title: Short Note: Report of mummified leopard seal carcass in the southern Dry Valleys, McMurdo Sound, Antarctica.

authors: Banks, Jonathan C.

subjects: leopard seal

abstract: The wide spread occurrence of mummified seal and penguin carcasses tens of kilometres from the open ocean is an interesting phenomenon occurring in the Antarctic Dry Valleys. Mummified seal carcasses were first reported by Scott’s expedition in 1903 (Scott 1969), and live seals and seal carcasses have since been reported many kilometres from the nearest ice-free ocean. Seal carcasses found in the McMurdo Dry Valleys are predominantly crabeater seals (Lobodon carcinophaga (Hombron & Jacquinot)) with a smaller number of Weddell seals, (Leptonychotes weddellii (Lesson)), also reported. Here we present only the second published report of a leopard seal carcass from the McMurdo Dry Valleys.

text: Short Note: Report of mummified leopard seal carcass in the southern Dry Valleys, McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. The wide spread occurrence of mummified seal and penguin carcasses tens of kilometres from the open ocean is an interesting phenomenon occurring in the Antarctic Dry Valleys. Mummified seal carcasses were first reported by Scott’s expedition in 1903 (Scott 1969), and live seals and seal carcasses have since been reported many kilometres from the nearest ice-free ocean. Seal carcasses found in the McMurdo Dry Valleys are predominantly crabeater seals (Lobodon carcinophaga (Hombron & Jacquinot)) with a smaller number of Weddell seals, (Leptonychotes weddellii (Lesson)), also reported. Here we present only the second published report of a leopard seal carcass from the McMurdo Dry Valleys.

year: 2010

title: Radiocarbon-dated faunal remains correlate very large rock avalanche deposit with prehistoric Alpine Fault rupture

authors: Wood, Jamie R.

subjects: Alpine Fault

abstract: We present an example of where radiocarbon-dated faunal remains have allowed the likely age of a landslide deposit to be estimated. Radiocarbon dates were obtained for 3 skeletons and 13 coprolites (from 3 moa species), recovered from the surface of a very large (c. 25–30×10⁶ m³) rock avalanche deposit near Daley's Flat in the Dart River Valley, South Island, New Zealand. The calibrated age of the oldest specimen (AD 975–1224; 95.4% confidence range) provides a minimum age for the deposit. We therefore suggest a possible correlation between the Daley's Flat rock avalanche deposit and regional estimates for a major Alpine Fault rupture during the 10th Century AD.

text: Radiocarbon-dated faunal remains correlate very large rock avalanche deposit with prehistoric Alpine Fault rupture We present an example of where radiocarbon-dated faunal remains have allowed the likely age of a landslide deposit to be estimated. Radiocarbon dates were obtained for 3 skeletons and 13 coprolites (from 3 moa species), recovered from the surface of a very large (c. 25–30×10⁶ m³) rock avalanche deposit near Daley's Flat in the Dart River Valley, South Island, New Zealand. The calibrated age of the oldest specimen (AD 975–1224; 95.4% confidence range) provides a minimum age for the deposit. We therefore suggest a possible correlation between the Daley's Flat rock avalanche deposit and regional estimates for a major Alpine Fault rupture during the 10th Century AD.

year: 2011

title: Rangatiratanga - Kawanatanga: Dealing with rhetoric

authors: Nikora, Linda Waimarie

abstract: Numbered among the few Maori appointed to an academic position during the late 1980s, I have seen our discipline and profession, in all its awkward self-consciousness, make genuine attempts to grapple the respond to questions and challenges delivered by Maori and Pakeha alike.  For example, Where is the Maori content in courses?  Why aren’t Maori graduating from professional training programmes?  Why are there not more Maori academics? Where is the place/space for Maori as practitioners, academics, researchers and decision-makers?  Why does it seem that Maori are always on the ‘client’ side of the professional/client equation?  Where are the Maori men?  In responding to these persistent challenges the professional and discipline in Aotearoa/New Zealand has been irreversibly changed, in my opinion.  The change has not been dramatic (psychology is somewhat averse to self-promotion) but, of those changes that have occurred, a definite contribution has been made to advancing Maori development, to building a more bicultural discipline and practice, and to supporting the strength of the Kawanatanga and Rangatiratanga dynamic whose importance I emphasize here.

text: Rangatiratanga - Kawanatanga: Dealing with rhetoric Numbered among the few Maori appointed to an academic position during the late 1980s, I have seen our discipline and profession, in all its awkward self-consciousness, make genuine attempts to grapple the respond to questions and challenges delivered by Maori and Pakeha alike.  For example, Where is the Maori content in courses?  Why aren’t Maori graduating from professional training programmes?  Why are there not more Maori academics? Where is the place/space for Maori as practitioners, academics, researchers and decision-makers?  Why does it seem that Maori are always on the ‘client’ side of the professional/client equation?  Where are the Maori men?  In responding to these persistent challenges the professional and discipline in Aotearoa/New Zealand has been irreversibly changed, in my opinion.  The change has not been dramatic (psychology is somewhat averse to self-promotion) but, of those changes that have occurred, a definite contribution has been made to advancing Maori development, to building a more bicultural discipline and practice, and to supporting the strength of the Kawanatanga and Rangatiratanga dynamic whose importance I emphasize here.

year: 2001