Rongowai:
Partnering to fly the Next-generation of Global Navigation Satellite System Receivers for Advancing Earth Observation
Project Team: Prof. Delwyn Moller (Project lead, University of Auckland) Prof. Matthew Wilson (GRI) Wider team: Xiaoyou Lin, Mike Laverick and Chris Seal (University of Auckland), Wayne Thomas (Air New Zealand), Chris Ruf and Steven Musko (University of Michigan), Andrew O’Brien (Ohio State University), Scott Gleason (UCAR), and others. Funding MBIE Catalyst fund and NASA […]
Biological Heritage Challenge: Eco-Index Programme
Research teamDr Kiri Joy Wallace (University of Waikato)Dr John Reid (J D Reid LTD)Ngāti Pikiao (Tainu and Ngai Tahu Research Centre, University of Canterbury)Nathaniel Calhoun (Code Innovation)Kevan Cote (Moose Engineering & Design)Karen Denyer (Papawera Consulting Ltd)Saif Khan (GRI) Length of Project: 2022-2024 FundingNew Zealand National Science Challenge Project summary The Eco-index programme is funded through […]
Real time environmental sensors to improve health in the Sensing City
New Zealand has an excellent record of conserving its native flora and fauna through pest control measures, especially in large uninhabited areas. Meanwhile large tracts of land owned by private individuals remain relatively unprotected. When it comes to land management decisions such as pest control actions, careful negotiations are required with a wide range of stakeholders with differing views – from cat-loves to rabbit-haters – so that agreements can be reached. The aim of this research project led by Audrey Lustig, Mike Plank and Alex James is to develop a planning tool for predicting the abundance and the likely persistence of New Zealand top mammalian predators in the light of potential changes in management effort across human-dominated landscape. We use the Cape-to-City (C2C) footprint covering 26,000 ha of agricultural land in Hawke’s Ba as a case study.
Modelling large-scale predator control measures: Cape-to-City project
New Zealand has an excellent record of conserving its native flora and fauna through pest control measures, especially in large uninhabited areas. Meanwhile large tracts of land owned by private individuals remain relatively unprotected. When it comes to land management decisions such as pest control actions, careful negotiations are required with a wide range of stakeholders with differing views – from cat-loves to rabbit-haters – so that agreements can be reached. The aim of this research project led by Audrey Lustig, Mike Plank and Alex James is to develop a planning tool for predicting the abundance and the likely persistence of New Zealand top mammalian predators in the light of potential changes in management effort across human-dominated landscape. We use the Cape-to-City (C2C) footprint covering 26,000 ha of agricultural land in Hawke’s Ba as a case study.