Isobel Gabites

Personal awards

PEN Young Writers Award 1977, 1978, 1979 (poetry)

Montana Book Awards 1999 (finalist) The Native Garden - Design Themes from Wild New Zealand

Royal Society of New Zealand Manhire Prize for Creative Science Writing 2010 (fiction)

shared awards

NZRA Outstanding Park Award 2008 (Te Kopahau)

Best Environment Project, Wellington Civic Trust Awards 2008 (Te Kopahau)

PCNZ Merit Award 2009 (Te Kopahau)

NZILA Outstanding Design 2015 (Te Kopahau)

QUALIFICATIONS

MSc (Dist) Paleoecology of the Lashly Formation, Triassic, Antarctica (Antarctic Research Centre, VUW)

BSc (Hons) Botany & Soil Science (VUW)

LEGACY

Gabites Glacier, Mt Bastion, Antarctica

Cyclone Iso, Pacific Ocean, 1978