DMS Projects

2025 
Optimising non-invasive faecal sampling for assessing kororā (Eudyptula minor) health: Enhancing long-term management strategies at the Pōhatu colony, Banks Peninsula (Lucy Howell)
Overview article

2024
Decline of Australasian bittern in New Zealand (Vanessa Kennard)
Overview article

2023
Australasian bittern: Vocal behaviour and movement (Rafi Zohara) / NOT GONE AHEAD

2022
An investigation into camera traps as a tool for monitoring kiwi (Jane Tansell)
Summary report (October 2023)

2021
Kiwi (Apteryx mantelli, Bartlett) vocal behaviour and activity: population densities, and applications to conservation (Alberto de Rosa)
Summary Report (February 2023)

2020
Taxonomic predictions of waterbird identity using 3D bone shape – Identifying an ancient Taranaki bird (Emma Holvast)
Summary Report (August 2021)
Published in Journal of Archaeological Science

2019
The capacity of urban restored forests to support native birds: Ecological or social restoration? (Elizabeth Elliot Noe)
Summary Report (July 2020)

2017 
Foraging ecology of Bar-tailed Godwits (Limosa lapponica) upon migration arrival  (Toby Ross)
Summary Report (November 2018)

2015
Remote sensing technology for seabird monitoring and conservation (Stephanie Borrelle)
Summary Report (May 2016)