2023
Semester One | |||
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Date | Presenter(s) | Institution | Title |
2 March | 2022-23 School of Surveying Summer Bursary students and staff presentations | What did we get up to this summer? | |
9 March | Raphael Krier-Mariani | Dunedin City Council (DCC) | Nearshore coastal processes and management of rock coasts and sandy beaches |
16 March | Dr Robert Odolinski and Dr Yong Chien Zheng | Te Kura Kairūri | School of Surveying | Instantaneous, dual-Frequency, multi-GNSS precise cm-level positioning using Google Pixel 4 and Samsung Galaxy S20 smartphones with an improved estimator |
23 March | BSurv Honours candidates for 2023 | Te Kura Kairūri | School of Surveying | 2023 Honours topic presentations: |
30 March | Kurt Cole | JASMAX | Dunedin's Retail Quarter - George Street Upgrade Design |
6 April | Grace Ng Shi Hui | Asian School of the Environment, Nanyang Technological University Singapore | Understanding Tectonic Vertical Land Motions for Relative Sea-Level Changes in Southeast Asia: Through Geodetic Observations and Earthquake Models |
13 April | MID SEMESTER BREAK - no seminar | ||
20 April | Professor Ivan Diaz-Rainey & Associate Professor Tony Moore | STRAND , Otago University , GNS Science , Bodeker Scientific , Griffith Uni , Reserve Bank of New Zealand , Core Logic , NeSI , NIWA , RiskScape | The STRAND project: Uncertainties in modelling climate change-related flooding risks to property |
27 April | Dr Laura Robichaux | Beca | (Un)Managed Retreat of Isle de Jean Charles |
11 May | Graeme Blick | LINZ | Mapping New Zealand 2025 – seamlessly mapping New Zealand from the land to the sea |
18 May | Catherine Murupaenga Ikenn & Dr Francesca Marzatico | Indigenous human rights advocate | A conversation about indigenous land rights in the climate crisis |
25 May | Andy Burrell | LANDPRO | Aerial Bathymetric LiDAR |
1 June | Dr Mick Strack | Te Kura Kairūri | School of Surveying | Getting here from there: a valedictory |
Semester Two | |||
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Date | Presenter | Institution | Title |
13 July | Giacomo Caleffi | Copenhagen Offshore Partners | Offshore Wind Energy in NZ |
20 July | Adam Mesa | CKL | The Cadastral Surveying Licensing Journey and Adding Value to Projects as a Surveyor |
27 July | No seminar this week (it's recruitment time for our students!) | ||
3 August | No seminar this week (it's recruitment time for our students!) | ||
10 August | Hon Rachel Brooking | Minister for Oceans and Fisheries, Associate Minister for Environment, | tbc - Progress on the proposed Resource Management legislation |
17 August | Emily Tidey, Dr Francesca Marzatico, Sam Thompson | Te Kura Kairūri | School of Surveying | tbc - Conference presentations from Emily and Francesca 2023 Honours topic presentation: |
24 August | Belen Jimenez Baron | Seabed 2030 | tbc - Seabed 2030 |
31 August | MID SEMESTER BREAK - no seminar NOTE: This schedule is not being updated due to the university website migration, please contact seminar organisers for more details. | ||
5 October | Dr Donna Hendry | Te Pūtea Rangahau Angitū, Te Tari Tānga | PBRF and Publications Office, Outputs Office | PBRF and publications update |
Week of 12 October | BSurv Honours student final presentations 2024-2025: Staff presentations outlining 200-300 level options papers and honours topic ideas | Te Kura Kairūri | School of Surveying |
2022
2021
2020
Semester One | |||
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Date | Presenter(s) | Institution | Title |
27 February (in L2) | Peter Frost | University of Otago | Wellbeing and Support Services at Otago- for Surveying students |
28 February (Friday 10:00-11:30 in L2) | John Hannah (S+SNZ, NZ), Zaffar Sadiq Mohamed-Ghouse (SSSI, AUS), James Kavanaugh (RICS, UK), Derek Shanks (Trimble, USA) & Don Grant (RMIT, AUS) | Hosted by Survey and Spatial NZ (S+SNZ) | Weblink: Online Panel: The Future of the Profession - for S+SNZ members(Click here for poster) |
28 February (Friday 14:00-15:00 in L1) | Bronwyn Clarke | Library, University of Otago | Literature Searching Workshop - for Surveying staff and students |
5 March (in L2) | Christina Hulbe, Fraser Jopson, Emily Tidey & Kelly Gragg | School of Surveying, University of Otago | Studying and time management, then, Computing tips and tricks at Surveying - for Surveying students |
12 March | Summer student presentations from Jessie Scurr, Liam McElwain, Devon Allen, Thorton Birchler-Stockdill, Hugo Collins & supervisors | School of Surveying, University of Otago | What did our Summer Bursary students get up to this year...?! |
