scholarly journals Managing Data in the NIWA Invertebrate Collection: Past and Present Methodology

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. e25786
Author(s):  
Diana Macpherson ◽  
Sadie Mills ◽  
Caroline Chin
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Marine Invertebrate ◽  
Data Repository ◽  
Microsoft Excel ◽  
Data Accessibility ◽  
Atmospheric Research ◽  
Historical Collections ◽  
Pacific Waters ◽  
Paper Record ◽  
Improve Access

The National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) Invertebrate Collection is a Nationally Significant Collection consisting of around 300,000 marine invertebrate specimen jars housed at the NIWA Greta Point campus in Wellington, New Zealand. Our collection holdings include samples from New Zealand, Antarctic and Pacific waters and represent over 70 years of collecting and is still growing. We estimate approximately 40% of our collections are registered and digitally accessible (about 127,000 records since digital registering began in 2004), with most of our unregistered material being historical collections. We are the repository for several important historical collections, one of the largest being the former New Zealand Oceanographic Institute (NZOI) collection, a taxonomically diverse and a geographically wide-ranging collection which occurred from the 1950’s to the early 1990’s. Associated specimen information such as station data and taxonomic identification for these historical collections are managed by NIWA staff and are in the form of Microsoft Excel and Access spreadsheets, NIWA and NZOI Biodiversity Memoirs, and online via the NIWA cruise and station database. These data are manually collated and registered into our Specify collections software specimen database which offers a unified and comprehensive data repository for our historical specimens, therefore greatly improving data accessibility. To expedite the availability of data and improve access to specimens for our users we are focusing on the registration of both important historical and taxonomic collections, and streamlining the registration of specimens in the field onboard NIWA's research vessel Tangaroa. Our field registration and curation techniques have been fine-tuned over the years and now we are capturing data directly into a shipboard copy of Specify in the sorting lab on the ship, printing labels with a thermal printer, and importing data back to our home version following the end of the voyage using Specify's Workbench feature. This process reduces the time spent double-handling specimens and entering data off paper record sheets and allows the capture of data directly into our database immediately after collection and sorting onboard the ship.

scholarly journals Linking morphological and molecular sources to disentangle the case of Xylodon australis

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Javier Fernández-López ◽  
M. Teresa Telleria ◽  
Margarita Dueñas ◽  
Mara Laguna-Castro ◽  
Klaus Schliep ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Phylogenetic Analyses ◽  
Single Species ◽  
R Package ◽  
Molecular Data ◽  
Historical Collections ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
Kinship Relations ◽  
History Of ◽  
Different Sources

AbstractThe use of different sources of evidence has been recommended in order to conduct species delimitation analyses to solve taxonomic issues. In this study, we use a maximum likelihood framework to combine morphological and molecular traits to study the case of Xylodon australis (Hymenochaetales, Basidiomycota) using the locate.yeti function from the phytools R package. Xylodon australis has been considered a single species distributed across Australia, New Zealand and Patagonia. Multi-locus phylogenetic analyses were conducted to unmask the actual diversity under X. australis as well as the kinship relations respect their relatives. To assess the taxonomic position of each clade, locate.yeti function was used to locate in a molecular phylogeny the X. australis type material for which no molecular data was available using morphological continuous traits. Two different species were distinguished under the X. australis name, one from Australia–New Zealand and other from Patagonia. In addition, a close relationship with Xylodon lenis, a species from the South East of Asia, was confirmed for the Patagonian clade. We discuss the implications of our results for the biogeographical history of this genus and we evaluate the potential of this method to be used with historical collections for which molecular data is not available.

scholarly journals Researching social justice and health (in)equality across different school Health and Physical Education contexts in Sweden, Norway and New Zealand

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 273-290 ◽  
Author(s):  
Göran Gerdin ◽  
Rod Allan Philpot ◽  
Lena Larsson ◽  
Katarina Schenker ◽  
Susanne Linnér ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Physical Education ◽  
School Health ◽  
Neoliberal Globalization ◽  
Health And Physical Education ◽  
Physical Education Teacher Education ◽  
Paper Record ◽  
Social Justice Teaching ◽  
Equitable Outcomes

