If there is one thing I learned while being in the Arctic it is that you are at the mercy of the weather every single second of every single day. As the majority of the northern hemisphere was entering the first few satisfying weeks of Spring, Iqaluit in northern Canada was experiencing its average […]

  During my final day in Cape Town I got the chance to join in with some data collection for a masters student at the University of Cape Town. I love fieldwork, especially when it involves being in, on or around the sea. When Steve Benjamin of Animal Ocean – a marine adventure company based […]

Photo: Morne Hardenberg Sharks were becoming a highlight of my scholarship year and as I surfaced from each dive alive and bite free I was becoming ever more confident. I had just spent a few days in Perth, Western Australia, where reports of shark attacks were abnormally high. I was visiting the 2008 OWUSS Scholar […]

  It struck me quite suddenly – since arriving in New Zealand I had been diving every single day. Not such a bad thing. But, when you are in a country boasting some of the most incredible landscapes the world has to offer it would be a crime to pass through without taking time to […]

Following on from my week of diving in the Poor Knights Islands I headed further north towards the Bay of Islands. As the coach wound its way through the sprawling landscape I was captivated by what is New Zealand’s stunning and endless expanse of flourishing green countryside. Despite the landscape being one of the most […]