There are 3800 lakes in New Zealand, and Dr Susie Wood from the Cawthron Institute says that “from a scientific perspective we know something about less than two percent of those.”
That is set to change with Lakes380, a five-year research programme that aims to create a thousand-year history for 10 percent, or 380, of New Zealand’s lakes.
Click here to listen to an interview on Radio New Zealand with project co-leader Susie Wood