2020 Symposium

2020 Braided Rivers symposium presentations

Thanks to this year’s sponsors: Environment Canterbury, LINZ, and Boffa Miskell.

Click the links to each paper listed below to download a PDF of the Powerpoint presentations
Click here or the links below to be taken to a short biography of presenters

Speaker	Affiliation	Topic
Sonny Whitelaw	BRaid	Introduction: braidplains
Cnr. Grant Edge, David Owen, and Dr Frances Schmechel	Environment Canterbury	Management of braided rivers
Pete Caldwell, Megan Reid and Shaun Thomason	Boffa Miskell & LINZ	Managing biosecurity on the lakes, rivers and land LINZ is responsible for administering
Assoc. Prof Ann Brower	University of Canterbury	Contested ownership of land and braided rivers
Dr Jonathan Tonkin	University of Canterbury	Managing for sustainable river ecosystems in a non-stationary world
Dr Frances Schmechel	Wildlife Management Int. Ltd.	Five year management project to improve the breeding success of black-fronted tern in the Upper Waiau Toa
Grant Davey	Ashley Rakahuri Rivercare Group	Site preferences and predation issues associated with a riverbed gull/tern colony
Scott Wilson	Lincoln Agritech Limited	Understanding the subsurface hydrology of braided rivers
Hugh Gourlay	Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research	Weeds and biosecurity development
Rachel Hufton and Anthony Coote	Aspiring Biodiversity Trust	Makarora braided river bird protection and monitoring: adventure and the challenges of nature
Nick Ledgard	BRaid/ARRG	Small braided rivers are different
Adele Coombs	Orari River Protection Group	Protecting the Orari River

Photos: Top Rakaia River (Google Earth) | Below Ashley Rakhuri River (Cody Whitelaw)