New Zealand’s Worst Weed Problem

(PDF File, 5.0 MB)

28 July 2020, Duane Peltzer & Rowan Sprague

Q&A: New Zealand’s Worst Weed Problem

(PDF File, 209.7 KB)

Regenerative Agriculture in New Zealand

(PDF File, 8.8 MB)

14 July 2020, Gwen Grelet & Sam Lang

Q&A: Regenerative Agriculture in New Zealand

(PDF File, 210.4 KB)

Mathematics, modelling and simulation supporting the COVID-19 response in New Zealand

(PDF File, 2.6 MB)

7 July 2020, Alex James, Michael Plank, Shaun Hendy, Nic Steyn, Rachelle Binny, Audrey Lustig

Q&A: Mathematics, Modelling and Simulation – Supporting the COVID-19 response in New Zealand

(PDF File, 200.5 KB)

Looking to the past with a view to the future: Applying conservation palaeobiology in New Zealand

(PDF File, 18.4 MB)

30 June 2020, Jamie Wood

Q&A: Looking to the past with a view to the future

(PDF File, 191.5 KB)

Tweet, tweet ... making our birds count! The journey so far and coming up... the 2020 survey

(PDF File, 3.3 MB)

25 June 2020, Gradon Diprose & Nicolette Dellow

Q&A: Garden Bird Survey: Tweet Tweet… We’re making our birds count

(PDF File, 193.5 KB)

Holistic governance: from the mountains to the sea

(PDF File, 1.4 MB)

9th June 2020. Alison Greenaway and Lara Taylor

Q&A: Holistic Governance: From the Mountains to the Sea

(PDF File, 336.3 KB)

The secret's in the soil

(PDF File, 3.3 MB)

3rd June 2020. Linda Lilburne & Sam Carrick

Q&A: The Answer is in the Soil: S-Map 101

(PDF File, 170.7 KB)

Q&A: Seeing the forest and the trees through the Survey of Rural Decision Makers

(PDF File, 208.5 KB)

12 May 2020, Pike Brown

How New Zealands Landscape is Changing Introducing the new LCDB v 5.0

(PDF File, 6.5 MB)

May 2020. David Pairman

Q&A: How is New Zealand’s landscape changing: Introducing LCDB v5.0

(PDF File, 230.5 KB)

Mitigating cascading and compounding hazards in the time of pandemic

(PDF File, 3.2 MB)

April 2020. Patrick Walsh, Nick Cradock-Henry, and Suzie Greenhalgh

Q&A: Targeting Vulnerability to Multiple Hazards in Pandemic Recovery

(PDF File, 208.6 KB)

Climate change impacts on land use suitability

(PDF File, 2.8 MB)

February 2020: Anne-Gaelle Ausseil for “Sustainable Land Management and Climate Change” and “Deep South” research team (Tony van der Weerden, Mike Beare, Troy Baisden, Edmar Teixeira, Liz Keller, Mark Lieffering, Jing Guo, Richard Law)

Genetics in Conservation and Biosecurity - Tales from the lab

(PDF File, 880.1 KB)

November 2019: Hester Roberts and Talia Brav-Cubitt (Manaaki Whenua and Ecogene)

Wicked Problems and Integrative Research

(PDF File, 1.8 MB)

November 2019: Melissa Robson-Williams. The handout notes are attached to the presentation slides

The Secret's in the Soil_S-Map

(PDF File, 5.0 MB)

October 2019: Linda Lilburne and Sam Carrick

Soil Carbon SLMACC

(PDF File, 5.7 MB)

September 2019: Alec MacKay, Ronaldo Vibart (AgResearch), Carolyn Hedley, Paul Mudge (Manaaki Whenua)

Applying Adaptation Pathways with Primary Industries in Hawkes Bay

(PDF File, 2.8 MB)

September 2019: Nick Cradock-Henry

Innovation in Freshwater Policy Implementation

(PDF File, 2.0 MB)

August 2019: Nick Kirk

Kiwi, People, Dogs and Dollars

(PDF File, 4.0 MB)

