrey Ackerley, Ashburton College, Canterbury

Project: Statistical applications in environmental issues

Host Institution: Central South Island Fish & Game Council

Steve Connor, St Bede's College, Christchurch

Project: Mathematics and statistics in action

Host Institution: Lincoln University

Jeremy Lane, Mangere College, Auckland

Project: The mathematics in local government with particular reference to town planning

Host Institution: The University of Auckland

Saraswathy Nataraj, Selwyn College, Auckland

Project: Exploring mathematics in Indian culture

Host Institution: The University of Auckland

Carolyn Vela, Maungawhau School, Auckland

Project: CAMPS- Collaborative Analysis of Mathematics Primary Software

Host Institution: The University of Auckland and Edsoft

Glennis Williams, Oxford Crescent School, Upper Hutt

Project: Statistical analysis

Host Institution: AgResearch Wallaceville

Science

Barbara Anglem, Cashmere High School, Christchurch

Project: Helping restore the dawn chorus in Christchurch

Host Institution: University of Canterbury and Christchurch City Council

Lindsay Baragwanath, St Cuthbert's College, Auckland

Project: Magnetic navigation in bats

Host Institution: The University of Auckland

David Beer, Rangi Ruru Girls' School, Christchurch

Project: How green is New Zealand chemistry

Host Institution: University of Canterbury and Environment Canterbury

Pru Casey, Wakatipu High School, Queenstown

Project: Data collection techniques in biology

Host Institution: University of Otago and Otago District Health Board

Allayne Ferguson, Western Springs College, Auckland

Project: Red or white? An investigation into the explanatory contexts of wine making in New Zealand

Host Institution: Heron's Flight Vineyard; Matua Valley Wines Ltd; ESR; Wine Institute of NZ Inc and Alcohol Advisory Council

Michelle Goeth, Rotorua Girls' High School, Rotorua

Project: Comparative sediment analysis of Rotorua lakes

Host Institution: Forest Research Institute and Department of Conservation

Joe Grossman, Temuka High School, Temuka

Project: Water quality monitoring for schools and communities

Host Institution: Central South Island Fish & Game Council and Environment Canterbury

Keith Hartle, Dargaville High School, Dargaville

Project: Marine and freshwater science research

Host Institution: NIWA

Rena Heap, Woodlands Park School, Auckland

Project: Discovering science and technology in the Waitakeres

Host Institution: Watercare Services Limited, University of Waikato and Auckland Regional Council

Kerry Hinton, Maidstone Intermediate School, Upper Hutt

Project: Schools and businesses working together, enhancing science

Host Institution: Upper Hutt Economic Development Agency

Malcolm Ives, Nayland College, Nelson

Project: Ecology of fragile environments and endangered species

Host Institution: Department of Conservation, Landcare Research and NIWA

Alison Jackson, Cromwell College, Cromwell

Project: Horticultural research

Host Institution: HortResearch

Ally Jerram, Marlborough Girls' College, Blenheim

Project: Working waterways

Host Institution: Marlborough District Council

Graham Jones, Glenfield College, Auckland

Project: Monitoring mammalian predators

Host Institution: UNITEC and The University of Auckland

Peter King, Green Bay High School, Auckland

Project: A model for the establishment of a community based, mainland forest ecosystem restoration project (mainland island) at Karekare, Auckland

Host Institution: Department of Conservation and Auckland Regional Council

Stephen Lawrence, Gisborne Girls' High School, Gisborne

Project: Sedimentation and ecology in East Coast waterways

Host Institution: NIWA, Department of Conservation and Gisborne District Council

Adrienne Leng, Ashhurst School, Ashhurst

Project: The biodiversity of wetlands; valuable ecosystems

Host Institution: Horizons.mw, Palmerston North City Council and Department of Conservation

Brenda MacKechnie, Hutt Valley High School, Lower Hutt

Project: The technology of corrosion analysis of surfaces

Host Institution: Industrial Research Limited

Gail Mitchell, Rukuhia School, Hamilton

Project: Go Bats! In the Waikato, identifying location and population

Host Institution: Department of Conservation

John O'Connor, James Hargest High School, Invercargill

Project: Electricity: Relating theory to reality in the smelting of aluminium

Host Institution: New Zealand Aluminium Smelters Limited

Ian Parker, Howick College, Auckland

Project: The use of data-logging technology in biology

Host Institution: The University of Auckland

Denis Saunders, Ashburton College, Ashburton

Project: Polymerase chain reactions in research and industry

Host Institution: Lincoln University

Ian Stephenson, Rangiora High School, North Canterbury

Project: Using biodiversity in vineyards to manage pests sustainably

Host Institution: Lincoln University

William Taylor, Raroa Normal Intermediate School, Wellington

Project: Genesis Aotearoa

Host Institution: Victoria University of Wellington

Peta Vernon, Sacred Heart Girls' College, Hamilton

Project: Evolutionary relationships of New Zealand celmisia

Host Institution: University of Waikato

Roger Waddell, Motueka High School, Nelson

Project: Multi-disciplinary environmental research in the Motueka catchment: an integrated catchment management application

Host Institution: Tasman District Council

Richard Witheford-Smith, St Bernard's College, Lower Hutt

Project: Marine environment management and emerging aqua-culture industries

Host Institution: Wellington Regional Council and NIWA

Technology

Merrilyn George, Ruapehu College, Ohakune

Project: Technological practices and changes in the traditional and modern use of fibres

Host Institution: Te Kura Kaupapa Maori o Ngati Rangi, Whanganui Regional Museum

Peter Green, Sacred Heart College, Wanganui

Project: Technological practice in a modern media communications organisation

Host Institution: Tearaway Press Ltd

Maree Horlor, Mt Aspiring College, Wanaka

Project: Sharing skills in a small community: finding ways to process waste materials

Host Institution: Upper Clutha Recycling & Environmental Society Inc

Jeff Lockhart, Papakura High School, Auckland

Project: Investigation of non-toxic painting and printmaking materials and processes

Host Institution: Manukau Institute of Technology and National Arts Supplies

David McDonald, Nayland College, Nelson

Project: Seafood & technology in Nelson

Host Institution: Sealord Group Ltd

Barbara McKain, Corran School, Auckland

Project: Fabric technology

Host Institution: Auckland University of Technology and Newmarket Business Association

Marie Martin, Diocesan School for Girls, Auckland

Project: Exploring product development of textile based products

Host Institution: Massey University and Mantiss Visual Communications

Maurice Robertson, Rangitoto College, Auckland

Project: A study of autonomous control in mechatronics

Host Institution: The University of Auckland

Neil Rogers, Te Whare Kura o Rakaumangamanga, Huntly

Project: Hangarau Ki roto i te Toi me te Mahi Toi Maori

Host Institution: University of Waikato

Harold Russ, King's College, Auckland

Project: Technological practice; electronics & control

Host Institution: The University of Auckland, Massey University, and University of Canterbury

Photograph by Susan Maclaurin

Photograph by Toni Brooks

Enterprise Culture and Skills Activities Fund

The Industry New Zealand Enterprise Culture and Skills Activities Fund is a $2.2 million contestable fund designed to develop an enterprising culture across New Zealand - including students, employers, employees, businesses, and groups in the community. The aims of this fund are the creation of:

a climate which recognises and reinforces business success amongst existing and potential businesses
a social culture which positively supports entrepreneurial activity and business success
a culture in education where business is seen as a positive contributor to society and a worthwhile career aspiration in students
enterprising attitudes and behaviours including business-related skills in students

Projects must demonstrate involvement of partners from the private sector who provide credibility to the activities and significant practical and financial support.

