June's report on freshwater models by the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment (https://pce.parliament.nz/publications/a-review-of-freshwater-models-used-to-support-the-regulation-and-management-of-water) highlighted the poor and fragmentary state of modelling Aote...
The Forest Flows Research Programme shared its data driven results at the Environmental Forestry Conference (https://innovatek.co.nz/event/environmental-forestry-2024/) 25th-26th June 2024. The programme's main objectives is to quantify the water use of plants and trees, and...
New Paper on Predicting Soil Water Movement and Storage in Forested Catchments in the Journal of Hydrology
May 28, 2024
Latest Scientific Paper! Soils are a crucial component of forest hydrology - for water storage and release. This Forest Flows research, led by Shanxi Agricultural University's Dr Hongfen Zhu, developed a novel way to optimise where to place sensors within a forested catchmen...
New published paper! This Forest Flows research led by University of Massachusetts Amherst Kostas Andreadis compared NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration and European Space Agency - ESA satellite data with ground sensor netw...
Presentation at The Forest Bridge Trust Hui, Kaipara Flats
September 11, 2023
Thank you The Forest Bridge Trust (https://www.theforestbridgetrust.org.nz/) for the opportunity to present at your "Building a Legacy Conservation Hui 2023" at Kaipara Flats last Friday. It was great opportunity to share the science and application with "right tre...
New Zealand Herald News Story on Forest Flows findings about extreme weather events on planted forests
The largest study of its kind in the world has revealed how our forests may soak up much more water in extreme rain than scientists first thought.The new findings – showing how one forest north of Auckland responded to two of the year’s biggest deluges – come from a fi...
Forest sponges: New research reveals how forests absorb water in extreme weather events
June 12, 2023
Press Release from Scion
New research is showing how effective forests are at mitigating the effects of extreme rainfall during severe weather events.High resolution data collected from Mahurangi Forest near Auckland during the Auckland Anniversary weekend floods and Cyclone Gabrielle shows that nea...
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