2017 Authors
Tony Carr was brought up in the Falklands and in Mauritius; his family eventually settled in Anglesey. He was educated at Bangor University where he graduated in History; after working as an archivist in Essex he returned to Bangor where he spent the rest of his career, retiring in 2002 as Professor of Medieval Welsh History. He has written extensively on the history of medieval Wales and in 1956, at the age of 18, he won the title of Brain of Britain for that year, being the youngest person ever to win it.
David Galloway worked as a camp teacher on West Falkland in 1961-2 and assisted with a banding program under Robin Woods’ direction. Since retiring from a career in educational psychology and teacher training he has resumed his interest in the impact of introduced predators on the birds of the Falkland Islands.
Aidan Kerr was the Senior Scientist/Agronomist in the Falkland Islands Department of Agriculture from 1994 to 2003 and previously was a pasture agronomist with the U.K.’s Overseas Development Administration’s Agriculture Research Centre in Stanley from 1985 to 1988. He works as a Countryside Management Adviser for the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs and is based in Newry, Northern Ireland.
David Luxton was born in the Falklands while his father was on board William Scoresby at Deception Island in 1944. He joined the Falkland Islands Government, Post and Telegraphs, in 1959 and was Wireless Operator at Stanley and South Georgia. He moved to New Zealand in 1966 and began writing history in 1997 when President of the West Auckland Historical Society. His love of Falkland Islands history began in 1952 when Mrs Cawkell's first papers were read over the Falkland Islands Broadcasting Station.
Jonathan Meiburg first visited the Falklands in 1997, where he met Robin Woods in Stanley and assisted him on Falklands Conservation's survey of striated caracaras in the Jason islands, along with Mike Morrison and Michael and Jeannette Clarke. This trip sparked an interest in birds and in caracaras in particular, which he pursued to a graduate degree in Geography at the University of Texas at Austin and further work with Robin in the Jasons in 2006 and 2012. He is now writing a general-interest book about caracaras and the people who live with them, to be published in 2019.
Stephen Palmer served as Rector of Christ Church Cathedral in the 1990s. During his time in the Falklands he was encouraged by Jane Cameron to start contributing to the Falkland Islands Journal – and he has done so every year since 1995. On his return to the UK he completed a PhD on a Falklands-related subject. He is now retired from full-time ministry.
Ann Savours worked for twelve years at the Scott Polar Research Institute Cambridge. During this time she took one year’s sabbatical leave in Australia and New Zealand working on a catalogue of polar and whaling manuscripts. In 1970 she joined the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich as Assistant Keeper (Manuscripts) and later became Custodian of Manuscripts. She was responsible for the Arctic Gallery and was the Research and Displays Officer for “Project Discovery”. She has written the definitive history of the RRS Discovery among other books. Also known as Dr A.M.Shirley, she has kept her maiden name, Ann Savours, as her nom-de-plume.
Phil Stone is a Research Associate with the British Geological Survey. He has worked in South Georgia (with the British Antarctic Survey) and the Falkland Islands where, between 1998 and 2008, he acted as geological adviser to the Department of Mineral Resources.
Edward Walsh has researched and written about 19 th century Irish migration history and the Irish people (including the Catholic priests) who came to live and work in the Falklands. He was awarded a Shackleton Scholarship in 2006 and is a contributor to the Dictionary of Falklands Biography. He lives and works in London.
Robin Woods volunteered to work in the British Antarctic Meteorological Service in the Falklands in 1956. His studies of birds up to 1963 established an interest that has lasted for 60 years. As well as many papers and reports, his publications include guides to Falklands plants, birds and mammals. His Atlas of Breeding Birds of the Falkland Islands was published in 1997 and The birds of the Falkland Islands - an Annotated Checklist in 2017. He has a particular interest in Cobb’s and Sedge Wrens, Striated Caracara, and the impacts of alien mammals on island ecology. He chaired the Board of Falklands Conservation from 2002 to 2005 and is an honorary vice president. In 2008, he was awarded the MBE for services to nature conservation in the Falklands.
