#AotearoaNZ
The next paper is also about #ClimateExtremes - this time, how to attribute extreme weather events to #ClimateChange and the operAtional system in #aotearoaNZ
Nice paper shared by Jordis Tradowsky at the #NCKF symposium this month..
#AotearoaNZ punching above it's weight again:
https://mastodon.social/@AltTextHealthCheck/111414509953266490
I've been thinking about the upcoming festive period, and it got me wondering;
are there any traditional Māori midsummer solstice celebrations?
Boosts for reach welcome
Copland Track to Welcome Flat hut : I found my new favourite place in the world.
#AotearoaNZ #hotpools #hotsprings #mountain #hiking
Leaving #AotearoaNZ now. I love this place so much, it's always hard to leave! 😭 But I'll be back again someday to properly tour the South Island (maybe March 2025?).
Wellington is a great city, so much stuff to do and cool things to see and so many cafes and restaurants to eat at! My Airbnb was great too (it's called "the Coast is Clear", nice little standalone flat in a duplex). And I met some very fun and cool people while I was here too. #NewZealand
So alas, back to the hum and drum now (though at least I have a day off on Monday after I get back). But there are some big changes coming... ;)
Scenes from a nightmare! 😲
(Actually it's a bunch of very harmless (tree?) Weta hanging out in a wood shed at night in Zealandia - but it looks way more creepy than it is and the red torch light doesn't help! They're big locust like insects native to NZ) #AotearoaNZ
For today’s #SciArtSeptember prompt “Nocturnal” here’s my art of a Kiwi 😍 that I saw in the wild on a night hike in New Zealand!
This is Day 23 of my New Zealand Visual Trip Journal. You can see my entire New Zealand Visual Trip Journal at https://paulaborchardt.com/illustration/new-zealand.html#nz-visual-trip-journal
#SciArt #art #illustration #watercolor #painting #sketchbook #NatureJournal #NatureJournaling #bird #birds #birding #BirdsOfMastodon #kiwi #NewZealand #Aotearoa #AotearoaNZ #NZ
Daylight Saving starts in New Zealand on Sunday 24 September. There is a bit of discontent every year. So what do you think?
Please boost for wide coverage.
I am so proud of my Ngutukākā/Kākābeak. These are the first time it has flowered for me since I planted it. I wonder if it will attract the Tūī? 🏆
For today’s #SciArtSeptember prompt “Favourite” here’s my art of my favorite bird—the Kiwi—which I painted for Day 14 of my New Zealand Visual Trip Journal. I saw Kiwi twice in NZ including one in the wild! 😍
See my entire NZ Visual Trip Journal at https://paulaborchardt.com/illustration/new-zealand.html#nz-visual-trip-journal
#SciArt #art #illustration #watercolor #painting #sketchbook #NatureJournal #NatureJournaling #bird #birds #birding #BirdsOfMastodon #kiwi #NewZealand #Aotearoa #AotearoaNZ #NZ
For today’s #SciArtSeptember prompt “Starry” & #FensterFreitag: here’s my art from Day 2 of my New Zealand Visual Trip Journal, of looking out the plane window somewhere over the Pacific Ocean & seeing the starry sky & even a shooting star!
See my entire NZ Visual Trip Journal at https://paulaborchardt.com/illustration/new-zealand.html#nz-visual-trip-journal
#FensterFriday #WindowFriday #Fenster #window #SciArt #art #illustration #watercolor #painting #sketchbook #NewZealand #Aotearoa #AotearoaNZ #NZ #airplane #plane #travel
You know Spring is coming when...
I planted a whole lot of out-of-date seeds in here and I'm really happy to see signs of life :)
Soooo...is there an established protocol for thanking your local #volunteer #firefighters when they have to take time off their weekend to come deal with your chimney fire that didn't actually need emergency services?
Cos whew. Today has sucked. About to buy unfathomable amounts of Speights for the farm staff who helped.
#aotearoa #aotearoanz
Amazing.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/10/pak-n-save-savey-meal-bot-ai-app-malfunction-recipes
A supermarket in #AotearoaNZ launches an #AI meal planner which suggests people eat poison and concoct chlorine gas.
(℅ @summerbeth)
My art was recently featured on Overseas Adventure Travel’s website! Check out OAT’s “Illustrations of New Zealand” article about my art & my art process for my New Zealand Visual Trip Journal series which documents my trip to beautiful NZ!
https://www.oattravel.com/community/the-inside-scoop/traveler-insights/illustrations-of-new-zealand
#SciArt #SciArtist #art #illustration #watercolor #painting #sketchbook #MastoArt #ArtistsOnMastodon #NewZealand #Aotearoa #AotearoaNZ #NZ #airplane #plane #trip #vacation #bird #kiwi #LordOfTheRings #LOTR #Hobbit
Ambitious, balanced and green: EU and New Zealand sign free trade agreement"
Note to self: read the EU-NZ #FTA, and compare with that between Europe and England.
