After our fieldwork scheduled in March was postponed due to COVID, I was keenly looking forward to getting out in the field after lockdown. Prior …
Otago’s lakes could hold clues to how past land use and climate change has affected New Zealand’s environment – and what might happen in the …
Congratulations to John Pearman (Cawthron) and co-authors for their paper “Local factors drive bacterial and microeukaryotic community composition in lake surface sediment collected across an …
In this edition of “breaking it down” which was shown on TV2, Dr. Michelle Dickinson covers the basics of the water cycle, carries out a …
Congratulations Lakes380 tea member Professor Rewi Newman (Victoria University) for his election to the Academy of the Royal Society Te Apārangi. A wonderful and very …
Lake Wānaka is one of the 380 lakes being tested in the Lakes380 project. Click here to read this story on the Lakes380 project in …
By Henry Gard, Senior Technician, GNS Science I have been a part of two other Lakes380 campaigns prior to this one – Hawkes Bay and …
Lakes380 international collaborator Professor Stephen Meyers on inspiring scientific literacy through cultivating empathy Professor Stephen Meyers (University of Wisconsin-Madison) in conversation with social scientist Dr …
By Stuart Caird, Master Student, Victoria University A memoir of a sincerely satisfied science student……. To delay the onset of my imminent post-field depression☹, I’ll …
In this article a team from Lakes380 explain how eDNA is used to detect species and describe the advantages and disadvantages of this method. Read …
In this article which includes two Lakes380 team members co-authors (David Hamilton and Susie Wood) the authors discuss what research is needed to improve knowledge …
In Wanganui the Lakes380 team linked with Partnership Through Collaboration (http://www.ptctrust.org.nz/) to educate students from Wanganui city college about lake health. This is captured in this …
Sediment cores collected from the bottom of 380 New Zealand lakes are casting a spotlight on the lakes’ histories, revealing for the first time how …
There are 3800 lakes in New Zealand, and Dr Susie Wood from the Cawthron Institute says that “from a scientific perspective we know something about …