19 March | James Weir | Otago Regional Council | GIS Development in Emergency Management Otago |
19 March (PUBLIC LECTURE, 17:00 - 18:00 in L2) | Toby Stoff | Clark Fortune McDonald | PUBLIC LECTURE to celebrate Global Surveyors Day (21 March): You Call That Steep? A Madcap Adventure Where a NZ Surveyor Takes on Guinness |
26 March - 9 April (inclusive) | POSTPONED - No seminars during first weeks of COVID-19 Alert Level 4 | - | - |
14 April - webinar | Cory Brooks (Unique Subsea Australia), Emily Tidey (School of Surveying, University of Otago) | Hosted by NZ Region of the Australasian Hydrographic Society (AHS) | Cory: The latest hydrographic technology to hire from Unique Subsea Australia, QLD Emily: Hydrographic surveying in NZ's sub Antarctic Islands Click here for weblink on AHS webpage |
16 April | MID SEMESTER BREAK - no seminar | - | - |
23 April | POSTPONED - Some seminars planned to occur during COVID-19 response will move to Semester 2 | - | - |
30 April | Dr Paul Denys | School of Surveying, University of Otago | The ups and downs of coastlines: Implications of vertical land motion on coastal hazards |
7 - 21 May (inclusive) | POSTPONED - Some seminars planned to occur during COVID-19 response will move to Semester 2 | - | - |
28 May | Professor Kath Dickinson | Department of Botany, University of Otago | Botanic Gardens as biodiversity hotspots |
Semester Two | |||
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Date | Presenter | Institution | Title |
9 July | NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK - WELCOME BACK | ||
16 July | Martin Forbes and Todd Redpath | School of Surveying, University of Otago | Martin: Ross Ice Shelf rift interaction study (RISRIS), Todd: Insights into seasonal snowpack process from high resolution drone photogrammetry |
23 July | Dr Losā Moata'ane | Division of Sciences, University of Otago | Pacific knowledge and collaborations: A conversation with the Associate Dean (Pacific) |
30 July | Greg Leonard | School of Surveying, University of Otago | Antarctica sea ice research at University of Otago: Where we've been and where we're going |
6 August | School of Surveying staff | School of Surveying, University of Otago | Honours topics presentations |
13 August | Hamish Price | School of Geography, University of Otago | Geospatial tools for atmospheric science |
20 August | Saeed Rahimi and Martin Forbes | School of Surveying, University of Otago | Saeed: What sort of explanations agent-based models produce and how they contribute to our understanding of movement behaviours?, Martin: Ross Ice Shelf rift interaction study (RISRIS) |
27 August | MID SEMESTER BREAK - no seminar | ||
3 September | Bruce Robinson | Global Survey | Combining GNSS and Total Station Data |
10 September | Anselm Haanen | Surveyor-General/Kairūri Matua, Land Information New Zealand | TBC |
17 September | Peter Latu and Long Chen | School of Surveying, University of Otago | Peter: BSurv Honours presentation, Long: PhD research presentation |
27 September | |||
1 October | Janet Stephenson | Centre for Sustainability, University of Otago | TBC |
8 October | Aubrey Miller | School of Surveying, University of Otago | TBC |
2019
Semester 1 | |||
---|---|---|---|
Date | Presenter | Institution | Title |
28 February (in L2) | TBD | University of Otago | Wellbeing and support services at Otago |
1 March (in L1) | (Streamed Webinar) | LINZ, Marlborough District Council, and Te Ātiawa Manawhenua Ki Te Tau Ihu Trust | Discovering NZ's Ocean Data: Enabling a Blue Economy |
4 March (in L1) | Christina Hulbe, Fraser Jopson and Emily Tidey | University of Otago | Studying and time management |
11 March (in L1) | Emily Tidey and Kelly Gragg | University of Otago | Computing tips and tricks at Surveying |
21 March | Greg Leonard and Tony Moore | University of Otago | Hills and dams made of sand: Adventures in geospatial and engineering education |
28 March | Sara Fabrikant | University of Zurich | Smart assistive navigation devices to support wise decisions of the digital citizen |
4 April | Christina Hulbe | University of Otago | The calm, cool deep: Direct observation of ice, ocean and sea floor sediments under the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica |
11 April | Sarah Lind and Adam Holloway | Trimble | Trimble: Technology. Opportunities. Success. |
18 April | Claire Freeman | University of Otago | Urban greenspaces: the ones planners and surveyors overlook! |
25 April | Mid-Semester Break | ||
1 May (Wednesday) | Vaughan Payne | Waikato Regional Council | From the School of Surveying to leadership in the Waikato |
