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Measuring Water Quality
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How will we know if the actions people all over Aotearoa are taking to improve the health of our freshwater are working? Our research is striving to fill data gaps and build knowledge about how to measure and model water quality.
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Technical Report
Quantifying catchment and community-based stream monitoring in Aotearoa New Zealand
This preliminary project to quantify freshwater community-based monitoring (CBM) efforts in Aotearoa New Zealand has identified that a wide range of monitoring is being carried…
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…
Journal Article
Difficulties in using land use pressure and soil quality indicators to predict water quality
Land pressures and soil quality can influence local water quality. Land use, catchment and climatic factors were strong predictors of 15 years of water quality. A snapshot…
Guidance
Management Practices to Improve Water Quality (learning module)
This kōwae (learning module) will help you support farmers in creating cost-effective freshwater environment plans using science from Our Land and Water. You will learn:…
Video
Our Land and Water Podcast Series
Our Land and Water introduces insights from eight years of science in this podcast series. In each episode you will hear from the scientists and…
Video
Our Land and Water Podcast Episode 1: How bad is our water quality, really?
For the past eight years, Our Land and Water has funded research with the goal of improving the health of our rivers and lakes here…
Video
Guiding Biodiversity Investment in New Zealand
John Reid, the co-director of Eco-Index (developed by New Zealand’s Biological Heritage National Science Challenge), in conversation with Matthew Monahan. John speaks about his Our…
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…
Technical Report
Determining environmental intelligence needs of Māori Agribusiness Collectives (MACs) and iwi to inform the design of a Kaitiaki Intelligence Platform
Drawing on case studies and literature this report details the types of environmental data sought by Māori Agribusiness Collectives and iwi and the ways in…
Technical Report
The Kaitiaki Intelligence Platform: An automated sensor network design for meeting the environmental intelligence needs of Māori Agribusiness Collectives and iwi
This main report details the process involved in creating the Kaitiaki Intelligence Platform, its overarching design, and cost to build. Based on a detailed review…
Technical Report
Meeting the Needs of the Assurance Sector: Informing the Kaitiaki Intelligence Platform Design
This report outlines the environmental reporting data sought from Māori Agribusiness Collectives by regulators, industry, and sustainability assurance schemes in general. It identifies the types…
Technical Report
Meeting the Needs of the Sustainable Finance Sector: Informing the Kaitiaki Intelligence Platform Design
This report outlines the environmental reporting data sought from the sustainable finance sector. It identifies the types of reporting data that could be automatically generated…