@zyk
I still use it sometimes but mostly I've moved to using #AotearoaNZ
Visited Kapiti today. Such a lovely warm evening so we went to the beach for a cold burst of air - but it was warm there too.
So cold this morning.
So hot this afternoon.
What a weird Winter day.
Dunedin woman who took the piss out of oil execs could face 10 years in jail.
Meet my new flatmate.
Found this black shag (we think) waddling along the road looking a bit lost / unwell. We thought it best to bring it home and look after it for the night.
We call him/her Pingu (or sometimes Dodo - yes he has 2 names despite only being named about an hour ago).
He has fishy stuff and water and a comfy bed made up in a huge cage.
So everyone please send Pingu your best wishes for good health, hopefully he's all good after a warm snooze.
#AotearoaNZ
#IRescueTooManyAnimals
"Loafers Lodge: Police suspect arson in deadly New Zealand hostel fire"
Worst fear realized. RIP the 6+ lost souls in the #LoafersLodge.
"THE British crown … cannot be worn by the moral or the brave. It would break them both. It is a coward’s crown. No single piece of jewellery has represented so much murder and pain"
The Camphor Laurel (Cinnamomum Camphora) is a large handsome tree from China and Japan. The wood is dense and highly scented like the leaves. It has become invasive in many warmer pacific counties, but is still planted as an amenity tree. It has been used for making storage chests as it repels bugs. Too much exposure to the scent is not good for you. They can live over 1,000 yrs. This specimen is on an old military base in Tāmaki Makaurau. #thicktrunkthursday #AotearoaNZ #smallstories #trees
"I have grave fears for this place.This country’s fucked.”
I rather think that Ms #PosieParker and her unholy alliance of #trans haters and #Nazis are fucked.
Long live #AotearoaNZ!
The Puriri (Vitex Lucens) is a large tree with a spreading Oak like shape. It prefers wooded slopes and likes to be near small creeks. It has pretty pink flowers and fat purple berries which makes it a magnet for our large native pidgeon the Kererū. It even has its own moth. #trees #forest #AotearoaNZ #thicktrunktuesday
A magnificent altocumulus cloud this morning in #AotearoaNZ
#TravelThursday #FensterFreitag #FensterFriday #WindowFriday
While flying overnight from LAX>AKL I looked out the window somewhere over the Pacific & saw lots of stars - even a shooting star! This is Day 2/24 of my New Zealand Visual Trip Journal. See the entire Trip Journal at https://paulaborchardt.com/illustration/new-zealand.html#nz-visual-trip-journal
#art #illustration #watercolor #painting #sketchbook #MastoArt #ArtistsOnMastodon #Fenster #window #NewZealand #Aotearoa #AotearoaNZ #NZ #airplane #plane #travel
Kia ora!
Windows in The Museum of New Zealand, Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, New Zealand
#FensterFreitag #FensterFriday #WindowFriday #WindowsFriday #WindowsFridays #Fenster #Window #PhotographersOfMastodon #Photography #Photo #Photographer #Aotearoa #AotearoaNZ #NZ #NewZealand
An 800 year old Rimu (Dacrydium cupressinium), one of the giant podocarps towering above New Zealand/Aotearoa forests. #thicktrunktuesday #trees #treesofmastodon #AotearoaNZ
I recommend putting on subtitles if you're not familiar with the language / culture like I am. I do subtitles anyway because I'm kind of a nerd about linguistics and need to know how absolutely everything is spelled because it helps me to say it right out loud.
The absolute exquisite care on display, I can't get over how beautiful it is...
It's been brought to my attention that I should have tagged all this (duh) so here, have lots of tags!
#caturday (just because it's a busy tag and I need views on this!)
#AotearoaNZ
#Lost
#HokioBeach
#NZ
#Help
#DevonRex
#KapitiCoast
#Missing
#Horowhenua
@bigblen
None of the above :) Or two at once! I tend to use #AotearoaNZ
I've been enjoying the big flowering year of the pohutukawa trees in the gardens of Ōtautahi-Christchurch. They're on the wane now, and all the fallen stamens are making the footpaths look magenta.
I also just read that the stamens have been used to make a tasty cordial:
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/afternoons/audio/2018821848/how-to-make-p-hutukawa-stamen-cordial
Remembering our amazing 2019 pre-COVID trip to New Zealand which included a visit to Middle Earth and the Shire, Hobbiton!
#AotearoaNZ #NZ #NewZealand #TheLordOfTheRings #LOTR #TheHobbit #Shire #WETA
@drwalters @zeborah @JoFountain Here's a timelapse from Cashmere of the thunder storm that drenched you in Lincoln but left Ōtautahi-Christchurch dry.
