This past week has been the start of many adventures to come, afar from my small hometown of Dairy Flat, to the bustling South Island city of Christchurch, where I will call home for the next two weeks. But before I dive in (pun intended) to the Fresh Water research,...
A new focus for NZ? Understanding methane Everyone knows that lowering our carbon dioxide emissions is the best way the world can of mitigate global warming, and it is true. Carbon dioxide is the single biggest driver of climate change and it has a very long life...
On the first Wednesday morning of 2017 we met for the first time when we were picked up in a NIWA fleet vehicle. This would be the start of a month long adventure eastward on the Chatham Rise looking at biodiversity over the seabed. Neither of us have been out on the...
Week 2: Greta Point Cracking into my second week here at NIWA’s Greta Point Campus a quote from the great Sir Peter Blake himself was in my mind “the hardest point in any big project is beginning”. During this week I was got stuck into my research project on seasonal...
NIWA: Week One Greta Point Campus: 15th-18th of November This is an overview of the work I am doing each week with NIWA as part of the Blake Ambassador Programme. Day one joining the Tropospheric Physics and Chemistry group or TROPAC for short at NIWA at their...
