Dr Rob McKay, a postdoctoral researcher at Victoria University’s Antarctic Research Centre, has been awarded the 2011 Prime Minister’s MacDiarmid Emerging Scientist prize, worth $200,000, for his research into past environmental change in Antarctica and its implications for the current phase of global warming. The 34-year-old glacial sedimentologist almost didn’t put his name forward for … Continue reading The Prime Minister’s MacDiarmid Emerging Scientist Prize 2011