National Environmental Information Forum
11 May 2010
National Environmental Information Forum presentations
Presentations from the fourth national environmental information forum are available below. Audio files are not available for all presentations due to technical difficulties.
| Presenter* | Audio
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Organisation | Topic |
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WELCOME |
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| Geoff Bascand | Statistics New Zealand | Welcome | |
| Paul Reynolds | Ministry for the Environment | Welcome | |
| Len Brown | Ministry for the Environment | Welcome | |
KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS |
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| Kevin Sweeney (PDF, 1.63 MB) | New Zealand Geospatial Office | Open data: Meaning, context and implications | |
| Associate Professor Willie Smith (PDF, 127 KB) |
University of Auckland | Evidence informed policy: Managing uncertainty | |
CULTURAL ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING |
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| Juliane Chetham (PDF, 248 KB) | REPO Consultancy Ltd | Interim results from a national stocktake of Maori cultural environmental monitoring | |
| Tui Shortland (PDF, 982 KB) |
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(dur: 12:05 minutes) Transcript |
REPO Consultancy Ltd | Maori monitoring – the call for a marae based approach: A look at the past, present and future of Maori cultural environmental monitoring |
| Juliane Chetham (PDF, 500 KB) | Download MP3
(dur: 8:56 minutes) Transcript |
REPO Consultancy Ltd | Maori cultural environmental monitoring stocktake: Lessons learned |
| Robert McClean (PDF, 103 KB) | Download MP3
(dur: 10:24 minutes) Transcript |
New Zealand Historic Places Trust | Cultural indicators for historic heritage |
| Clinton Rameka | Ngati Rehia | Hapu Ahi Kaa as conservation managers | |
| Huhana Smith | Ecological Economics Research Centre New Zealand (EERNZ) at Massey University | Manaaki Taha Moana: Enhancing coastal ecosystems for iwi/hapu | |
FRESHWATER |
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| Graham Sevicke-Jones (PDF, 82 KB) | Download MP3
(dur: 14:40 minutes) Transcript |
Ministry for the Environment Hawke’s Bay Regional Council |
New Start for Fresh Water update |
Clive Howard-Williams |
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(dur: 9:44 minutes) Transcript |
NIWA | Environmental Services National Qualification |
| Rob Davies-Colley (PDF, 1.22 MB) | Download MP3
(dur: 14:18 minutes) Transcript |
NIWA | Twenty years of New Zealand’s National Rivers Water Quality Network |
| Professor Craig Cary (PDF, 1.46 MB) | Download MP3
(dur: 11:20 minutes) Transcript |
University of Waikato | Genetic tools for rapid community level identification and enumeration of cyanobacteria |
| Ton Snelder (PDF, 993 KB) |
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(dur: 08:36 minutes) Transcript |
NIWA | Empirical Modelling of Water Quality for Environmental Reporting |
| Greg Carlyon (PDF, 1.28 MB) |
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(dur: 7:36 minutes) Transcript |
Horizons Regional Council | Update of the Land & Water Information New Zealand website |
COASTAL |
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| Simon Thrush (PDF, 932 KB) |
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(dur: 14:43 minutes) Transcript |
NIWA | The importance of monitoring our coasts in the face of regime shifts |
| Lesley Bolton-Ritchie (PDF, 1.03 MB) |
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(dur: 12:28 minutes) Transcript |
Environment Canterbury | An overview of regional council coastal monitoring programmes |
Matt Pinkerton (PDF, 687 KB) |
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(dur: 9:51 minutes) Transcript |
NIWA | Using remote sensing, trawl survey and fisheries data to detect ecosystem change in the New Zealand ocean |
OPEN DATA |
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| Garry Christoffersen (PDF, 330 KB) | Download MP3
(dur: 12:05 minutes) Transcript |
Boffa Miskell | To be useful, there’s more to open data than meets the eye |
Alison Stringer (PDF, 119 KB) |
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(dur: 2:54 minutes) Transcript | Ministry for the Environment | Open data: MfE round-up |
| Deborah Burgess (PDF, 240 KB) | Download MP3
(dur: 6:01 minutes) Transcript |
Ministry for the Environment | Sharing our lunch – data release lessons learned from the LUCAS programme |
| Andy Neale | Download MP3
(dur: 11:25 minutes) Transcript |