ActUp Ltd

Role-Playing for Success is a national programme that will introduce entrepreneurial behaviour and business skills to secondary students through curriculum-linked role playing exercises. Students will work together to solve business problems by utilising their individual skills to reach a common goal.

East Coast Community Development Trust

Community Improvement through Youth is being developed for high school students and recent school leavers who are unemployed. By working in teams, participants will identify and manage suitable community projects that enable them to develop enterprise skills, attitudes, and behaviours. The programme includes management, financial, research, and planning training. The teams will be supported by business mentors. The pilot will initially be trialled through three Hawkes Bay high schools.

Enterprise New Zealand Trust

This nation-wide project will help determine whether entrepreneurs can be identified at an early age. This will be achieved by establishing a database of past participants in the Young Enterprise Scheme. The project will also develop a talent bank of young entrepreneurs and establish the value of the Young Enterprise Scheme for participants.

Future Problem Solvers

The Future Problem Solving programme teaches young people the skills of creative problem solving to help produce the young leaders of tomorrow. Four talented girls were selected to represent New Zealand at the International Future Problem Solving Finals in the USA. The Enterprise Culture and Skills Activities Fund contributed to the cost of the trip.

IPENZ-Engineers New Zealand

Student Technology Innovation Incubation. This project will develop and trial school resources packages focused on technology-based innovation in 24 schools located throughout New Zealand. Twelve separate resource packages will include topics such as structures and mechanisms, materials technology, food technology, biotechnology, information communication technology, production and process technology, and electronics.

Northland Regional Council Community Trust and the Regional Development Agency, Northland

The Young Entrepreneur Programme will help guide Northland students between secondary school and self-employment. Students will receive advanced business mentoring, business management training, and business financing opportunities.

Onehunga High School, Auckland

The project will enable Onehunga High School to establish a Business High School. Students in year 10 to 13 will be able to undertake courses on international and entrepreneurial business disciplines. In years 12 and 13 students will take Stage One business-related tertiary papers. The school hopes to position itself as the pre-eminent Business High School in New Zealand and attract students outside the Onehunga area.

Partners New Zealand Trust

PartnersNZ is a national business-education partnership programme designed to help young people become better equipped to learn, live, and participate in the business world of the future. The programme assists businesses to achieve innovative solutions by tapping into the talents of young people.

The Small Business Company

A web-based business game developed for high school students throughout New Zealand. Based around virtual venture capitals, the purpose of the game is to establish the best virtual portfolio of small businesses. The game is designed to be highly interactive, exiting, and informative - demonstrating business can be fun! Users learn how to write and critique business plans, produce simple investment strategies, and access articles about successful New Zealand entrepreneurs. School teams have the opportunity to compete against each other to win a cash prize for the business with the highest net worth.

Women in Business New Zealand Limited

Teengirls in Technology is a national programme designed to increase the awareness and acceptability of technology based careers among girls in secondary education. By raising the profile of technological careers it is hoped girls will realise IT is an exciting and challenging industry. The programme includes interviews and workshops with businesswomen in the IT industry. This pilot programme will initially target year 11-13 girls from twenty schools in Auckland, Wellington, and Christchurch.

An Income of Their Own - Ko o Ratou Putea Anake

A business and enterprise skills programme aimed at Year 10 students, largely of Maori and Pacific Island descent, living in the Wellington region. The programme will provide new ideas, local role models with their own successful businesses, information and resources to the students to open up the options for their future to include being an entrepreneur.

Artist Representation and Motivational Services - ARMS

A programme to cultivate an entrepreneurial attitude amongst the broader arts, culture and creative sector. The programme will include a roadshow, website, workshops and individual coaching. The aim is to enable artists and students to learn the skills necessary to market their work and become profitable creative businesses.

Biotechnology Innovation Project

New, flexible learning processes and resources will be developed to facilitate innovation and commercialisation in biosciences and biotechnologies. The programme will feature strong industry participation and include training for secondary school teachers, internships for tertiary students at local biotechnology companies, and a roadshow touring Auckland high schools to provide innovative and interactive learning experiences to students.

Building Skills in Inventors

A pilot programme designed to take Auckland-based inventors through the process of assessing and commercialising their ideas. Some resources developed for the course will be available to inventors throughout New Zealand help them to progress their ideas to viable businesses.

Business Focused Education

A wide range of businesses will work with regional schools to help students identify and develop enterprise opportunities. The programme will be aimed at students who are in danger of being 'lost' socially, educationally and economically.

Culture of Success Roadshow

A nationwide roadshow for primary/intermediate students. The roadshow will showcase New Zealand business role models and help develop goal setting skills, innovation development logic and positive attitudes towards business.

Cup Mania

A national programme for year 6-10 students which will integrate information communications technology tools within the context of an America's Cup syndicate challenge. Teams will have to find a sponsor, create a syndicate brand, bid on-line for their syndicate base, design a boat, select a crew and purchase on-course data.

Financial Academy for Youth

The Academy will focus on business opportunities for the West Coast, and include topics such as real estate, stock market, investment traps and opportunities, sales skills, marketing, finance and accounting. The Academy will also establish three financial education clubs on the West Coast and provide in-school programmes and business training camps.

Innovation Hub

An on-line virtual business community for year 9-13 students in the Taranaki region. Local schools will be able to talk with each other and develop relationships with businesses and innovators.

National Women in Business Week 2003

National Women in Business Week in the first week of March 2003 will provide an opportunity for women in business to attend a range of workshops, seminars, expos and conferences. Events nationwide will focus on forging relationships and the areas of business skills and knowledge development.

Rangatahi Business Programme

A business entrepreneurship programme developed for young Maori at Te Wharekura O Rakaumanga school in Huntly. The project includes the development of a mentoring programme and video promoting Maori entrepreneurship.

The 'Innovator' Project

An enterprise co-ordinator will visit Southland schools on a regular basis to teach and inspire students, and to train teachers in imaginative enterprise, innovative activities and attitudes, and problem solving.

The Wahia Ngarua Project

An entrepreneurship and motivational business programme aimed at teenagers from Ngaruawahia and surrounding local communities. The project will include the appointment of a co-ordinator to establish an integrated and motivational programme which will include seminars, workshops, work experience and a careers fair.