9 May | Richard Harrison | Global Survey | Surveying for the Dunedin Central City Plan |
16 May | James Weir, Lena Bryant and Luke Johnson | University of Otago | Survey + Spatial as a Career |
23 May | Crystal Filep and James Berghan | University of Otago | Urban Design Explorations |
30 May | Todd Redpath | University of Otago | Should you buy a ski pass this winter? |
2018
Semester 1 | |||
---|---|---|---|
Date | Presenter | Institution | Title |
1 March (in L2) | Dave Scott, Mark Chamberlain, Richard Mooney, Carolyn Walker | University of Otago | Student Wellbeing seminar |
8 March (in L2) | Don Townsend | Human Resources | Time management |
15 March | Emily Tidey | School of Surveying | Software tips for producing good assignments |
22 March | Prof Jaap Zevenbergen | Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, University of Twente | The Global Land Tool Network: leaving no one behind in land administration? |
29 March | Postgraduate Students | School of Surveying | Recent fieldwork undertaken by our Postgraduate students |
5 April | Mid-semester Break | ||
12 April | |||
19 April | |||
26 April | Emily Tidey | School of Surveying | Hydrographic measurements as spatial predictors of marine habitats and processes |
3 May | Lea Schueler-Beck, Aubrey Miller and Dr Greg Leonard | School of Surveying | University of Otago campus mapping: Where we've been, where we are and where we are headed |
10 May | Dr David Goodwin and Dr Mick Strack | School of Surveying | NZIS presentations |
17 May | |||
24 May |
2017
Semester 2 | |||
---|---|---|---|
Date | Presenter | Institution | Title |
13 July | |||
20 July | Jesse Teat | Tussock Innovation | IoT, a product developer's perspective |
27 July | Dr. Mick Strack | School of Surveying | Who should own water and waterways and what should that mean? |
3 August | |||
10 August | |||
17 August | All staff | School of Surveying | Honours project topics |
24 August | Brian Coutts | School of Surveying | Land Surveying: has technology fundamentally changed the profession? |
28 August | Mid-Semester Break | ||
7 September | Dr. Peter Knight | Geomatics N.Z. Ltd | Edminstin vs Sanfords Ltd: An Oyster skipper fights for his rights to intellectual property |
11 September | Pim Kuus | Teledyne Reson, Australasian Hydrographic Society | Understanding shallow water multibeam systems |
14 September | Dr. Mick Strack et al. | School of Surveying | MĀORI THEME RESEARCH AT TE KURA KAIRŪRI |
21 September | Richard Hemi | School of Surveying | The survey of an endangered bird – The Bulford Kiwi |
28 September | Geoff O'Malley | Land Information New Zealand | National Perspectives on Geospatial Capability and Research |
5 October | Justin Farquhar et al. | Library, Divisional Office and the Publications Office | PBRF presentations |
12 October |
2016
2015
Semester 1 | |||
---|---|---|---|
Date | Presenter | Institution | Title |
26 February | Emerson Pratt | Manager, Teaching & Learning Facilities, ITS, University of Otago | An introduction to the University of Otago's new Student Desktop |
5 March | Various | School of Surveying | Summer Bursary Student Presentations |
12 March | Dr. Rob McCaffrey | Portland State University | Inter-‐seismic locking on the Hikurangi subduction zone: Uncertainties from slow-‐slip events |
19 March | Dr. Tony Moore and Marc Russwurm | School of Surveying / Technical University of Munich | Mountains of Work! |
26 March | Dr. Robert Odolinski | School of Surveying | New Zealand's first results for multi-GNSS single-baseline RTK positioning |
2 April | |||
9 April | Mid-Semester Break | ||
16 April | Gary Chisholm | Trimble | Marine Construction using GNSS |
23 April | |||
30 April | Andrew Burrell | Global Survey | UAV data acquisition, processing and deliverables: allowing technology to do the legwork |
7 May | Dr. Ian Hamling | GNS | A view from above: Satellite Radar Interferometry observations of New Zealand's deforming crust |
14 May | Professor William Cartwright | RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia | NeoCartography: citizen cartographers, GPS, consumer electronics and mapping |
21 May | Dr. David Goodwin | Te Kura Kairūri, School of Surveying | Hybrid solutions to securing land rights in the continuum between customary and formal land tenure |
28 May | Dr. David Goodwin | Te Kura Kairūri, School of Surveying | Surveys to determine the orientation of standing stones on the Hauviri and Taputapuātea maraes on Ra'iatea, and associated issues |
Semester 2 | |||
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Date | Presenter | Institution | Title |
9 July | |||
