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2022 News

  1. Improved soil information for Aotearoa

    The Soils Portal, Pātaka Oneone, is Manaaki Whenua’s website for comprehensive infomation about New Zealand’s soil resources. It has been running for 15 years, and currently attracts some 40,000 visitors per year.

  2. How intensified irrigation affects soil physical properties – a pilot study

    New Zealand agriculture has seen rapid land-use change in recent decades, with a decrease in sheep numbers and corresponding rise in dairy cow numbers. This has been matched in the Canterbury region by an expansion in irrigated areas.

  3. Crowding out: why climate change action depends on more than just doing your bit

    Social science research shows that when people decide to “do their bit” for climate change (driving electric cars, recycling, installing solar panels), they may become less inclined to support government policy to combat climate change. This phenomenon, known as ‘crowding out’, can occur because an ...

  4. Software helps facilitate digital soil mapping

    Manaaki Whenua researcher Dr Pierre Roudier is enjoying being both author and contributor on two different software packages in his work on digital soil mapping.

  5. Trees of knowledge: our data at the root of global ecological science

    Researchers at Manaaki Whenua are currently participating in large collaborative research projects starting to answer really big, global-scale questions that tap into data from New Zealand’s Nationally Significant Databases and Collections – the biological and geological memory banks of the country,...

  6. Building Te Ao Māori thinking into science knowledge systems

    Indigenous knowledge systems and approaches hold a significant share in the well-being of the planet. Researchers say if we are to achieve our vision for Aotearoa New Zealand to improve the health of te taiao (the environment) and our people, we need to change the way people interact with the enviro...

  7. Swapping time for space to track the impact of climate change on soil microbes

    To test the effects of climate change on species at any scale is difficult. Scientists can’t manufacture realistic global warming in a test tube or in a lab over a few hours, or a few days. As a result, a big challenge for climate change researchers has always been how to best record potential shift...

  8. Celebrating our achievements

    The 2021 Science New Zealand Awards ceremony, held online in December, recognised research excellence across the CRIs. Dr Kenny Bell won an Early Career Researcher award for his work in climate econometrics – the future economic and social impacts of climate change. Dr David Whitehead was awarded a ...

  9. Prepare to arrive as guests: being manuhiri in the production of knowledge

    New research led by Manaaki Whenua’s Dr Alison Greenaway has focused on how non-indigenous scientists embrace the geographical, cultural, and social places they find themselves as manuhiri (guests).

  10. What’s been going on with the birds in your garden?

    2021 New Zealand Garden Bird Survey results. The State of New Zealand Garden Birds 2021 | Te āhua o ngā manu o te kāri i Aotearoa, a report released today by Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research, shows the latest results from New Zealand’s longest-running citizen science project – the New Zealand Gar...