The third day brings more rain and I have been assigned “dinghy duty”. This entails a dinghy with three people rebaiting coastal traps – a driver and two trappers are leapfrogged from one trap to the next along the coastline. Our task is to cover as much of Long...
Dusky Sound itself is one of the largest in Fiordland, 40km in length and eight kilometres wide at its widest point. The coastline is unique and unspoiled, with dramatic, breath taking views of rugged coastlines, fiords and snow-capped mountains. The steep terrain...
I have spent the last week of my ambassadorship amongst NIWA’s Tropac group at the Greta Point facility in Wellington. Tropac stands for Tropospheric Physics and Chemistry. The troposphere is the lowest part of the atmosphere, it is where airplanes fly and where the...
Each year, the Sir Peter Blake Trust awards scholarships to a group of young, aspiring scientists and conservationists, who are each paired up with a partnering organisation and given the opportunity to take part in various work programmes around New Zealand and...
As we sit writing this in the Tangaroa library the sway of the Southern Ocean perpetuates the feeling that this is all an incredible dream we are fast asleep within. There isn’t a city light or cellphone tower in sight from our little dot on the south-east coast of...
