Updates
Keep up to date with the latest Soilsafe news.
Here we post the most exciting and latest news from the programme so you can get to know us better and keep up with our progress.
Congratulations Declan!
A huge CONGRATULATIONS to Declan Fisher who is our most recent Masters student to have completed his research thesis under the Soilsafe Aotearoa programme. Declan's thesis examined the outputs from Dustsafe Aotearoa which examined environmental exposures and...
Soilsafe Kids’ 2022 School Workshops – A Summary
Kia ora tātou, We were excited to have published a description of our approach to our 2022 MBIE Unlocking Curious Minds funded Soilsafe Kids soil knowledge workshops. We have provided the summary here along with some of our findings from last year, which we...
Soilsafe Aotearoa Activity and Impact Report for 2022
Last year was another big year for Soilsafe Aotearoa, launching Soilsafe Kids and Dustsafe Aotearoa, working with more schools and community groups, supporting our postgrads in their research, and testing more domestic soil - we've now screened soil for more than...
Halfway through the delivery of our Soilsafe Kids 3-day School Workshops
We can't believe we're more than halfway through the delivery of our Soilsafe Kids' soil education programme to schools in Tāmaki Makaurau! While we committed to delivering our 3-day workshops to 5 school classrooms in 2022, we've been busier than ever and have...
The Opening of Clendon Library’s New Māra Kai
Ka pai Te Pātaka Kōrero o Waimāhia - Clendon Library! Congratulations on the beginnings of your new māra kai! Last Friday we spent our afternoon in the great company of Pacific Vision Aotearoa, Love Food Hate Waste - New Zealand and Auckland Botanic Gardens...
Dustsafe Aotearoa – get in quick with your home dust samples …
Giving the house a good clean this weekend? Why not bag up that dust while you’re at it, and send it through to us to test for metals in your home. W'e'd love your entire vacuum bag! Our sister project Dustsafe Aotearoa is a part of a larger international community...