Past seminars, Agenda / Seminar & Conferences, School of Surveying

2023

Semester One
Date	Presenter(s)	Institution	Title
2 March	2022-23 School of Surveying Summer Bursary students and staff presentations	Te Kura Kairūri \| School of Surveying	What did we get up to this summer? Amy Caldwell-Smith and Francesca Marzatico: Summer Scholarship Research: The Role of Tikanga in the Legal System in Relation to Land Robert Odolinski: Doing multi-GNSS positioning research to becoming a 'Visiting Researcher' with Google Greg Leonard: Antarctic Event K892's Sea Ice Fieldwork from October - November, 2022, in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica Aubrey Miller: Mapping extreme snow avalanche debris in Aoraki Mt Cook National Park Paul Denys, Yuxi Jin, Judy Rodda, Charlie Symon: Surveying Fiordland
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: David Watson - Treading water: What will happen to Māori freehold land lost to sea level rise? Martie Jooste - Aligning home: Symbolism of marae orientation Jett Gannaway - Ch-ch-changes? Geodetic strain from Mt Cook to Westland
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 Te Kura Kairūri \| School of Surveying	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
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: Sam Thompson - tbc
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

Semester One
Date	Presenter(s)	Institution	Title
3 March	2021-22 School of Surveying Summer Bursary students: Ellorine Carle and Hugo Collins	Te Kura Kairūri \| School of Surveying, University of Otago	Ellorine: Resolving landscape dynamics in the Fox Glacier/Te Moeka o Tūawe catchment with remote sensing and 3-D change detection Hugo: The Tunnel Beach Project
10 March	Dr Greg Leonard	Te Kura Kairūri \| School of Surveying, University of Otago	The Anomalous Winter 2019 Sea-ice Conditions in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica
17 March	A.Prof Tony Moore	Te Kura Kairūri \| School of Surveying, University of Otago	"Even landforms have feelings": Geovisualisation for Geomorphology
24 March	2022 Honours students: Hugo Collins & Francesca Robb	Te Kura Kairūri \| School of Surveying, University of Otago	Hugo: To align or not? That is the question Francesca: How coastal boundaries in New Zealand change
7 April	Scott Willis	Willis Advisory & Climate Navigator	Climate Sensitive Towns and Communities
21 April	MID SEMESTER BREAK - no seminar
19 May	Prof Sean Fitzsimons	Te Iho Whenua \| School of Geography, University of Otago	Storms, earthquakes and landscape change: Decoding the sedimentary record in lakes
2 June	Jim Bazsika	Te Kura Kairūri \| School of Surveying, University of Otago	One Surveyor's Journey Towards The Appalachian Trail (AT)

Semester Two
Date	Presenter	Institution	Title
21 July	Lucy Coyle	University of Otago, Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu, and Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, Te Tiaki Mahinga Kai	Using Esri Story Map ArcGIS to communicate local fishery data
4 August	Dr Matt Schmidt	Department of Conservation \| Te Papa Atawhai	Dunedin's Changing Shoreline: A city built on reclamation
9 August, 11am	Anselm Haanan	Toitū Te Whenua \| Land Information New Zealand	Surveying Māori Rights and Interests and Surveyor General's SURV399 Report Prize Presentation
11 August	Brad Cooper	Toitū Te Whenua \| Land Information New Zealand	Going south - the challenges of seafloor mapping under the ice
26 August	Dr Crystal Olin	Te pokapū rōnaki tāone-nui \| The NZ Centre for Sustainable Cities, University of Otago, Wellington	Public Housing & Urban Regeneration: A Research Journey of Partnerships & Multidisciplinary Strands
1 September	MID SEMESTER BREAK - no seminar
8 September	Dr Todd Redpath	Te Iho Whenua \| School of Geography and Te Kura Kairūri \| School of Surveying, University of Otago	From snow cover to snow depth, and beyond, from space
15 September	Rebecca Scannell	Ministry for the Environment \| Manatū Mō Te Taiao	Our Future Resource Management System
22 September	Charl-Thom Bayer	Landportal and Open Up Guide for Land Governance	Open Data for Improved Land Governance
29 September	Associate Professor Mike Hilton	Te Iho Whenua \| School of Geography, University of Otago	Sea-levels, seeds and lagoon island formation in the Maldives
5 October, 1pm	Claire Buxton	FIG Young Surveyors Volunteer Community Surveyor Program	Map the World A Better Place with the FIG Volunteer Community Surveyor Program
6 October	Surveying PG students: Martin Forbes and Aubrey Miller	Te Kura Kairūri \| School of Surveying, University of Otago	Martin: The Limits of Control Aubrey: When it rains, it avalanches: Initial observations and analysis of mass-movement sequence in Aoraki Mount Cook National Park, 17-19 July 2022
12 October, 5pm	2022 Honours student final presentations: Frankie (Francesca) Robb	Te Kura Kairūri \| School of Surveying, University of Otago	Frankie: Oceans apart: Disconnections between physical and legal coastal boundaries

