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  • Dunedin Beasts

    Photos of my ice hockey team the Dunedin Beasts.

    Chris Laing
    Chris Laing
    Julian Munster
    Julian Munster
    Jon Kitchen
    Jon Kitchen
    Jane Soper
    Jane Soper
    Jack Li
    Jack Li
    Jack Li
    Jack Li
    Estelle Baker
    Estelle Baker

  • Dunedin Bears

    Well, we didn’t exactly set the league alight, but we had lots of fun and fought our way galiantly to last place in the Autumn 2007 Dunedin Ice Hockey League B-grade. Here are some photos taken by Joe Sales of my team the Bears. Thanks to Joe for letting me post them here.

    Ryan Hellyer playing ice hockey for the Dunedin Bears

    I’m the one in the middle of the photo below. I was pretty wrecked by that stage and enjoying my breather whilst leaning on the boards 🙂

    Dunedin Bears between periods

    This is our goalie, Jaimee Wood, she was totally awesome all season long and was the star of our team. A future superstar goalie in the making.

    Jaimee Wood, star goalie for the Dunedin Bears

  • Beasts in the Easton Cup

    I played for the Dunedin Beasts in the Easton Cup. I also dragged our superstar ring-in Jenel Bode to play with us 🙂 Unfortunately she got injured and only played one and a bit games 🙁 We got totally thumped in every game. Was lots of fun though and I can’t wait for the rest of the season!

    Dunedin Beasts at Easton Cup 2007. Clockwise from top left: Jonathan Kitchen, ??, Andy Noble, Chris Laing, Callan Mclaughlin, Mark Hareb, Tim Honore, Ryan Hellyer, Jenel Bode, Mark ???, Jack Li, Rob Owens, Michael Mitchell, Julian Munster, ???

  • Brooker Bunch and visitors

    We’ve had quite a few visitors to the Brooker Bunch research group recently including Jane Nelson and Grace Morgan. This photo was taken facing away from the University of Otago Chemistry Department. From left: Jane Nelson, Grace Morgan, Humphrey Feltam, Ryan Hellyer, Jonathan Kitchen, Andy Noble, Owen Clements, Sally Brooker, Nick White and Scott Cameron.

    Brooker Bunch March 2007

  • Catlins trip with Kelly and Jon

    Jon Kitchen and I took Kelly Kilpin on a whirl wind site seeing tour of the Catlins while she was here for Len Stock 2007. Getting Kelly to let me take her photo was a tad hazardous! Good time had by all and lots of pretty scenery was viewed on route.

    Kelly and me (Ryan Hellyer) in front of McLean falls

    Jon Kitchen in front of the Purakenui Falls

    Me (Ryan Hellyer) in front of the Purakenui falls

  • The communicator

    My dear friend Debbie Jordan won an award recently for “outstanding communicator” at the NZIC conference in Rotorua. Here’s the poster she presented at the conference.

    Debbie Jordan with her poster

    and here’s a demonstration of Debbie using her subtle but effective outstanding communication skills 😛

    Debbie Jordan communicating

  • Lehn Stock photos

    The poster presentation at Lehn Stock 2007 was a good chance to network with chemists from other parts of the country.

    A rather stunned looking Matt Polson walking in front of my attempt to take a photo of the Steel group from Canterbury. Matt used to be my lab demonstrator many moons ago.

    Matt Polson and the Steele group

    My fellow Brooker bunch members Scott, Humphrey and Jon getting into the spirit of Lehn Stock 2007.

    Jon Kitchen drinking with the monkeys Scott (left) and Humphrey (middle)

    A nice photo of Jon Kitchen and Lisa McLintock during the poster presentation at Lehn Stock.

    Jon Kitchen and Lisa McClintock

  • Lehn Stock

    I attended the Dunedin Supramolecular symposium and presented my poster on mixed cobalt(III)/silver(I) coordination complexes. The star of the show was Nobel prize laureate Jean Marie Lehn who spoke about his pioneering work in the area of supramolecular chemistry.

    From the Supramolecular chemistry Wikipedia page : “Supramolecular chemistry refers to the area of chemistry which focuses on the noncovalent bondinghydrogen bonding, metal coordination, hydrophobic forces, van der Waals forces, pi-pi interactions, and/or electrostatic effects to assemble molecules into multimolecular complexes.

    Jean Marie Lehn. Nobel Prize winner.

  • Photos of Dunedin

    Some photos I took (well apart from the one of myself) of Dunedin recently.

    Dunedin City at night

    The registry building at the University of Otago

    Me (Ryan Hellyer) in front of the registry building at the University of Otago

  • Jenel Bode comes to Dunedin!

    Woot! Got a lift back to Dunedin from Christchurch with my old hockey coach Jenel Bode who I’m hoping will take a job with the Dunedin Ice Hockey Association as a professional hockey coach/skating instructor. We stopped off at the Moeraki boulders on the way.

    Jenel Bode on top of a Moeraki boulder

    Jenel Bode displaying a Moeraki boulder

    Yvette and I took her up onto the chemistry department roof to show her the city from up high.

    Yvette Absalom and Jenel Bode on top of the University of Otago Chemistry Department roof.