Day 1 — Tuesday 9 March
09:30 — Registrations
10:00 — Formal Welcome
Tim Davie — Director Science, Environment Canterbury
10:15 — History of Hydrology in New Zealand
Charles Pearson — NIWA
10:30 — Morning Tea
11:00 — NEMS for Freshwater Periphyton and Macroinvertebrates
Juliet Milne — NIWA
11:20 — Acoustic Doppler Devices and Number Nuances
Phil Hook — Pattle Delamore Partners
11:40 — High Frequency Water Quality
Lucy McKergow — NIWA
12:10 — Nitrate Monitoring
Lee Burbery — ESR
12:30 — Lunch
13:30 — NIWA Rating Tank
Alec Dempster — NIWA
14:00 — Essential Freshwater Implementation – Working Together
Christina Robb — Happen Consulting Ltd
14:20 — Increased Demand for Data and Water Quality Monitoring
Micah Dodge — Horizons Regional Council
14:40 — Surface Velocity Measurements – An Aussie Update
Mark Randall — Department Natural Resources Mines and Energy Queensland Govt
15:00 — Afternoon Tea
15:30 — Exhibitor Presentations
(5 minutes each)
16:30 — Field Day Details
Environment Canterbury
18:00 — Social Event – Sponsored by NIWA
Savoy West & 2, Rydges Latimer
Day 2 — Wednesday 10 March
09:00 – 17:00 — Field Day
Venue:
Silverstream Reserve,
South Eyre Road,
Clarkville
NIWA Rating Tank
Further details to be discussed at the workshop
Day 3 — Thursday 11 March
09:30 — Oteha Weir Have All the Fish Gone?
Amber Taylor — University of Waikato
09:20 — Monitoring Piha Trials (and Tribulations)
Jonathan De Villiers — Auckland Council
09:40 — Low-Cost Open-Source Monitoring
Ed Clayton — Mote
10:00 — Superficial Flow Measurement
Graeme Smart — NIWA
10:30 — Morning Tea
11:00 — Tracing Water through Karst Systems
Morgan Harvie — Pattle Delamore Partners
11:20 — Unexpected Insights and Applications of Subterranean Time Series Stage Data
Carl Fischer — NIWA
11:40 — Irrigation Network Efficiency Crucial for Ensuring Sustainable Water Resource
Daniel Wagenaar — Xylem Water Solutions
12:00 — The ‘Drone Flow’ Project and Methods for Determining Surface Alpha
Hamish Biggs — NIWA
12:30 — Lunch
13:30 — Monitoring Canterbury Lakes – A Clearer Picture of Murkier Waters
Alex Ring — Environment Canterbury
13:50 — NRC Region-Wide River Flood Model
Bertrand Salmi — Water Technology
14:10 — Responding to Challenges of a Changing Climate
Max Mackay — Bay of Plenty Regional Council
14:30 — Calibration of Tipping Bucket Rain Gauges – Expectation vs Reality
Sam Edwards — NIWA
15:00 — Afternoon Tea
15:30 — Hydrometric Network Review
Phil Downes — Environment Canterbury
15:50 — New Zealand Water Model
Christian Zammit — NIWA
16:10 — Vietnam National Flood Forecasting
Christian Michl — Kisters
18:00 — Dinner & Drinks
Savoy West & 2, Rydges Latimer
Day 4 — Friday 12 March
09:00 — Optical Bathymetry Toolkit
Matthew Gardner — Land River Sea Consulting Ltd
09:40 — Space Time Image Velocimetry (STIV) use in Southland
Michael McDonald — Environment Southland
10:00 — A New AI Tool for Autonomous Underwater Weed Surveillance
Jeremy Bulleid — NIWA
10:30 — Morning Tea
11:00 — Environment Canterbury River Network Tool
Ben Throssell — Pattle Delamore Partners
11:20 — Micro Purge Techniques for Groundwater Sampling
Dirk van Walt — Van Walt
11:40 — Evolution of Gas Bubbler & Dry Transducer Sensors for Accurate Water-level Measurement
Anastasia Ponomareva — Scott Technical Instruments