DigitalNZ | How can we share data? A brief exploration of different ways to access and share data |
| Isabella Cawthorn (PDF, 231 KB) | Download MP3
(dur: 12:58 minutes) Transcript |
MoRST | Fuelling the Ecosystem: Environmental data management |
| Nicholas Jones (PDF, 1.03 MB) |
(dur: 11:01 minutes) Transcript |
Hawke’s Bay District Health Board | Integrating human health effect and environmental hazard reporting: The development of national data and indicator standards for the US Environmental Public Health Tracking Network. |
EVIDENCE INFORMED POLICY |
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Stephen Oakley (PDF, 207 KB) |
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(dur: 12:28 minutes) Transcript |
Statistics New Zealand | Environmental Domain Plan update |
| Karlheinz Knickel (PDF, 337 KB) | Download MP3
(dur: 13:19 minutes) Transcript |
Ministry for the Environment | Managing New Zealand’s water: Valuation data needed for decision-making |
| Beat Huser (PDF, 767 KB) |
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(dur: 15:37 minutes) Transcript |
Environment Waikato | Emerging trends for new information needs: The OECD project on ‘Measuring Progress of Societies’ |
| Mark Lindsay (PDF, 317 KB) |
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(dur: 13:45 minutes) Transcript |
Statistics New Zealand | “Evidence trumps opinion every time”: Statistics and better policy advice |
| Grant Blackwell (PDF, 452 KB) | Download MP3
(dur: 11:04 minutes) Transcript |
Office of the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment | How clean is New Zealand? Measuring and reporting on the health of our environment |
ECONOMICS AND THE ENVIRONMENT |
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| Tim Payn and Barbara Hock (PDF, 314 KB) |
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(dur: 11:08 minutes) Transcript |
Scion Research | Monitoring systems for forestry and some economic implications |
| Rachael Milicich (PDF, 120 KB) | Download MP3
(dur: 9:22 minutes) Transcript |
Statistics NZ | Statistics New Zealand’s Environmental Accounts |
| Yvonne Phillips (PDF, 1.42 MB) | Download MP3
(dur: 10:14 minutes) Transcript |
Environment Waikato | Waikato Warm Home Study |
| Marjan van den Belt (PDF, 184 KB) | Download MP3
(dur: 12:34 minutes) Transcript |
Ecological Economics Research Centre New Zealand (EERNZ) at Massey University | Ecosystem services to integrate the economy with the environment |
MODELLING AND FORECASTING |
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| Dan Fieselmann (PDF, 1.39 MB) | MAF | The NAPPFAST weather-based risk mapping system | |
| Oscar Montes de Oca Munguia (PDF, 524 KB) |
Landcare Research | Use of agent-based modelling in the iwi futures programme | |
| Beat Huser (PDF, 1.41 MB) |
Environment Waikato | WISE – an integrated spatial decision support system | |
| Simon Wear (PDF, 173 KB) |
Ministry for the Environment | Modelling and forecasting New Zealand’s greenhouse gas emissions | |
LAND / BIODIVERSITY |
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| Matt Baber (PDF, 792 KB) |
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(dur: 12:12 minutes) Transcript |
Auckland Regional Council | Implementation of a Regional Terrestrial Biodiversity Monitoring Programme |
| Mike Harré (PDF, 393 KB) |
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(dur: 12:31 minutes) Transcript |
Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry | National Performance Measurement Framework for Pest Management |
| Fraser Morgan (PDF, 169 KB) | Download MP3
(dur: 10:37 minutes) Transcript |
Landcare Research | New Zealand Land Use Database Envirolink Tools Project |
| Rebecca Hughes (PDF, 677 KB) | Download MP3
(dur: 10:52 minutes) Transcript |
Boffa Miskell | Do we need a national approach to assessing and monitoring the landscape character resource of New Zealand? |
CLOSING |
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| Tui Shortland | Download MP3
(dur: 4:26 minutes) Transcript |
REPO Consultancy Ltd | Closing |
| Karen Bell | Download MP3
(dur: 2:19 minutes) Transcript |
Agenda to Action | Closing |
| Elise Vine | Download MP3
(dur: 1:59 minutes) Transcript |
Agenda to Action | Closing |
| Harley Spence | Download MP3
(dur: 1:35 minutes) Transcript |
Agenda to Action | Closing |
| Wendy McGuiness | Download MP3
(dur: 2:44 minutes) Transcript |
Sustainable Futures | Closing |
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National Environmental Information Forum notes
Notes are available (PDF, 384 KB) from the fourth national environmental information forum.
Last updated:12 July 2010
