SCUFN30-03.1A LIST of DECISIONS and ACTIONS from SCUFN-29
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Wednesday 20 April 2016 Duration: 9.10Am – 5.00Pm Morning Tea: 10.18Am – 10.35Am Lunch: 12.50Pm – 1.15Pm Afternoon Tea: 3.20Pm – 3.35Pm
New Zealand Geographic Board Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa MINUTES Venue: Huia and Karaka 7th Floor, Radio New Zealand House 155 The Terrace Wellington Wednesday 20 April 2016 Duration: 9.10am – 5.00pm Morning Tea: 10.18am – 10.35am Lunch: 12.50pm – 1.15pm Afternoon tea: 3.20pm – 3.35pm NOTE: All information recorded in these Minutes relating to Treaty of Waitangi settlement names is confidential and therefore is not available to the general public. Some of the information may become available after Deeds of Settlement are signed. General 1. Welcome / Karakia 1.1. Welcome The Chairperson welcomed everyone to the meeting, particularly the two observers from the Office of Treaty Settlements. 1.2. Karakia Mr Rikirangi Gage opened the meeting with a karakia. 2. Present / Apologies NZGB Members (9) Mr Mark Dyer, Chairperson Surveyor-General, Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) Mr David Barnes Federated Mountain Clubs of New Zealand Inc. nomination Mr Rikirangi Gage Minister for Māori Development recommendation Mr Adam Greenland (absent 3.10pm to National Hydrographer, LINZ 3.25pm) Associate Professor Merata Kawharu Minister for Land Information appointment Mr Matanuku Mahuika Minister for Māori Development recommendation Mr Garrick Murfitt Local Government New Zealand nomination Professor Michael Roche New Zealand Geographical Society nomination Mrs Jenni Vernon Minister for Land Information appointment Observers (3) Mr Gordon Smith (left at 1.50pm) OTS, Work Programme Manager Ms Meremine Auelua (left at 1.40pm) OTS, Senior Analyst (for Ngāti -
Evaluating the Environmental Impacts of Fracking in New Zealand: an Interim Report
1 Evaluating the environmental impacts of fracking in New Zealand: An interim report November 2012 2 Acknowledgements The Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment would like to express her gratitude to those who assisted with the research and preparation of this report, with special thanks to her staff who worked so tirelessly to bring it to completion. Photography Cover: Coal seam gas fracking in Ohai, Southland. Photo courtesy of Dr Murry Cave. This document may be copied provided that the source is acknowledged. This report and other publications by the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment are available at: www.pce.parliament.nz 3 Contents Contents 3 Overview 5 3 1 Introduction 9 1.1 The purpose of this report 11 1.2 What is fracking? 12 1.3 Structure of the report 15 1.4 What the report does not cover 15 2 From conventional oil and gas to fracking 17 2.1 The early days 18 2.2 The rise of fracking 20 2.3 Fracking controversy 21 3 New Zealand history of gas and oil 23 3.1 Early discoveries of oil and gas in New Zealand 23 3.2 Natural gas and 'Think Big' 25 3.3 Unconventionals and the prospect of oil 26 3.4 Fracking in New Zealand 27 3.5 What worries people about fracking? 28 4 Environmental issues associated with fracking 31 4.1 Choosing where to drill 32 4.2 Establishing the well site 34 4.3 Drilling and constructing the well 35 4.4 Fracking the well 38 4.5 Flowback and transitioning into production 45 4.6 Handling the waste 46 4.7 Ending production and abandoning the well 48 4.8 Summary 49 5 The role of public agencies -
SCUFN30-07.2A Paper for Consideration by SCUFN Report Of
SCUFN30-07.2A Paper for Consideration by SCUFN Report of the work made during the inter-sessional period Updating the Gazetteer from all undersea feature naming decisions and actions taken at SCUFN-29 Submitted by: IHO Secretariat (as SCUFN Secretary) Executive Summary: This document reports on the updating of the on-line GEBCO Gazetteer database from all decisions and actions that were agreed at SCUFN-29, as well as on progressing other actions from SCUFN-29. Related Documents: N/A Related Projects: N/A Introduction / Background 1. Following the SCUFN29 meeting in September 2016 and considering the limited resources available within its Sub-Committee, the Secretariat of the