Conservation Kōrero: Lakes in Aotearoa: CANCELLED

Learn about the importance of lake sampling to improve our understanding of the environmental, social, and cultural histories of our lakes in Aotearoa New Zealand. Lakes380 is an MBIE-funded research programme designed to answer questions about a lake’s ‘medical history’, like what it used to look like and when it started to deteriorate, by weaving paleo-environmental reconstructions with mātauranga Māori. The programme endeavours to obtain a nationally representative overview of health for 10% of New Zealand’s lakes using sediments, which act as natural archives that continuously record environmental history. The reconstructions from Lakes380 will cover New Zealand’s entire history of human induced landscape change to identify processes that have altered lake health.

Doors open at 6pm, light refreshments provided.

Dr Andrew Rees is a Research Fellow in Paleoecology at Victoria University of Wellington, Te Herenga Waka. He use’s biotic and abiotic proxies preserved in lake sediments to reconstruct past environments of sites located within the mid-latitudes of the Southern Hemisphere.