2021

Semester One
Date	Presenter(s)	Institution	Title
4 March	School of Surveying Summer Bursary students: Hugo Collins, Liam McElwain, Yoyo Wu, Devon Allen & Ansela Fifita	School of Surveying, University of Otago	What did our Summer Bursary students get up to this year? (Part 1/2)
11 March	School of Surveying Summer Bursary students: Khaylm Marshall, Daniel Gonzales Diaz, Yoyo Wu, Xuhong Chai and Laura Sterup	School of Surveying, University of Otago	What did our Summer Bursary students get up to this year? (Part 2/2)
18 March	Tom Simons-Smith	Dunedin City Council and WSP	Climate Adaptation Planning: St Clair-St Kilda Coastal Plan
25 March	Dr Chris Pearson	School of Surveying, University of Otago &Trimble NZ	Getting Trimble VRSnow and RTX coordinates on the same page as NZGD2000
1 April	2021 Honours students: Alex McCulloch, Cameron Bartlett, Daniel Gonzalez, Devon Allen, Jeremiah Er, Liam McElwain SURV470 Professional Project student: Harry Rattray	School of Surveying, University of Otago	Alex McCulloch: Lase scanning with an iPad Pro Cameron Bartlett: Cultural perspectives in conservation Daniel Gonzalez: Antenna calibrations for deformation monitoring Devon Allen: Restrictive nature of covenants Jeremiah Er: Detecting structural deformation with low-cost GNSS receivers and smartphones Liam McElwain: Spatial analysis of comics Harry Rattray:A future for Forbury Park (SURV470 Professional Project)
8 April	MID SEMESTER BREAK - no seminar
15 April	Dr Melanie Remy	Division of Sciences Research, University of Otago	Research Funding Opportunities for Surveying
22 April	A Prof Sarah Wakes	Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Otago	Modelling wind flow over coastal dune systems
29 April	Lutfur Rahman	School of Surveying, University of Otago and School of Sport and Recreation, Auckland University of Technology	Safe Routes to School Framework and Active Transport to School across Urbanization Settings in Otago, New Zealand (PhD presentation)
6 May	Holly Walker	The Helen Clark Foundation and WSP New Zealand	The Shared Path: why we need low-traffic areas in New Zealand's cities
13 May	Kurt Bowen	Paterson Pitts Group	Mobilising Land for Affordable Housing - Policy Options for Private Development in Dunedin City
20 May	Dr Matt Amos	LINZ	SouthPAN – New Zealand and Australia's Satellite Based Augmentation Network
27 May	Dr Peter Lamb	School of Physical Education, Sport and Exercise Sciences, University of Otago	Mapping sports performance using positional data
3 June	Long Chen	School of Surveying, University of Otago	Spatial distribution of active transport to school and its factors across different urbanisation settings in Otago, New Zealand (PhD presentation)
Mid-semester break: Weds 16 July @ 4pm	James Mowat and Nick Stillwell	LINZ	Modernising Landonline

