HATHERTON GEOSCIENCE LABORATORY

I am most grateful to have shared with the IMESS and IMEEMS groups the 10 years of continual use of the laboratory for recording the telemetry data from Erebus. The space and facilities made available have been excellent, and very generous. The technicians have helped immeasurably, and have made this one of the most effective volcano observatories in the world today. I hope it continues the work after I leave the program.

If I have one regret, it is that the laboratory is not visited more by members of the Scott Base staff, and by visitors from other bases. The amount of work done is appreciated by only a few. The notice prohibiting entry to the lab is the immediate cause, but a display area. in the passages would help. Perhaps some good quality displays will spin off from the International Antarctic Research Centre.

My other suggestion is that the senior technician be given a smal1 annual budget for tools and components. At present he is very poorly off relative to the engineering and communications staff, and has no hopes for improvement.