Alumni News April 2025

**A round up of Alumni News from our April 2025 Explorer newsletter.**

Dr David Harrowfield (Trust Inaugural Executive Officer) has completed more than 400 pages on the development of physical geography at the University of Canterbury. The laborious process of indexing is now underway and when complete, the final work will be donated to the Macmillan Brown Library. David is also close to completing a part on science in Terra Nova Bay and has resumed research on key supporters for Sir Ernest Shackleton’s 1907-09, 1914-16 and 1921-22 (Shackleton-Rowett) expeditions.

Marie-Amande Coignard (Conservator winter 2013) completed her work as a teacher conservator at the new Grand Egyptian Museum, which opened last October. The museum contains the world’s largest and most complex collection of ancient treasures and artefacts. Now home in France, Marie-Amande’s focus is caring for her baby daughter Alicia.

Destiny Martin (Inspiring Explorer™ 2023) continues her outreach work and recently gavea presentation to a local Rotary Club. She spoke about the Trust’s expedition to South Georgia, including walking in Sir Ernest Shackleton’s footsteps and getting a sense of his resilience and determination.

Kelsey Waghorn (Inspiring Explorer™ 2023) has completed the first New Zealand-based Expedition Guide Academy Comprehensive Guide Course in Akaroa on Banks Peninsula. She describes the course as stunning, with lots of new information, honing skills and confidence building and hopes it will help get her back on a ship headed south.