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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 scientists. The student will receive a $6,000 stipend .

Applications for all scholarships close on 16 August 2020. To apply, or find out more, please visit Cawthron’s careers page. 

Project description:

Out of sight, out of mind? A geographic analysis of public access to New Zealand’s lakes

Background: The project includes an analysis of public access to lakes in New Zealand, as part of a larger examination of the role of access in shaping societal attitudes, values, and uses of lake environments.

This student will contribute to knowledge on how the structural conditions of land ownership and reserve creation have shaped New Zealander’s interactions with lake environments by providing an assessment of public access for a sample of New Zealand lakes. Specifically, the student will use Land Information New Zealand’s ‘Outdoor Access Map’ software, together with public access and permissions data gathered by Lakes380, to provide an assessment of public land, roads, walkways, and other easements providing access to the 380 lakes included in the Lakes380 project database. For more about the project, see https://lakes380.com/

Student requirements: Geography credits preferred.

Outputs will include a spreadsheet of public access information on the 380 sample lakes and a report discussing the nature, scale, and geographic distribution of access to lakes in New Zealand. The student will need strong writing and geographic analysis skills, including familiarity with using GIS software to query spatial information and represent results, and the ability to conduct basic quantitative analyses using statistical software such as Excel. Experience with social science methods such as interviewing or surveying would be useful but can be learned on the job.

We look forward to receiving students’ applications!

For more information contact: Kiely McFarlane – Kiely McFarlane [email protected]

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New manuscript on Lake Rototoa in Auckland has bee New manuscript on Lake Rototoa in Auckland has been published!!

A new manuscript titled - Resolving 500 years of anthropogenic impacts in a mesotrophic lake: Nutrients outweigh other drivers of lake change - led by Dr Rose Gregersen (Victoria University of Wellington) has been published in the prestigious journal Environmental Science & Technology.

The research explores the history of Rototoa, a lake in the Auckland region of Aotearoa-New Zealand. The researches combined sediment core analysis with historical data, and ecological experiments to determine what was causing the decline in lake health in recent decades. 

The researchers show that the health of the lake remained stable despite catchment deforestation and erosion, and the introduction of several non-native fish species. The most significant and sustained changes in lake health coincided with nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizers in the catchment.

Congratulations Rose on your excellent research!

Visit www.lakes380.com for a link to the full manuscript.

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