16 July | Various | School of Surveying and Dept. of Geology | Our seas and oceans – still to be explored and charted |
23 July | Dr. Rachel Whitsed | School of Environmental Sciences, Charles Stuart University, NSW, Australia | Modelling vegetation change, human health and wellbeing and zombies! (not all at once) |
30 July | Prof. Christina Hulbe | Te Kura Kairūri, School of Surveying | Flow variability and ongoing margin shifts on Bindschadler and MacAyeal Ice Streams, West Antarctica |
6 August | Various | SURV 453 / 553 Panel Discussion | A future for Princes Street |
13 August | |||
20 August | |||
27 August | Mid-Semester Break | ||
3 September | |||
11 September (Friday, 1 pm) | Andrew McDowell | Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) | Open Source Enabling Technologies for Tenure Governance |
17 September | Various | Te Kura Kairūri, School of Surveying | 200 and 300 level student info session for available electives |
25 September (Friday, 1pm) | Various | SURV 469 - Advanced Stormwater Design Student Presentations | TBC |
1 October | Yong Chien Zheng | PhD Candidate, School of Surveying | The Sunda megathrust deformation process: 15 years of recent great earthquakes |
2014
Semester 1 | |||
---|---|---|---|
Date | Presenter | Institution | Title |
20 March, 5:30 pm in Burns 1 Lecture Theatre | Drs. Pascal Sirguey and Nicolas Cullen | School of Surveying / Geography Department | The changing height of Aoraki / Mt Cook |
27 March, 5:30 pm in Burns 1 Lecture Theatre | Dr. Ted Scambos | U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center | Antarctica in the Palm of Your Hand: A Science Tour of the Ice Sheet |
3 April | Prof. Bill Cartwright | RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia | The Geography of World War 1 Cartoons: Gallipoli |
10 April | Auckland Islands: Part I | School of Surveying + Depts. of Geology and Marine Science | What were they doing down there?! |
17 April | Dr. Pascal Sirguey and Dr. Nicolas Cullen | School of Surveying / Department of Geography | Creating a new elevation model of Kilimanjaro from very high resolution GeoEye-1 images and assessing ice volume of the Northern Ice Field of Kilimanjaro: the photogrammetry strikes back |
24 April | Mid-Semester Break | ||
1 May | Surveying Selfie Challenge | Surveying Selfie Challenge Poster | |
8 May | Dan Wallace | GeoSystems | Technologies that will transform Surveying |
15 May | Kambiz Borna | PhD candidate, School of Surveying | A Vector Agent Approach to classify satellite images |
Wed, 21 May, 4 pm | Dr. Sigrun Hreinsdottir | GNS Science | The 2010 Eyjafjallajökull and 2011 Grímsvötn eruptions, Iceland: Insights from GPS geodetic measurements |
Semester 2 | |||
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Date | Presenter | Institution | Title |
25 June | Dr. David Goodwin | School of Surveying | Communal land tenure in transition: improved policy planning through case study comparison |
17 July | Don McKinnon | LINZ | Out of the Pan - Into the Fire - Zen and the Art of Cadastral Maintenance |
24 July | Stan Lusby | Link to Supporting Document | The Spatial Awareness Conundrum in Ancient Polynesia (With Parallels from Ancient Greece) - Star Pillar Navigation Concepts; Indigenous experience versus Cartesian Science |
31 July | Dr. Mick Strack | School of Surveying | A new look at resource management: EDS v King Salmon 2014 |
7 August | Emily Tidey | School of Surveying | Marine Habitat Mapping: Linking Pattern and Process in Marine Systems |
14 August | Hydro Student Presentations | Hydrography - More than just Charts | |
21 August | Dr. Simon Cox | GNS Science - Te Pu Ao | The Te Horo (Dart) Landslide – Laser Scanning, SfM Photogrammetry, Hydrosurveying and some lessons for Land Use Planning |
29 August | Mid-Semester Break | ||
4 September | Engineering Surveying Class Presentations | School of Surveying 4th year students | SURV 459 Student Presentations |
11 September | Maaike Duncan | Terramark | Gardens View and the Sabina Apartments |
18 September | SURV 480 / SURV 590 Student Presentations | School of Surveying Students | SURV 480 / SURV 590 Student Presentations |
18 September | Visitor Teaching Seminars A | 1 pm - Joseph Wright 2 pm - Dr. Chris Pearson | Visitor Teaching Seminars A |
19 September | Visitor Research Seminars A | 1 pm - Dr. Chris Pearson 2 pm - Joseph Wright | Visitor Research Seminars A |
Mon 22 + Wed 24 September | Visitor Teaching Seminars B | 1 pm M - Dr. Yushin Ahn 2 pm M - Dr. Cindy Wang 12 noon W - Dr. Robert Odolinski | Visitor Teaching Seminars B |
23 September | Visitor Research Seminars B | 9 am - Dr. Cindy Wang 12 noon - Dr. Yushin Ahn 1 pm - Dr. Robert Odolinski | Visitor Research Seminars B |