James Cook Research Fellowships

This international Fellowship was established by the New Zealand Government in 1968 to commemorate the bicentenary of Captain James Cook's landing on the shores of New Zealand on 9 October 1769. It was designed to perpetuate Captain Cook's spirit of scientific enquiry and exploration. The Fellowship is awarded for two years (extendable to three) to persons of senior status based at a New Zealand university or research institution, to carry out research within New Zealand or the Southwest Pacific region. It is funded by an annual government grant to the Royal Society of New Zealand and is administered by the Council of the Royal Society.

Fellowships are offered in the following areas, when funding permits:

Social sciences
Research of relevance to the peoples of New Zealand and/or the Southwest Pacific
Physical sciences
Biological sciences
Health sciences
Engineering sciences and technologies

The objectives of the Fellowships are the encouragement of sustained excellence and the strengthening of existing and new research within the particular disciplines covered by the Fellowship. They are awarded to senior researchers who are New Zealand citizens or permanent residents, who have the requisite qualifications and experience, and who are able to demonstrate that they have achieved national and international recognition in their areas of scientific expertise.

During 2002, there were 10 active Fellowships.

Biological sciences

Professor Michael Corballis FRSNZ, Dept of Psychology, The University of Auckland: Measuring brain activity in human performance (finished May 2002).

Associate Professor Robert Poulin FRSNZ, Department of Zoology, University of Otago: Parasitism and the diversity of life.

Health sciences

Dr Michael Eccles, Department of Biochemistry, University of Otago: Strategic targets for cancer therapy and proliferative disorders (finished May 2002).

Professor Graham Le Gros, Malaghan Institute, Wellington: Biology of asthma and the search for new therapies.

Engineering sciences

Professor Josu Arrillaga FRSNZ, Department of Engineering, University of Canterbury: Modelling of power systems under power electronic control.

Physical sciences

Professor Gaven Martin FRSNZ, Department of Mathematics, The University of Auckland: Nonlinear analysis and geometry.

Professor Peter Schwerdtfeger FRSNZ Department of Chemistry, The University of Auckland: The search for electroweak effects in molecules.

Social sciences

Professor Judith Binney FRSNZ, Department of History, The University of Auckland: A history of the Urewera, 18201922 (received an extension for a third year from April 2002).

Research of relevance to the peoples of New Zealand and the South West Pacific

Dr Jack Vowles FRSNZ, Department of Political Science and Public Policy, University of Waikato: A better democracy? People and politics in New Zealand (finished May 2002).

Professor Erik Olssen FRSNZ, Department of History, University of Otago: A history of New Zealand as an experimental society.

Science and Technology Promotion Fund

The Science and Technology Promotion Fund has been made available by the Government to support activities that make people enthusiastic about science, mathematics, social sciences and technology and excite a desire to find out or experience more. Funds are allocated to projects which demonstrate that they have been developed to achieve this promotion in interesting, creative and innovative ways and impact on an audience that has yet to develop positive attitudes and values to science and technology. Consideration is also given to the extent to which the project fills a gap in existing science and technology promotion in New Zealand and the applicant's relevant experience and proven ability to manage and deliver projects.

2001/02 round

In the 2001/02 round applications targeting businesses and Maori were encouraged. Applications were received from a wide range of organisations and individuals, including science centres, universities, polytechnics, private companies, crown research institutes, planetariums, research centres, associations, trusts and societies. Provision was included for one large project of up to $100,000 and a number of projects up to $30,000. For the $100,000 applicants were required to show matching funding from other sources.

Sixty-eight applications were received requesting a funding total of $2,374,380. Therewere 58 in the 'up to $30,000' category and 9 in the 'up to $100,000' category. Twelve applications were successful.

2001/02 recipients

Up to $100,000 (including GST)

Livingstone Productions Ltd

The project A Minute of Science was a joint venture with Television New Zealand and Channel 1 and was dependent on sponsorship from several large corporate companies. The project originally intended to produce a series of one-minute television programmes about innovative science discoveries in New Zealand. When the sponsorship was withdrawn owing to factors outside the control of Livingstone Productions, the remit of the project was reassessed and four two-minute programmes were produced and aired on Knowledge Breakfast in June 2002. They were broadcast again in October 2002 and are now being used as supporting material in a leading educational television and multi-media project supported by TVNZ, NZOOM and the major national educational institutions.

Up to $30,000 (including GST)

Auckland Museum Institute

The Taking it to the Streets project involved using a team of young science graduates and professional actors as street theatre performers. The show was performed 24 times in the Easter 2002 school holidays. Five venues were used four shopping malls in South Auckland and Auckland Museum, with high audience numbers at all shows. Each show featured two science demonstrations/experiments and the audience was encouraged to participate. It was estimated that the shows were watched by a minimum of 1600 people with a wide variety of age and ethnic groups.

Hawkes Bay Cultural Trust - The Faraday Centre (2 years)

Sounds Fun is an interactive exhibition about the physical phenomena of sound. Specialist equipment has been restored and new equipment designed to provide educators with an excellent teaching resource based in Napier. Children interact with the equipment, and staff from the centre, in an enjoyable and informative way that promotes positive responses and comments. The first year of the project included the generation, recording and transmission of sound and the second year will concentrate on frequencies and uses. During the first year of the project, 24 schools visited the exhibition involving approximately 2000 children and 500 adults.

He Kupenga Hao i te Reo Inc. (2 years)

Aotearoa: a Journey of Discovery is a Palmerston North based project to develop a bilingual (Maori and English) board game that provides knowledge, information and understanding of science, technology, mathematical and social science phenomena in a contemporary and historical New Zealand context. The game is targeted at Maori school pupils, but will have widespread appeal to all age groups and the themes featured in the game are of relevance to all sectors of society. This is a two year project; all the research and development is complete and the production of the board and cards is currently underway.

Institute of Professional Engineers New Zealand Inc. and Business New Zealand Inc.

Science and Technology-Partners in Regional Development was a series of regional forums designed to promote the value of science and technology to small and medium sized businesses. Over the period between May and July 2002, 22 forums were held with a combined audience of 1100 people. Personnel from all major business sectors participated, with particularly strong representation from small and medium sized enterprises. The presentation focussed on the need to lift New Zealand's economic performance and emphasised the critical role science and technology has for business success and wealth creation. A key element of the forums was to broaden the community consultation process in the development of regional economic development plans.

Massey University, Wellington

Revisioning Science: photographs and stories from the scientific imagination was a documentary photographic and life history project, in which a combination of visual images and written word was used to challenge popular conceptions of what it means to be a scientist. Whereas scientists and technologists are usually portrayed in close proximity to laboratory equipment, this project conveyed images of scientists in the context of conversations about love, passion and the scientific imagination. Thirty-six scientists participated in the project and were interviewed and photographed by 15 senior undergraduate students. The 29 essays that were completed were developed into a resource box for use in classrooms and science laboratories. Further uses of the material are under discussion as the resource is invaluable for science promotion both in schools and among the wider general public.