GEBCO Sub Committee on Undersea Feature Names (SCUFN) decided to contract several tasks in order to improve the content of the IHO-IOC online GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names (the Gazetteer) and support SCUFN activities managed by the IHO Secretariat. The following tasks were contracted to the former SCUFN Secretary. Tasks Objectives Outcome reported in 1 Update the Gazetteer from all undersea feature naming Doc. SCUFN30-07.2A decisions and actions taken at SCUFN-29, ensuring quality control and standardization of the documentation provided as part of the relevant proposals. Deadline: T0 + 4 months. Prepare a draft report as a submission document to SCUFN- 30. Deadline: 30 April 2017. 2 Monitor the list of pending names. Prepare a draft report as Doc. SCUFN30-07.2B a submission document to SCUFN-30. Deadline: 30 May 2017. 3 Monitor the draft new edition of Publication B-6 (“red line” Doc. SCUFN30-06A version), taking into account any related development following SCUFN-29, with a view to submitting an improved draft for comments at SCUFN-30. -
2015, Wellington (MP143A)
ABSTRACT VOLUME Conference Convenor Mike Hannah (Victoria University) Organising Committee Brent Alloway, Cliff Atkins, Katie Collins, Monika Hanson, Huw Horgan, Robert McKay, Kevin Norton, Martha Savage, Miranda Voke, Colin Wilson (Victoria University), James Crampton (Victoria University / GNS Science), Christian Timm (GNS Science) Administration Janet George (Absolutely Organised Ltd.) Field Trip Leaders Kevin Norton, Cliff Atkins, Dene Carroll, Tim Little, Dee Ninis, Ben Hines (Victoria University), Russ Van Dissen, Nicola Litchfield (GNS Science) Abstracts are organised in alphabetical order by family name of first author The bibliographic reference for abstracts is: Author, A.N. (2015). Title of Abstract. In: MacKay, R., Savage, M. and Wilson, C. (eds). Abstracts, Geosciences 2015, Wellington, Geoscience Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication 143a. p. x. ISBN 978-1-877480-49-2 ISSN (print) 2230-4487 ISSN (online) 2230-4495 A NEW LOOK AT THE UPPER WAITAKI CANYON RECONSTRUCTING HOLOCENE CLIMATE AND OCEAN VARIABILITY OFF ADELIE COAST, C. Abbey1 & A.R. Gorman1 EAST ANTARCTIC MARGIN 1 University of Otago, Department of Geology, PO Box 56, Dunedin 9054 A. Albot1 & R. McKay1 [email protected] 1 Victoria University of Wellington, PO Box 600, Wellington There is considerable global interest in the use of [email protected] modern canyon settings in analogue studies that will help to understand ancient depositional This project aims to produce a detailed Holocene systems in deep-water environments. The Waitaki time series (12 ka BP to present) of ocean and Canyon, due to its status as the largest member of climate variability, at sub-centennial time scale, as the Otago Canyon System, its relative accessibility, preserved in an Antarctic margin marine sediment and the quantity and quality of pre-existing seismic core (U1357) collected by the International Ocean data in its vicinity provides a convenient real-world Discovery Program (IODP). -
International Hydrographic Organization
INTERNATIONAL HYDROGRAPHIC INTERGOVERNMENTAL OCEANOGRAPHIC ORGANIZATION COMMISSION (of UNESCO) UNDERSEA FEATURE NAME PROPOSAL (Sea NOTE overleaf) Note: The boxes will expand as you fill the form. Name Proposed: Havre Seamount Ocean or Sea: South Pacific Ocean Geometry that best defines the feature (Yes/No) : Point Line Polygon Multiple points Multiple lines* Multiple Combination polygons* of geometries* X * Geometry should be clearly distinguished when providing the coordinates below. Lat. (e.g. 63°32.6’N) Long. (e.g. 046°21.3’W) 31°07.50'S (centre) 179°01.80'W (centre) 31°9.117`S 179°9.917`W 31°5.95`S 179°9.85`W 31°1.783`S 179°8.25`W 30°59.183`S 179°6.15`W 30°59.45`S 179°0.083`W 31°1.6`S 178°57.75`W Coordinates: 31°4.4`S 178°56.6`W 31°6.5`S 178°55.217`W 31°8.367`S 178°55.383`W 31°10.067`S 178°58.183`W 31°12.533`S 179°2.75`W 31°12.517`S 179°6.483`W 31°10.967`S 179°8.6`W 31°9.117`S 179°9.917`W Maximum Depth: 1750 metres Steepness : Minimum Depth : 650 metres Shape : Volcano with Feature Description: central caldera Total Relief : 1100 metres Dimension/Size : 22 x 25 km Associated Features: Havre Seamount lies 30 km NW of Havre Rock in the Kermadec volcanic arc Shown Named on Map/Chart: IC Wright, TJ Worthington & JA Gamble Named in an internationally peer (2006). -