The way school Health and Physical Education (HPE) is conceptualized and taught will impact on its ability to provide equitable outcomes across gender, sexuality, ethnicity, religion and social class. A focus on social justice in HPE is pertinent in times when these ideals are currently under threat from neoliberal globalization. This paper draws on data from the initial year of an international collaboration project called ‘Education for Equitable Health Outcomes – The Promise of School Health and Physical Education’ involving HPE and Physical Education Teacher Education researchers from Sweden, Norway and New Zealand. The data in this paper record the researchers’ presentations and discussions about issues of social justice and health as informed by school visits and interviews with HPE teachers in the three different countries. The analysis of the data is focused on what is addressed in the name of social justice in each of the three countries and how cross-cultural researchers of social justice in HPE interpret different contexts. In order to analyse the data, we draw on Michael Uljens’s concepts of non-affirmative and non-hierarchical education. The findings suggest that researching social justice and health (in)equality across different countries offers both opportunities and challenges when it comes to understanding the enactment of social justice in school and HPE practices. We conclude by drawing on Uljens to assert that the quest for social justice in HPE should focus on further problematizing affirmative and hierarchical educational practices since social justice teaching strategies are enabled and constrained by the contexts in which they are practised.

First records of Thryaplax Castro, 2007 and Calocarcinus Calman, 1909 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) from the Kermadec Islands, New Zealand

Zootaxa ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 1982 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
SHANE T. AHYONG
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Deep Water ◽  
Carapace Length ◽  
New Records ◽  
Carapace Width ◽  
Atmospheric Research ◽  
Deep Water Species ◽  
Water Species

Among the Brachyura from the Kermadec Islands in the invertebrate collection of the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Wellington, New Zealand (NIWA), are two specimens representing two deep-water species previously not known from the region. Both specimens were collected at the same station, together with the paratypes of the parthenopid crab, Garthambrus tani Ahyong, 2008. The new records are reported below to formally document their occurrence at the Kermadec Islands, New Zealand; both also represent the first records of their respective genera from New Zealand waters.  Measurements of specimens, in millimetres, refer to carapace length (cl) and carapace width (cw).

An Instrumented Aircraft for Atmospheric Research in New Zealand and the South Pacific

1991 ◽  
Vol 72 (2) ◽  
pp. 192-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. R. Larsen ◽  
G. W. Fisher ◽  
R. A. Knobben ◽  
I. S. Lechner ◽  
M. J. Harvey
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
South Pacific ◽  
The South ◽  
Atmospheric Research

scholarly journals Validation of Three Species of Spongicolid Shrimp of New Zealand: Spongicoloides clarki Schnabel, Kou & Xu, S. sonne Schnabel, Kou & Xu and Spongiocaris antipodes Schnabel, Kou & Xu (Crustacea: Decapoda: Stenopodidea)

Taxonomy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 266-269
Author(s):  
Kareen E. Schnabel ◽  
Qi Kou ◽  
Peng Xu
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Present Note ◽  
Atmospheric Research ◽  
Three New Species

Schnabel, Kou & Xu reported three new species of spongicolid shrimp from New Zealand. The present note, with ZooBank registrations, serve to validate the names Spongicoloides clarki, S. sonne and Spongiocaris antipodes by fulfilling Code conditions for nomenclatural availability. As such, the date and authorship of the species names take the date of publication of this note. Specimens are deposited at the National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research, Wellington (NIWA) and the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington (NMNZ).

scholarly journals The fungal genus Tricholomopsis (Agaricales) in New Zealand, including Tricholomopsis scabra sp. nov.

