Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research

New Zealand's foremost environmental research organisation.

Re–defining the ‘Big Ice’

Antarctica – worthy of greater protection

Landcare research scientists have taken a big step to ensuring ongoing protection of Antarctica.

Led by Fraser Morgan, they have undertaken a classification of the physical environment of the entire continent, which is now considered the leading environmental information database for the continent.

More: Discovery, Issue 20 »

Topical Issues

Case study: National Vegetation Survey Databank (NVS – ‘NIVS’)

How do we know how much carbon was stored in our forests back in 1990 for our Kyoto Protocol calculations? How much timber could be sustainably logged from an indigenous forest?

The NVS databank, an invaluable record of New Zealand’s vegetation extending back over 50 years, helped provide answers to these questions and continues to inform decision making about our natural environment, as this 2007 case study for the Crown Company Monitoring Advisory Unit (CCMAU) explains.

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Science in Focus - Informatics

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:

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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