Past events

Webinar: Marine ecotourism – Where are we now and where are we going?

With its vast coastlines, unique marine environment and a tourism industry that is being reset along ‘regenerative’ lines, Aotearoa New Zealand is well positioned to develop a marine ecotourism sector that supports a blue economy – one that creates environmental,…

Start: 11:00am Thursday 2 December 2021 — End: 12:00pm Thursday 2 December 2021

Zoom Webinar

Webinar: Estuaries in a changing world: 7 lessons for long-term monitoring

Over a year ago, the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment released Managing our estuaries, a report that clearly outlines that many estuaries are in trouble. 

In this webinar, Judi Hewitt (Sustainable…

Start: 11:00am Wednesday 27 October 2021 — End: 12:01pm Wednesday 27 October 2021

Tauranga Art Gallery

The Unseen (Tauranga)

Join us for the final exhibition of The Unseen, an art-sci exhibition making the unseen marine world visible. It is the result of research from Navigating marine social-ecological systems project.

Exhibition details
22 May-24 October 2021 (extended…

Start: 10:00am Saturday 22 May 2021 — End: 4:00pm Sunday 24 October 2021

Zoom

Webinar: Shady business: The problem with mud in our estuaries

Our estuaries are in trouble. One of the main culprits is sediment from land run-off which can darken the waters and increases muddiness when it settles on the seabed. This can…

Start: 11:00am Thursday 20 May 2021 — End: 12:00pm Thursday 20 May 2021

Webinar: Cetacean conservation planning: dealing with uncertainty & data gaps

In this webinar, Fabrice Stephenson (NIWA) presented a tool that can be used to visualise cetacean diversity in Aotearoa New Zealand. This research is from the Communicating risk and uncertainty…

Start: 11:00am Tuesday 27 April 2021 — End: 12:00pm Tuesday 27 April 2021

Wellington

The Unseen (Wellington)

Join us for the final exhibition of The Unseen, an art-sci exhibition making the unseen marine world visible.

This will involve a big recycling of the giant collaborative artwork first developed…

Start: Tuesday 9 March 2021 — End: Friday 26 March 2021

LEARNZ | Seaweed: An ocean of opportunity!

Seaweed aquaculture is the world's fastest-growing primary industry!Did you know that over 3 billion people depend on marine and coastal biodiversity for their livelihoods? Globally, the market value of marine…

Start: Saturday 6 March 2021 — End: Sunday 14 March 2021

Webinar: A step closer to a future powered by tidal currents

In this webinar, Ross Vennell will present the results from the Energy from tidal currents project, which investigated whether generating electricity from the strong tidal currents within Cook Strait is viable…

Start: 11:00am Wednesday 3 February 2021 — End: 12:00am Thursday 3 December 2020

Webinar: A systems approach to understanding marine stressors in Hawke's Bay

Many management actions do not achieve their desired outcomes due to the influence of combined or multiple stressors. Systems mapping visualises the socio-ecological connections and interactions between marine stressors to…

Start: 11:00am Tuesday 8 December 2020 — End: 12:00pm Tuesday 8 December 2020

Online / Kelburn Campus, Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington

Special session: NZGS conference

Marine spatial planning: ecosystem-based management, indigenous and local community empowerment? Organised by Karen Fisher and Hamish RennieThe conference will be run in a hybrid format: partly face-to-face and partly online. Registration…

Start: 12:01am Wednesday 25 November 2020 — End: 11:59pm Friday 27 November 2020