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Professor Julian Dowdeswell, Director, in Antarctica
I should also like to note and acknowledge several other
Institute activities. Our academic staff and students
work hard to project the research of the Institute at
many national and international meetings, and
members of our senior academic staff continue to play
important roles in setting the agenda for polar research
through their participation on international committees
and working groups. The work of the Institute in
general also benefits greatly from the excellent
assistance that our academic staff and students have
received from the support staff of the Institute – in
particular our administrative and maintenance teams.
The staff of our library also made outstanding
contributions to keep the library and information
Services running effectively over an extensive
interregnum. It is a pleasure to welcome Heather Lane,
appointed from November, as our new Librarian.
We look forward to new programmes of field data
acquisition over the coming year in the polar regions,
and to several major events in Cambridge. From May,
the museum will host an exhibition of oil paintings of
Antarctica by Edward Seago, kindly loaned from the
private collection of HRH The Duke of Edinburgh,
Chancellor of the University. Later in the year,
following conservation of the glass negatives, the
Antarctic photographs of Herbert Ponting will be put
on public display.
Professor Julian Dowdeswell
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