NIWA Client Report No: WLG2013-44 Report Date: August 2013 NIWA Project: TTR11301
Geological Desktop Summary Active Permit areas 50753 (55581), 54068 and 54272, South Taranaki Bight Prepared for Trans-Tasman Resources Limited August 2013 20 August 2013 2.07 p.m. Authors/Contributors: Alan R. Orpin For any information regarding this report please contact: Alan Orpin Marine Sedimentologist Ocean Sediments +64-4-386 0356 [email protected] National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research Ltd 301 Evans Bay Parade, Greta Point Wellington 6021 Private Bag 14901, Kilbirnie Wellington 6241 New Zealand Phone +64-4-386 0300 Fax +64-4-386 0574 NIWA Client Report No: WLG2013-44 Report date: August 2013 NIWA Project: TTR11301 © All rights reserved. This publication may not be reproduced or copied in any form without the permission of the copyright owner(s). Such permission is only to be given in accordance with the terms of the client’s contract with NIWA. This copyright extends to all forms of copying and any storage of material in any kind of information retrieval system. Whilst NIWA has used all reasonable endeavours to ensure that the information contained in this document is accurate, NIWA does not give any express or implied warranty as to the completeness of the information contained herein, or that it will be suitable for any purpose(s) other than those specifically contemplated during the Project or agreed by NIWA and the Client. 20 August 2013 2.07 p.m. Contents Executive summary ..................................................................................................... 6 1 Overview ............................................................................................................ -
ABSTRACTS Deep-Sea Biology Symposium 2018 Updated: 18-Sep-2018 • Symposium Page
ABSTRACTS Deep-Sea Biology Symposium 2018 Updated: 18-Sep-2018 • Symposium Page NOTE: These abstracts are should not be cited in bibliographies. SESSIONS • Advances in taxonomy and phylogeny • James J. Childress • Autecology • Mining impacts • Biodiversity and ecosystem • Natural and anthropogenic functioning disturbance • Chemosynthetic ecosystems • Pelagic systems • Connectivity and biogeography • Seamounts and canyons • Corals • Technology and observing systems • Deep-ocean stewardship • Trophic ecology • Deep-sea 'omics solely on metabarcoding approaches, where genetic diversity cannot Advances in taxonomy and always be linked to an individual and/or species. phylogenetics - TALKS TALK - Advances in taxonomy and phylogenetics - ABSTRACT 263 TUESDAY Midday • 13:30 • San Carlos Room TALK - Advances in taxonomy and phylogenetics - ABSTRACT 174 Eastern Pacific scaleworms (Polynoidae, TUESDAY Midday • 13:15 • San Carlos Room The impact of intragenomic variation on Annelida) from seeps, vents and alpha-diversity estimations in whalefalls. metabarcoding studies: A case study Gregory Rouse, Avery Hiley, Sigrid Katz, Johanna Lindgren based on 18S rRNA amplicon data from Scripps Institution of Oceanography Sampling across deep sea habitats ranging from methane seeps (Oregon, marine nematodes California, Mexico Costa Rica), whale falls (California) and hydrothermal vents (Juan de Fuca, Gulf of California, EPR, Galapagos) has resulted in a Tiago Jose Pereira, Holly Bik remarkable diversity of undescribed polynoid scaleworms. We demonstrate University of California, Riverside this via DNA sequencing and morphology with respect to the range of Although intragenomic variation has been recognized as a common already described eastern Pacific polynoids. However, a series of phenomenon amongst eukaryote taxa, its effects on diversity estimations taxonomic problems cannot be solved until specimens from their (i.e. -
Predicting Pumice Raft Trajectories
