Past events
Webinar: Building a blue economy
The economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic is putting renewed pressure on Aotearoa New Zealand's natural resource economies to deliver jobs and growth. At the same time, the pandemic has…
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Webinar: Mapping and measuring marine ecosystem services
In this webinar, Drew Lohrer (NIWA) will discuss the measurement and mapping of marine ecosystem services that deliver benefits to society in the Hauraki Gulf, Marlborough Sounds, and elsewhere.
Ecosystem services…
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Webinar: The Unseen | Art is a powerful way to communicate science
In this webinar, interdisciplinary researcher Gabby O'Connor, with marine scientist Carolyn Lundquist and oceanographer Joe O'Callaghan, will discuss The Unseen, an art-science-education research project that investigated ways to communicate risk and uncertainty in marine…
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Webinar: Which ecosystem model works best for what you need?
In this webinar, NIWA researchers Vidette McGregor and Samik Datta will discuss three ecosystem models of varying complexity. They will compare the model dynamics to each other and to current…
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LEARNZ: Explore marine science and kaitiakitanga
Once again, school children across the country can virtually travel with LEARNZ to experience marine science fieldwork with Sustainable Seas researchers. This year they will discover what's threatening a taonga…
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Webinar: Tracking plastics in our marine environment
In this webinar, Heni Unwin and Ross Vennell from the Cawthron Institute will showcase an interactive online tool they’ve developed to predict the movement of plastic waste around New Zealand’s…
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Webinar: Predicting ocean contamination and detecting algal blooms
In this webinar, Cawthron researcher Ben Knight will describe a new model for forecasting bacterial contamination in Tasman and Golden Bays, and Lincoln Mackenzie will describe innovative methods for detecting…
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Webinar: Empowering kaitiaki
Marine ecology, spatial planning, real-time monitoring, and aquaculture all produce data that can support kaitiaki in their work. However, finding out about and accessing these troves of science information is not always…
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Maritime Museum Breakfast Talk: Empowering kaitiaki
Kaitiaki can use data from marine ecology, spatial planning, real-time monitoring, and aquaculture to support their work, but finding out about and accessing these troves of science information is not…
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Maritime Museum Breakfast Talk: Safer aquaculture and beaches
Our coasts are at the ‘end of the pipe’ for discharge from local rivers and streams, so seawater quality is sometimes compromised by bacteria from land-based activities. This can affect the revenue…
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