In the end of November 2025 Evelyn Uuemaa and Alexander Kmoch visited the New Zealand Institute for Bioeconomy Science Limited (formerly Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research) in Palmerston North.
It was great to explore ways to enhance the efficiency of geospatial data use in environmental research, and we had productive discussions on how to use Discrete Global Grid Systems for mapping and analysing different environmental phenomena.
Alexander Kmoch presenting DGGS.
In addition, at the beginning of December Evelyn and Alexander visited the Earth Sciences New Zealand (formerly NIWA).
They presented the work from the Landscape Geoinformatics Lab and had good discussions on different modelling approaches and wetland science.
They discussed potential future collaboration under Horizon Europe and visited several constructed wetlands in the Little Waihi catchment, which could serve as a potential study sites for the WaterSmartLand project funded by the European Research Council (ERC).
