Pūrongo-ā-tau | Annual Reports
2024 Annual Report
2024 Coastal People : Southern Skies Annual Report
This Annual Report covers the activities and achievements of Coastal People : Southern Skies in 2024.
We share the stories of our kaupapa. Our research programme includes five projects that are community-led, and you can read about two of these in this report: Highlighting the Kaipara Project; Highlighting the Aotearoa One Pae Tata Project. We showcase our Outreach Programme, which is reaching tauira across Aotearoa, growing Pacific scientists, and connecting communities with parāroa (sperm whale) research in Kaikōura. We also invited some of our CPSS scholarship tauira to share their stories.
2023 Annual Report
2023 Coastal People : Southern Skies Annual Report
This Annual Report covers the activities and achievements of Coastal People : Southern Skies in 2023.
We share the stories of our kaupapa. Our research programme includes five projects that are community-led, and you can read about three of these in this report: Highlighting the Parāoa Project; Highlighting the Coastal Heritage Project; and Highlighting Tangatahi Tumeke: A community led project. We showcase our Outreach Programme’s project that is All about Pāua, and profile our first Postdoctoral Fellows. We also invited some of our CPSS scholarship tauira to share their stories.
2022 Annual Report
Coastal People : Southern Skies Annual Report submitted to TEC for the reporting period 1 July 2021 to 31 December 2022 (18 months).
This is our first Annual Report, covering the eighteen months since the establishment of Coastal People : Southern Skies. Establishing a new national Centre of Research Excellence within a global pandemic has presented us with significant challenges and opportunities. Our primary kaupapa during the establishment of CPSS has been preparing the gardens.
In this report, we share the stories of some of our firsts. Our research programme includes five projects that are community-led, and you can read about the first of these to begin, Bringing to life a waka: A vehicle for connection. We showcase our first Marine and Wellbeing projects, Pāua: Restoring a cultural icon and Falafolaloa: Pacific voices. We share an example of a foundational project, the Munida Transect, which has produced an internationally recognised dataset. We also invited some of our CPSS scholarship tauira to share their stories.