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In this update

• Under the Wellington waves: Successes and challenges of marine conservation Forest & Bird AGM and talk Tuesday 30th May 2023
• Series: Wai Aotearoa: What's the news about our water?  3,10,17,24,31 May
• Inaugural lecture: Earth, life, and climate: in search of nature's 'invisible hand' Thursday 1 June

Reading / Watching / Listening

• Tupua Horo Nuku update 16 May 2023
•  Special briefing on climate change with Dr Dave Lowe, 10 May 2023 - YouTube
• 4C (Coastal Communities & Climate Change) 21 May meeting report and news (email as pdf)
• 4C (Coastal Communities & Climate Change) 21 May meeting video recording (unfortunately slides don't come out but audio ok)

Consultation

• GWRC What's your 10 year vision for your region? (closed)

Under the Wellington waves: Successes and challenges of marine conservation

Join Forest & Bird's Wellington Branch for their AGM and then on a visual journey through Taputeranga Marine Reserve and Wellington Harbour.

Tuesday May 30th 6-8:30pm, St Peter's Anglican Church Garden Room (enter from Ghuznee St, behind St Peter's Church) 211 Willis Street Wellington, Wellington 6011

A look under the waves of Wellington – exploring the successes and challenges of marine conservation

Dr Nicole Miller is Chair of the Friends of Taputeranga Marine Reserve Charitable Trust and the President of the Wellington Underwater Club. Nicole designs and leads marine citizen science projects and uses a range of visual and immersive techniques to connect people to the marine environment.

Nicole will take us on a visual journey through Taputeranga Marine Reserve and Wellington Harbour. You will hear about the history of the marine reserve, marine conservation successes and the current pressures on Wellington’s marine environment.

There will be an opportunity to experience a dive into Taputeranga Marine Reserve by taking a virtual tour of the reserve. Find out more at www.adventure360.co.nz/360tmr and www.taputeranga.org.nz.

Please note that this talk/ Q&A will be 7pm - 8.30pm, preceded by the Forest & Bird Wellington Branch AGM 6pm - 6.30pm and tea/ coffee/ socialising 6.30pm - 7pm.

Doors open 5.30pm. Masks optional.

We look forward to seeing you there - Reserve a spot!

Wai Aotearoa: What's the news about our water? (series)

The state of water, especially freshwater, in Aotearoa New Zealand has been a matter of public concern since the 1990s. There have been a number of initiatives involving governments, iwi and multiple stakeholders to improve the way we manage water, and therefore land, in both town and country. But controversy continues, most recently around wastewater, stormwater, and drinking water infrastructure, which makes it timely to reflect again on the big picture.

Where are we now and what lies ahead of us?

The Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies aims to address these questions in its annual seminar series beginning on 26 April. The seminars will discuss not just our freshwater—rivers and streams, lakes and groundwater—but also touch on estuaries and the sea into which our rivers flow.

Series dates 17, 24, 31 May

 Find out more     Register 

Inaugural Lecture

Professor Nicholas Golledge
Earth, life, and climate: in search of nature's 'invisible hand'

Everything in the world that we see today is there because of processes that over four-and-a-half billion years have gradually refined the ways that simple building blocks are put together. This process of assembly has given rise to complex structures that exhibit complex behaviours, even though the laws of physics dictate that it should be chaos rather than order that increases over time.

In this lecture Professor Golledge will discuss how processes of self-organisation enable complexity, and the characteristic patterns of behaviour that many natural systems share - from plate tectonics to ecological biodiversity, the global climate to the beating of our hearts.

Thursday 1 June, 6-7pm, Hunter Council Chamber.  Register now

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