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Professor Stephen Meyers on inspiring scientific literacy

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 ...

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The Wild West Coast – Week One

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 ...

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What Can DNA in the Environment Tell Us About an Ecosystem?

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 ...

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Perspective: Advancing the research agenda for improving understanding of cyanobacteria in a future of global change

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 ...

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Lakes380 and Whanganui school builds on link with Rotokawau/Virginia Lake

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 ...

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Radio New Zealand Interview – A spotlight on NZ lakes – Lakes380 part 2

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 ...

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Radio New Zealand Interview – Lakes380 to reveal 1000-year history of lakes – part 1

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 ...

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Lakes380 on the The Green Desk Show

Project Leader Susie Wood spoke to Mitch from The Green Desk on 95b FM.

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Exploring the current and historic health of New Zealand’s most northern lakes (25 June 2019)

Read about the Lake380 team moving to Northland and the unique dune lakes. Lake New Zealand’s most northern iwi, Ngāti Kuri, and researchers led by ...

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Northland – second half of Phase one

THE PERSPECTIVE OF A MASTER’S STUDENT By Carrie Page MSc (Ecology), Massey University When the opportunity came up for me to join the Lakes380 team ...

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Northland phase 1 week 1 – the Far North!

By Maïlys Picard, PhD candidate (University of Waikato & Cawthron Institute) Yet another field trip that feels like it’s too good to be true! I’m ...

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Te Arawa / Rotorua Lakes Field Work Summary

Ngāti Tahu and Ngāti Whaoa mana whenua welcomed the Lakes380 team at Lake Ōkaro, opening our Te Arawa/Rotorua lakes fieldwork with karakia timatanga. Others from ...

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Te Arawa / Rotorua lakes field work – a PhD students perspective

By Julia Short, PhD student, Adelaide University I’m sitting on the plane, on the way home to Adelaide trying to sum up the Rotorua field ...

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The Lakes380 team heads north to Auckland

By Rose Gregersen, PhD student, Auckland University The third installment of Lakes380 field sampling brought the team to Auckland’s dune lakes. First up was and ...

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NZ’s lakes get a $12m health check as ‘beasties’ and bacteria sampled

JESS CARTWRIGHT, 1 NEWS REPORTER FEB 25, 2019 • SOURCE: 1 NEWS What lies beneath New Zealand’s changing lakes? That’s the questions scientists want to answer. Scientists are ...