I spent most of the first week of my NIWA ambassadorship in the Coromandel, monitoring stream invertebrates in forestry catchments with Brian Smith, a freshwater biologist, and Kat Reeves, a freshwater ecology technician. We monitored 13 sites in total, which were...
After racing through Auckland traffic, I reached the Auckland Domestic Airport, and it finally felt like the trip had begun. Surrounded by the large domestic providers such as Air NZ and Jetstar, the Barrier Air presence was limited to a small one-man desk, and a...
Two weeks down and two to go! We are officially halfway through the trip and making our way, slowly, back towards the mainland surveying as we go. We began heading towards the Chatham Islands, hung around the north side for a few days and now we are heading back west...
Kia Ora, it’s Anna here, one of the Department of Conservation ambassadors in Port Waikato. We’ve just had our annual Shorebird Day at the Port and it has been a really fun and engaging community event. We had an art stall where people could paint their own wooden...
We are now a week into the trip and starting to get quite familiar with life on-board and the work! Our shifts are spent below deck in the wet lab sorting the catch and entering biological data for each species of fish, sharks, invertebrates and everything we catch....
Shelley and I have been in Port Waikato for around 5 weeks now and we are really enjoying our time here. In this blog post I’m going to share with you a day in the life of a DOC dotterel ranger. After waking up in our tent, we make breakfast and get ready for the day....
