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MasseyAlbany • Palmerston North • Wellington • Extramural NewsTe Pürongo – 13 Whirina-ä-nuku, October 2008 Issue 16 Vibration trial benefits MS sufferers Page 3 Liz McLeay, Adam Lawrie, Ashleigh Hook and Rhian Firmin prepare for a lunchtime performance of Falling. Festival of New Arts About to board the Dolphin Explorer are Massey marine biology researcher and student mentor Karen Stockin (front left) with secondary school pupils (from front New Pro Vice-Chancellor left) Audrey Setiawan, Merel Kroonenberg, Shaka Ravishankar (all Rangitoto College), and (back row from left) Donald van der Westhuizen (Long Bay College), for Humanities and Social Hayden Hamilton (Manurewa High School), Craig Parker (Long Bay College), Laura Goudie (Westlake Girls’ High School), Laetitia Kench (Rangitoto College), showcases University talent Sciences Fiona McMillan (Long Bay College) and Shannon Fraser (Rangitoto College). The Manawatu Festival of New Arts wrapped up its week-long programme Page 4 at the weekend with a final matinee performance at the Globe Theatre Aspiring scientists dazzled by dolphins in Palmerston North. The thrill of seeing whales spouting and pods of dolphins acted as guide and mentor for the group of ten students The festival showcases new works of film, creative writing, music, swimming at close range on Auckland’s Hauraki Gulf gave from Rangitoto and Long Bay Colleges, Westlake Girls’ High visual arts and performance. secondary school science pupils a vivid sense of life as a School and Manurewa High School - all aspiring scientists It opened to a packed house in the Old Main Building’s auditorium at marine biologist. interested in marine biology, zoology and evolution. the Palmerston North campus and took in other venues around the city Like many Aucklanders the pupils were stunned to find She shared fascinating facts and details of the common inclucing the City Library and Centrepoint Theatre’s Dark Room. there are whales just kilometres off the North Shore coast dolphin’s behaviour and biology, including their voracious between Rangitoto Island and the Coromandel Peninsula. appetites resulting from their need to maintain their body The pupils won vouchers at a recent Course Advice Day on temperature in temperate seas and their highly competitive biological sciences for a day out on the Dolphin Explorer – a mating and sexual antics. Sporting elite honoured tourist and research vessel operated by Auckland’s whale The trip was a follow-up to the course advice day Page 9 and dolphin Safari. highlighting the extensive biological research being The five-hour boat trip was more than a joy ride. Organised undertaken by New Zealand and international researchers by marine biologist Karen Stockin from the Institute of Natural at the institute as well as the growing opportunities for study Resources at Massey’s Albany campus, the journey over and research with the introduction of an undergraduate choppy seas was a unique chance for students to learn about marine biology paper next year. the prolific marine life at their doorstep. Ms Stockin, a research officer for the Coastal Marine This includes marine birds such as gannets, shearwaters Research Group says she is excited about being involving and petrels in addition to five Brydes whales and more than in the expansion of marine research at Massey’s Albany 100 common dolphins. campus. Projects being conducted in both the Coastal While some were beginning to wonder if they would spot Marine and Ecology and Conservation Groups at Albany’s a single dolphin after more than an hour at sea, the eventual campus seem to be growing at an almost exponential rate, sighting of a frenzied crowd of dive-bombing gannets and she says. other seabirds gave the clue to where dolphins and whales “It’s been a privilege to be part of such a multidisciplinary Ash James, Joy Pratt, Phil Anstis, Megan Andrews and Sean Sexton in Phil Anstis, Megan Andrews, Ash James and Sean Sexton in The Thought Experiment. Fashion graduate a would be feeding. Pupils braved drenchings at the bow for a team. Albany’s biological science post-graduate students The Thought Experiment. winner at WOW glimpse of Brydes whales – spotted close to the boat. study an array of species from marine leeches to rats, Page 11 Ms Stockin, who has recently completed her doctoral geckos and gannets.” thesis on the common dolphin found in the Hauraki Gulf, http://news.massey.ac.nz © Massey University 2008 http://news.massey.ac.nz Student exchange Notices with European Venue: Sir Neil Waters Lecture Theatres, Gate Scholarships – 31 October 2008 13 October 2008 - issue 16 One Entrance, Albany Expressway, Albany Alex C P Chu Trade for Training Scholarship Contact: Leanne Menzies – 1 November 2008 Publisher: Massey University Communications and Union to begin Marketing Ph: 09 441 8163 Fulbright Travel awards – 1 November 2008 Printed: Massey University Printery Massey has won funding for a project that New Zealand Postgraduate Study Abroad Next issue: 28 October 2008 will see students study climate change in the Scholarships and Awards – 1 November 2008 European Union, and top European students Don Linklater Memorial University Bursary – 3 Notices: All notices should be sent to editor@massey. ac.nz by Monday prior to publication. study at Massey. 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