2013
Semester 1 | |||
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Date | Presenter | Institution | Title |
26 February | Prof. Frank Schwarzbach | Dresden University | The German Cadastral System |
7 March | Dr. Abdelali Fadil | School of Surveying | New Zealand 20th Century sea level rise |
14 March | Dr. Dr. Abdelali Fadil and Dr. Pascal Sirguey | School of Surveying | Assessment of MODIS precipitable water vapor over New Zealand using GPS and radiosondes measurements |
21 March | No Seminar Scheduled | ||
26 March | Prof. John P. Wilson | University of Southern California | The Geospatial Revolution |
27 March | Prof. Natascha Oppelt | University of Kiel | Use of hyperspectral remote sensing in coastal waters & integration of remote sensing data into hydrological or vegetation models |
28 March | Mr. Massimo Santanicchia | Icelandic Academy of Arts | The Reykjavik Urban Environment |
4 April | Mid-Semester Break | ||
11 April | Dr. Chris Pearson | School of Surveying | PositioNZ-PP: Development of an online GPS Post-Processing Service for New Zealand |
18 April | Dr. Don Grant | Land Information New Zealand | Reshaping the New Zealand Cadastre: A 10 - 20 Year Strategy |
25 April | Anzac Day | ||
9 May | Mr. Richard Hemi | School of Surveying | Scanning the past for a future perspective |
16 May | Summer 2012/13 Bursary Student Presentations | Summer 2012/13 Bursary Presentations | |
23 May | Panel Discussion | New Zealand Housing Panel Discussion | |
30 May | Panel Discussion | Landscape representation and visualisation |
Semester 2 | |||
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Date | Presenter | Institution | Title |
18 July | TBA | TBA | TBA |
25 July | TBA | TBA | TBA |
1 August | Emily Tidey | School of Surveying | Hydrography - the big picture and the finer detail |
8 August | Benjamin Quaye | School of Surveying | Land information deficiencies and the development of the urban real estate market - case study of Ghana |
15 August | Dr. Martin Gribble | GHD | Logging trucks on local roads - are we killing the pavement? |
22 August | Prof. Christina Hulbe | School of Surveying | What's past is prologue |
29 August | Mid-Semester Break | ||
5 September | No Seminar | ||
12 September | Dr. Brian Ballanytne (via podcast) | Natural Resources Canada | Boundary disputes: the price of federalism |
19 September | Dr. John Haines | GNS | Revealing Hidden Deformation Sources in New Zealand |
26 September | Mr. Bruce Wallen | Discovery Marine Limited | Hydrographic Surveying with Multibeam Echo Sounders in the Bay of Islands |
10 October | Mr. George Williamson | Walking Access Commission | A discussion on Walking Access Maps |
2012
Date | Presenter | Institution | Title |
---|---|---|---|
8 March | Dr. Mick Strack | School of Surveying | Coastal Boundaries |
15 March | Dr. Pascal Sirguey | School of Surveying | Insights into temporal variability of surface flow velocity of the Tasman Glacier, New Zealand, provided by optical satellite imagery and A century of ice retreat on Kilimanjaro: The mapping reloaded |
22 March | Prof. John Hannah | School of Surveying | A detailed determination of regional sea level trends in New Zealand |
29 March | Dr. Chris Pearson | School of Surveying | Surveying of shaky ground, maintaining accurate coordinates in tectonically active areas |
19 April | Dr. David Goodwin | School of Surveying | Securing land rights for land in transition from communal to individualized tenure |
10 May | Dr. Mike Hilton | Department of Geography | Surveying and monitoring the dynamic dune systems of Stewart Island (1998 – 2012): A Geographer's perspective |
17 May | Mr. Grant Humphries | PhD Candidate, Department of Zoology | Automated species distribution modeling: Python, ArcGIS and the Alaska GAP Initiative |
31 May | Dr. Ali Fadil | School of Surveying | Evidence for high rates of sea level rise in New Zealand during the 20th Century |
19 July | Mr. Vick Jaya | MSc Candidate, School of Surveying | 3D GIS – extending data visualization capabilities into the 3rd dimension |
26 July | Dr. Mick Strack | School of Surveying | Claims for water rights |
9 August | Mr. Clifford Patterson | PhD Candidate, School of Surveying | Monitoring deforestation and agricultural intensification in the New River Watershed, Belize |
16 August | Mr. Mark Smith | LINZ | Crown pastoral lease tenure review: a Surveyor's perspective |
23 August | Assoc. Prof. Julian Smit | University of Cape Town, South Africa | Geomatics: a profession in flux |
23 August | Prof. Venkat Lakshmi | University of South Carolina, USA | Studies of the land surface hydrological cycle using modeling, observations and remote sensing |
