Stories
Mapping current social knowledge around climate change
In the lead up to the NZ Climate Change Centre's December 6th 2010 workshop Degrees of Possibility: igniting social knowledge around climate change I have started gathering stories of how people Continue Reading...
Community activities in response to climate change:who and where?
Who is taking action on climate change in New Zealand, where are they and what they are doing? Here is a spread sheet of over 500 activities people across NZ undertook in 20 Continue Reading...
WooHooo! BioBlitz is back!
(Well ... it will be back at the end of March 2012. This time it is in the Auckland Botanic Gardens, Manurewa) WHAT? BioBlitz is a two-day scientific race against time. It’s fascinating, fun, fa Continue Reading...
Pioneering trap study leads way for return of kokako to East Taranaki forest
An area of remote forest in east Taranaki, where the haunting melody of the kokako has been missing from the dawn chorus for more than two decades, is the frontline in the battle to save New Zealand Continue Reading...
Antarctic - an extreme environment for soils
The total ice-free area of Antarctica comprises less than 0.4% of the continent, with the largest continuous expanse of ice-free ground in the McMurdo Dry Valleys. About 90% of the ice-free region Continue Reading...
Environmental protection of the Ross Sea region of Antarctica
Jackie Aislabie (Landcare Research) has spent many years working in Antarctica, and the image gallery that she and her colleagues have compiled provide a fascinating insight into many field seaso Continue Reading...
Adélie Penguin Research
Scientists have been studying Adélie penguins (Pygoscelie adeliae) for over 50 years. Antarctica is one of the last places in the world where animals can be studied in a habitat still largely unmo Continue Reading...
Antarctic soils
Jackie Aislabie is a microbiologist and an Antarctic expert; she leads a research programme on on soils and micro-organisms that live in that Continue Reading...
Tanya O'Neill on Christmas in Antarctica
Christmas in Antarctica. An adventure for some, and undoubtedly a difficult time for others. I’ve been asking around Base trying to get a feel for who fits into each category. I Continue Reading...
Acclimatising in Antarctica (Tanya O'Neill)
Tanya O'Neill says "Superbly uneventful is how I would describe this year’s flight South. Smooth to the point where I found myself thinking ‘surely something is about to go wrong?’ Continue Reading...