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Opportunity to join the Lakes380 team – BLAKE Ambassador programme

Through BLAKE’s partnerships with GNS Science, a young leaders will be given the opportunity to join the Lakes380 team for six weeks in 2022. For more information ...

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New film published on the Wairarapa Moana Kete Pūrākau

Charlotte Šunde, Bruce Foster and Ra Smith have just released a new film on the lakestories webpage titled: Kei hea ngā tuna (where are the ...

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Deep lakes and fancy coffee uncovered

McKayla Holloway, Cawthron Institute The cold morning mountain air filled my lungs as the sun broke over the mountain tops. I tucked myself into a ...

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Dr Charlotte Šunde – Wairarapa Moana Kete Pūrākau, an interview with Cawthron Radio

Lakes380 researcher Dr Charlotte Šunde recently talked to Cawthron Radio about the Wairarapa Moana Kete Pūrākau. Wairarapa Moana Kete Pūrākau is an online collection of ...

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Walking Access Commission profiles Lakes380 summer students work

The Walking Access Commission has recently published a news item about Lakes380 summer students Shana Dooley’s work on access to lakes. You can read the ...

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Can a single sample capture all the bacterial diversity in a sediment core layer?

This was the question Lakes380 research John Pearman and team set out to explore in their recently published research Investigating variability in microbial community composition ...

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Lakes in focus

The article below was recently published in the Waimea Weekly (Nelson) to highlight the upcoming sampling at Lake Rotoiti

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Lakes380 presenters at the EGU 2021 conference

Like most conferences in 2021, the European Geoscience Conference has gone virtual. Four of our team presented work from the Lakes380 programme. Each researcher had ...

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Where The Wild Weka Are: A Chatham Island Lake Adventure

Georgia Thomson-Laing (Cawthron) Standing on the headlands of Cape Young, keeping an eye out for sharks in the clear blue of the ocean waves as ...

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Development of DNA based methods to detect taonga species

Konstanze Steiner and Georgia Thomson-Laing talk about the development of DNA based methods to detect taonga species Lakes380 researchers Konstanze Steiner and Georgia Thomson-Laing recently ...

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Nelson public get up close with Lakes380 research

Jonathan Puddick, Cawthron Institute One hundred years after the Cawthron Institute was officially opened, New Zealand’s largest independent research organisation opened its doors again. This ...

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Environmental DNA variability in lake sediment cores

Click on the link below to view the poster recently presented by John Pearman at the DNAQUA International Conference https://lakes380.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/DNAquaNet.pdf

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Out of sight, out of mind? Examining public access to lakes in Aotearoa

– Shana Dooley, Cawthron Institute Summer Scholar This summer I joined the Cawthron Institute and Lakes380 team to explore public access to New Zealand’s lakes ...

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Alpine lake sampling – Queenstown, part 2

– Laura MacDonald, Honours student, University of Otago As a part of my honours project (supervised by Associate Professor Chris Moy, University of Otago) I ...

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Rotorua and South Taranaki – back for more core!

Alex Matheson, Victoria University of Wellington student The problem: Some of the lakes cored for Lakes380 don’t provide the targeted 1000 years of lake history, ...