Meetings & Field Trips

Evening Meeting:  Wednesday 3rd June

7:30pm Unitec

Two Talks:

Elizabeth Williams: Forest succession on

rainfall-driven landslides in the Hauraki Gulf

region (2025 Lucy Cranwell grant recipient)

The steep landforms of the Hauraki Gulf region

are prone to shallow landslides and debris flows

driven by high-rainfall storm events. My ongoing

research investigates the roles of age and

environmental context in determining the

trajectory of succession on landslides in public

conservation forests of this region. In this talk, I

will discuss the results of our vegetation surveys

to date, including shifts in community

composition and the risk of invasive species

establishment in these disturbed environments.

Yumiko Baba: The Alpine Flora of Mt Tateyama in

the northern Japan Alps.

Mount Tateyama (alt.3015m) is part of the central spine

of Honshu Island and one of the most respected cultural

symbols in Japan. In the winter, it has towering snow

covered mountains but holds a range of rich, colourful

flora during the short summer season. This talk is a

photographic overview of the alpine flora of

Mount Tateyama observed during her family

holiday in the summer of 2025.

Field trip: Saturday 20th June

Leigh Marine Reserve bushwalk

Leader: Maureen Young

Meeting time: 10 am

Meeting place: At Goat Island beach.

The walk will take us behind the research building and

downhill for some way. It is a little steep in parts. The

vegetation is largely coastal species. Leave plenty of 

time to get there, as the traffic to the Matakana

market can be heavy. This is not a long walk, and

if people are so inclined we can return and stop

at Mathesons Bay and do the Kahuroa track,

which is a boardwalk downhill to the beach.