Catchment & Environmental Management

We support catchment-scale environmental management, helping organisations understand condition, pressures, and priorities across complex landscapes.

These environments often involve multiple land uses, stakeholders, and competing pressures. Our role is to bring structure to diverse environmental information, enabling coordinated management, prioritisation, and catchment-scale action.

How we work in this context

We work alongside councils, iwi, and programme partners to integrate ecological science, spatial systems, structured data, and science interpretation across large and often complex geographies.

Our focus is on ensuring environmental information is clearly understood and usable, supporting decisions, guiding investment, and enabling coordinated action across catchments.

what we do

Assessment
  • Past & present condition assessment
  • Catchment issues & challenges assessment & framework
  • Erosion risk mapping
  • Waterway & overland flow path digital mapping & ground truthing
  • Integrated spatial analysis of datasets
  • Cultural values & mātauranga Māori integration
Design & Strategy
  • Catchment & freshwater management planning
  • Land use, erosion, & sediment control strategies
  • Catchment-wide & site-specific tools & solutions
  • Catchment prioritisation & investment planning
Reporting & Delivery
  • Science communication & public-facing resources
  • Community & stakeholder engagement support
  • Spatial dashboards & data visualisation
Implementation Support
  • Environmental strategy & prioritisation reporting
  • Implementation planning & coordinated action
  • Masterplanning

featured projects

Selwyn District Council Catchment Management Plans

Lead author of 7 x CMPs, ecological assessments, spatial analysis & network mapping, catchment-scale & reach-scale solutions, science communication & graphic design.

Wai Connection – Tatai Ki Te Wai

National Science & Technical Support Provider + Waitaha/Canterbury Regional Delivery