29 Dec 2019

Dr Jonathan West - The History of Lakes

From The Weekend , 8:30 am on 29 December 2019

Environmental historian Dr Jonathan West, who's received a $12,000 New Zealand History Trust Fund Award talks to Lynn Freeman about how lakes can tell the story of what's happened in their catchment, from changes in the land to how the land is being used.

Algal bloom on Lake Forsyth - Photo by Richard Cosgrove

Algal bloom on the margins of Lake Horowhenua - Photo by Jonathan West

Black swan trails cut through an algal bloom on Lake Forsyth - Photo by Richard Cosgrove.

Lake Tutira - photo by Jonathan West

Potamogeton crispus growing amidst milfoils Lake Waikaremoana. Photo Tracey Burton NIWA

Kakahi smothered in silt Lake Rotorua Photo Tracey Burton NIWA

The Waitaki Dam built using pick and shovel in the 1920s - Photo Jonathan West

Angus-Charolais cattle at a farm northwest of Lake Taupo - photo by Jonathan West.

Landcare Research's lysimeter laboratory on a farm measuring nutrient leaching. Photo by Jonathan West.

Bed of Lake Horowhenua after lowering of lake level ... 08 June 1926 Te Papa

Two of the invasive weeds in Lake Rotorua - Egeria densa with a single stem of Lagarosiphon major (centre crown) Photo Tracey Burton NIWA

Ohinemutu Lake Rotorua at dawn - Photo by Jonathan West

George Leslie Adkin photograph - The Hamaria canoe - the last of the old war-canoes on lake Horowhenua now used by the Taueki family for eel-spearing