New Zealand Historic Places Trust

New Zealand in Time and Place involved the production of a video illustrating the role of Lyttleton's Timeball Station in navigation around New Zealand. 'The Lyttelton Timeball Station' video explains the underlying concepts behind navigation and longitude from Victorian technology through to GPS, under the central theme of 'knowing where you are is a matter of knowing what time it is.' Situated at the Timeball Station museum in Lyttleton, this video is being used by the staff as an introduction to the workings of the timeball.

Partners Porirua

The Porirua Secondary Schools Mentoring Initiative aimed to enhance the experiences of Maori and Pacific Island secondary school students in the Porirua area, and help them reach their full potential in the areas of science, mathematics and technology. University students acted as mentors providing one-on-one support. These mentors assisted with activities, lifting the pupils' expectations and increasing their knowledge about science and technology research, its applications, and how it relates to every day life. Over the year of the project, 16 students from Victoria University provided support to 92 science pupils in three Porirua schools. Presentation evenings were held at each school at the end of the year to showcase the programme.

Science Alive! The New Zealand Science Centre

SciTech Trends 21st Century is a set of 8 interactive mobile units which focus on a number of science and technology issues which have an impact on our future as New Zealanders. These exhibits have been designed to encourage business people to think about and discuss the issues raised. The units were completed at the end of 2002 and during 2003 will be placed on display at seminars, workshops and business planning meetings in the Christchurch area.

The University of Auckland Mathematics Education Unit

The Mathematics Promotion in Manukau project is an initiative aimed at raising awareness of the importance and relevance of mathematical science in the Manukau community. By working with business and professional role models from within the community, this project will awaken people to the way in which mathematics and statistics underlie activities such as planning, organisation, distribution and many community services. The project has been unable to proceed owing to a delay in the granting of funds from Manukau City Council. However, this initiative will go ahead in 2003.

University of Canterbury Science Outreach Programme

The Language of our Rocks aimed to equip secondary school science teachers throughout the South Island with the necessary skills to teach Earth Sciences with confidence. Four two-day workshops were organised between November 2001 and April 2002 with 107 teachers attending. Each teacher received a rock kit and student support for school field trips.

University of Otago Maori Post-Graduate Students Association

E ruia mai nga kakano o putaiao me hangarau Planting the Seeds of Science and Technology was an Otago Maori community initiative. A wananga/hui took place over two consecutive weekends in November/December 2001 hosting a series of science and technology research clusters groups designed specifically for Maori based in the greater Dunedin area. Eighty-three people attended the days and 59 fully participated in the research groups. A website and large poster were produced from the project.

2002/03 round
Science and Technology Promotion Fund Review

An internal review of the Science and Technology Promotion Fund was carried out in March 2002 and the guidelines were rewritten in line with the recommendations. The review called for the Fund to recognise the increasing sophistication of the individuals and organisations involved in science and technology promotion and recommended removing unnecessary constraints in order to encourage creativity and participation. Changes included a two-stage application process and eliminating the $30,000 cost parameter. Eligibility of projects for funding was clarified and curriculum-based school resources, existing projects, commercial ventures and certain organisations/activities/individuals were clearly specified as ineligible. The review also recommended that a selection panel of five members, with expertise in the areas of science, communications and financial control, be appointed for three years with at least two members changing each year. All the recommendations in the review were implemented for the 2002/03 round of funding.

2002/03 application round

Applications were requested for projects which promote the value of science and technology in interesting, creative, exciting and innovative ways and impact on an audience that has yet to develop a positive attitude towards science and technology. The Review recommendations were applied as detailed above. Individual projects were able to seek support from the fund up to a maximum of $100,000 over a maximum of two years.

Sixty-eight applications were received with bids totalling $3,828,989. Twenty-six applications were invited to complete a stage two application and 23 stage two applications were received with bids totalling $1,284,235. The following 9 projects were selected by the Assessment Panel to receive funding in the year 2002/2003.

2002/03 recipients

Australis Consulting Ltd

Summer of Discovery

The Summer of Discovery 'Summer Fun Kit' contains a video and activity book which are full of exciting experiments, fun-filled field trips and adventures to excite and inspire children aged 10-12 years and their parents about science and technology. A zany professor and his sidekick (animated character) present topics in science and technology. The video and workbook will be made available, free of charge, through Video Ezy stores.

Capital City Science Educators Association

Science Role Model Calendar

Production of a calendar/monthly planner available for display in every intermediate and secondary science classroom in New Zealand. Each of the twelve calendar pages will display a large colour photograph of scientists at work with accompanying poster text. Emphasis will be placed on youthful role models representing a multicultural heritage and the interrelated role of the business and public sector science will be clearly illustrated. The contexts chosen will have meaning and appeal for a teenage audience.

HortResearch Lincoln

Integrated Garden Management: The Science Behind Your Garden

The Science Behind Your Garden will promote science to gardeners from all walks of life. The project aims to work mainly through garden centres to capture gardeners' attention and bring science into their lives. 1000 staff in garden centres will be trained by scientists to help the general public understand pests, diseases and soil health. Audiences will be reached using a range of communication techniques based around resource kits.

Massey University

Quickest, Strongest, Smartest: New Zealand Robotic Olympics

This project will be a first in a series of annual nationwide robotic competitions open to members of the public, in particular secondary and tertiary students. Cheap robot starter kits and guides will be made available but individuals will be free to use their creativity to design their own solutions.

New Zealand Association of Science Educators

SciBoards

Sciboards will be a popular science insert in the Hubbards cereals produced for children. Each Sciboard will contain information on the work of scientists with a focus on younger scientists; examples of the application of research findings in a form easily processed by both young and adult; and activities, puzzles and competitions for the children.

Otago Museum

Good Morning Science

The Good Morning Science project offers a variety of science programmes and presentations to stay-at-home parents/caregivers, community child caregivers and their charges at weekly morning sessions at the museum. Whilst the adult presentation is occurring, the children will be engaged and supervised by a second project person using science-orientated toys and activities. An activity will be provided for the adults to take home and use with other children in the household.

Partners Porirua

Science and Technology Partnership Promotion for Porirua Intermediate Schools

This project is a partnership between Partners Porirua, science and technology based businesses in the Porirua region, and Porirua intermediate schools that aims to enhance pupils' experience in science, mathematics and technology and help them realise their full potential. Year 7 and 8 students will be given an understanding of the applications of science and technology and how it relates to future career and employment choices. This will be achieved through a series of workshops, mentoring, industry site visits and presentations.

The Phoenix Astronomical Society

Stonehenge Aotearoa

This project, based in the Wairarapa, plans to build a working adaptation of Stonehenge to allow New Zealanders to experience for themselves how the technologies of these times were used and can still be used. A 30-metre diameter circle of 24 monoliths, capped with lintels, will encompass a central design incorporating an obelisk sundial, meridian line and a solar and zodiac calendar.

Stokes Valley Rotary Club

Stokes Valley Science Initiative

The project is to develop a number of science and technology based exhibits to be installed in public places around the centre of Stokes Valley. Enclosed modules that can be user-operated will be installed along with three dedicated sculptural style interactives. The project will place science on a parallel footing with the world of art and enable science to be admired for its beauty, knowledge and cause and effect. This science resource will be placed at the heart of a community bringing science into day to day life.

