Summer scholarship -Geographic analysis of public access to New Zealand’s lakes
Summer Scholarship: Out of sight, out of mind? A geographic analysis of public access to New Zealand’s lakes Are you, or do you know someone who is, looking at a science career? Cawthron is excited to offer an undergraduate student an opportunity to work at the Institute this summer and be mentored by top Cawthron […]
Successful deep lake field trip
The field team of Jamie Howarth (Victoria University), Sean Fitsimons (University of Otago) and Adelaine Moody (Victoria University) have just returned from sampling large/deep in central Canterbury – Lake Tekapo, Lake Ohau and Lake Pukaki. Using a special piece of equipment known as a Mackereth corer they collected cores up to 6 m in length. […]
Lakes give up secrets of past
Read this story in the Otago Daily Times
Exploring the current and past health of New Zealand’s southern lakes
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 future. A team of scientists from GNS Science, the Cawthron Institute and the University of Otago will this week (June 22 – 28) start taking samples from coastal lakes close to […]
Home Learning TV – Breaking It Down with Dr. Michelle Dickinson, featuring Susie Wood
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 hands-on experiment to make rain and talks about lakes with Lakes380 team member Dr. Susie Wood . Watch the episode here.
Professor Rewi Newman -election to the Academy of the Royal Society Te Apārangi
Congratulations Lakes380 team member Professor Rewi Newman (Victoria University) for his election to the Academy of the Royal Society Te Apārangi. A wonderful and very well-deserved achievement. You can hear Rewi talk with Kim Hill here: https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday/audio/2018738435/ancient-pollen-as-a-window-into-the-past
Exploring the environmental history of New Zealand’s lakes – Wānaka Sun article
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 the Wanaka Sun https://thewanakasun.co.nz/news/12348-exploring-environmental-history-of-new-zealands-lakes.html
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 Charlotte Šunde (Cawthron Institute) discusses his field of paleoclimatology, and the ways in which the Lakes380 project is contributing internationally through an “encyclopaedia of lakes” that doesn’t exist elsewhere. Misrepresentation […]
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 article in the Wanganui chronicle. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lakes/news/article.cfm?c_id=245&objectid=12278418
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 they have changed over time in response to environmental impacts such as volcanic eruptions, the arrival of humans and land use intensification. “All up, it is two and a half […]
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 less than two percent of those.” That is set to change with Lakes380, a five-year research programme that aims to create a thousand-year history for 10 percent, or 380, of New […]
Lakes380 on the The Green Desk Show
Project Leader Susie Wood spoke to Mitch from The Green Desk on 95b FM.
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 scientists from GNS Science and the Cawthron Institute, will this week start scientifically sampling some of the country’s most remote lakes north of Kaitaia.
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 in the middle of a huge health-check of our lakes. The project, led by GNS Science and the Cawthron Institute, is the first of its kind in New Zealand. “The […]
MARCUS VANDERGOES FROM GNS: $12M TO TEST LAKES
Listen to Marcus Vandergoes talk about the project in an interview on Radio New Zealand