July 2019: Patrick Walsh

Erosion and Sediment - plus some

(PDF File, 6.0 MB)

June 2019: Hugh Smith

How will climate change our landscape

(PDF File, 5.7 MB)

May 2019: Suzie Greenhalgh, Paul Mudge, Patrick Walsh and Nick Cradock-Henry

Innovative Data Analysis - Getting the most from environmental data

(PDF File, 3.0 MB)

March 2019: Anne-Gaelle Ausseil, Andrew Manderson, Jerry Cooper, Alistair Ritchie and David Medyckyj-Soctt,

Wetlands - nature's safety nets

(PDF File, 7.2 MB)

March 2019: Bev Clarkson

Plight to Flight: "Save our Iconic Kiwi" and "Kiwi Rescue"

(PDF File, 9.4 MB)

February 2019: John Innes (Manaaki Whenua) and Jo Ledington (DOC)

Mind the Gaps:Climate change adaptation and the primary industries

(PDF File, 3.1 MB)

November 2018: Nick Cradock-Henry

How nature friendly are my farm actions - Evidence-based assessment tools for our environment

(PDF File, 5.0 MB)

November 2018: Catriona MacLeod

Biodiversity and Ecosystems Services - thinking globally, acting locally

(PDF File, 3.2 MB)

October 2018: Anne-Gaelle Ausseil and Geoff Hicks (National Commissioner for UNESCO)

Drought Intensity and Climate Change Adaptation

(PDF File, 2.4 MB)

September 2018: Pike Brown

Sniffing out Predators: Using olfaction to protect native species

(PDF File, 3.4 MB)

August 2018: Grant Norbury

Synergies between Land Use and Biodiversity - an ecosystems services view

(PDF File, 2.7 MB)

August 2018: Suzie Greenhalgh (Manaaki Whenua), Jason Tylianakis (University of Canterbury) and Carla Gomez-Creutzberg (University of Canterbury)

Weed or Valued Garden Plant?

(PDF File, 10.4 MB)

July 2018: Murray Dawson

Valuing the Benefits of Permanent Forests

(PDF File, 2.7 MB)

July 2018: Patrick Walsh

Wilding Conifers - Progress on a National Issue

(PDF File, 9.0 MB)

May 2018: Sherman Smith (MPI), Thomas Paul (Scion) and Duane Peltzer (Manaaki Whenua)

The Mana of Soil: A Māori cultural perspective of soil health in NZ

(PDF File, 3.4 MB)

April 2018: Garth Harmsworth

Riparian Planner - Supporting Farmers and Farm Planning

(PDF File, 2.7 MB)

April 2018: Tom Stephens (DairyNZ), Nick Spencer, Margaret Watts

Rabbit calciviruses for the biological control of pest rabbits in New Zealand

(PDF File, 2.1 MB)

MPI Science Series Seminar: March 2018: Janine Duckworth

Te Weu o te Kaitiaki: A bicultural forest monitoring and reporting system

(PDF File, 2.8 MB)

March 2018: Phil Lyver and Puke Timoti (Please do not use this information without express permission of the authors)

Land Cover Database

(PDF File, 13.8 MB)

February 2018: John Dymond and James Shepherd

Geospatialed Out in Wellington

(PDF File, 6.5 MB)

December 2017: International Members of the Open Geospatial Consortium

Nga weu o te kaitiaki - Tuawhenua World View

(PDF File, 5.8 MB)

November 2017: Phil Lyver and Puke Timoti

Navigating Values Conversation on Social Licence

(PDF File, 1.1 MB)

November 2017: Nick Kirk, Dean Stronge, Robyn Kannemeyer, Lara Taylor

Sanctuaries and biodiversity response to pest control

(PDF File, 4.8 MB)

October 2017: John Innes and Rachelle Binny

Wai Ora Wai Maori_ A Kaupapa Maori Assessment Tool

(PDF File, 2.4 MB)

October 2017: Kiri Reihana, Yvonne Taura and Shaun Awatere

Enhancing and Restoring Biological Heritage in Ecosystems.pdf

(PDF File, 7.2 MB)

October 2107: Duane Peltzer, Programme Leader for NZ's Biological Heritage National Science Challenge, Landcare Research

Where will conservation efforts bring the greatest benefits for NZ birds?

