NSF-MARGINS Workshop on the
Waipaoa Focus Area
(Source-to-Sink)
Date: May 4-9, 2003
Location: Gisborne, Wellington, New Zealand
Organizers: Steven Kuehl, Lionel Carter, Basil Gomez, Noel Trustrum
Applications: before January 15th, 2003
Sunday, May 4 (Gisborne)
- Arrival of Workshop Participants| 5:30 PM | Ice Breaker, C-View restaurant |
| Accommodation | Blue Pacific Motel |
Monday, May 5, (Gisborne)
| 7:30 AM | Breakfast and Introductory Comments - The Rose Room. |
| 7:45 - 8:10 | Mr. Meng Foon: Mayor of Gisborne - Welcoming Comments
Tracey Tangihaere: CEC Te Runanga O Turanganui A Kiwa - Maori Culture and Values Noel Trustrum: LANDCARE - Introduction to Waipaoa Lectures |
| 8:10 - 8:30 | Mike Marden and Kelvin Berryman -Tectonic and climatic controls on landscape evolution |
| 8:30 - 8:50 | Noel Trustrum and Mike Page - Land use and climate influences on sediment transfer. |
| 8:50 - 9:10 | Basil Gomez - Suggestion Climatic and anthropogenic influences on the flood plain. |
| 9:10 - 9:30 | Keith Lewis - Tectonic framework of the East Coast margin. |
| 9:30 - 9:50 | Lionel Carter - Sedimentary framework of the continental shelf. |
| 9:50 - 10:10 | Alan Orpin - Quantifying deposition on the Waipaoa continental shelf and slope. |
| 10:30 - 6:00 | Waipaoa Field Trip I |
| 7:45 | Dinner at The Works Restaurant |
Tuesday, May 6 (Gisborne-Palmerston North)
| 8:00 - 6:00 | Waipaoa Field Trip II |
| 6:00 | Arrive Palmerston North |
| 7:15 | Pre-dinner drinks, discussions at Massey University Staff Club |
| 7:45 | Dinner at Massey University Staff Club |
| Accommodation | Awatea Motel |
Wednesday, May 7, (Palmerston North - Wellington)
| Morning | Presentations at Landcare |
| 8:40 - 9:00 | Hannah Brackley - Land-ocean transfer of organic carbon. |
| 9:00 - 9:20 | Murray Hicks - The suspended sediment regime. |
9:20 - 9:40 9:40 - 10:00 |
Contrasting Margins S2S Focus areas : the Fly and Waipaoa Bill Deitrich - Landscape processesChuck Nittrouer - Coastal and oceanographic processes |
| 10:00 - 10:20 | James Syvitski - Community modelling and the Waipaoa |
| 10:20 - 10:40 | Clark Alexander - Update on shallow water drilling | 11:00 - 12:30 | Summary and Discussion | 12:30 | Lunch |
| Afternoon | Travel by vans to Wellington |
| 4:00 | Arrive Wellington |
| Evening | Dinner at Rinascimiento |
| Accommodation | Quality Hotel, Oriental Bay |
Thursday, May 8, Wellington (NIWA)
| Morning | Conveners charge to break-out groups followed by individual group meetings |
| Afternoon | Plenary session summary, additional break-out groups, final group summaries in Plenary |
| Evening | A one hour visit at Te Papa museum followed by dinner at Icon Restaurant in same venue Workshop leaders meet to produce summary and straw plan for Friday session. |
| Accommodation | Quality Hotel, Oriental Bay |
Friday, May 9, (Wellington (NIWA)
| Morning | Workshop Leaders present straw study plan, discussion by all, etc. |
| Afternoon | Workshop ends after lunch, transport to airport from NIWA (10 minute ride by cab) |
