Timothy George Haskell is a New Zealand scientist. Penguins at Camp Haskell

Career and impact

Haskell started his career at the Physics and Engineering Laboratory of

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and remained with them through its evolution to

Industrial Research Limited Industrial Research Limited (IRL) was a Crown Research Institute of New Zealand that was established in 1992 and merged into Callaghan Innovation, a new Crown entity, on 1 February 2013. IRL provided research, development and commercialisation s ...

(IRL). He shifted to

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in 2012. He worked with Bill Robinson on the development and installation of earthquake base isolation foundations for Te Papa. However, he is best known for his development of "Camp Haskell" - a containerised facility for working on the

Sea ice Sea ice arises as seawater freezes. Because ice is less dense than water, it floats on the ocean's surface (as does fresh water ice, which has an even lower density). Sea ice covers about 7% of the Earth's surface and about 12% of the world's oce ...

of McMurdo Sound. He had equipment mounted on the

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when it calved in 1990. He had just finished a field trip to the glacier in 2010 when it next calved. He worked with

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for a time, developing portable Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) technology. Initial application to the determination of sea ice heterogeneity evolved to become a range of bench-top NMR devices developed by the spin-off company Magritek. HaskellStraitPanorama

In 2009 the ocean passage between

Ross Island Ross Island is an island formed by four volcanoes in the Ross Sea near the continent of Antarctica, off the coast of Victoria Land in McMurdo Sound. Ross Island lies within the boundaries of Ross Dependency, an area of Antarctica claimed by New ...

and White Island (Ross Archipelago) was named Haskell Strait, Antarctica.

Awards

* 2019 - Thomson Medal from the Royal Society Te Apārangi * 2008 – New Zealand Antarctic Medal (NZAM) in the

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* 2007 – Royal Society Te Apārangi Hector Medal * 2006 – New Zealand Association of Scientists Marsden Medal * 1996 – Royal Society Science and Technology Medal

References

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