Join us for the next Excellence Series event 2025. This series highlights leadership across diverse disciplines while providing a platform to showcase the University's distinctive and influential applied research. It celebrates research excellence and fosters public engagement, extending Lincoln University's specialist land-based expertise to a wider audience, driving New Zealand's prosperity and intergenerational well-being.
Our affinity with marine ecosystems, particularly coastal and estuarine systems, significantly influences the public and political will to protect those environments from human-mediated impacts. Both Australia and New Zealand place iconic value on their ocean environment and the unique natural heritage it holds. As a consequence of these held values, and the geographic isolation of the two countries, both have developed world-class biosecurity systems since the earliest days of self-governance. Originally, this was focused on quarantine systems for the protection of human health and land-based primary production. However, over the past 50 years, both systems have expanded to encompass marine ecosystems, acknowledging the numerous marine introductions that have occurred through various pathways, including intentional releases and government-sanctioned initiatives..
Join us for our next Excellence series event where Professor Chad Hewitt provides a 30-year retrospective illustrating how both countries have pursued an evidence base to support their risk management approaches and how the sharing of information and policy development have created better outcomes between the two systems. Noting that many of the approaches employed by Australia and New Zealand have been exported to the global stage, Prof. Hewitt will provide a high-level perspective on the successes of both systems with observations on future challenges.
Wednesday 16th April
4.00pm - 5.30pm
Pātiki, Waimarie Building, Lincoln University