Education & Training
Sharing knowledge & building skills
NIWA is committed to education in New Zealand at all levels. In the tertiary sector, we work through the Institute of Aquatic and Atmospheric Sciences (IAAS) and the joint Centres of Excellence that have been formally established with some universities. We also contribute widely to professional development training courses for environmental agencies in New Zealand and the South Pacific. For secondary and primary schools, we’re involved in international and national programmes.
Training Courses
Targeted Riparian Management
Date: November 11, 2009
Location: Hamilton
Time: 12am - 12am
Price: $850
This course provides training in how to assess what functions are occurring at different riparian sites – for example, denitrificaton, attenuation of contaminants in overland and subsurface flow, bank stability, stream temperature control, and invertebrate and fish habitat provision. It will also cover how to target management to maximise selected functions to meet site-specific goals for aquatic protection or restoration. Both days will involve undertaking assessments in the field. Read more about Targeted Riparian Management
Optimising data quality from environmental monitoring stations - March 01, 2010
Read more about Optimising data quality from environmental monitoring stations
Hydrological Modelling – Lumped Catchment Models - May 14, 2010
The course will introduce the principles and application of lumped catchment modelling. It will include both flood and recession modelling, and will take a simple approach, the sort of thing you could do in a spreadsheet. It will include snow melt, rainfall-runoff, and simple flow routing. It will not use an off-the-shelf modelling tool. The purpose of the course is to discuss principles that are relevant to a variety of modelling approaches (suitability of model approach to available data, process representation, estimation of parameters, validation of models), and illustrate them with something that is simple and practical, but has limitations. (This is not a Topnet course, and will not address spatially-distributed modelling). Read more about Hydrological Modelling – Lumped Catchment Models
Training Courses
NIWA offers a wide range of courses each year, presented at a number of venues according to need and the level of interest. In some cases in-house training at the organisation requiring the course can be arranged.
Science and Technology Fairs
NIWA is the major sponsor for many Regional Science and Technology Fairs.