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Measuring Water Quality
Andriy Medvediuk - 123RF
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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Guidance
Towards a Physiographic Map: Information for Regional Councils
Physiographic Environments of New Zealand research is developing a cost-effective technique to measure and map (as an integrated physiographic layer) how features of the natural…
Summary
Nitrogen and phosphorus modelled in freshwater eutrophication: The director’s cut
Most Life Cycle Impact Assessment (LCIA) methods to date estimate freshwater eutrophication impacts from phosphorus (P) only. There is a need to account for the…
Journal Article
Variability of Escherichia coli Concentrations in Rivers during Base-Flow Conditions in NZ
We compared the variability of E. coli concentrations in baseflow of 3 different-sized rivers in both summer and winter at the time scales of minutes,…
Journal Article
An event-based model of soil erosion and sediment transport at the catchment scale
Soil conservation over large areas is expensive and needs to be targeted to obtain maximum benefit for the least cost. In this paper, an event-based…
Journal Article
Stressor-response relationships and the prospective management of aquatic ecosystems
We set out a framework for interpreting S-R relationships in terms of functional forms, trajectories, thresholds and slopes. These characteristics convey information about resistance to…
Journal Article
Indirect Methods to Elucidate Water Flows and Contaminant Transfer Pathways through Meso-scale Catchments – a Review
We provide a critical review of indirect methods to elucidate water flows and contaminant transfer pathways through meso-scale catchments, as the proliferation of such methods…
Presentation
Molecular Approaches to Identify Benign Denitrification in Shallow Groundwaters
We measured lower dissolved N2O and higher denitrifier genes abundance in the groundwater samples collected from reducing (anoxic) groundwaters sites, as compared with the groundwater…
Technical Report
Application of Eutrophication Potential Indicators in a Case Study Catchment in NZ
The objective of this work was to determine the effects and implications of Eutrophication Potential indicators in the lifecycle assessment of livestock farm systems using…
Presentation
Dissolved gases as indicator of denitrification in shallow groundwaters in agricultural landscape
NZ Soil Science Society Conference, December 2018
Presentation
Adaptation of water eutrophication indicators for EU environmental footprinting of NZ products
To address impacts on freshwater eutrophication, it is paramount that both N and P are accounted for. The current recommendation from the EC for Product…
Presentation
Land-use effects on aquatic ecosystems – strengthening the evidence base
NZ Freshwater Sciences Conference, December 2018
Presentation
Recent advances in reporting and interpreting water quality trends
NZ Freshwater Sciences Conference, December 2018