Semester Two
Date	Presenter	Institution	Title
15 July	Dr Robert Odolinski	Te Kura Kairūri/School of Surveying	Best Integer Equivariant estimation for low-cost, multi-GNSS, single- and dual-frequency RTK receivers with short and long baselines
22 July	Marcus Hall & Liam Sercombe	Beca	The Surveyor's Role As Innovator
29 July	Dr Mick Strack, Emily Tidey	Te Kura Kairūri/School of Surveying	Surveying at the Survey+Spatial NZ Conference
12 August	Anselm Haanan	LINZ	Contributing to the New Zealand Survey System
19 August	Level 4 - no seminar
26 August	Level 4 - no seminar
2 September	MID SEMESTER BREAK - no seminar
3 September - 10am	Frances Ifeoma Ukonze	Te Kura Kairūri/School of Surveying	Integrating green infrastructure as an adaptation tool for climate change in sustainable land transport development (PhD presentation)
9 September	Level 3 maintained at Otago this week - no seminar
13 September - 1pm	Dr Francesca Marzatico	Te Kura Kairūri/School of Surveying	Focus on the Pacific: Traditional governance in the Solomon Islands. From qualitative research to evidence based programming.
23 September	Dr John Donaldson	Te Ope Kātua o Aotearoa \| New Zealand Defence Force	Will land dominate the rising seas? The international legal conundrum framing the next 40 years of UNCLOS
30 September	Declan Stubbing	Discovery Marine Ltd (DML)	Mapping Shallow Water and Shorelines
1 October - 1pm	2021 Honours students: Alex McCulloch, Liam McElwain, Cameron Bartlett, Devon Allen, Jeremiah Er, Daniel Gonzalez	Te Kura Kairūri \| School of Surveying	Laser scanning with an iPad Pro - Alex McCulloch Spatial analysis of comics - Liam McElwain Cultural perspectives in conservation - Cameron Bartlett Catching covenants – Compliance with and attitudes surrounding restrictive covenants in residential subdivisions - Devon Allen Detecting structural deformation with low-cost GNSS receivers and smartphones - Jeremiah Er Antenna calibrations for deformation monitoring - Daniel Gonzalez
7 October	Aubrey Miller	Te Kura Kairūri \| School of Surveying	Snow avalanche modelling along Milford Road, Aotearoa New Zealand
14 October	Prof Michelle Thompson-Fawcett	Te Iho Whenua/School of Geography, Te Whare Wānanga o Otāgo/University of Otago	Indigenous-led Property Development: Innovations and Implications

2020

Semester One
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
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?

Semester 2
Date	Presenter	Institution	Title
11 July	Chris Hyslop	Beca	Virtual Cathedral
18 July	Anselm Haanen (Surveyor General)	Land Information New Zealand	The Cadastral Survey System - Where are we heading?
25 July	Michael Oberdries	Oberdries Consulting Ltd and RIMU	Growing Pains: Measuring the Capacity for Growth within Auckland City
1 August	Pascal Sirguey, Tobias Brunk, Nicolas Cullen, Aubrey Miller	University of Otago - Surveying	Going, going, gone! How photogrammetry 2.1 reveals cold facts that change NZ glaciers' story
8 August	Tuia-250 team: Emily Tidey, Mick Strack, David Goodwin, Tony Moore, Kara Jurgens, Jean Louis Morrison, Liam Rees	University of Otago - Surveying	Tuia: 250 years of navigation, map making and belonging
15 August	Yves Bühler	WSL Institute for Snow and avalanche Research SLF, Davos, Switzerland	Efficient geodata acquisition in challenging alpine terrain with optical Remote Sensing
22 August	Andrew Swales	NIWA	Forests on the fringe
29 August	Mid-semester Break
5 September	Matt Amos	Land Information New Zealand	Mass Market Precise Positioning – Economy-wide benefits identified from the Australia & New Zealand SBAS Test Bed
12 September	Matt Desmond and Maddy Glover	University of Otago - Marine Science	Habitat mapping using multibeam echosounder technology
18 September (Weds)	Takarei Norton	Kā Huru Manu	Kā Huru Manu: My names are the treasured cloak which adorns the land
19 September	Chris Pearson	Trimble	Dynamic datums and deformation models: Why do they matter?
24 September (Tue - 9am)	Jing Ma	University of Auckland	Valuing Nature-based Interventions: the Economic Evaluation of Park Improvements for Health and Wellbeing
25 September (Wed - Noon)	Wen Liu	University of Auckland	Exploring the effectiveness of the land-use plan in delivering intensification outcomes in Auckland
26 September	Itzhak Benenson	Tel Aviv University	Would Automated Vehicles Displace Other Urban Transportation Modes?
27 September (Fri)	David Parker	Ministry for the Environment	Action for healthy waterways and a better environment
27 September (Fri)	AHS streamed webinar	Australasian Hydrographic Society (AHS) webinar, sponsored by Trimble	Professional Certification and JLAS Tide Gauges
3 October	Ashraful Alam	University of Otago - Geography	“To let it, or not to let” - negotiated risks and the construction of housing informality in ethnically diverse owner-occupied premises in suburban Sydney
10 October	Martin Forbes and Long Chen	University of Otago - Surveying Postgrad Students	Coupling an XFEM code for linear elastic fracture propagation to a viscous ice flow model (Forbes) / Visual spatial analysis of Active Transport to School Patterns in Dunedin Adolescents (Chen)

