Field work and collections

Climate Present and Past is involved with maintaining nationally important collections and undertaking field work.

2015-2016

Collection of 19 samples of ancient kauri from Basin Road, Dargaville

End of Summer Snowline overflight of Southern Alps glaciers, March 2016 

4000 photos (>4TB) of historic glacier photos recovered into digital format and lodged in NIWA's database 

2014-2015

Field support to John Mark Woolley (University of Auckland) at Lake Tennyson - cores, bathymetric, seismic data collected

End of Summer Snowline overflight of Southern Alps glaciers, March 2015 (Chinn, Anderson, Horgan, Woods)

2013-2014

End of Summer Snowline overflight of Southern Alps glaciers, March 2014 (Chinn, Lorrey, Woods)

Field support to John Mark Woolley (University of Auckland) at Lake Tennyson

Field support to Darren King (University of New South Wales) at the Wairau lagoon

Augmented vibrocoring protocol (field work/safety)

2012-2013

Climate and weather data rescue in the Samoa Observatory, Apia

Clement Wragge diary meteorological data rescue from sources in Auckland archives

Dunedin archives data rescue - early settler’s weather journals

2011-2012

End of Summer Snowline overflight of Southern Alps glaciers, March 2013

Ongoing scanning and archiving of historical glacier photos mostly by Trevor Chinn and Andrew Willsman. Retrieved approximately 50 historic photos for 7 glaciers

Fieldwork at Lake Tennyson, Canterbury