In my Fifth Form year at Dunstan High School, Alexandra, my Biology Teacher was Peter Child. He retired shortly afterwards, and as …
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Curio Bay - New Zealand's Jurassic Fossil Forest
Bioturbation near the Jurassic Fossil Forests at Curio Bay
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleThe ‘God’ of trace fossils, Adolf ‘Dolf’ Seilacher, once visited our Geology Department, when I was an undergrad. My Prof, Doug Campbell, …
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New Zealand paleobotany
Beauprea – the last truly Gondwanan plant in New Zealand?
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleThirty years ago (Pole, 1994), I suggested all of New Zealand’s current flora may have arrived over the sea, by long-distance dispersal. …
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Curio Bay - New Zealand's Jurassic Fossil Forest
The Jurassic Fossil Forests at Curio Bay, New Zealand, and their connection to two remarkable English scientists
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleThe Jurassic fossil forests at Curio Bay, southern New Zealand, have been known for at least a hundred and fifty years. They …
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Australian Ecology
Are the consequences of a fire in Tasmania 3,600 years ago, still present?
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleSitting a little above the more famous lake of Cradle Mountain National Park , Tasmamia – Dove Lake, is Wombat Pool. Some …
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Ukraine: War and Wonders
Ukraine: War and Wonders – Ukraine’s Womanly Face of War
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleSvetlana Alexievich’s book ‘The Unwomanly Face of War’ is one of the most impactful I’ve ever read. The book is a series …
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Curio Bay - New Zealand's Jurassic Fossil Forest
The Jurassic fossil soils of Curio Bay, and Fortrose-Otara, New Zealand
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleSoils “lie at the interface between earth, air, water, and life” (Needelman, 2013). They are constantly evolving in response to what is …
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Forests
The Last Tree in Papanui Bush. And that last palm tree on Easter Island
by Mike Poleby Mike Pole“What did the kiwi bloke say while cutting down the last tree in Papanui Bush?” Here, I’m just re-phrasing of the question …
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Ukraine: War and Wonders
The Invincible Children of Kharkiv – Musicians in the ‘City without Windows’
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleKharkiv, in the far north-east of Ukraine, has been described as ‘a city without windows’ (Mayor Ihor Terekhov in a Twitter post …
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Curio Bay - New Zealand's Jurassic Fossil Forest
The Hollow Tree Stumps at Curio Bay
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleA hollow tree stump at the Jurassic fossil forest of Curio Bay, New Zealand. The inside of the stump (the wood is …
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