23 August | Prof. Christina Hulbe | Portland State University, USA | Big or little? Using numerical models to interpret recent change in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet |
13 September | Dr. Huw Horgan | Victoria University, Wellington | The grounding zone of the Whillans Ice Stream, West Antarctica |
18 September | Dr. David Fairbairn | Newcastle University, United Kingdom | Integrating volunteered geographic information with official spatial data |
26 September | Ms. Nuala Gallagher | Cypress Hills Verde, USA | Equity and sustainability in an urbanizing world |
26 September | Dr. Sean Connelly | University of Regina, Canada | Getting beyond green: strategic sustainability for 21st Century communities |
26 September | Mr. Colin O'Byrne | Victoria University, Wellington | Exploring the influence of governance on urban form |
2011
Date | Presenter | Institution | Title |
---|---|---|---|
17 February | Dr. Robert Tenzer | School of Surveying | Estimation of the global averaged value of the crust-mantle density contrast |
3 March | Dr. Mick Strack | School of Surveying | Coastal erosion in Norfolk: the dilemma of property |
10 March | Mr. Neil Bates / Mr. Josh Columbus / Mr. Luzi Gan | School of Surveying | Deformation surveying / A high resolution DEM for New Zealand / Joint adjustment levelling networks in New Zealand |
17 March | Dr. Piotr Jankowski / Dr. Timothy Nygerges | San Diego State University / University of Washington | Using online spatial decision support collaborative tools in distance learning education |
22 March | Dr. Timothy Nygerges and Dr. Piotr Jankowski | University of Washington / San Diego State | Participatory geospatial information architectures |
24 March | Dr. Timothy Nygerges and Dr. Piotr Jankowski | University of Washington / San Diego State | Participatory role-play in collaborative decision support |
28 March | Dr. Timothy Nygerges and Dr. Piotr Jankowski | University of Washington / San Diego State | Participatory modelling methodology - tightening the geoweb design loop |
7 April | Mr. Graeme Blick | LINZ | LINZ's geospatial, customer and geodectic strategies |
14 July | Dr. Tony Moore | School of Surveying | Layered and embedded approaches to cartography-art interface |
21 July | Ms. Amelia Auge / Ms. Dawn Coburn | Phd Candidates, School of Surveying | Satellites, radiowaves and sea lions: new insights of site fidelity in pinnipeds? / Gone tomorrow? Choosing the past to create the future |
22 July | Dr. Pavel Novak | University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic | Gravity field modelling and satellite techniques |
28 July | Dr. Greg Leonard | School of Surveying | Analysis of Antarctic landfast sea ice displacements derived from a combined Global Navigation System and Total Station array |
4 August | Mr. Julian Muenster, Mr. Paul Crane, Dr. Mariusz Nowotawski / Mr. Geoff Hay | Department of Information Science / School of Surveying | Augmented reality virtual note application on Android Phones / Time for OSCAR |
11 August | Dr. Josef Strobl | University of Salzburg, Austria | People and actions - geosocial sensors and map interfaces |
18 August | Dr. Ali Fadil / Mr. Ahmed Abdalla | School of Surveying | Evidence for a slow subsidence of the Tahiti island from GPS, DORIS and combined satellite altimetry and tide gauge records / Accuracy analysis of state-of-the-art global gravity models using GPS-levelling and gravity data - a New Zealand case study |
25 August | Mr. Brian Coutts | School of Surveying | Regulation and discipline for cadastral surveyors - a case study in the Australasian reciprocating region |
8 September | Mr. Robert Wayumba / Mr. Chris Joseph | PhD Candidates, School of Surveying | History and effects of land registration in Kenya / Land tenure research in a post-conflict environment |
22 September | Dr. Hauti Hakopa | Department of Information Science | Mapping the Mana of the Whenua |
29 September | Dr. Femke Reitsma | University of Canterbury | Measuring and representing processes for GIS |
6 October | Dr. Mick Strack, Assoc. Prof. Kerry Shepherd, Mr. Tim Jowett and Mr. John Harraway | School of Surveying, HEDC, Department of Mathematics and Statistics | Monitoring changes in the environmental attitudes of higher education students |
13 October | Dr. Paul Denys, Dr. Chris Pearson and Mr. Mike Denham | School of Surveying | A geodetic study of the Otago Fault System |
20 October | Dr. Chris Pearson | School of Surveying | Surveying on shaky ground: An improved model of tectonic deformation and how this helps surveyors in the western US and Alaska |
