Story: Lakes

Page 6 – External links and sources

Buying time for New Zealand’s lakes

‘Buying time for New Zealand’s lakes: learning how to read lake history’ is an article from the National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research on how cores from the bottom of lakes are interpreted (PDF, 382 KB).
Fish and Game New Zealand

Fish and Game New Zealand manages freshwater fisheries and gamebird shooting in New Zealand.
Learn more about aquatic plants

A summary of common aquatic plants, published by the National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research.
Morphology and sedimentation in Lake Wakatipu, New Zealand

Abstract of a 1970 paper by J. W. Brodie and J. Irwin published in the New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research. Links to the full text of the article.
Restoring the Rotorua lakes: the ultimate endurance challenge

A report on the challenges of restoring the Rotorua lakes, prepared by the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment in 2006.
Snapshot of lake water quality in New Zealand

A 2006 summary of information about the quality of water in different lakes (PDF, 1.4 MB).
Water publications

The Ministry for the Environment’s publications on water management include (amongst its ‘Best practice guides and guidelines’) the Lake manager’s handbook (in four volumes), covering fish in New Zealand lakes, alien invaders, lake level management; and land–water interactions.

Irwin, Jack. ‘New Zealand bathymetric surveys, 1965–70.’ NZOI Records 1, no. 6 (1972): 107–126.
Irwin, J. Checklist of New Zealand lakes. New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 74. Wellington: Dept of Scientific and Industrial Research, 1975.
Jolly, V. H., and J. M. A. Brown, eds. New Zealand lakes. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1975.
Parkinson, Brian, and Geoffrey Cox. A field guide to New Zealand’s lakes and rivers. Auckland: Random Century, 1990.
Spigel, R. H., and A. B. Viner. ‘Lakes.’ In Waters of New Zealand, edited by M. Paul Mosley, 305–334. Wellington: New Zealand Hydrological Society, 1992.
White, Ben. Inland waterways: lakes. Waitangi Tribunal Rangahaua Whanui Series. Wellington: Waitangi Tribunal, 1998.