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.
Our MSc student Cody Lim heads down to GNS in Dunedin.
Cody has learnt how to operate the handheld magnetic susceptibility metre, the pXRF (under supervision) and generated mag susceptibility and chemistry data sets for the programme.
Our summer scholar Fiona Porter heads back to Otago.
Our wonderful Summer Scholarship holder Fiona Porter, departs after a summer helping us with our soil values questionnaire amongst other things. During her time at Soilsafe Aotearoa, she was able to learn the pXRF under supervision at GNS Science in Dunedin. Fiona...
Teacher Tonya Watt joins the Soilsafe Aotearoa team for a semester.
We are excited to have Tonya Watt join the team in the School of Environment as part of the Science Teaching in Leadership programme sponsored by the Royal Society of New Zealand. Tonya is bringing her incredible teaching experience to help produce educational soil...
News piece on Soilsafe Aotearoa in Scoop.
Take a look at the latest news article on us in Scoop: https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC2102/S00032/scientists-offer-free-soil-tests-for-kiwis.htm
Free soil testing is now available.
A nationwide project to investigate the soil beneath our feet has been launched by scientists and New Zealanders are encouraged to send in samples of their own garden soil for analysis. Soilsafe Aotearoa is a major new research programme being run by the University...
Soilsafe Aotearoa talk with the Earthworkers programme at the OMG by For the Love of Bees.
We were invited to give a talk on our programme and research with the Earthworkers programme at the Organic Market Garden by For the Love of Bees. We were grateful to have the opportunity to share our own knowledge, and learn more from this incredible organisation....