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

Semester 2
Date	Presenter	Institution	Title
12 July
19 July	Martin Forbes and Saeed Rahimi	PhD Candidates, School of Surveying	Nature or Nurture? Rift Generation(s) at the north east front of the Ross Ice Shelf (Martin) & Agent-Based Movement Modelling (Saeed)
26 July	Dr Matt Amos	Land Information New Zealand	Development of a satellite based augmentation system (SBAS) for New Zealand and Australia – improving mass market access to precise positioning
2 August
9 August	Anne Harper	Koordinates	The Future of Geospatial data
16 August	Dr Chris Pearson	School of Surveying	The Australia and New Zealand Satellite Based Augmentation System (SBAS): A new tool for New Zealand Cadastral surveyors?
23 August	Long Chen and James Berghan	PhD Candidates, School of Surveying	Spatial Analysis and Geovisualisation in Active Transport (Long) & Danish cohousing: a whirlwind tour and some lessons for contemporary papakāinga (James)
30 August	Mid-semester Break
6 September	Dr Crystal Filep	School of Surveying	Big urban challenges and Dunedin
13 September	Prof John Hannah	Emeritus Prof at School of Surveying	Rethinking coastal zone management in the light of climate change
20 September	Assoc. Prof Antoni Moore	School of Surveying	Extending the map through art
27 September	Geoff O'Malley	Land Information New Zealand	Update on LINZ Location Information Group activities and more…
4 October	Dr Steven Mills	Department of Computer Science	Culture and Heritage Applications of Computer Vision
5 October (1pm)	Prof Robin Kundis Craig	Law University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law	Water as Property: Implications in the United States and New Zealand

2017

Semester 1
Date	Presenter	Institution	Title
2 March	James Berghan and Martin Forbes	PhD Candidates, School of Surveying	PhD topic presentations
9 March	Dr. Greg Leonard	School of Surveying	Using Open Source Geospatial Software in Antarctic Sea Ice Research
16 March	Prof. Slawek Tulaczyk	Earth & Planetary Sciences Department, University of California	When glacier motion goes seismic: asperities and creeping zones revealed by regional-scale GPS and passive-source seismic monitoring of a 'glacier fault' in West Antarctica
23 March	Prof. Christina Hulbe	School of Surveying	Subglacial bathymetry and the future of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet
30 March	Otago Innovation Ltd	Otago Innovation Ltd	Industry Engagement; increasing research impact
6 April	Dr. Paul Denys	School of Surveying	The Geodetic Team's response to the Kaikoura 2016 earthquake
13 April	Dr. Adam Campbell	School of Surveying	Fingerprint matching for ice shelves. How to identify sources of thickness change to the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica
17 April	Mid-semester Break
27 April	Dr. Felix Ng	Department of Geography, University of Sheffield	A new view of ice flow across Antarctica and Greenland
4 May	Prof. Matthew Zook	Department of Geography, University of Kentucky	Crowd‐sourcing the Smart City: Big Geosocial Media Data, Ethics and Urban Governance
11 May	Todd Redpath	PhD Candidate, School of Surveying and Department of Geography	Measuring seasonal snowpack with drone photogrammetry
18 May	Aubrey Miller	School of Surveying	Modelling large-scale winter recreation terrain selection
25 May	Dr. Chris Pearson	School of Surveying	An updated strain rate map for New Zealand: What does it tell us about the tectonics of this part of the Pacific-Australian plate boundary

