Surveying seminar series, School of Surveying, University of Otago, New Zealand

Seminar Series
Conferences
Symposia

The School of Surveying runs a seminar series showcasing projects and results related to the School research themes. Speakers come from within the school, the university, as well as nationally and internationally renowned visitors.

2018 Seminar schedule

The seminar series normally runs weekly during semester time (current slot is Thursdays at 12 noon in the L1 lecture theatre) and are organized by Dr. Robert Odolinski and Dr. Mick Strack.

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
26 July
2 August
9 August
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
30 August	Mid-semester Break
6 September
13 September
20 September	Prof Robin Kundis Craig	University of Utah	TBC
27 September
4 October

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Past seminars

2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008

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

Conferences

125th NZIS Conference, Dunedin, 2013

The New Zealand Institute of Surveyors will be celebrating its 125th anniversary at their annual conference to be held in Dunedin from 29-31 August 2013. The occasion also celebrates the 50th anniversary of the National School of Surveying.

Find out more about the 125th NZIS Conference.

SIRC NZ 2013

SIRC NZ 2013 is a new GIS and Remote Sensing research conference, running on 29th August and 30th August 2013 at the University of Otago, Dunedin, NZ.

Find out more about the SIRC NZ 2013.

Symposia

2014 New Zealand Sea Ice Symposium

The New Zealand Sea Ice Symposium is a biennial event attended by New Zealand's sea ice research community. The 2014 edition is being hosted by the School of Surveying.

Find out more about the New Zealand Sea Ice Symposium.