Forest Hydrology going to the stars

May 2, 2024

NZ-NASA Partnerships Announced

Scion was successful with two projects being funded Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment NZ-NASA Research Partnership. Dean Meason is leading one on the tree-water (hydrological) cycle from space! Building on the success of the Forest Flows Endeavour Programme, Sc...

Forest Flows in the Spotlight for World Water Day 2024!

March 25, 2024

Forest Flows in the spotlight for International Day of the Forests and World Water Day 2024...

New Paper on Remote Sensing Dry Periods in Forests in Remote Sensing Journal

March 11, 2024

New published paper! This Forest Flows research led by University of Massachusetts Amherst Kostas Andreadis compared NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration and European Space Agency - ESA satellite data with ground sensor netw...

Sharing and learning knowledge at the Ngā Puawai o Te-Oneroa-a-Tōhe

October 9, 2023

It was an amazing experience to attend the Ngā Puawai o Te-Oneroa-a-Tōhe in Kaitāia on September 28th-30th. As one of the over 80 invited stakeholders, the remarkable wānanga brought together diverse backgrounds to deliberate the future of Te Oneroa-a-Tōhe (90 Mile Beac...

Presentation at The Forest Bridge Trust Hui, Kaipara Flats

September 11, 2023

Thank you The Forest Bridge Trust (https://www.theforestbridgetrust.org.nz/) for the opportunity to present at your "Building a Legacy Conservation Hui 2023" at Kaipara Flats last Friday. It was great opportunity to share the science and application with "right tre...

Presentation to APPITA and NZIF

August 21, 2023

Last week Forest Flows got the opportunity to present to the Joint APPITA & NZIF Annual Dinner in Rotorua, important stakeholder groups. The overview of the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment Forest Flows Endeavour programme was shared and our appr...

New Forest Flows Paper in CATENA!

July 14, 2023

New paper! This research, in the high impact CATENA journal, looks at the spatial resolution of digital elevation maps (DEM) and interpolation of topography and soil properties. This interpolation commonly used for all sort of analyses, like forestry, agriculture, geology, r...

Knowledge sharing in Germany and the Netherlands

July 7, 2023

I wanted to give a shout out to the folks that hosted me at Forschungszentrum Jülich and Wageningen University & Research during the last few days of the Europe trip to present and discuss the Forest Flows research programme. At Forschungszentru...

Knowledge sharing in France

June 23, 2023

Last week was a busy one with attending and presenting the latest Forest Flows results at the European Space Agency - ESA PolinSAR and Biomass 2023 Conference (https://polinsar-biomass2023.esa.int/) as well as visiting and presenting at INRAE Bordeaux. Ma...

Visit To the European Space Agency ESRIN Campus

June 16, 2023

Thank you all at the European Space Agency - ESA Centre for Earth Observation (ESRIN) for hosting me last week. I really enjoy my visit! It was a great opportunity to discuss the Forest Flows programme's integrated terrestrial & remote sensing measurements in f...