International Science and Technology Linkages Fund

The Society administers, on behalf of the Minister of Research, Science and Technology, four International Science and Technology (ISAT) Linkages Fund programmes.

The Fund was established in 1994 to support the Government's multilateral and bilateral international commitments and to enhance researcher and institutional linkages to ensure that New Zealand's science and technology activities are fully integrated with the best international research and development efforts. The Fund is aimed at the younger qualified researchers, or where there are new linkages or activities.

In 2002, 86 grants totalling $265,320 were awarded by the Fund. These included:

Bilateral Research Activities Programme (BRAP)

Dr R Aoki, The University of Auckland, Auckland, visited Professor Fumio Hayashi, University of Tokyo, Japan, to collaborate on Innovation and Intellectual Property.

Dr S A Bagshaw, Industrial Research Ltd, Lower Hutt, hosted Professor Michael Anderson, University of Manchester, United Kingdom, to collaborate on Expert Visit - Structure Determination of Novel Porous Inorganic Framework Materials.

Ms E J Bennett, Massey University, Palmerston North, visited Dr Tim Boswell, Roslin Institute, United Kingdom, to collaborate on GnRH mRNA Expression in Japanese Quail on Different Levels of Food Restriction.

Dr M Bowden, Industrial Research Ltd, Lower Hutt, visited Ola Lyckfeldt, Swedish Ceramic Centre, Sweden, to collaborate on Evolution of Porosity in High-Performance Starch Consolidated Ceramics.

Dr I W M Brown, Industrial Research Ltd, Lower Hutt, visited Dr George Collins, Australia Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, Australia, to collaborate on New Trans-Tasman Initiatives in Materials Engineering.

Dr M J Clearwater, HortResearch, Te Puke, visited Dr Bartolomeo Dichio, Universita Degli Studi Della Basilica, Dipartimento di Produzione Vegetale, Italy, to collaborate on Hydraulic Control of Stomatal Conductance: A Dynamic Link between Leaf and Xylem Functioning.

Dr J Crampton, GNS, Lower Hutt, hosted Dr Takashi Hasegawa, Kanazawa University, Japan, to collaborate on Ocean Crisis Event Correlation

Ms L T Davis, AgResearch, Ruakura, Hamilton, visited Dr Vivien Vanstone, Adelaide University, Australia, to collaborate on Plant Parasitic Nematode Rearing Methods.

Dr C Dickson, Industrial Research Ltd, Lower Hutt, visited Dr Kwesi Sagoe-Crentsil, CSIRO, Australia, to collaborate on Durability Testing of Geopolymeric Materials for New Cementing Systems.

Dr K Domett, University of Otago, Dunedin, visited Dr Dougald O'Reilly, Royal University of Fine Arts, Cambodia, to collaborate on Archaeological Investigations of the Iron Age People of Phum Snay, Cambodia.

Dr L A Donaldson, Forest Research, Rotorua, visited Dr Geoff Daniel, Swedish University of Agricultural Science, Sweden, to collaborate on Ultrastructure of Cut and Fractured Transverse Wood Surfaces by 3D Microscopy.

Dr H Dungey, Forest Research, Rotorua, visited Dr Colin Matheson, CSIRO, Australia, to collaborate on Wood Quality of Radiata Pine: Investigation of the Genetics of Microfibril Angle.

Dr M J Ellwood, NIWA, Hamilton, visited Dr Stephen Eggins, Australian National University, Australia, to collaborate on Paleo-pH Reconstructions Based on the Boron Isotopic Signature of Biogenic Opal.

Dr D R Grattan, University of Otago, Dunedin, visited Dr Jon Curlewis, University of Queensland, Australia, to collaborate on Intracellular Pathways Mediating Prolactin Action in the Brain.

Dr S Hendy, Industrial Research Ltd, Lower Hutt, visited Professor John Beamish, University of Alberta, Canada, to collaborate on Computer Simulation of Nanoscale Clusters.

Dr T A Jackson, AgResearch, Lincoln, Canterbury, hosted Dr Songbi Chen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China, to collaborate on Isolation and Use of Pheromones in Scarab Pest Management.

Mr K Johnson, Industrial Research Ltd, Lower Hutt, visited Chiu Wing Lok Abe Kurtz, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China, to collaborate on Purification and Characterisation of Nucleoside Ribosyltransferase (NRTase).

Dr J R Jones, Massey University, Palmerston North, visited Professor John Brightwater, University of Cambridge, and Dr David Parker, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom, to collaborate on Analysis of Granular Flow in Bin Blenders Using Positron Emission Particle Tracking.

Dr T Kemmitt, Industrial Research Ltd, Lower Hutt, visited Professor Liliane Hubert-Pfalzgraf, Universite Claude Bernard, France, to collaborate on Advanced Materials Through Molecular Design.

Dr V J Kennedy, GNS, Lower Hutt, visited Dr K G M Nair, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR), India, to collaborate on New Nanowhiskers? - Silicon-based Nanostructured Devices Formed by Medium-Energy Nitrogen Ion Implantation and Rapid Thermal Annealing.

Dr R M Langridge, GNS, Lower Hutt, visited Dr Ramon Zuniga, Unidad de Investigacion en Ciencias de la Tierra, Mexico, to collaborate on Paleo-Earthquakes and Rates of Extension in the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt: A Comparative Tool for our Taupo Volcanic Zone.

Dr P Lo, HortResearch, Havelock North, visited Dr Mofakhar Hossain, Department of Natural Resources and Environment, Australia, to collaborate on New Strategies to Manage Insect Pests of Summer Fruit with Less Pesticides.

Dr R M MacDiarmid, HortResearch, Auckland, hosted Dr Ralf Dietzgen Department of Primary Industries, Australia, to collaborate on Development of a Luminescent Assay System for Quantitating Suppression of Gene Silencing in Plants.

Mr J R Mackay, Industrial Research Ltd, Lower Hutt, visited Dr Mary Ryan, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, United Kingdom, to collaborate on X-Ray Scattering Studies of Ultra Thin Passive Oxide Films.

Mr H Mackie, UNITEC, Auckland, visited Professor Joan Stevenson, Queens University, Ergonomics Research Group, Canada, to collaborate on Simulation of External Forces Developed During Load Carriage by Children.

Mr W R Owers, Industrial Research Ltd, Lower Hutt, visited Dr Sean Gaal University of New South Wales, Australia, to collaborate on A Ceramic-Metal Composite Body Prepared by Foundry Casting Methodology.

Dr C Poortenaar, NIWA, Auckland, hosted Dr Peter Nichols, CSIRO, Marine Research, Australia, to collaborate on Improving Kingfish Nutrition as a Basis for Enhanced Egg and Larval Survival.

Ms K Reader, AgResearch, Upper Hutt visited Dr Robert Gilchrist, Adelaide University, Australia, to collaborate on Effect of Oocyte-Secreted Factors on Granulosa Cell Proliferation and Steroid Production.

