Coastal and Marine
NZTRI researchers participated in symposium on Watching Whales, Saving Whales in Hawaii.
Dr Mark Orams and Dr Michael Lück were invited to be keynote speakers and moderators at the first annual Watching Whales, Saving Whales Symposium in Maui, Hawaii, which on February 13th and 14th 2010, brought together some of the world's leading whale experts, researchers and authors to discuss how to protect and save whales through the power of public awareness and scientific discovery.
NZTRI researcher says playful dolphin should be left alone
In recent months a sub-adult bottlenose dolphin has become increasingly interactive with visitors and locals off the coast of Gisborne.This interaction is popular but there are concerns about the risks involved, for people and for Moko, the dolphin. The bottlenose is one of several species of dolphin found in New Zealand waters.
Dr Hull works on Havelock Vision 2020
Ms Walker, a driving force behind the formation of Havelock Vision 2020 in mid-2009, sees value in the ideas of NZTRI researcher Dr John Hull contributed for developing tourism in rural areas. “Dr Hull's experience in communities around the world similar in size to Havelock can be applied to facing the same challenges as the Pelorus area”,Ms Walker says. Dr Hull's November 2009 Havelock workshop showed the attraction of a bottom-up approach in which people "identify what you have, package your point of difference and activities and go for it". Dr Hull also spoke in November to the aquaculture conference in Nelson on the aquaculture and seafood trail trialed in the top of the south a few years ago by the Blenheim-based Marine Farming Association.
Sam Judd on capacity building and waste management in the Pacific
Sam Judd is co founder of a New Zealand charity called Sustainable Coastlines. Educated in New Zealand and Latin America, he has spearheaded large scale coastal cleanup events and is in the process of developing a formula for waste management in small island states.
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NZTRI presents at Cawthron Aquaculture Conference in Nelson
On November 5th, Dr.John Hull presented a breakout session at the Cawthron Aquaculture Conference in Nelson on NZTRI's continuing research linked to the role of Innovation on the Top of the South Aquaculture and Seafood Trail organised by the Marine Farming Association in 2006. The session was attended by over 40 participants. The survey results from businesses and planners conducted in 2008 and preliminary results of visitors to the region in 2009 were presented. The baseline data is providing information for policymakers on how to strengthen linkages between the aquaculture and tourism industries in the region. The research programme for the Top of the South Aquaculture and Seafood