25 October | Mr. Jeremy Palmer | LINZ | The LINZ GIS data service |
27 October | Dr. Mick Strack | School of Surveying | Commentary on recent land law: using and stopping unformed legal roads / Developments on coastal hazard zones |
4 November | Dr. Mairead de Roiste | Victoria University, Wellington | Do users agree? Exploring users' expectations about the placement of common map elements |
10 November | Ms. Judy Rodda / Mr. Mariano Rodriguez | PhD Candidates, School of Surveying | Counting dolphins is not as easy as it would seem - estimating the seasonal abundance of Hector's dolphins using capture-recapture techniques / Spatial ecology of introduced mammalian predators in New Zealand: Using satellite technology to quantify resource selection |
1 December | Mr. Igor Drecki and Ms. Shannon McColley | University of Auckland | GeoDataHub: Building a geospatial data repository for New Zealand |
2010
Date | Presenter | Institution | Title |
---|---|---|---|
29 January | Dr. Robert Tenzer / Mr. Yuri Marinovich / Ms. Julia Nicholson | School of Surveying | The study of long-term temporal deformation of the Earth's crust induced by the polar motion in New Zealand / A compilation of the map of the lateral topographical density distribution in New Zealand from the currently available geological data |
12 February | Dr. Robert Tenzer / Mr. Ahmed Abdalla | School of Surveying | First results of a new gravimetric geoid model for New Zealand / Validation of the new gravimetric geoid model KTH-NZ2010.v1 using GPS-levelling and existing quasigeoid models for New Zealand |
12 March | Dr. Tony Moore | School of Surveying | Maps as comics, comics as maps |
19 March | Mr. Robert Wayumba | PhD Candidate, School of Surveying | Modelling land tenure systems |
16 April | Mr. Richard Hemi | School of Surveying | Laser scanning for heritage and archaeological preservation |
23 April | Mr. Chris Joseph | PhD Candidate, School of Surveying | Land tenure and human security during post-conflict development |
30 April | Dr. Greg Leonard | School of Surveying | Ice crystals in the water column: the view from an Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) |
7 May | Dr. Pascal Sirguey / Mr. Todd Redpath / Assoc. Prof. Sean Fitzsimons / Dr. Andreas Kaab | School of Surveying / Department of Geography | Utilising optical satellite imagery to derive multi-temporal flow fields for the Tasman Glacier |
14 May | Dr. Robert Tenzer / Mr. Vladislav Gladkikh | School of Surveying | Global bathymetric stripping corrections to the gravity field quantities / Mathematical model of the global ocean saltwater density distribution |
21 May | Dr. Mick Strack | School of Surveying | Responding to the Crown's proposal to remove lands from Schedule 4 of the Crown Minerals Act and allow for mining on protected conservation land |
28 May | Dr. David Goodwin | School of Surveying | An alternative Cadastral Survey Dataset for New Zealand |
4 June | Mr. Brian Coutts | School of Surveying | Disciplinary principles for Cadastral Surveyors - A case study in Australia and New Zealand |
11 June | Mr. Phil Rhodes | School of Surveying | Urban design in the making |
18 June | Mr. Phil Rhodes | School of Surveying | The survey-accurate digital Cadastre - can a coordinate define a boundary point? |
25 June | Dr. Robert Tenzer | School of Surveying | Crustal deformations due to oean-tide loading in New Zealand |
16 July | Prof. John Hannah | School of Surveying | The difficulties in using tide gauges to monitor long-term sea level change |
23 July | Mr. Chris Knight | School of Surveying | Surveying and aviation |
30 July | Mr. Don McKinnon | School of Surveying | Why I went to America and what I found - or does the GPS as-built match the design! |
13 August | Mr. Chris Knight | School of Surveying | A perspective on the evolution of computing and communication networks from then to now |
20 August | Mr. Geoff Hay | PhD Candidate, School of Surveying | The Open Source Cadastral Application and Registry (OSCAR) software: Theory of operations overview |
27 August | Dr. Chris Pearson | US National Geodetic Survey | The inclusion of Alaska and other progress in improving the accuracy of geodetic coordinates in the Pacific North America plate boundary zone |
10 September | Dr. Paul Denys | School of Surveying | Tide gauge-cGPS measurements in New Zealand |
16 September | Mr. Vladislav Gladkikh / Dr. Robert Tenzer | School of Surveying | Atmospheric pressure loading software |
8 October | Mr. Geoff Bates | Otago Surveying Company | Life after graduation |
