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Land Use Change Monitoring 2019-2024

The objective of this work is to quantify and monitor the change in the extent of land use intensification and expansion through subdivision or amalgamation of parcels in urban areas as well as rural parcel fragmentation or amalgamation over time.

Author(s): Dr Ashton Eaves

Publication Date: 7 April 2025

Publication Number: 5687

• Land Use Change Monitoring 2019-2024

Hawke's Bay Land Use Monitoring 2024

This work shows the current land use for the Hawke’s Bay region at a point in time. This report accompanies the Hawke’s Bay Land Use Geodatabase 2024 layer to provide information on the current state of land use.

Author(s): Dr Ashton Eaves

Publication Date: 5 March 2025

Publication Number: 5681

• Hawke's Bay Land Use Monitoring 2024

CR2025-20 Heretaunga monitoring well drilling Report

Heretaunga monitor well drilling
Analysis and reporting for Wells 17349 and
17350 (Pakowhai), 17352 and 17353
(Maraekakaho), 17492 (Parkvale) and 17497 (Napier South)

Author(s): MJF Lawrence, BM Lyndsell, TA Te Koha, U Morgenstern, L Reyes, HJL Gard, V Trompetter, DP Strogen, Francess Mitchell

Publication Date: 28 February 2025

Publication Number: 5683

• CR2025-20 Heretaunga monitoring well drilling Report

Hawke's Bay 3D Aquifer Mapping Project: Numerical Groundwater Modelling experiments using SkyTEM data in the Heretaunga Plains

An assessment of the worth of SkyTEM data for informing numerical groundwater model predictions using the Heretaunga Plains model as a case study

Author(s): GNS Science, Simon Harper

Publication Date: 15 February 2025

Publication Number: 5676

• Hawke's Bay 3D Aquifer Mapping Project: Numerical Groundwater Modelling experiments using SkyTEM data in the Heretaunga Plains

5679_Particulate matter sources and the impact of Cyclone Gabrielle on the Hastings airshed_Jan2025

Source apportionment report for the Hastings airshed using data collected from May 2023 to August 2024

Author(s): Perry Davy

Publication Date: 31 January 2025

Publication Number: 5679

• 5679_Particulate matter sources and the impact of Cyclone Gabrielle on the Hastings airshed_Jan2025

5622_SOE Freshwater Wetland Monitoring- Porangahau, Southern Coast and Wairoa Results_2022

This report presents 2022 results from the HBRC freshwater wetland state of the environment monitoring programme in the Porangahau, Mangakuri and Wairoa catchments.

Author(s): Annabel Beattie

Publication Date: 7 January 2025

Publication Number: 5622

• 5622_SOE Freshwater Wetland Monitoring- Porangahau, Southern Coast and Wairoa Results_2022

Regional shallow landslide connectivity modelling and topographic wetness analysis

HBRC contracted MWLR to produce morphometric landslide-to-stream connectivity layers
for rainfall-induced shallow landslides and estimate the topographic wetness index to support land use planning.

Author(s): Dr Hugh Smith, Dr Ashton Eaves

Publication Date: 18 December 2024

Publication Number: 5673

• Regional shallow landslide connectivity modelling and topographic wetness analysis

Assessing the impact of sea level rise on blue carbon habitats and restoration opportunity in the Hawke’s Bay Region

Blue carbon ecosystems (i.e. coastal wetlands including saltmarsh and seagrass) have a high capacity to sequester carbon as well as provide a myriad of other ecosystem services (e.g. coastal protection, water filtration and biodiversity enhancement). In blue carbon ecosystems, carbon can be stored for long time periods making the protection and restoration of these ecosystems an important nature- based solution to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and thereby also contributing to the mitigation and adaptation to climate change. This report provides a spatial analysis of blue carbon ecosystems within the Hawke’s Bay Region and their potential for restoration under present day and sea level rise scenarios. Additionally, we provide a summary of other key ecosystem services provided by blue carbon ecosystems that could be used to inform management decisions.

Author(s): Richard Bulmer, Georgina Flowers, Orlando Lam-Gordillo, Zhanchao Shao, Phoebe Stewart-Sinclair

Publication Date: 31 October 2024

Publication Number: 5671

• Assessing the impact of sea level rise on blue carbon habitats and restoration opportunity in the Hawke’s Bay Region

St John's Particulate Matter Monitoring Methods

A colocation and equivalence study involving 3 different particulate matter monitoring methods at the St Johns air quality monitoring site in Hastings.

Publication Date: 19 August 2024

Publication Number: 5612

• St John's Particulate Matter Monitoring Methods

5665 Impacts of Cyclone Gabrielle on coastal bird populations in Hawke's Bay

A post-cyclone survey was commissioned to document the population size, density and distribution of coastal birds and compare with baseline results

Author(s): Nikki McArthur, Robin Toy and Ryan Bauckham

Publication Date: 31 July 2024

Publication Number: 5665

• 5665 Impacts of Cyclone Gabrielle on coastal bird populations in Hawke's Bay