Phytotaxa ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 288 (1) ◽  
pp. 69 ◽  
Author(s):  
JERRY A. COOPER ◽  
DUCKCHUL PARK
Keyword(s):  
Phylogenetic Analysis ◽  
New Species ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Northern Hemisphere ◽  
Pinus Radiata ◽  
Historical Collections ◽  
Native Forests ◽  
Conifer Plantations ◽  
The Status ◽  
Fungal Genus

The status of the genus Tricholomopsis (Agaricales) in New Zealand is reviewed. T. rutilans is a species described from the northern hemisphere and recorded from plantations of exotic Pinus radiata in New Zealand. Historical collections identified as T. rutilans were subjected to morphological and phylogenetic analysis. The results show that most of these collections refer to T. ornaticeps, originally described from New Zealand native forests. The presence in New Zealand of T. rutilans was not confirmed. Collections of Tricholomopsis from native forests and bush also include a newly described species, T. scabra, which is characterised by a distinctly scabrous pileus. The new species is phylogenetically and morphologically distinct but related to T. ornaticeps. T. ornaticeps and T. scabra are currently known only from New Zealand and the former has extended its habitat to include exotic conifer plantations.

Additions to knowledge of the biodiversity of benthic hydroids (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) in the Balleny Islands (Antarctica)

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4966 (3) ◽  
pp. 321-336
Author(s):  
ÁLVARO L. PEÑA CANTERO
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Continental Shelf ◽  
New Records ◽  
East Antarctica ◽  
Atmospheric Research ◽  
Antarctic Continental Shelf ◽  
Victoria Land ◽  
Small Collection ◽  
The Antarctic

The Balleny Islands, an isolated archipelago located 240 km off the coast of Victoria Land (East Antarctica), are separated from the Antarctic continental shelf by waters more than 2000 m deep. The benthic hydroid fauna of these islands is little known, with only 25 species reported so far. The present study contributes to a better knowledge of the benthic hydrozoans inhabiting this archipelago by studying a small collection held at the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Invertebrate Collection at Wellington, New Zealand. Sixteen species of benthic hydroids were found in the collection, belonging to nine families and 12 genera of Leptothecata. Kirchenpaueriidae and Oswaldella, with three species each, are the most speciose family and genus. Ten species represent new records for the region. The total number of benthic hydroid species known from the islands is raised to 34. 

scholarly journals Stakeholder perspectives of the future of accessible tourism in New Zealand

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 223-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brielle Gillovic ◽  
Alison McIntosh
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Exploratory Research ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Cultural Shift ◽  
Data Accessibility ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Stakeholder Perspectives ◽  
The Future

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to put forward the argument that New Zealand’s tourism industry generally fails to acknowledge the importance of the access market. Despite anecdotal evidence of the market’s value and strong legislation, New Zealand’s access market arguably remains underserviced and misunderstood. The current research sought to explore social and business rationales to support a future for accessible tourism in New Zealand, from the perspectives of its key stakeholders. It sought to uncover contemporary issues in the tourism industry, to examine the capacity and context for which issues can be addressed and overcome, to achieve a future for accessible tourism in New Zealand. Design/methodology/approach Under the interpretive paradigm, original, exploratory research was conducted. Semi-structured interviews were carried out with ten key New Zealand tourism industry stakeholders who agreed to participate in the research. Qualitative data were thematically analysed. The following five key themes inductively emerged from the data: “Accessibility as a human right: Developing a culture of accessibility”; “Accessible tourism: Good for business?”; “Bottom-up, market-led approach”; “Leadership from the top: Moving from apathy to action”; and “Meeting somewhere in the middle”. The five themes correspond to themes evidenced in the wider literature and present propositions for the future development of accessible tourism in New Zealand. Findings Findings revealed stakeholder opinions of an industry exemplifying minimal awareness and consideration for accessibility. Accessibility was perceived to be an issue of social change, requiring the achievement of a cultural shift where accessibility is envisioned as a cultural norm necessary for the future. Whilst top-down leadership and support were deemed pertinent, ownership and accountability were seen to be crucial at the lower, operational levels of the industry. A “meeting in the middle” was reported necessary to see the leveraging of a greater push towards accessibility and emphasising more prominently, what has been and can be done, moving forward into the future. Originality/value This paper provides original insights into the current and future scope of accessible tourism in New Zealand from the perspectives of its stakeholders. The key themes derived from the research assist knowledge for aligning the industry on a pathway towards achieving the necessary awareness and collaboration required in order to offer accessible tourism experiences to all.

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