DEVELOP NATIONAL PROGRAM PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY Predicting Pumice Raft Trajectories October 31, 2013 Michael Bender [email protected] MGIS Capstone Project Pennsylvania State University Faculty Advisor: Dr. Jay Parrish Table of Contents Abstract ........................................................................................................................................... 3 Project Objectives ........................................................................................................................... 3 Introduction ..................................................................................................................................... 3 Community Concerns .................................................................................................................. 4 Study Area ................................................................................................................................... 4 Home Reef, Tonga ................................................................................................................... 5 Havre Seamount, New Zealand ............................................................................................... 5 Study Period ................................................................................................................................ 6 Methodology ................................................................................................................................... 6 Research ..................................................................................................................................... -
2017, Auckland (MP147A)
GEOSCIENCE SOCIETY OF NEW ZEALAND ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2017 DYNAMIC NEW ZEALAND, DYNAMIC EARTH Abstract Volume University of Auckland November 28- December 1 ABSTRACT VOLUME Chair Organizing Committee Michael Rowe Extended Organising Committee Julie Rowland, Paul Augustinus, Martin Brook, Jon Tunnicliffe, Jennifer Eccles, Kathy Campbell, Joel Baker Administration Stephanie Szmurlo Fieldtrip Leaders Bruce Hayward, David Lowe, Julie Rowland Abstracts are organised in alphabetical order by family name of first author The bibliographic reference for abstracts is: Author, A.N. (2017). Title of Abstract. In: Baker, J. and Rowe, M. (eds). Abstracts, Geosciences 2017, Auckland, Geoscience Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication 147A. p. x. Co-Published by: University of Auckland, School of Environment & The Geoscience Society of New Zealand ISBN 978-0-9922634-4-7 ISSN (print) 2230-4487 ISSN (online) 2230-4495 Platinum Sponsor Gold Sponsor Silver Sponsor and poster sessions Bronze Sponsor Ice Breaker and Student Award under in situ conditions, with simulations that RECONCILING EXPERIMENTAL AND STATIC- account for micrometre-scale variations in DYNAMIC NUMERICAL ESTIMATIONS OF elastic properties of constituent minerals with SEISMIC ANISOTROPY IN ALPINE FAULT the MTEX toolbox and finite-element wave MYLONITES propagation on EBSD images. We observe that the sorts of variations in the distribution of L. Adam1, M. Frehner2, K. Sauer3, V. Toy3, S. micas and quartz+feldspar within any one of Guerin-Marthe4 & C. Boulton5 our real core samples can -
Tracking Submarine Volcanic Activity at Monowai: Constraints from Long-Range Hydroacoustic Measurements
View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by OceanRep Tracking submarine volcanic activity at Monowai: Constraints from long-range hydroacoustic measurements Authors: D. Metz1*, A. B. Watts1, I. Grevemeyer2, M. Rodgers3 1Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3AN, United Kingdom 2GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany 3School of Geosciences, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA * Now at: Research and Development Center for Earthquake and Tsunami, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan Corresponding Author: Dirk Metz ([email protected]) Highlights - Volcanic activity at Monowai is detected by an IMS hydrophone array at Juan Fernández Islands, Southeast Pacific Ocean - 82 discrete episodes of activity have been identified in a 3.5-year record - Monowai is one of the most active submarine arc volcanoes currently known Index Terms: Monowai, submarine volcanism, hydroacoustics, Pacific Ocean, IMS, CTBTO This article has been accepted for publication and undergone full peer review but has not been through the copyediting, typesetting, pagination and proofreading process which may lead to differences between this version and the Version of Record. Please cite this article as doi: 10.1029/2018JB015888 © 2018 American Geophysical Union. All rights reserved. Abstract Monowai is a submarine volcanic center in the Kermadec Arc, Southwest Pacific Ocean. In the past, activity at the volcano had been intermittently observed in the form of fallout at the sea surface, discolored water, changes in seafloor topography, and T phase seismicity, but there is no continuous record for more recent years. -
