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Kicking off 2025 BLAKE Explorers with a Kiwi sighting in broad daylight!!
Sylvia Park School tamariki (and BLAKE staff!) were super excited during last week's Tāwharanui Ecology Walk to see Aotearoa’s iconic bird hunting for post-rain treats.
The walk is part of a 3-day programme which includes snorkelling, surfing, and team building, aimed at connecting students to their natural surrounds and creating a sense of excitement and passion for the environment.
Grateful for backing from Chapman Tripp and our BLAKE supporters to enable these experiences for our rangatahi, with over 500 students having experienced the programme since its inception in 2020. 🥽😎🍃
Chapman Tripp
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Nau mai, hoki mai! Welcome back to our BLAKE Expeditions group!
Photo taken just before docking into Bluff yesterday, with Commanding Officer Bronwyn Heslop.
13 days aboard HMNZS Canterbury, exploring the subantarctic's wild and unique landscapes while assisting scientists with critical climate change research.
We can't wait to hear the first hand accounts!
GNS Science
University of Otago
NZ Defence Force
The University of Waikato
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Caitlin Berquist has come a long way since a childhood spent wandering the beaches of Whakatāne and contemplating why the dune erosion was seemingly speeding up, and the landscape looked different after every storm.
The 21-year-old University of Waikato student and former Whakatāne High School student has now completed her University of Waikato BLAKE Antartica Ambassadorship, where she had a profound realisation of how she could be a part of the quest to understand Earth's processes in vital climate change research.
“Looking down from that helicopter flight at the Taylor Valley surrounds was possibly my favorite memory. I think it was when I began to realize the enormity of what I was getting myself into, picturing the weeks ahead where this would be my life,” she recalls.
Read the full story below 👇
www.blakenz.org/2025/03/05/14782/
The University of Waikato
Antarctica New Zealand
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