Bluebird day on the harbour for e3s!
The e3s marine ecology and scientific dive team were recently out enjoying a bluebird day in Bluff Harbour/Awarua completing subtidal monitoring surveys for NZ Aluminium Smelter. Great to get a calm day amongst the variable spring weather and tick off some of the diving work to be completed over the next few months.
e3s Attends SIT Thesis Presentations
e3s attended the SIT Environmental Management Bachelor of Science 3rd year thesis presentations recently to support our intern student Stephanie Shaw as she presented her findings from the subtidal seagrass mapping assessment completed earlier this year. This assessment provides an updated dataset of seagrass beds in Bluff Harbour which was last completed 20 years ago, […]
Project Tohu – Recloaking the shoulders of Coronet Peak Mauka mountain
e3Scientific is proud to be working with Queenstown Lakes District Council and partners Te Tapu Te Tapu o Tāne, Citycare Property to deliver Project Tohu, one of the largest revegetation programmes currently being undertaken in Aotearoa. The project site covers 200 ha on the south facing slopes of Coronet Peak close to Arrowtown and rises […]
Water Quality Sampling in the Wakatipu Basin
Enjoying the stunning Wakatipu Basin while supporting HAIL Environmental with water quality sampling. We’re helping them evaluate potential health risks associated with former mine workings.
e3s Contaminated Land Team to Attend ALGA NZ Conference
Our contaminated land team is off to Auckland for @ALGA’s NZ conference next week! Catch Simon’s 5-minute pitch on contaminated land consenting on Tuesday, followed by an intriguing dive into mercury use in Otago’s goldfields on Thursday. #NZLandAndGroundwater24
Introducing Will Sturch – Marine & Freshwater Ecology
Introducing Will Sturch from the e3Scientific marine and freshwater ecology team! Will is a specialist in environmental monitoring, baseline surveying, and molecular biology. He holds an MSc in Biology from the University of New Brunswick, where his work informed an emerging fishery by elucidating the population genetic structure of the waved whelk in the western […]
New AI Model to Help Solve Environmental Challenges
We’re excited to report on a new, cost-effective, few-shot classification AI model to help solve environmental challenges! e3Scientific has teamed up with the amazing team at Intranel to develop a cost-effective few-shot classification methodology to identify historic sheep dip locations. Using AI foundation model features (DINOv2) and multi-modal large language model (GPT-4o) prompt engineering we […]
e3Scientific – Raranga toru taiao – Te Ao, Te Wai, Te Moana
e3Scientific – Raranga toru taiao – Te Ao, Te Wai, Te Moana – is proud to celebrate Te Wiki o te Reo Māori! While the majority of the team at e3Scientific are at the beginning of our te reo Māori journey, we’re committed to learning, supporting and embracing te reo Māori. The theme for Te […]
Vision of Treespace – Mt Dewar Becoming a Reality
Fantastic to see the vision of Treespace – Mt Dewar becoming a reality! It’s been six years since e3Scientific started working with Treespace (treespace.co.nz) to restore Mt Dewar. Treespace was founded to help combat climate change and restore indigenous ecosystems through an innovative, regenerative commercial development model. e3Scientific prepared, and has been helping to implement […]
Macroinvertebrate Analysis from the Shotover River
The Shotover River is iconic, but there is more to our rivers than what we see on the surface. Nana Holtzmann is an environmental scientist with a background in marine and freshwater ecology. Nana has experience in estuarine, coastal, open water, river and lake water quality sampling and surveying techniques, including fish monitoring, assessing macroalgae, […]
