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Wednesday 5 February 2025
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Banged up, blistered and ‘burnt out’ STEPHEN STUART It was all about mind over metres for Ed Shuttleworth on the longest run of his life over the weekend. The Sport Tasman chief execu-
tive set off on his “210 Reasons to Run” fundraiser for Nelson Tasman Hospice from Farewell Spit at 3am last Saturday morning and admits he went out too hard. “It unravelled a bit, but so many people kept coming out and sup-
porting me I was literally carried along by them,” says Ed, after completing his 210-kilometre trek to the Nelson Tasman Hospice in Stoke just after 8.30pm on Sunday. Do the math and the ultra-mar-
athon runner was averaging just over 5kms an hour. “It was a good time wasn’t it.” But Ed reveals this was no fun run, as he had never gone further than 160kms before the weekend. “It was brutal. I was really try-
ing to stay in the present and not think about what lay ahead.” He couldn’t eat and brought up everything for about 19 hours. “I think I held a lot of nerves so I
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Former Nayland College student Annabelle McQuillan says although algae is unattractive to water users, microalgae is something special. Photo: Gordon Preece.
Summer with nature’s green gold GORDON PREECE Enhancing phosphorus removal from wastewater using microalgae was the crux of a former Nayland College student’s 10-week research programme at Cawthron Institute. Annabelle McQuillan has delved deep into this area at the algae research
world leader for her environmental science degree with honours at the University of Canterbury. A Cawthron summer scholarship provided through a bequest from acclaimed Richmond teacher Madge Johnston bloomed the research programme for Annabelle, which concluded on 5 February.
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She’s been thrilled by the opportunity on her home turf to learn about the micro aquatic, plant-like organisms and how they could extricate at times harmful widespread excessive algae growth, currently fed by “unsustainable” phosphorus use in fertilisers. “If you’re encountering algae in a water body, that’s probably not very good,
and you probably want to stay away, but working with microalgae is really cool, it can be used for a lot of things,” she says “To get phosphorus, you have to mine it, and it’s a finite resource, so it’s going to run out in the next 30 to 300 years. Continued on page 2.
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