There has always been a strong sentimental Canada-New Zealand attachment in my lab, I guess dating back to a magical year's sabbatical spent in British Columbia, in 1981. Over the years the group has had a number of Canadian students and post-doctoral fellows, the last being Kirk Feindel. Canadians seem to bring a special humour and energy to the group, as well as being superb scientists. In both aspects Kirk excelled! This last week Kirk popped back to Wellington to pay us all a visit. It has been wonderful having him here.
Here is Kirk looking sinister at the top of Mt KauKau.
Our Canadian PDFs and PhD students have been: Ted Garver, now Senior Research Scientist, Alberta Research Council, Maria Kilfoil, now Associate Professor McGill University, Ryan Cormier, now an A&E medical specialist in Ottawa, Meghan Halse, now on a post doc with Lyndon Emsley in Lyon, Kirk Feindel, now Research Associate with NRC, Halifax, Nova Scotia. In addition there have been two sabbatical visitors, Iain Taylor from UBC and Ken Jeffrey from Guelph.
Just for the record, my complete list of postdoctoral fellows from various countries is: Rosie Wang (Australia), Ted Garver (Canada), Philip Back (Australia), Ross Mair (Australia), Joe Seymour (USA), Ute Skibbe (Germany), Melanie Britton (UK), Sarah Codd (NZ/USA), Elmar Fischer (Germany), William Holmes (UK), Sophie Godefroy (France), Andy Jackson (UK), Dave Fairhurst (UK), Ocean Mercier (NZ), Petrik Galvosas (Germany), Ying Qiao (China/Australia), Penny Hubbard (UK), Antje Gottwald (Germany), Kirk Feindel (Canada), Guillaume Madelin (France), Jen Brown (USA).
An afterthought: Miang is also a "Canadian" having done her first degree at Memorial University of Newfoundland. And, of course, my PhD student, Simon Rogers, married Krista, an Ontarian.
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