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confirming that massive ice sheets have covered Antarctica since around 34 million years ago. However, the ice cover was highly dynamic, coming and going in response to perturbations in the Earth's orbit, known as Milankovitch cycles, which affect the amount of radiation the planet receives. For the past 15 million years, the size of the ice cap has been relatively stable.
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These early projects eventually led to the multi-national Cape Roberts Project, headed by Barrett, now the director of the Antarctic Research Centre at Victoria University. During the late 1990s, three holes drilled near the edge of the mountains recovered a remarkable 'sedimentary tape recorder',
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continental drift and Gondwanaland. But Barrett's contribution to Antarctic science goes beyond his 'serendipitous discovery' as a doctoral student. He has also been acknowledged as the 'supremo' of the geological drilling community in the Antarctic for his work in this area from the 1970s onwards.
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New Zealander Peter Barrett discovered the first tetrapod remains in Antarctica in 1967. Subsequent research that identified the remains provided the first evidence that land vertebrates had roamed Antarctica when its climate was warm, and lent support to the then controversial theories of
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Late Cenozoic (13-0 Myr) Glacimarine Sedimentology, Facies Analysis, and Sequence Stratigraphy from the Western Ross Embayment, Antarctica: Implications for the Variability of the Antarctic Ice Sheets
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for his lifetime contributions to science in New Zealand. In 2006, he received the SCAR President's Medal for outstanding achievement in Antarctic science. In 2008, following the death of its patron
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Professor Barrett has been made an Honorary Fellow of the prestigious Geological Society of London, a title held by only 70 people worldwide.
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The Te Kuiti group in the Waitomo-Te Anga area : a study of structures, sedimentation and paleogeography of calcareous sediments
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The Te Kuiti group in the Waitomo-Te Anga area : a study of structures, sedimentation and paleogeography of calcareous sediments
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The post-glacial Permian and Triassic Beacon rocks in the Beardmore Glacier area, central Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica
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The post-glacial Permian and Triassic Beacon rocks in the Beardmore Glacier area, central Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica
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The post-glacial Permian and Triassic Beacon rocks in the Beardmore Glacier area, central Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica
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tetrapod remains. His 1968 doctoral thesis at the Institute of Polar Studies had the title
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Barrett married Maxine Frances Stone in 1977; the couple had six children.
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invited Barrett to become the new patron, which he accepted. In the
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of Antarctica was named by the southern party of the 1963–1964
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Discovery of the first tetrapod fossils (Antarctica, 1967)
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NZAM

Hamilton
Ohio State University
Victoria University of Wellington
Theses
The Te Kuiti group in the Waitomo-Te Anga area : a study of structures, sedimentation and paleogeography of calcareous sediments
The post-glacial Permian and Triassic Beacon rocks in the Beardmore Glacier area, central Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica
Rob McKay
Nancy Bertler
NZAM
geologist
tetrapod
fossils
Hamilton
Hamilton High School
Auckland University College
Bachelor of Science
Master of Science
University of Wisconsin
Institute of Polar Studies
Ohio State University
Triassic period
postdoctoral fellowship
Victoria University of Wellington
Antarctic expedition
core sampling
Antarctic
Antarctic Research Centre
Nancy Bertler

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