It was dramatic to watch as it surged past us.
https://flic.kr/p/2o9URLo
#timelapse #storm #weather #clouds, #rain #AotearoaNZ #Flickr
@JoFountain When I look towards Lincoln, I can see the dark clouds, and hear all the thunder, but the storm has not quite reached Ōtautahi-Christchurch yet. Time to bring in the laundry! 😄
For invasive species, it's often tempting to explain their dominance over native species by describing their unstoppable combination of super-competitive traits. However, in cases like the house sparrows of Ōtautahi-Christchurch in NZ, their dominance in the city is clearly a result of how much people have modified the landscapes away from the the forests that used to be here. House sparrows suck at living in NZ forest.
#AotearoaNZ #Birds #Forest #HouseSparrow
The house sparrow is a world famous #InvasiveSpecies. It's almost everywhere there are people, and houses. Smart for their size and with a wide diet, they're good breeders and work together in groups. Yet, they can't figure out living in NZ native forest.
Here are all the house sparrows I saw & heard in 2022 on my standard runs through Ōtautahi-Christchurch, NZ. They're abundant everywhere in the built city, but scarce in the wildlands of the Port Hills.
#AotearoaNZ #Birds #Forest #HouseSparrow
It's not like the city planners chose to have forest in the Cashmere hills and not in Hoon Hay. If the Cashmere hills were flat, they would have open English-style parks just like Hoon Hay. Gardens in the Cashmere hills are filled with forest birds, and Hoon Hay gardens are not, because a lot of the Cashmere hills is too steep to keep as open lawned parks. Most parks of Ōtautahi-Christchurch don't need to remain open and English and exotic.
#AotearoaNZ #Birds #Forest #UrbanTrees
Here's a reminder of how important city trees, in dense patches, are for birds. It's maps of the neighbourhood we used to live in, where we live now, and why we moved. These are two parts of my standard run routes through Ōtautahi-Christchurch, NZ, both at the same scale. Each week I run through one or the other map, where I count and map every bird I see and hear. Here are just the forest-loving birds in 2022, and look at the stark difference!
#AotearoaNZ #Birds #Forest #UrbanTrees
This pattern underscores how there is a lot more to ecological restoration than just planting the right plants in the right places. All the insects and fungi and other species associated with these plants in wildlands don't just magically show up overnight. It can be decades before they establish at plantings, and these are the species that feed the lizards and birds and make wild ecosystems work well. Remaking functional wild habitats is hard and takes time.
#AotearoaNZ #EcologicalRestoration
Here are some of the patterns in my biodiversity run from this afternoon. The maps show some of the bird species. As usual, the flat suburbs of Ōtautahi-Christchurch are a native bird desert (Why? No native forest+lots of cats).
I count and map all birds, all butterflies, all wild mammals, all larger mushrooms, the flowering and fruiting states of various plants, and a monthly selection of early incursion weeds (and a few other things).
#WildCounts #EcologicalMonitoring #Biodiversity #AotearoaNZ
The Milkyway from Whangamata, Aotearoa with some of the most intense airglow I’ve ever come across!!
Plan on hosting a workshop or two here next season. Watch this space!
https://jtwilsonphotoworks.com/sessions
#milkyway #Astrophotograhy #nz #aotearoa #aotearoanz #nzphotographer #fujifilmxseries #airglow #photographyworkshop #waikatonz #learnphotography
My wife & I have fantasized about moving to #AotearoaNZ since well before the pandemic, and in 2023, we're finally planning to make it happen. Since we're both in high-demand professions (she's a nurse), I think it should go reasonably smoothly 🤞. Feel free to get in touch with job opportunities that offer visa sponsorship, suggestions for #kiwiana that will help us adapt, reasons that your city is the best, etc. I always blow on the pie when I wear my jandals to the dairy.
Hi, I'm Evan (he/him). I'll split my #introduction into a few thread posts, since once I start talking about myself, I suddenly find a lot to say.
TLDR: I'm a privileged white hetero-cis-male politically #left #TriratnaBuddhist #SoftwareEngineer (#IHelpPeopleGetJobs) currently in #Seattle but planning to move to #AotearoaNZ in 2023 with my wife & #CovidBaby (born early 2020).
Look! It's a close-up of a live pīpīwharauroa (NZ shining cuckoo). Look how shiny it is! #LincolnUniversity senior tutor Jennifer Gillette rescued it from a cat on their farm, then looked after it for a day to make sure it was OK before releasing it. #birds #nature #AotearoaNZ
Photo CC-BY-NC Jennifer Gillette https://inaturalist.nz/observations/141406181
It's time for a proper #introduction. Kia ora.
I'm an #ecology lecturer at #LincolnUniversityNZ and live in Ōtautahi-Christchurch. I'm interested in #EcologicalMonitoring, #BiologicalInvasions (esp. #weeds), and NZ #NaturalHistory (so much still to discover!). I'm site admin for #iNaturalistNZ #MātakiTaiao, the NZ node of #iNaturalist.
I'm @joncounts because I count a lot of nature (~17,000 species counts each month). See https://wildcounts.org.