Dr B G Ridoutt, Forest Research, Rotorua, visited Dr Yoshifumi Miyazaki, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Japan, to collaborate on A Japanese Perspective on the Personal and Qualities Connoted by Wood in the Built Environment.

Dr R Roberts, Cawthron Institute, Nelson, visited Emmanuel F C Capinpin, University of the Philippines, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, Philippines, to collaborate on New Zealand / Philippines Abalone Aquaculture Exchange.

Dr J Roche, Dexcel Ltd, Hamilton, visited Professor Rolf Jorgensen, Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University (KVL), Denmark, to collaborate on Prevention of Metabolic Diseases, in particular Hypocalcaemia, through Manipulation of Acid-Base Status and/or through use of Feed Supplements to Reduce the Availability of Dietary Calcium.

Dr A Rowden, NIWA, Wellington, hosted Dr Gerald Duineveld and Dr Marc Lavaleye, Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, The Netherlands, to collaborate on Deep-Sea Biological Diversity.

Dr D Slaney, University of Otago, Wellington, visited Mr Navi Litidamu, Fiji School of Medicine, Department of Environmental Health, Fiji, to collaborate on Spatial Effects, Biodiversity and Mosquito Invasiveness.

Dr G J Smith, Industrial Research Ltd, Lower Hutt, visited Dr V Daniels, the British Museum, United Kingdom, to collaborate on Dye Sensitized Photodegradation Textiles.

Mr P Spratt, NZ Association of Science Educators, Wellington, visited Elaine Stanley and Jack Holbrook (ICASE), British Association for the Advancement of Science; International Council of Associations for Science Education, United Kingdom, to collaborate on Best Practice in Enhancing School Student Scientific Investigation.

Dr N F Stevens, GNS, Lower Hutt, hosted Professor Ross Griffiths, the Australian National University, Australia, to collaborate on The Eruptive Behaviour of the Large Channelled Tongariro Andesitic Lava Flows.

Dr D M Suckling, HortResearch, Lincoln, Canterbury, visited Dr Gimme Walter, University of Queensland, Australia, to collaborate on Identification of Sex Pheromones from Australian Insects for NZ Biosecurity.

Dr S Tallon, Industrial Research Ltd, Lower Hutt, visited John Grace, University of British Columbia, Canada, to collaborate on Flux Measurement Instrument for Circulating Fluidised Beds.

Dr J A Taylor, The University of Auckland, Auckland, hosted Professor Fabian Michelangeli, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, Venezuela, to collaborate on Modulation of Intracellular Calcium by a Virus Glycoprotein.

Dr J Vry, Victoria University, Wellington, visited Dr Joel Baker, Danish Lithosphere Centre, DLC MC-ICPMS Laboratory, Denmark, to collaborate on Timing History of Metamorphism, Deformation, Uplift, and Fluid Flow, Southern Alps, New Zealand.

Dr R Willink, Industrial Research Ltd, Lower Hutt, visited Dr Ignacio Lira Pontificia, Universidad Catolica de Chile, Chile, to collaborate on Inference in Measurement Science.

Dr P W Wilson, University of Otago, Dunedin visited Associate Professor Hans Ramlov, University of Roskilde, Denmark, to collaborate on How Proteins Enhance Supercooling.

Dr E Yamamoto, AgResearch, Palmerston North, visited Koya Sugawara, Research Institute of Agricultural Resources, Ishikawa Agricultural College, Japan, to collaborate on Molecular, Cellular, and Genomics Understanding of Inter/Intraspecific Crossings of Endophyte-Grass Species.

Dr Y J Yuan, Industrial Research Ltd, Lower Hutt, visited Dr Loo-Teck Ng, University of Western Sydney, Australia, to collaborate on Nano-Scale-Patterned Polymer Coatings onto Interdigitated Electrodes using Photo-Curing Techniques.

Dr W L Xu, Massey University, Palmerston North, hosted Dr C Y Su, Concordia University, Canada, to collaborate on Advanced Control of Nonholonomic Mobile Systems with Uncertainties in Dynamics.

NZ/USA Cooperative Science Programme (CSP)

Dr P Bellingham, Landcare Research, Lincoln, Canterbury, hosted Professor Lawrence Walker, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Department of Biological Sciences, USA, to collaborate on Impacts of Nitrogen-Fixing and Alien Shrubs on Native Forest Regeneration in New Zealand.

Dr W Bowden, Landcare Research, Lincoln, Canterbury, hosted Dr Bruce Peterson, Marine Biological Laboratory, Ecosystems Center, USA, to collaborate on Land Use Impacts on Biotic Structure and Functions of Streams.

Mr S Causer, WRONZ, Christchurch, visited Dr Roger Lewis, St Louis University, School of Public Health, USA, to collaborate on Control of House-Dust Mites and Associated Allergens on Carpet - Effect of Cleaning.

Dr J Crampton, GNS, Lower Hutt, visited Professor A Seilacher, Yale University, Kline Geology Laboratory, USA, to collaborate on Biology of Extinct, Greenhouse-Adapted, Marine Inoceramid Molluscs.

Dr G J Gainsford, Industrial Research Ltd, Lower Hutt, visited Dr John Larese, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA, to collaborate on Utilising Synchrotron Radiation for Key Information in Design of Human Antibiotics.

Dr J Goff, GeoEnvironmental Consultants, Lyttelton, Christchurch, visited Professor Walter Dudley, University of Hawaii, Marine Science Department, Hawaii, to collaborate on Big Island, Hawaii: Establishing a Prehistoric Tsunami Record.

Dr L Hagemann, of AgResearch, Ruakura, Hamilton, visited Dr Peter Sutovsky, University of Missouri, USA, during April 2002 to collaborate on Effects of Oocyte Maturation on Calcium Oscillations Following Activation in the Bovine.

Dr J Heinemann, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, hosted Professor Joshua Lederberg, Rockefeller University, USA, during September - December 2001 to collaborate on The Final Genetic Frontier: Novel Strategies for Developing a Technology to Transform Human Mitochondria for Medicine.

Ms K Hill, Victoria University, Wellington, visited Dr Chris Simon, University of Connecticut, USA, during April - July 2002 to collaborate on Mating Interactions of the 170 and 13-Year Periodical Cicadas in Eastern North America, with Focus on a New Species.

Dr A Jeffs, NIWA, Auckland, visited Professor Mark Butler, Old Dominion University, Department of Biological Sciences, USA, to collaborate on Post-Larvae - Passive Particles or Super Swimmers.

Dr W Laing, HortResearch, Auckland, hosted Dr David Obenland, USDA, Agricultural Research Centre, USA, to collaborate on Protein Expression Involved in the Development of Peach Mealiness.

Ms K London, UNITEC, Auckland, visited Dr Will O'Brien, University of Florida, USA, to collaborate on a New Tool for the Measurement of Construction Industry Subcontractor Productivity.

