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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Measuring the benefits of management actions: Mitigation effectiveness monitoring design (proof of concept phase)
A five-step process was developed to answer the key question asked of Working Group 1:'Have the mitigation actions resulted in improved freshwater outcomes?'. To assist…
Biological test of soil health using molecular techniques: Final report
During the feasibility stage of the project, we were able to identify suitable primers for the most common earthworms found within each earthworm ecological group…
Likely controls on dissolved reactive phosphorus concentrations in baseflow of an agricultural stream.
High baseflow phosphorus (P) concentrations increase the likelihood of periphyton blooms. Several physical and chemical factors can control baseflow P concentrations such as hydraulic exchange…
Land use suitability: A spatially-explicit framework for supporting land management decisions
NZ Freshwater Sciences Conference, December 2018
NZ’s Catchment and Biodiversity Groups: Goals, Activities & Needs – webinar
In this webinar, Jim Sinner and Marc Tadaki of Cawthron present the findings of a survey of catchment and biodiversity groups. The survey was conducted…
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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