(PDF File, 6.5 MB)

September 2017: Susan Walker

The Manuka Goldrush - Implications for Conservation

(PDF File, 3.4 MB)

August 2017: Gary Houliston

Reducing the Pain of Pest Wasps

(PDF File, 4.4 MB)

July 2017: Professor Phil Lester (Victoria University of Wellington), Bob Brown (Landcare Research) and Eric Edwards (Department of Conservation)

Using LiDAR to improve the Land Resource Inventory for Northland

(PDF File, 18.9 MB)

MPI Science Series Seminar: July 2017: James Barringer

Win Win Weed Control

(PDF File, 4.3 MB)

June 2017: Simon Fowler

Unlocking the Potential of Maori Land: A kaupapa Māori approach to using and developing integrated knowledge, models and tools

(PDF File, 22.1 MB)

May 2017: Garth Harmsworth

Reducing Risks and Threats Across Landscapes

(PDF File, 5.2 MB)

March 2017: New Zealand's Biological Heritage National Science Challenge team including Andrea Byrom (Challenge Director), Maureen O'Callaghan (AgResearch) and Nick Waipara (Auckland Council)

Scenario Based Analysis of Climate Change Risk and Resilience

(PDF File, 3.4 MB)

March 2017: Benjamin Preston (Director of Infrastructure Resilience and Environmental Policy, RAND Corporation) and Nick Cradock-Henry (Landcare Research)

Transforming environmental DNA Data into Information

(PDF File, 10.4 MB)

February 2017: Robert Holdaway

Next Generation Information Systems

(PDF File, 2.7 MB)

December 2016: David Medyckyj-Scott and Alistair Ritchie

Vaccine Development to Prevent Growing Impacts of Tick-borne Diseases to NZ's Livestock Industries

(PDF File, 5.2 MB)

January 2017: Dan Tompkins and Felix Guerrero (USDA)

What's BEST? Biodiversity and Ecosystems Services Decision Making

(PDF File, 3.3 MB)

November 2016: Suzie Greenhalgh and Fraser Morgan

Climate Change Impacts and Implications

(PDF File, 3.0 MB)

December 2016: Nick Cradock-Henry, Stephen Flood, Paula Blackett (NIWA) and Judy Lawrence (VUW)

Resilience Solutions for New Zealand

(PDF File, 7.3 MB)

October 2016: Nicholas Cradock-Henry, Tom Wilson (Canterbury University), Lisa Langer (Scion)

NZ BioHeritage Challenge: Programme 1

(PDF File, 5.1 MB)

November 2016: Andrea Byrom, Thomas Buckley and Melanie Shadbolt

Data, data everywhere....Innovative Data Analysis

(PDF File, 2.4 MB)

October 2016; Anne-Gaelle Ausseil, David Medyckyj-Scott, Andrew Manderson, Ben Jolly

Re-inventing the Map

(PDF File, 1.2 MB)

October 2016: Robert Gibb

The Value of Our Research

(PDF File, 758.4 KB)

September 2016: Peter Millard

Cost Benefit Analysis of Riparian Restoration

(PDF File, 1.5 MB)

September 2016: Florian Eppink

Cape to City

(PDF File, 4.5 MB)

July 2016: Campbell Leckie (Hawkes Bay Regional Council) and Grant Norbury (Landcare Research)

Biological Collections and Databases at Landcare Research

(PDF File, 12.2 MB)

MPI Science Series June 2016: Ilse Breitwieser and Aaron Wilton

Mobilising Vegetation Data - the National Vegetation Survey Databank

(PDF File, 4.4 MB)

April 2016: Susan Wiser

Northland Regional Council Landcare Research Science Exchange April 2016

(PDF File, 14.9 MB)