15 October | Mr. Scott Preskett | School of Surveying | Multi-antenna GPS motion sensing for hydrographic surveying in ports and harbours to the Spheroid |
22 October | Ms. Teresa Cole | MSc Candidate, School of Surveying | An intensive investigation into the presence of an acceleration in sea level rise using New Zealand's long-term records |
12 November | Mr. David Shearer | MSc Candidate, School of Surveying | Shared spaces and the role they could play in New Zealand |
26 November | Mr. Luke Chamberlain | PGDip. Candidate, School of Surveying | Victorian future coasts LiDAR survey |
2009
Date | Presenter | Institution | Title |
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12 March | Mr. Joseph Wright / Mr. Aaron Fleury | Summer Bursary Students, School of Surveying | Wastewater and stormwater GIS-based models of urban catchments / Evaluation of consumer-grade GPS in bush environments under tree canopies / Reliability evaluaiton of GPS RTK systems using the ISO 17123-8 standard |
19 March | Dr. Robert Tenzer | School of Surveying | Gravimetric forward modelling of the step-wise topographically corrected and CRUST 2.0 model crust density contrasts stripped gravity field |
9 April | Mr. Phil Rhodes | School of Surveying | An introduction to vacuum sewerage systems with case studies |
23 April | Dr. Robert Tenzer | School of Surveying | Modelling the monthly variation in continental water storage with GRACE |
7 May | Dr. Greg Leonard | School of Surveying | Platelet ice - ocean interaction during winter in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica |
23 July | Dr. Stuart Edwards | Newcastle University, United Kingdom | GPS calibration and validation of altimetric satellite radiometers |
27 July | Dr. Chris Pearson | US National Geodetic Survey | The future of the North American Datums: Whate we have now, what's wrong and things may change |
3 August | Dr. Robert Tenzer | School of Surveying | Global atmospheric corrections to the gravity field quantities |
17 August | Dr. David Goodwin | School of Surveying | The spirit behind land agreements - examples from Canada, Zimbabwe and New Zealand |
24 August | Dr. Mick Strack | School of Surveying | Property rights for a new world: can our property regime adapt to an ethic of sustainability? |
8 October | Dr. Robert Tenzer / Matt Stevens | School of Surveying | A study of vertical tectonic deformations in New Zealand using continious GPS data |
22 October | Dr. Tony Moore | School of Surveying | Geographical vector agents and agricultural land use |
2 November | Mr. Abraham Growcott / Mr. Pascal Sirguey | Department of Marine Science / School of Surveying | Acoustic and photogrammetric length estimates of sperm whales |
9 December | Dr. Robert Tenzer / Mr. Ahmed Abdalla | School of Surveying | The ellipsoid corrections to the fundamental formula of physical geodesy |
2008
Date | Presenter | Institution | Title |
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15 September | Dr. Tomaz Podobnikar | Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts | Simulation and representation of the positional errors of boundary and interior regions in maps |
9 October | Dr. Tony Moore | School of Surveying | Visual spatial metaphors for user focus: an alternative view of cartograms |
16 October | Dr. Peter Whigham | Department of Information Science | Keep your eye on the ball: revisiting a mouse-based spatio-temporal system for collecting rugby union patterns |
23 October | Dr. Tony Moore | School of Surveying | Visual spatial metaphors for user focus: an alternative view of choropleth maps |
30 October | Dr. Nigel Stanger | Department of Information Science | Scalability of techniques for online geographic visualization of web site hits |
6 November | Dr. Steven Roberts | Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada | MOEA for greenlands system design |
13 November | Dr. Greg Leonard | School of Surveying | The role of collection systems modelling in the strategic review of an existing wastewater reticulation system - a case study of the Nelson Regional Sewerage Business Unit Network |
20 November | Mr. Geoff Hay | PhD Candidate, School of Surveying | Architecture for an open source semantic spatio-temporal land administration application |
5 December | Dr. Peter Knight | School of Surveying | The contribution of the School of Surveying to hydrography of Otago Harbour |
11 December | Dr. Brendon Woodford | Department of Information Science | Rule extraction from spatial data using an entropy-based evolving fuzzy neural network |
18 December | Mr. Pascal Sirguey | School of Surveying | The application of the Snowmelt Runoff Model (SRM) in the Upper Waitaki |