Atoll Research Team

fTIHE Pacific Science Board of the .i US National Research Council recently sent a team to Kaping amarangi, Caroline Islands, as part of its coral atoll programme. The ■.earn will study environmental factors affecting life on atolls and will make investigations in anthro pology, botany, etc.

Members of the team are Mr.

U, D. McKee (US Geological Sur vey), Dr. C. Hand (marine inverte brate zoologist), Dr. W. A Niering (land ecologist), Dr. R. R. Harry (ichthyologist), Dr. J. Wiens (geographer), and Mr. W. Jan

Newhouse (algologist).

Jf Mr. Peter Yeomans, son of Mr.

Tom Yeomans, of Sydney and New juiena, is making good as a design ing artist overseas. He has recently been awarded a scholarship to study at the Cranbrook Academy, a unit m a large, non-profit educational centre in Michigan, USA. He studied

industrial designing at East Sydney Technical College. Later he practised store layout and design and set him self up as a freelance designer.

He then went overseas, and in the last two years he has studied sculpture and designing in England, travelled extensively in Italy, and worked and studied in Toronto, Canada. In London he won a com

petition for a design to decorate Australia House during the Corona tion celebrations. He intends to re main overseas, where he considers there are greater opportunities. His father, Mr. Tom Yeomans, is well known in New Guinea through his association with gold mining and. more recently, with the South Pacific Brewery.