Projects

Students are undertaking a term long investigation into the water quality at their local park.

Staff from three south Auckland libraries are building community gardens in collaboration with local community groups, businesses and schools to increase the diversity and abundance of beneficial insects.

Catchment groups working in South and West Otago have highlighted the need to help community members understand what lives in the area’s streams and to encourage students to consider the impacts of their own land use.

Queenstown Primary School and partners will monitor 3 key sites in the Wakatipu Basin to objectively monitor vegetation change over time, with a focus on wilding pines.

The Seachange Survey project was set up to create a community survey method, in conjunction with local schools and with input from residents, to monitor the health and distribution of pāua and other kaimoana species.

Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Ōtepoti staff and students and Dr Barbara Anderson will investigate whether kaikawakawa moth eating kawakawa leaves increase the medicinal properties of the kawakawa leaf.

New Zealand Marine Studies Centre (University of Otago) and community members are exploring the abundance and demographics of shark populations local to the Otago region.

Earthlore, bat scientists, DOC, Catlins Area School, and Tahakopa School are discovering where Long-tailed bats fly and forage in the region and matching the locations of bats to habitat and invertebrates present.

This community project will undertake a study of the critically endangered long-tail bat to define the home territory it occupies within Pūrangi, East Taranaki.

Young people are using cutting-edge DNA sequencing technology to assess how metal pollution impacts microbial populations in the Ōmaru awa.