Riparian Planner: Mapping and Managing the Riparian Zone

(PDF File, 1.7 MB)

March 2016: Nick Spencer (Landcare Research), Carol Barnao, Tom Stephens, Matt Highway (Dairy NZ)

Decisions, Decisions - Survey of Rural Decision Makers 2015

(PDF File, 2.6 MB)

February 2016: Pike Brown

Wild about Christmas Trees

(PDF File, 4.0 MB)

December 2015: Alison Greenaway (Landcare Research), Karen Bayne (Scion Research) and Duane Peltzer (Landcare Research)

Looking out for soil

(PDF File, 6.7 MB)

December 2015: Alison Collins

Natural Born Weed Killers: A Key Weapon in the War on Weeds

(PDF File, 10.4 MB)

November 2015: Lynley Hayes

National Guidelines for Monitoring Land Fragmentation

(PDF File, 3.6 MB)

October 2015: Daniel Rutledge

Pinning New Zealand's Biosecurity - tales from the collections

(PDF File, 9.4 MB)

September 2015: Ilse Breitwieser and Aaron Wilton

Where has all the carbon gone?

(PDF File, 4.0 MB)

August 2015: David Whitehead, Louis Schipper (Waikato University), Miko Kirschbaum

Does NZ have good soil? Yes / No / Maybe

(PDF File, 1.3 MB)

July 2015: Allan Hewitt

Next Generation Biodiversity Assessment for Primary Industries

(PDF File, 11.0 MB)

July 2015 MPI Science Series Seminar: Robbie Holdaway

New Zealands Biological Heritage National Science Challenge

(PDF File, 1.3 MB)

June 2015: Andrea Byrom, Philip Hulme and Thomas Buckley

Building Trustworthy Biodiversity Indicators

(PDF File, 9.5 MB)

June 2015: Catriona MacLeod

Climate change, mega-masts and pests

(PDF File, 2.8 MB)

May 2015: Jenny Christie (Department of Conservation) and Roger Pech (Landcare Research)

Status Trend and Vulnerability in NZ's Indigenous Biodiversity

(PDF File, 6.5 MB)

April 2015: Susan Walker

Biodiversity Monitoring and Reporting 101

(PDF File, 10.7 MB)

March 2015: Peter Bellingham

Pest Control via Trojan Female Technique

(PDF File, 2.3 MB)

March 2015: Dan Tompkins

Irrigation-Intensification-Illumination.pdf

(PDF File, 2.0 MB)

February 2015: Alex Herzig

Not just hot air - Carbon foot printing in NZ

(PDF File, 1.6 MB)

February 2015: Dr Ann Smith

Oh Christmas Tree, oh-oh Christmas Tree

(PDF File, 13.3 MB)

December 2014: Duane Peltzer and Larry Burrows (Landcare Research) with Rebecca Hislop (Ministry for Primary Industries)

Kaitiakitanga and Economic Growth

(PDF File, 3.5 MB)

December 2014: Marino Tahi and Shaun Awatere

Trends in Landscape Dynamics

(PDF File, 7.2 MB)

November 2014: Daniel Rutledge

Combatting the Kauri killer: Kauri dieback and other Phytophthora threats

(PDF File, 2.7 MB)

November 2014. Rebecca Ganley Scion, Rotorua and Stan Bellgard Landcare Research, Auckland

Allocation; A Policy Dilemma.pdf

(PDF File, 2.2 MB)

October 2104: Suzie Greenhalgh and Adam Daigneault

Choices, Choices....carrot or stick: The Policy Choices Framework

(PDF File, 659.6 KB)

September 2014: Geoff Kaine and Suzie Greenhalgh

Survey of Rural Decision Makers

(PDF File, 2.2 MB)

MPI Science Series: August 2014: Pike Brown

Land Cover Database 4: Putting Trees and Time on the Map

(PDF File, 7.6 MB)

August 2014: Peter Newsome and David Pairman

Proving Freedom - Can the lessons from TB be applied to other biosecurity challenges