Annotated Checklist of the Marine Flora and Fauna of the Kermadec Islands Marine Reserve and Northern Kermadec Ridge, New Zealand
www.aucklandmuseum.com Annotated checklist of the marine flora and fauna of the Kermadec Islands Marine Reserve and northern Kermadec Ridge, New Zealand Clinton A.J. Duffy Department of Conservation & Auckland War Memorial Museum Shane T. Ahyong Australian Museum & University of New South Wales Abstract At least 2086 species from 729 families are reported from the insular shelf and upper slope of the Kermadec Islands Marine Reserve and north Kermadec Ridge. The best known groups are benthic Foraminifera, benthic macroalgae, Cnidaria, Mollusca, Crustacea, Bryozoa, Echinodermata, fishes and sea birds. However knowledge of the region’s biota remains superficial and even amongst these groups new species records are commonplace. Bacteria, most planktonic groups, sessile invertebrates (particularly Porifera and Ascidiacea), infaunal and interstitial invertebrates, and parasites are largely unstudied. INTRODUCTION is a relatively large, shallow area (50–500 m depth) of complex topography located c. 105 km southwest of The Kermadec Islands are located between 636 km L’Esperance Rock in the northern part of the Central (L’Esperance and Havre Rocks) and 800 km (Raoul domain. Volcanism in this and the Southern domain is Island) NNE of New Zealand. They are large, active located west of the ridge (Smith & Price 2006). South volcanoes that rise more than 1000 m above the Kermadec of 33.3° S the ridge crest is largely located below 1000 Ridge (Ewart et al. 1977; Smith & Price 2006). The oldest m depth, eventually dipping below the sediments of the known shallow water marine sedimentary sequences Raukumara Basin at more than 2400 m depth (Smith & reported from the Kermadec Islands date from the early Price 2006). -
Abbot Ice Shelf, Structure of the Amundsen Sea Continental 10.1002/2014GC005570 Margin and the Southern Boundary of the Bellingshausen Plate
PUBLICATIONS Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems RESEARCH ARTICLE Abbot Ice Shelf, structure of the Amundsen Sea continental 10.1002/2014GC005570 margin and the southern boundary of the Bellingshausen Plate Key Points: seaward of West Antarctica Abbot Ice Shelf is underlain by E-W rift basins created at 90 Ma James R. Cochran1, Kirsty J. Tinto1, and Robin E. Bell1 Amundsen shelf shaped by subsidence, sedimentation, and 1Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, New York, USA passage of the ice sheet Bellingshausen plate boundary is located near the base of continental Abstract Inversion of NASA Operation IceBridge airborne gravity over the Abbot Ice Shelf in West Ant- slope and rise arctica for subice bathymetry defines an extensional terrain made up of east-west trending rift basins formed during the early stages of Antarctica/Zealandia rifting. Extension is minor, as rifting jumped north of Correspondence to: J. R. Cochran, Thurston Island early in the rifting process. The Amundsen Sea Embayment continental shelf west of the [email protected] rifted terrain is underlain by a deeper, more extensive sedimentary basin also formed during rifting between Antarctica and Zealandia. A well-defined boundary zone separates the mildly extended Abbot extensional Citation: terrain from the deeper Amundsen Embayment shelf basin. The shelf basin has an extension factor, b,of Cochran, J. R., K. J. Tinto, and R. E. Bell 1.5–1.7 with 80–100 km of extension occurring across an area now 250 km wide. Following this extension, (2015), Abbot Ice Shelf, structure of the Amundsen Sea continental margin and rifting centered north of the present shelf edge and proceeded to continental rupture.