Falklands : Shackleton Scholar Studies Falklands Sponges
Submitted by Falkland Islands News Network (Juanita Brock) 26.10.2008 (Article Archived on 09.11.2008)
Claire Goodwin from Northern Ireland is currently in the Falklands on a Shackleton scholarship studying sponges.
Photo (c) J. Brock (FINN) Dr. Claire Goodwin
SHACKLETON SCHOLAR STUDIES FALKLANDS SPONGES
By J. Brock (FINN)
Dr Claire Goodwin
Claire Goodwin from Northern Ireland is currently in the Falklands on a Shackleton scholarship studying sponges. Already she has collected samples from around Stanley but the highlight of her trip will be ten days at the Jason Islands. She will be taken there aboard the Golden Fleece skipered by Dion Poncet.
Claire Goodwin says that samples collected thus far, while common in the Falklands, don’t match up with the information she has at hand and she will have to bring samples back to Northern Ireland for further analysis and study. It is indeed pioneering work and hopefully it will be published as a field guide or in scientific journals in the UK and elsewhere.
On Wednesday evening from 1730 to 1930hrs Ms Goodwin will hold a workshop at the lab at the Fisheries Department at FIPASS. After her Jason Islands trip she will present a talk about her work at the FI Chamber of Commerce Function Room from 1730hrs onwards.
Ms Goodwin arrived in the Falklands via the LAN flight on Saturday, 11 October 2008 and she expects to stay in the Falklands for about a month.
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