Our Team

This work was funded as part of the Our Land and Water National Science Challenge which has an objective to enhance the production and productivity of New Zealand’s primary sector, while maintaining and improving the quality of the country’s land and water for future generations webtool, case studies and research were undertaken as a collaboration between the following research partners.

Dr Olivier Ausseil

Programme Lead Implementation Lead with support from Waverley Jones (engagement), Laura Keenan (scientific editor), Dr. Dimitrios Rados (data/ technical review), Lovisa Ekelund (case studies) and Fiona Death (ecological monitoring)

email
olivier@traverse.co.nz

Dr Joanne Clapcott

Te Ao Māori Lead with support from Dr Laura Kelly (ecological indicators) and Aneika Young (Te Hoire case study)

email
Joanne.Clapcott@cawthron.org.nz

Professor David Hamilton

Science Lead with support from Dr Felipe Castro-Suarez (catchment modelling) and Dr Rupesh Patil (lakes)

email
david.p.hamilton@griffith.edu.au

Professor Richard McDowell

Our Land and Water Chief Scientist

email
Richard.mcdowell@agresearch.co.nz

Dr Alasdair Noble

Mathematics Lead

email
alasdair.noble@agresearch.co.nz

Dr Mike Kittridge - Headwaters Hydrology

Web tool developer

email
mgkittridge@gmail.com

Zeb Etheridge

Groundwater lead with support from Matt Hanson Dumont and Evelyn Charlesworth

email
zeb@komanawa.com

Matt Highway

Groundwater - Pokaiwhenua case study

email
matt@element.org.nz

Dr Rogier Westerhoff

Phase 1 Co-lead

email
r.westerhoff@gns.cri.nz

Dr Crile Doscher

GIS analysis

email
Crile.Doscher@lincoln.ac.nz

Te Hoiere Project

Heli Wade, Rachel Russell and Peter Hamill

email
info@tehoiere.org.nz

Ngāti Kuia

Ruihana Smith, Kristie Pakipaki - Te Hoiere case study

email
tari@ngatikuia.iwi.nz

Pokaiwhenua Catchment Group

Haldleigh Putt and Andrew Lennox

email
info@pokaiwhenua.org.nz

Ngāti Raukawa

K'Lee Begbie and Anaru Begbie - Pokaiwhenua case study

email
info@raukawa.org.nz

Project Collaborators

We would like to acknowledge the following collaborators for their contributions to this project

Horizons Regional Council

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Marlborough District Council

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Waikato Regional Council

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Waikato River Authority

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Ministry for the Environment

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DairyNZ

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Department of Conservation

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Auckland Council

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Bay of Plenty Regional Council

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