Exploring the current and historic health of New Zealand’s most northern lakes (25 June 2019)

Read about the Lake380 team moving to Northland and the unique dune lakes.

Lake New Zealand’s most northern iwi, Ngāti Kuri, and researchers led by scientists from GNS Science and the Cawthron Institute, will this week start scientifically sampling some of the country’s most remote lakes north of Kaitaia.

Sampling lake sediments at Lake Wai Raupo
The Lakes 380 team taking core samples from a dune lake in Northland
Dr Susie Wood from Cawthron taking water samples from a dune lake in Northland