Random photos from the team and department
Jasmine’s birthday cake
Not quite a research cake but to celebrate Jasmine’s birthday she brought in her own cake. Four different cakes layered!
More photos from field days 2015
Femke and Sophie talk with the VC
Soil carbon debate at field days
Seeing double at Field days
Femke at Field Days
Hot volcanic soils field trip (NZSSS annual conference 2014) expertly led by Professor David Lowe
Aaron being inspected by the chickens during grass harvesting
Olivia and the Prime Minister at Field Days
Doreen and Nadia in Jeju, Korea while attending the World Congress of Soil Science
Main equation for macromolecular rate theory (MMRT) on a cake.
What we really do…
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- The big picture
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- Who we are
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- Suus, Aaron and Sam figuring out roots and soil C
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- Nadia and her flipped soils
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- Louis hard at work
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- Janine keeping us safe
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- Jack watching the peat go away
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- Doreen gets DNA off allophane
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- David – master of the GC
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- Dave chills, while Jordan works
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- Anna samples floating woodchips
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- Alex designs a way to moisten litter
Dr Paul Mudge after his oral exam, note on the left is Paul Mudge MSc student
Recent sampling visit to Karaka denitrification bed by Louis, Anna, Alex and Charlie
Anna, Alex and Charlie collecting wood chips from a 6 year old denitrification bed
Louis visited Mark David – pictured here at the famous Morrow plots University of Illinois
Sam McNally takes soil and root sampling seriously
Dave looking relaxed at the start of his sabbatical, along with his friend Jasper, hiking in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming
Eddy Covariance tower at Troughton Farm
Ex-lab member, Louise Fisk makes a cake at the University of Western Australia
Our team at Kopuatai
Jordan checking the CSAT
Jordan and Dave looking at the data
Catherine and Dean downloading data from Solinst levelogger
Brendon Welten’s new field trial
New installation at Kopouatai
Dean’s new invention being installed at the Kopouatai bog
Adventurous MSc students scale Mt Taranaki to see the sun rise!
MSc field assignment on a windy day
A windy day for a field assignment
Field trip to peat bog
Geko invades our field site
Auckland green gecko (Naultinus elegans) found by Dave Campbell
Dorodango
Below are a couple of Dorodongo which are simply made from soil dried and compressed by hand, if you want to see how they are made just search the web – there are plenty of videos/pictures of them
Dorodango made from iron oxide
- Dorodango made from Horotiu topsoil
Summer of 2010 in the lab
While Louise Fisk was in the lab over summer, this creation developed over the whiteboard. Contributions came from anyone who came through the lab, including academics, technicians, students and the cleaner.
Note that the ideas/descriptions/opinions on these pages are ours and may not reflect those of the University of Waikato.
