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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
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…
Summary
Online Tools Show Where Land-Use Change Needs to be Considered
We now know where land use needs to change, to meet New Zealand policy expectations for water quality. This article was prepared as an impact…
Journal Article
Optimising sampling frequency for change detection of variables in lake monitoring programs
Optimized sampling regime can match restoration timeline with improvements in water quality. Duration and frequency of the optimized sampling regime affect operational monitoring costs. Detecting…
Journal Article
The health of cultural values and mahinga kai in the Te Wairoa-Hōpūpū-HōnengenengeMātangirau, Wairoa river catchment and the impacts of sediment
Te Wairoa Hōpūpū Hōnengenenge Mātangirau (Wairoa River) and its tributaries are significant to the iwi and hapū of Te Rohe o Te Wairoa in Wairoa,…
Mapping Freshwater Contaminants
A set of research projects collectively mapping freshwater contaminant transport from source to sink
Connecting Soil and Water Quality
Linking soil quality and water quality to low and high N-pressure catchments
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Measuring Full Impacts of Land-Use Change
Creating a framework to measure the true, integrated effects of land-use systems in Aotearoa
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Rural Professionals Fund 2022–23
There were 12 successful projects in the third funding round for the Our Land and Water Rural Professionals Fund.
Sources and Flows
Managing contaminant pathways and attenuation to create headroom for productive land use.
Faecal Source Tracking
Identifying the sources of faecal contamination in waterways, and identifying naturalised Escherichia coli to help establish water quality for swimming
Monitoring Freshwater Improvement Actions
Monitoring the effectiveness of interventions and mitigation actions on freshwater improvement. For full information see the programme website
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Linking Legacies to Wai
Accounting for lag times and natural concentrations of contaminants in groundwater