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Monday, 10 May 2021, 10:37 am
This week (10–14 May), daily workshops are happening
for 450 local school students from seven Tauranga schools,
where they will use art to learn about the relationship
between our marine environments and the risks of
environmental and climate changes.
The students will
be looking at the tides and seafood (kai moana) species in
the sea (moana) near Tauranga and historical land
reclamation. The children will use rope to ‘draw’ what
they learned.
Each rope drawing will then be added to
The Unseen – a giant community artwork made from
rope. The artwork will be unveiled at Tauranga Art Gallery
on Saturday 22 May, with a free public talk at 11am. The
Press Release – Sustainable Seas National Science Challenge
This week (10–14 May), daily workshops are happening for 450 local school students from seven Tauranga schools, where they will use art to learn about the relationship between our marine environments and the risks of environmental and climate changes.
The students will be looking at the tides and seafood (kai moana) species in the sea (moana) near Tauranga and historical land reclamation. The children will use rope to ‘draw’ what they learned.
Each rope drawing will then be added to
The Unseen – a giant community artwork made from rope. The artwork will be unveiled at Tauranga Art Gallery on Saturday 22 May, with a free public talk at 11am. The speakers will be artist-researcher Gabby O’Connor, who led the creation of this collaborative artwork as part of her PhD research, and Associate Professor Karen Fisher, Gabby’s PhD supervisor and a research theme leader at the Sustainable Seas National Science Chall
Estuaries are where freshwater rivers meet the ocean, and where people live and visit.
The estuaries dotted along New Zealand’s coastline provide many economic and recreational opportunities like swimming, boating, sightseeing and collecting kaimoana.
Team leader of marine science and aquaculture professor Conrad Pilditch is supervising the research along with Professor Karin Bryan, Associate Professor Kura Paul-Burke, Dr Joanne Ellis and Dr Shari Gallop.
“Estuaries are fascinating places to study scientifically because they are so complicated,” says Professor Pilditch.
“There are a lot of different habitats and different things happening.”
But they are also difficult to manage.
“Because estuaries lie between the interface of the coast and the sea, they gain pressures from both areas, but they also slip between the gap of marine and freshwater management.