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Sam Carrick with Lincoln University soil science students. Image - A Farr

Collaboration

MBIE’s external Stakeholder Survey showed 91% of respondents for Landcare Research have confidence that we have the ability to put together the most appropriate research teams
This year we subcontracted $7.1m of research to collaborating agencies, including universities, CRIs, and Maori agencies
We undertook 109 collaborative research agreements, including 44 with central and local government, 5 with industry, 17 with Maori and 44 with overseas partners. We had another 194 collaborative agreements with other New Zealand research providers
We signed 1 new licensing agreement with a New Zealand company, and 4 joint venture agreements with New Zealand research partners (we signed no new licensing agreements, patents or joint venture agreements with international partners)

Science excellence¹

15 staff were recognised by colleagues with awards (7 international), including having a species named after them and winning Marsden Grants; another 3 staff were awarded travel grants to attend overseas conferences
39 staff hold 82 positions on the editorial boards of scientific journals; 67 of these are international and include the mega journal Zootaxa, founded by one of our staff
39 staff hold 56 positions in professional societies (including 10 Fellows); 19 of these are international
63 staff hold 143 positions on advisory boards, technical groups and review panels; 45 of these are international
12 staff hold 17 directorships or board memberships; 3 of these are international
8 staff were invited to give keynote or plenary addresses at significant national and international conferences, with costs fully or partly covered
Our staff published 241 peer-reviewed papers in scientific journals during the year

¹ Data includes our Research Associates but excludes staff in any collaborating or sub-contracted organisation.

International revenue

See Revenue by source

Web of Science metrics at 1st July 2012²

30% of our peer-reviewed scienti.c papers recorded by Web of Science were published in the top 25 journals relevant to the scope of our research
Of 174 joint peer-reviewed scienti.c papers, 105 (60%) were co-authored with overseas colleagues and another 23% were co-authored with colleagues in another New Zealand organisation or university
Over an 18 month period, papers were co-authored with colleagues from 54 different countries The countries we most commonly collaborated with are USA, Australia, England, Germany, Canada, Spain, Sweden, People’s Republic of China, France and Switzerland
Over a rolling 8-year period, our published papers were cited 10.8 times on average

² Web of Science has fewer publications for Landcare Research in 2011/12 than what is recorded by our own library. There may be up to a 6 month delay in Web of Science adding publications to their records, and the database overlooks some New Zealand journals that are important to this country’s researchers and research stakeholders.

Formal collaborative initiatives

We are part of several national and international research centres, consortia and networks in areas relevant to our National Outcomes and capability as outlined in the Scope of our Core Purpose.

Outcome 1: Biodiversity

The Centre for Biodiversity and Biosecurity (CBB) with the University of Auckland, including the Joint Graduate
School
www.cbb.org.nz/
The Regional Councils’ Biodiversity Forum that prioritises their biodiversity research needs
The Invasive Animals Cooperative Research Centre (CRC), Australia’s largest integrated invasive animal research programme
www.invasiveanimals.com/
The new Southern Temperate Ecosystems Research Network (STERN) with the Institute of Ecology and Biodiversity in Chile, the initial focus of which is invasive species
The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) that is collating records from biological collections around the world, and Species2000 Catalogue of Life that is creating a valid checklist of the world’s species
www.gbif.org/
www.sp2000.org/

Outcome 2: Land resources

The KiwImage consortium, a multi-agency programme to acquire and use new higher resolution, multi-purpose satellite imagery for all of New Zealand and its sub Antarctic islands
The Sustainable Land Use Research Initiative (SLURI) pools soil science expertise across three CRIs to develop new tools for regulators and land managers
The Sustainable Land Use Alliance (SLUA) between four CRIs supports a more collaborative and integrated approach to research and capability development
www.sluri.org.nz
The National Land Resource Centre (NLRC) provides a gateway to soil and land data, and will have responsibility for coordinating capability development across SLUA
www.nlrc.org.nz
The Global Soil Map is a worldwide consortium to make a high resolution digital soil map to help manage issues like food production and hunger eradication, climate change, and environmental degradation. We are the Scientific Coordinator of the Oceania Node and lead the Cyber-informatics working group
www.globalsoilmap.net
The new New Zealand Antarctic Research Institute, an initiative led by Antarctic New Zealand to leverage overseas and philanthropic funding

Outcome 3: Greenhouse gases

The New Zealand Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Research Centre (NZAGRC) is a partnership of five CRIs, Massey and Lincoln universities, DairyNZ and the Pastoral Greenhouse Gas Research Consortium (PGgRC)
www.nzagrc.org.nz/
The New Zealand Climate Change Centre (NZCCC) with Victoria University of Wellington, University of Canterbury, Massey University, and many of the CRIs
www.nzclimatechangecentre.org/
The Global Research Alliance on agricultural greenhouse gases involves more than 30 countries
www.globalresearchalliance.org/

Outcome 4: Industries and business

The New Zealand Life Cycle Management Centre (NZLCMC) with Massey University and three other CRIs
http://lcm.org.nz
The New Zealand Centre for Sustainable Cities with University of Otago and five other partners
http://sustainablecities.org.nz
The New Zealand Sustainable Business Council, which provides business leadership as a catalyst for change towards sustainable development
www.sbc.org.nz

Links with Universities

All our larger sites are on or close to university campuses, and we have a number of joint appointments with New Zealand universities. This facilitates collaborative research, and makes it easier for our staff to supervise postgraduate students and present invited lectures. During the year, we hosted 20 postdoctoral researchers – talented young researchers embarking on science careers.

New agreement with Lincoln University

Landcare Research and Lincoln University formalised a collaboration agreement in March 2012, and made two new strategic appointments: (1) the University’s Director of the Agri-business and Economics Research Unit has been contracted (part-time) to lead our Supporting Trade Portfolio; and (2) one of our researchers has been appointed to a joint lecturer position in the Soil and Physical Sciences Department at the university. This latter appointment recognises the merits of a joint 3-year field-based project in which final-year students have been creating a detailed soil map of a cropping farm (near Ashburton). The map is not a mere academic exercise – it is used by the farmer, researchers, and industry to improve both irrigation- and nutrient-use efficiency. (A multi-agency Sustainable Farming Fund project into variable rate irrigation, led by Landcare Research, is located on the farm.) The students have benefited immensely from the experience.

Collaborative research centres, networks & consortia

We are partners in a number of collaborative research centres, networks and consortia (e.g. NeSI) that include universities.

For year ended 30 June:	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012
NZ university staff in our research projects	54	51	48	38	41¹
Our staff in university projects	12	25	18	13	13²
Postgraduates being supervised by our staff	94	98	98	71	102³
Staff paid to lecture in university courses	9	12	14	12	7⁴
University positions held by staff	44	38	41	36	39⁵

¹ 41 staff and postgrad students from 7 universities collaborating in 26 of our research projects
² 13 of our staff in 17 programmes at 7 universities
³ 69 PhD, 32 MSc and 1 postgraduate diploma; does not include students supervised by overseas research associates
⁴ 7 staff delivered 9 sets of paid lectures; another 29 staff provided 44 sets of guest lectures
⁵ 29 staff hold 39 honorary positions (professorships, lectureships, fellowships) in New Zealand and overseas universities