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August 30, 2024
Our Land and Water has now ended.
Our mission was to preserve the most fundamental treasures of Aotearoa – its land and water – while producing value from those same treasures.
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Summary
Supercharge your data collection when participating in community-based monitoring of freshwater environments
A brochure for rural community and catchment groups, explaining how the data they collect can help detect changes in freshwater quality – but only if…
Guidance
Monitoring periphyton in rivers
Periphyton is the brown or green slime that grows on stones, wood or any other stable surfaces in streams and rivers. In some situations, it…
Land Use Opportunities
Developing a holistic decision-making framework for evaluating land use opportunities.
This project has produced
Technical Report
Parameters for simple empirical catchment water quality models for simulating Escherichia coli in New Zealand rivers
E. coli is sampled at over 1000 long-term river water quality monitoring stations across New Zealand every month. Analyses associated with NPS-FM implementation commonly use…
Video
Introduction to the Find Data platform (MVP V1.2)
The Kuaha Matihiko: Digital Gateway project aimed to build a comprehensive online tool that provides access to New Zealand’s rich repository of land and water…
Technical Report
Sediment traps in hill country
The farmers have been involved in riparian fencing and planting but saw a need to try and reduce the sediment load of water channels that…
Journal Article
Understanding signals influencing on-farm change
We developed a framework to identify external off-farm signals from farmers’ operating environment and internal on-farm signals that provide information about the farming system. We…
Technical Report
Net export of E. coli from the Toenepi wetland cannot be explained by growth of naturalized E. coli in the water column
Runoff from agricultural land is recognized as an important source of contaminants—nitrogen, phosphorus, sediment and Escherichia coli—that impact water quality. Constructed wetlands have been promoted…
Technical Report
Negotiating social licence to farm: what, where, and how
The objective of this research was to develop an inventory of ‘places and spaces’ within which social licence is negotiated (where), methods of negotiation (how),…
Where are we conducting our research?
This interactive map shows the location of all our research projects to help connect you with the research happening in your catchment.
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