We have recently had a paper accepted on a new theory on the temperature response of enzymes that is likely to have important implications for many soil processes exposed to changing temperature. The work was led by our friends in … Continue reading
Congratulations to Olivia Jordan who won a scholarship from New Zealand Young Farmers World Congress Charitable Trust competing against students from all NZ universities. Olivia will be examining the root biomass and distribution under pasture swards of different mixes for … Continue reading
Liz Deakin submitted her PhD thesis: “Impacts of land-use intensification on forest remnants embedded within production landscapes.” University of Canterbury. Louis was an Associate supervisor as part of a Marsden funded project. A tremendous piece of work!
Check it out, a new website that looks at soils and farming in New Zealand. http://www.sciencelearn.org.nz/Contexts/Soil-Farming-and-Science/Sci-Media/Interactive/The-terrestrial-nitrogen-cycle
Congratulations to Jack who submitted his BSc (hons) thesis entitled: Historic and Contemporary Subsidence Rates of Drained Agricultural Peat, Waikato, New Zealand.
Dave, Suus and Aaron are off to OzFlux this week. Apparently they got bumped to business class!
Congratulations to Tim Norris (MSc student) and his friends. They completed 100 km on foot in 16 hours to raise funds for Oxfam. A fantastic effort!
Congratulations to Emma and Catherine who submitted their MSc thesis. They meausred losses of dissolved organic carbon from a peat bog (Catherine) and a dairy pasture (Emma). Great stuff after a year and a bit of hard work.
A new paper from former MSc student James Blyth, who is now working in Australia at SRK Consulting. Blyth, J.M.; Campbell, D.I. Schipper, L.A. (2013) Utilising soil indicators to explain historical vegetation changes of a peat bog subjected to flood … Continue reading
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