Dr M J McKenzie, Crop & Food, Palmerston North, visited Professor Joe Sowokinos, University of Minnesota, Department of Horticultural Science, USA, to collaborate on Investigating Enzymes Involved in the Cold Temperature Sweetening of Potato Tubers.

Dr T A Moore, CRL Energy Ltd, Christchurch, visited Dr Romeo Flores, US Geological Survey, USA, to collaborate on Application of Methane Extraction to New Zealand's Low Rank Coals.

Dr L Rhodes, Cawthron Institute, Nelson, hosted Dr Parke Rublee, University of North Carolina, USA, to collaborate on Pfiesteria: Public Health and Fisheries Risk for New Zealand.

Dr C L Stevens, NIWA, Wellington, hosted Dr Brian Ward, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorology Laboratory, USA, to collaborate on High-Resolution Sampling of Near Surface Temperature Stratification.

Dr B Webster, X2M Technology Ltd, Lower Hutt, visited Mr George Lucina, Structural Integrity Associates Inc, USA, to collaborate on Development of a Biofilm Monitoring Probe for Food Plants.

Ms R Wightman, Victoria University, Wellington, hosted Dr John Valley, University of Wisconsin, Department of Geology & Geophysics, USA, to collaborate on A Fossil Brittle-Ductile Transition Zone Exposed in the Central Southern Alps, New Zealand.

Dr D Wilson, Landcare Research, Dunedin, visited Dr Charles Canham, Institute of Ecosystem Studies, USA, to collaborate on Integrating Herbivory and Other Mechanisms Driving Forest Dynamics.

Memorandum of Understanding with the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)

Dr C Matthew, Massey University, Palmerston North, hosted Professor Johannes Schnyder, Technische Universitat Munchen, Germany, collaborate on The Visit to New Zealand of Professor Hans Schnyder.

Dr A Molenaar, AgResearch, Hamilton, visited Dr Hans-Martin Seyfert, Research Institute for the Biology of Farm Animals, Germany, to collaborate on Characterisation of Factors that Regulate Pathogen-Specific Defences in the Ruminant Mammary Gland.

Dr Y J Yuan, Industrial Research Ltd, Lower Hutt, visited Dr Hans-Peter Hentze, Max Planck Institut of Colloids and Interfaces, Germany, to collaborate on Interfacial Research on Nanostructural Materials and Interdigitated Microelectrodes.

NZ/FRG Scientific and Technological Cooperation Agreement Programme

Mr K Baronian, Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology, Christchurch, visited Professor Laus-Dieter Vorlop, Federal Agricultural Research Centre, Institute of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, Germany, to collaborate on Freeze-Drying of Microbial Cells Immobilised in a Polyvinyl Alcohol (PVA) Hydrogel.

Dr K Betteridge, AgResearch, Palmerston North, visited Dr Silvia Haneklaus, Federal Agricultural Research Centre, Institute of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, Germany, to collaborate on Development of Remote Sensing Technologies for Precision Agriculture.

Associate Professor K Bosselmann, The University of Auckland, Auckland, visited Professor Ulrich Beyerlin, Max Planck Institut fur Auslandisches Offentliches Recht und Volkerrecht, Germany, to collaborate on Measuring Sustainable Development: Sustainability Indicators and Their Implementation in Policy and Law.

Professor J Boys, The University of Auckland, Auckland, visited Dr Andrew Green, Wampfler AG, Germany, to collaborate on Development of an Induction Power-Communication Transfer System.

Mr T Dugdale, NIWA, Hamilton, visited Dr Sabine Koerner, Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Germany, to collaborate on The Role of Coarse Fish in Preventing Plant Restoration in Lake Muggelsee.

Ms A Forster, Forest Research, Rotorua, visited Professor Jorg Schonherr, Universitat Hannover, Germany, to collaborate on Diffusion Models for Agrichemicals in Living Plant Systems.

Professor J Holmes, Victoria University, Wellington, visited Professor Christian Mair, University of Freiburg, Germany, to collaborate on Social Identity and Discourse in the Workplace.

Dr S J Jackson, University of Otago, Dunedin, visited Dr Hans Peter Brandl-Bredenbeck, University of Paderborn, Germany to collaborate on Globalisation, Violence and Advertising: A Comparative Study of New Zealand and Germany.

Dr K Joblin and Dr L Skillman, AgResearch, Palmerston North, visited Professor K Timmis and Herr Carsten Strompl, German National Research Centre for Biotechnology, Germany, to collaborate on Preparation and Analysis of a 16S rDNA Library of Archaea from Grazing Sheep.

Dr E Mitchell, The University of Auckland, Auckland, visited Dr Mechtild Vennemann, Study Coordinator, SIDS Study Germany, Germany, to collaborate on German SIDS Case-Control Study.

Dr R Monaghan, AgResearch, Mosgiel, Dunedin, visited Dr Elke Bloem and Dr Susanne Schroetter, Federal Agricultural Research Centre, Institute of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, Germany, to collaborate on Contribution of Livestock Farming Systems to Europhication of Water Bodies by Light Particle Erosion (LIPE).

Associate Professor K Petrie, The University of Auckland, Auckland, visited Professor Winfried Rief, University of Marburg, Germany, during November 2001 to collaborate on The Effect of Worries about Modernity on Health Care Practice.

Dr R Pickering, Crop & Food, Christchurch, hosted Dr Ute Kastirr, Bundesanstalt fur Zuchtungsforschung an Kulturpflanzen, Institut fur Resistenzforschung und Pathogendiagnostik, Germany, to collaborate on Evaluation of the Response of Wild Hordeum Species to Polymixa Graminis.

Ms J Scotter, University of Otago, Christchurch, visited Dr Juergen Loeffler, Universitaetsklinikum Tubingen, Germany, to collaborate on Molecular Diagnosis of Invasive Fungal Infections.

Ms N Shadbolt, Massey University, Palmerston North, visited Dr Torsten Hemme, Federal Agricultural Research Centre, Institute of Farm Economics, Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Germany, to collaborate on the Impact of Legal and Political Frameworks on the Cost of Production of Dairy Farming in New Zealand and Germany.

Professor A P Sturman, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, visited Professor Frans Fielder and Dr U Corsmeier, Karlsruhe Institut, Germany, to collaborate on Winter Time Air Pollution in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Dr M D Templeton, HortResearch, Auckland, visited Professor Hartmut Oschkinat, Forschungsinstitut fur Molekulare Pharmakologie, Germany, to collaborate on the Use of Solid-State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance to Determine Protein Structure.

Dr D Teulon, Crop & Food, Christchurch visited Dr Edgar Schliephake, Federal Centre for Breeding Research on Cultivated Plants, Germany, to collaborate on Molecular Differentiation of Cereal Aphid Clones.

The Royal Society of New Zealand Travel Grants

These Awards enable students enrolled for PhD degrees at New Zealand universities to attend their first international scientific or technological conference overseas. The recipients listed below received grants during 2002 to attend their first overseas conference.

