Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research
Driving innovation in New Zealand's management of terrestrial biodiversity and land resources.
New insights into climate change
Cutting edge technology is helping Landcare Research staff gain revolutionary insights into New Zealand’s soils and leaves and the role our plants play in global climate change.
It’s courtesy of the new stable isotope Tuneable Diode Laser Absorption Spectrometer – the only one of its type in the Southern Hemisphere – that’s now up and running and supporting the work of Landcare Research’s internationally respected Global Change Process scientists.
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Our fUTURE
OurFuture is an interactive website which brings together projects and activities that benefit New Zealand's natural environment and resources. OurFuture is aimed at making connections between research and action and between people and projects. Visit website www.OurFuture.net.nz Follow Landcare Research
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Sharing stories about New Zealand sustainability initiatives and environmental research.
Science in Focus - Informatics
We are a newly formed team within Landcare Research bringing together individuals with cross–disciplinary skills that frequently combine knowledge of Informatics together with more traditional science disciplines.
Our work covers a spectrum of activities:
- New tools, systems, services and standards for delivering information to external end–users, and our own research community
- Collaborative research with other teams within Landcare Research, and other groups both nationally and internationally
- Design, development, support and maintenance of ‘backbone’ science information systems
- Consultancy and advisory services for information management and biometrics
The Informatics Team currently has 28 staff and a number of contractors. We have specific expertise in the areas of Remote Sensing, GIS, Database application development, Biodiversity Informatics and Biometrics.
Informatics may be defined as the study of the application of computer science, computational, statistical and visualisation techniques for improving acquisition, storage, management, access, utilisation and dissemination of information.
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