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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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Technical Report
Optimising on-farm nitrogen management in the face of regulated fertiliser input
The key purpose of this project was to investigate how farmers had responded to the regulatory capping of synthetic nitrogen fertiliser at a maximum of…
Connecting Soil and Water Quality
Linking soil quality and water quality to low and high N-pressure catchments
This project has produced
Journal Article
Reducing Uncertainty of Groundwater Redox Condition Predictions at National Scale, for Decision Making and Policy
Understanding hydrogeochemical heterogeneity, associated with natural nitrate attenuation, is an integral part of implementing integrated land and water management on a regional or national scale.…
Impact of Imported Feed Shortages
Implications of global price and supply of supplementary feeds on the New Zealand agricultural sector
This project has produced
Journal Article
The longevity of fencing out livestock as a method of decreasing contaminant concentrations in a headwater stream
Water quality can be improved by fencing off streams from livestock. However, the remedial effect of fencing can fail as livestock trample near stream areas.…
Interactive Tool
Our Environment: Crop Suitability
Our Environment is a web-based tool that makes environmental information available to users. It has a simplified GIS interface to allow users to spatially explore…
Technical Report
Farm Soil Health: assessment across a forestry to pasture chronosequence
Ngai Tahu farming have the goal to maintain the life sustaining capacity of soils during the change from forestry (P. radiata) to pasture agriculture. Sites…
Journal Article
A copula-based analysis of severity-duration-frequency of droughts in six climatic regions of NZ
We used a copula to model the joint drought duration-severity distribution and frequency to generate SDF curves for six locations in different climatic regions (3…
Interactive Tool
Kaitiaki Intelligence Platforms website
The Kaitiaki Intelligence Platforms (KIPs) project aims to position Māori at the forefront of cutting-edge remote environmental sensing in Aotearoa. Leveraging the latest and emerging…
Where are we conducting our research?
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