The 2015 program launched today with students arriving and seeing our first massive Kauri tree. We’re in Warksworth and tomorrow head north to the Bay of Islands.
Post #4: Wildlife Focus and Project Time
Our second field trip went by so fast. On this field trip we made our way down to the south island, stopping at places like Picton, and Lake Rotoiti in Nelson Lakes National Park. While in Picton, we focused on agriculture and conservation efforts. We visited fish, oyster, mussel, and paua (abalone) farms, and a […]
Post #3: Windy Wellington Wonders
During late January through the first half of February my classmates and I spent about a month in Wellington, a wonderful little city filled with many fun activities. Every single student in our group got a single as a room in a residence hall named Te Puni Village located at the top of a hill. […]
Rotoiti Field Research
The gifts of Aotearoa ask very little from the passive observer; the ones who gaze with a complete loss of words through no fault of their own but from the simple fact that there exists no language, no combination of words, nor any string of adjectives that can truly capture the beauty of the land. […]
Veggie-Mites unite to take on Rotoiti
The year is 2015. The setting: Lake Rotoiti, New Zealand. A group of 4 intrepid explorers are tasked with an important… task. Doing science. And if they weren’t sure what kind of science they wanted to do yet, they at least knew that they wanted their study to involve plants. And bugs, too. And so […]