2002

Sarah Baird, Department of Zoology, University of Canterbury, XIth Biennial Meeting of the International Society for Free Radical Research, 17 - 21 July 2002, Paris, France

Andrew Baker, Liggins Institute, The University of Auckland, Stroke - Molecular, Cellular, Pharmacological and Development of New Therapeutics, 9 - 14 March 2002, Taos, New Mexico, USA

Glenn Bayne, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Canterbury, IAU Colloquium 191: The environments and evolution of double and multiple stars, 3 - 7 February 2003, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico

Alistair Black, Plant Science Department, Lincoln University, 11th Australian Agronomy Conference, 2 - 6 February 2003, Geelong, Victoria, Australia

Natilene Bowker, School of Psychology, Massey University, IASTED International Conference on Information and Knowledge Sharing, 18 - 20 November 2002, St Thomas, US Virgin Islands

Leigh Bull, School of Biological Sciences, Victoria University, The 23rd International Ornithological Congress, 11 - 17 August 2002, Beijing, China

Kelly Burrowes, Department of Bioengineering, The University of Auckland, The Fourth World Congress of Biomechanics, 4 - 9 August 2002, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Kristin Dyet, Microbiology Department, University of Otago/ESR, 13th International Pathogenic Neisseria Conference, 1 - 6 September 2002, Oslo, Norway

Carissa Fonseca, Department of Anatomy with Radiology, The University of Auckland, American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions 2002, 17 - 20 November 2002, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Amanda George, Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology, University of Otago, The 14th Biennial Meeting of the Palaeopathology Association, 28 - 31 August 2002, Coimbra, Portugal

Mary Gower, Chemistry Department, University of Canterbury, 226th American Chemical Society National Meeting, 711 September 2003, New York, USA

Daina Grant, Institute of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University, International Conference on Science and Technology of Synthetic Metals, 29 June - 5 July 2002, Shanghai, China

Paul Gribben, School of Environmental and Marine Science, The University of Auckland, Aquaculture Europe 2002, 16 - 19 October 2002, Trieste, Italy

Michael Hii, Department of Chemical and Process Engineering, University of Canterbury, 5th International Symposium on Kiwifruit, 15 - 20 September 2002, Wuhan City, Hubei Province, P.R. China

Patricia Johnson, Institute of Veterinary, Animal and Biomedical Sciences, Massey University, World Congress of Genetics Applied to Livestock Production, 19 - 23 August 2002, Montpellier, France

Michael Joy, Institute of Natural Resources - Ecology, Massey University, The 3rd Conference of the International Society for Ecological Informatics, 26 - 30 August 2002, Rome, Italy

Bronwyn Kivell, School of Biological Sciences, Victoria University, 3rd Forum of European Neuroscience, 13 - 17 July 2002, Paris, France

Marilyn Lim, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Canterbury, The Voice Foundation's 32nd Annual Symposium: Care of the Professional Voice, 4 - 8 June 2003, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Amanda Lorier, Department of Physiology, The University of Auckland, Society for Neuroscience 32nd Annual Meeting, 2 - 7 November 2002, Orlando, Florida, USA

Patrick McHugh, Department of Pathology, Christchurch School of Medicine, The 10th World Congress on Psychiatric Genetics, 9 - 13 October 2002, Brussels, Belgium

Joanna McQueen, Department of Biological Sciences, Waikato University/HortResearch, XXVIth International Horticultural Congress, 11 - 17 August 2002, Toronto, Canada

Catherine Middleton-Hardie, Department of Medicine, The University of Auckland, Annual Meeting of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research (ASBMR), 20 - 24 September 2002, San Antonio, Texas, USA

Photograph by John Savage

Photograph by David Straight

Lynden Miles, Department of Psychology, University of Canterbury, Society for Personality and Social Psychology 4th Annual Meeting, 6 - 8 February, 2003, Universal City, Los Angeles, California, USA

Stephen Rate, Botany Department, University of Otago, Ecology 2002 Conference, 2 - 6 December 2002, Cairns, Australia

Angela Revell, Department of Biochemistry, University of Otago, 73rd European Atherosclerosis Society Congress, 7 - 10 July 2002, Salzburg, Austria

Patrick Rynhart, Institute of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University, World Congress on Particle Technology (WCPT4), 21 - 25 July 2002, Sydney, Australia

Paul Sirota, Department of Geography, University of Otago, IGS International Symposium on Physical and Mechanical Processes in Ice in Relation to Glacier and Ice-sheet Modelling, 25 - 30 August 2002, Chamonix, Mont-Blanc, France

Christopher Sumby, Chemistry Department, University of Canterbury, XXXVth International Conference on Coordination Chemistry, 21 - 26 July 2002, Heidelberg, Germany

Rebecca Walker, Department of Psychology, University of Otago, Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), 24 - 27 April 2003, Tampa, Florida, USA

Emma Willcock, Department of Psychology, University of Otago, (1) Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition 2 - 6 July 2003, Aberdeen, Scotland and (2) Psychology and Law: International, Interdisciplinary Conference, 7 - 12 July 2003, Edinburgh, Scotland

2002 Annual Report Of The Royal Society of New Zealand

Incorporating the 2002 Academy Council Yearbook

Allocation of funding

The Marsden Fund

Centres of Research Excellence Fund

Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology and Evolution

Centre for Molecular Biodiscovery

New Zealand Institute of Mathematics and its Applications

Nga Pae o te Maramatanga (Horizons of Insight) - the National Institute of Research Excellence for Maori Development and Advancement

The MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology

National Centre for Growth and Development

National Centre for Advanced Bio-Protection Technologies

Science, Mathematics and Technology Teacher Fellowships

Social sciences

Mathematics

Science

Technology

Enterprise Culture and Skills Activities Fund

ActUp Ltd

East Coast Community Development Trust

Enterprise New Zealand Trust

Future Problem Solvers

IPENZ-Engineers New Zealand

Northland Regional Council Community Trust and the Regional Development Agency, Northland

Onehunga High School, Auckland

Partners New Zealand Trust

The Small Business Company

Women in Business New Zealand Limited

An Income of Their Own - Ko o Ratou Putea Anake

Artist Representation and Motivational Services - ARMS

Biotechnology Innovation Project

Building Skills in Inventors

Business Focused Education

Culture of Success Roadshow

Cup Mania

Financial Academy for Youth

Innovation Hub

National Women in Business Week 2003

Rangatahi Business Programme

The 'Innovator' Project

The Wahia Ngarua Project

James Cook Research Fellowships

Biological sciences

Health sciences

Engineering sciences

Physical sciences

Social sciences

Research of relevance to the peoples of New Zealand and the South West Pacific

Science and Technology Promotion Fund

2001/02 recipients

2002/03 round Science and Technology Promotion Fund Review

2002/03 application round

2002/03 recipients

International Science and Technology Linkages Fund

Bilateral Research Activities Programme (BRAP)

NZ/USA Cooperative Science Programme (CSP)

Memorandum of Understanding with the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)

NZ/FRG Scientific and Technological Cooperation Agreement Programme

The Royal Society of New Zealand Travel Grants

2002/03 round
Science and Technology Promotion Fund Review