Colin Young worked as Grasslands Officer in the Falklands for 3 years from 1965 to 1968 when he set up some small plot trials and instigated the Grasslands Conference. Having contributed to the first edition of this Journal in 1967 it seemed appropriate to contribute again some 50 years later.
David Galloway worked as a camp teacher on West Falkland in 1961-2 and assisted with a banding program under Robin Woods’ direction. Since retiring from a career in educational psychology and teacher training he has resumed his interest in the impact of introduced predators on the birds of the Falkland Islands.
Aidan Kerr was the Senior Scientist/Agronomist in the Falkland Islands Department of Agriculture from 1994 to 2003 and previously was a pasture agronomist with the U.K.’s Overseas Development Administration’s Agriculture Research Centre in Stanley from 1985 to 1988. He works as a Countryside Management Adviser for the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs and is based in Newry, Northern Ireland.
David Luxton was born in the Falklands while his father was on board William Scoresby at Deception Island in 1944. He joined the Falkland Islands Government, Post and Telegraphs, in 1959 and was Wireless Operator at Stanley and South Georgia. He moved to New Zealand in 1966 and began writing history in 1997 when President of the West Auckland Historical Society. His love of Falkland Islands history began in 1952 when Mrs Cawkell's first papers were read over the Falkland Islands Broadcasting Station.
Jonathan Meiburg first visited the Falklands in 1997, where he met Robin Woods in Stanley and assisted him on Falklands Conservation's survey of striated caracaras in the Jason islands, along with Mike Morrison and Michael and Jeannette Clarke. This trip sparked an interest in birds and in caracaras in particular, which he pursued to a graduate degree in Geography at the University of Texas at Austin and further work with Robin in the Jasons in 2006 and 2012. He is now writing a general-interest book about caracaras and the people who live with them, to be published in 2019.
Stephen Palmer served as Rector of Christ Church Cathedral in the 1990s. During his time in the Falklands he was encouraged by Jane Cameron to start contributing to the Falkland Islands Journal – and he has done so every year since 1995. On his return to the UK he completed a PhD on a Falklands-related subject. He is now retired from full-time ministry.
Ann Savours worked for twelve years at the Scott Polar Research Institute Cambridge. During this time she took one year’s sabbatical leave in Australia and New Zealand working on a catalogue of polar and whaling manuscripts. In 1970 she joined the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich as Assistant Keeper (Manuscripts) and later became Custodian of Manuscripts. She was responsible for the Arctic Gallery and was the Research and Displays Officer for “Project Discovery”. She has written the definitive history of the RRS Discovery among other books. Also known as Dr A.M.Shirley, she has kept her maiden name, Ann Savours, as her nom-de-plume.
Phil Stone is a Research Associate with the British Geological Survey. He has worked in South Georgia (with the British Antarctic Survey) and the Falkland Islands where, between 1998 and 2008, he acted as geological adviser to the Department of Mineral Resources.
Edward Walsh has researched and written about 19 th century Irish migration history and the Irish people (including the Catholic priests) who came to live and work in the Falklands. He was awarded a Shackleton Scholarship in 2006 and is a contributor to the Dictionary of Falklands Biography. He lives and works in London.
Robin Woods volunteered to work in the British Antarctic Meteorological Service in the Falklands in 1956. His studies of birds up to 1963 established an interest that has lasted for 60 years. As well as many papers and reports, his publications include guides to Falklands plants, birds and mammals. His Atlas of Breeding Birds of the Falkland Islands was published in 1997 and The birds of the Falkland Islands - an Annotated Checklist in 2017. He has a particular interest in Cobb’s and Sedge Wrens, Striated Caracara, and the impacts of alien mammals on island ecology. He chaired the Board of Falklands Conservation from 2002 to 2005 and is an honorary vice president. In 2008, he was awarded the MBE for services to nature conservation in the Falklands.
Colin Young worked as Grasslands Officer in the Falklands for 3 years from 1965 to 1968 when he set up some small plot trials and instigated the Grasslands Conference. Having contributed to the first edition of this Journal in 1967 it seemed appropriate to contribute again some 50 years later.