(PDF File, 4.5 MB)

July 2014: Graham Nugent

Agricultural Land Use from Space

(PDF File, 9.2 MB)

June 2014: David Pairman and Heather North

Ecological Cascades - Species interactions gone wild

(PDF File, 6.0 MB)

April 2014: Grant Norbury

Maximising the value of irrigation - new technologies for precision management

(PDF File, 2.3 MB)

March 2014. Carolyn Hedley and Pierre Roudier

Improving water quality - revealing the role of soil information

(PDF File, 5.0 MB)

February 2014. Linda Lilburne and Sam Carrick

Trojan Female Pest Control

(PDF File, 2.2 MB)

December 2103. Dan Tompkins (Landcare Research) and Neil Gemmell (University of Otago)

The low down, the slow down, and everything you wanted to know about dung beetles

(PDF File, 1.9 MB)

November 2013: Simon Fowler

What's the use? How to get more from land-use and economic models.

(PDF File, 1.5 MB)

October 2013. Adam Daigneault and Suzi Kerr (Motu Economic and Public Policy Research)

The Next Generation of New Zealand Floras

(PDF File, 8.8 MB)

September 2013. Ilse Breitwieser, Peter Heenan and Aaron Wilton

Practical Application of Resilience Concepts in land management

(PDF File, 3.2 MB)

August 2013. Nick Cradock-Henry

Maori Values Approaches for Setting Freshwater Limits

(PDF File, 6.6 MB)

July 2013. Garth Harmsworth & Shaun Awatere

Collaborative Processes for Freshwater Decision-Making

(PDF File, 1.1 MB)

June 2013. Suzie Greenhalgh and Jim Sinner (Cawthron Institute)

Pathogens don't carry passports

(PDF File, 1.8 MB)

May 2013. Bevan Weir

Land Use Change and the Visual Landscape

(PDF File, 5.4 MB)

April 2013. Pike Brown

Computer games as a novel medium for knowledge transfer

(PDF File, 4.4 MB)

March 2013. Bruce Warburton, Hazel Bradshaw Pen Holland, Julian Looser.

Environmental Big data - Evidence for Policy?

(PDF File, 3.1 MB)

February 2013. Robert Gibb, David Medyckyj-Scott & Nick Spencer.

Land Resources – what is takes to support NZ’s Christmas Trees, Coast and Cows

(PDF File, 2.8 MB)

November 2012. Alison Collins and David Medyckyj-Scott.

Integrating Mātauranga Maori into Freshwater Management

(PDF File, 5.1 MB)

October 2012. Shaun Awatere and Garth Harmsworth

Ecosystem Services: Global & New Zealand Perspectives

(PDF File, 1.2 MB)

25th September 2012. Georgina Langdale (DOC), Suzie Greenhalgh. Cerasela Stancu

Ecosystem services: conditions & trends

(PDF File, 7.9 MB)

18 September 2012. John Dymond, Anne-Gaelle Ausseil, Alex Herzig.

A worm's eye view of soil information

(PDF File, 3.2 MB)

31st July 2012. Allan Hewitt

The social dimension of environmental change

(PDF File, 1.5 MB)

26th June 2012. Claire Mortimer

Pest-Free New Zealand: Challenges & opportunities

(PDF File, 3.8 MB)

29th May 2012. Andrea Byron & Susan Timmins (DOC)

Business-Un-Usual: Global Change over the Next 100 Years and Implications for New Zealand

(PDF File, 2.5 MB)

17th April 2012. Daniel Rutledge

Biodiversity and ecosystem services - getting our act together through IPBES

(PDF File, 2.1 MB)

February 2012. Fiona Carswell and Geoff Hicks (DOC)

Old problems, new solutions: Reflections on water covernance

(PDF File, 393.8 KB)

October 2011. Shona Russell and Bob Frame

Estimating the Impacts of a Multi-Policy Initiative at the Catchment Level

(PDF File, 1.3 MB)

27th September 2011. Adam Daigneault.