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

Semester 1
Date	Presenter	Institution	Title
3 March	Dr. Tony Moore and Dr. Judy Rodda	School of Surveying	Making sense of the tracks of dolphins or other moving objects
10 March	Richard Hemi	School of Surveying	LiDARRAS - A project to laser scan survey the NZETC WWI tunnels of Arras
17 March	Dr. John Donaldson	GEOINT New Zealand (GNZ), part of the New Zealand Defence Force	Order Upon The Sea
24 March	Various	School of Surveying	School of Surveying Summer Bursary Project Presentations
25 March	Mid-Semester Break
7 April	Dr. Pascal Sirguey and Dr. Nicolas J. Cullen	School of Surveying and Department of Geography	A geostatistical framework to consolidate over a decade of mass balance measurements on Brewster Glacier, Southern Alps, New Zealand
14 April	Dr. Pascal Sirguey et al	School of Surveying	Reconstructing the mass balance of Brewster Glacier, New Zealand, using MODIS-derived glacier-wide albedo
18 April (1 pm)	Opening remarks from: Gary Chisholm (Trimble), Ron Tyson (NZR Chairman). Presentation by: Steve Brodet (Hydroid, Inc)	NZ Region - Australasian Hydrographic Society (NZR AHS), proudly sponsored by Trimble and Kongsberg	Developments in the use of AUV's for Hydrography, Australasian Hydrographic Society Webinar #2
21 April	Yong Chien Zheng	PhD Candidate, School of Surveying	Consequence of 2012 Mw 8.6 northern Sumatra earthquakes towards Sundaland plate
28 April	Mark Nichols	Trimble NZ	The Changing role of the Surveyor
9 May	James Kavanagh	RICS Land Group	Student seminar: Why Professionalism Matters! An insight into the structure of professionalism and its relevance to our land surveying/geospatial industries both nationally and internationally
12 May	Dr. Chris Pearson	School of Surveying	Towards a modernized geodetic datum for Nepal: Options for developing an accurate terrestrial reference frame following the April 25, 2015 Mw7.8 Gorkha earthquake
19 May	Prof. Mark Stirling	Department of Geology	Modelling Seismic Hazard in New Zealand using Seismic, Geological and Geodetic Data
26 May

Semester 2
Date	Presenter	Institution	Title
14 July	Dr. Mick Strack	School of Surveying	Housing Crisis - Crisis? What Crisis? – or Keep Calm and Carry On? A commentary about the government's response to affordable housing
21 July	Dr. Pascal Sirguey	School of Surveying	Snow cover dynamics and hydrological modelling using MODIS snow products in the Athabasca catchment, Alberta, Canada
28 July	Alia Khan	Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder	Quantifying sources, distribution, and processing of light absorbing aerosols in the cryosphere: A comparison of dissolved and refractory black carbon in polar and high mountain regions
4 August	Mark Dyer	Land Information New Zealand	The power of where - future developments for the New Zealand cadastre
11 August	Dr. Matt Amos	Land Information New Zealand	Improving New Zealand's Vertical Datum with Airborne Gravity
18 August	Julien Boeuf	School of Surveying	Evidences of sub-optimal photogrammetric modelling in RPAS-based aerial surveys
25 August	Kelly Gragg	School of Surveying	Deconstructing a LIDAR Point Cloud
29 August	Mid-Semester Break
8 September, 12pm	Dr. Adam Campbell	School of Surveying	Fingerprinting past changes to the Ross Ice Shelf
8 September, 1pm	Pernilla Löfgren and Charlotte Dawson	Land Information New Zealand	Geospatial Opportunities at Land Information New Zealand
15 September	Dr. Robert Odolinski	School of Surveying	Low-cost multi-GNSS receiver precise positioning - are we there yet?
22 September	Dr. Paul Denys et al	School of Surveying	The effect of seismically induced vertical land motion on New Zealand's long term tide gauge record: - An elephant in the room?
29 September	Yong Chien Zheng	PhD Candidate, School of Surveying	A Geodetic Study of Strain Distribution on the Sundaland Plate
6 October	Colin O'Byrne	School of Surveying	How did that get built? Employing analytical governance frameworks to understand urban design
13 October	Dr. Mick Strack	School of Surveying	Legal Personality. The Rights of Nature, or Restoring Maori Customary rights

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
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
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
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
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 20^th 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 21^stCentury 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
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
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

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