Symposium Programme
Monday 30 August
- 8.00 Conference Registration open
- 8.15 Powhiri - Please gather at 8am at the main entrance of Te Papa Tongarewa
- 9.15 Kapu-ti
- 9.35 Welcome
- 9.40 Official Opening - Hon Dr Wayne Mapp Minister, Research, Science and Technology
- 10.00 The Kermadec volcanic region: An overview of geological discoveries from the last decade - Ian Wright National Oceanography Centre, UK
- 10.45 Tea break
- 11.00 Submarine massive sulfide mineralization and hydrothermal activity along the Kermadec Arc, the world's most hydrothermally active - Matthew I. Leybourne GNS, Cornell E. J. de Ronde
- 11.30 Volcanic activity and seismology in the Kermadecs - Brad Scott GNS
- 12.00 New insights into explosive volcanic eruption processes and products in the Kermadec volcanic arc - Colin J.N. Wilson Victoria University of Wellington, Simon J. Barker, Melissa D. Rotella, Richard J. Wysoczanski, Ian C. Wright, Joel A. Baker
- 12.30 Geophysical characterisation of the Kermadec Arc back-arc system (new data from the May 2010KARMA voyage) - Geoffroy Lamarche NIWA, Richard Wysoczanski, Malcolm Clark, Jennifer Eccles, Joshu Mountjoy, Fabio Caratori Tontini, Ian Wright, Dylan Amyes, Peter Gerring, Kate Kenedi, John Mitchell, Filippo Muccini, Anne-Laure Verdier, Steve Wilcox, Sarah Wormald
- 13.00 Lunch break
- 14.00 Motion in the ocean: biological oceanography of the Kermadec region - migration and connectivity of marine fauna and flora - Tom Trnski Auckland Museum, Malcom Francis, Clinton Duffy, Steve Chiswell
- 14.30 Impacts on the vegetation of Raoul Island - Carol West Department of Conservation, Bill Sykes, Dave Havell
- 15.00 Birds of the forest, lakes and shore - Dick Veitch Department of Conservation - Retired
- 15.30 Tea break
- 16.00 Diversity, abundance and biogeography of Kermadec Islands reef fishes - Malcolm Francis NIWA, Russel Cole
- 16.30 Subtidal biodiversity and community composition of the Kermadec Islands - Jonathan Gardner Victoria University of Wellington
- 17.00 Seabirds of the Kermadec Islands - Graeme Taylor Department of Conservation, Alan Tennyson, Steffi Ismar, Chris Gaskin, Karen Baird
- 17.30 End of day - Cocktails
Tuesday 31 August
- 08.30 Polynesian Voyaging - Paul Adds Te Kawa a Māui - School of Māori Studies, VUW
- 09.00 A brief history of Raoul Island - Andy Dodd Historic Places Trust
- 09.30 Deep-sea benthic sampling in the Kermadec region: history, data, and the future - Malcolm Clark NIWA, Ashley Rowden, Dianne Tracey, Kareen Schnabel
- 10.00 Invertebrate communities associated with seamounts on the Kermadec Volcanic Arc - Dianne Tracey NIWA, Malcolm Clark, Jennifer Beaumont, Ashley Rowden, Mireille Consalvey
- 10.30 Tea break
- 11.00 Biological communities associated with areas of hydrothermal venting on the Tonga-Kermadec Arc - Ashley A. Rowden NIWA, Di Tracey, Malcolm R. Clark
- 11.30 Life on the Margin - Bryozoan diversity and endemism along the Kermadec Arc - Dennis Gordon NIWA
- 12.00 Over to the dark side - Deepwater demersal fish communities of the Kermadec region - Andrew Stewart Te Papa, Malcolm Clark, Malcolm Francis
- 12.30 Panel Discussion | with lunch - Exploring the Value of Biodiversity - Professor Sir Peter Gluckman Chief Science Advisor to the New Zealand Prime Minister, Alan Mark University of Otago, George Clement Clement and Associates, Tyler Eddy Victoria University of Wellington, Aroha Mead Victoria University of Wellington, Alex Malahoff GNS
- 14.00 Sea turtles of the Kermadec Islands: more secrets than answers - Dan Godoy Massey University
- 14.30 Sharks and Rays of the Kermadec Islands and Kermadec Ridge: species of interest, conservation and scientific significance - Clinton Duffy Department of Conservation, Malcolm Francis
- 15.00 Migrations and patterns of seabird occurance in the Kermadec region - Chris Gaskin Independent, Elizabeth Bell, Josh Adams, Catriona Macleod, Phil Lyver, Matt Rayner
- 15.30 Tea break
- 16.00 What whaling history can contribute to estimating former whale stocks about the Kermadecs - Rhys Richards Independent
- 16.15 Kermadec Islands revealed as a previously unknown stop on the southern migration of humpback whales - Rochelle Constantine University of Auckland, Claire Garrigue, Karen Baird
- 16.45 Closing