Masterclass Training
Putting skills in the hands of the user – the Masterclasses Trainings.
There is a need for greater capability and capacity amongst farmers, landowners, and associated rural professionals if the aspirations of communities for improved freshwater quality are to be realised.
The ‘Catchment Solutions’ (CS) research and outreach program is collaboratively generating new; knowledge, tools, and techniques for designing and implementing targeted and effective edge-of-field water quality mitigation technologies and practices.
An important component of the CS project is the development of a series of practical masterclasses (professional) training. These are designed to share and transfer new knowledge, tools, and practical skills to farmers, landowners, and associated rural professionals.
Key topics are: catchment water quality analysis, mapping critical sources and flow pathways, and the design and implementation of suitable edge-of-field water quality mitigation technologies and practices for treating critical surface runoff and drainage water flow pathways in agricultural landscapes. These techniques include: wetlands, bioreactors, detainment bunds, controlled drainage, drain management, drainage water recycling. The classes will include field visits to some of the structures that the CS team have built.
See below for more information about each masterclass (professional) training in water quality science, concepts behind novel edge-of-field practices, and the practical skills and tools required to deliver the solutions farmers need for their Freshwater and Farm plans.
WE LOOK FORWARD TO MEETING YOU IN ONE, OR MORE, OF THESE CLASSES!
Design & Implementation of Constructed Wetlands
This training course is initially being offered free of charge, with limited spaces available. Your trainers will be Dr Chris Tanner, Principal Scientist at NIWA based in Hamilton; and Dr Brandon Goeller Applied Freshwater and Wetland Ecologist at NIWA based in Nelson.
Detainment Bund PS120. Mapping, Design & Implementation
This training course is initially being offered free of charge, with limited spaces available. Your trainers will be Dr Ranvir Singh, Associate Professor in Environmental Hydrology and Soil Sciences at Massey University; John Paterson, Project Manager for the Phosphorus Mitigation Project Inc & Detainment Bund Consultant; Dr Fernando Avendaño Veas, Research officer in the Catchment Solutions Project, Massey University. Ross Gray is the Senior Research Technician for the Catchment Solutions Project, Massey University, and Natalie North a Detainment Bund Consultant for Detainment Bund P120 Consultancy.
Innovative Farm Drainage Management Technologies
This training course is initially being offered free of charge, with limited spaces available. Your trainers will be Associate Professor Ranvir Singh, Research Officer Fernando Avendano, Research Technician Ross Gray, and Professor David Horne (all from Massey University) and Senior Scientist Dr Lee Burbery (Dairy NZ) will share their knowledge, experience and tools in scoping, design, construction and operational management of innovative drainage management technologies in diverse landscapes.
Understanding Contaminants on Farms & Their Flow Pathways
This training course is initially being offered free of charge, with limited spaces available. Your trainers will be Dr Fernando Avendaño Veas, Research officer in the Catchment Solutions Project, Massey University; Professor Dave Horne, Soil Scientist for the Catchment Solutions Project, Massey University and Katrina Macintosh, Senior Scientist in Environmental outcomes Dairy NZ.