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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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