This report briefly describes methodology and presents results for the analyses of contaminants and particle size distributions for catchpit sediment samples. TPH, TOC and heavy metal results were produced by Hill Laboratories. PAH and chemical marker compound results were produced by NIWA.

This report describes the summer 2014 (Baseline 3) marine benthic monitoring, conducted in late January/early February, and presents a brief description of the benthic invertebrate communities, habitats, sediment types, and sediment contaminant concentrations found at each site. All samples collected were surface samples from either intertidal or subtidal locations. Sampling was conducted at 10 subtidal and 10 intertidal monitoring sites in Porirua Harbour, to quantify and describe benthic communities, sediment characteristics and sediment contaminant levels. Specifically, at the subtidal sites, eight 10 cm diam. x 15 cm deep cores were collected using divers, for macroinvertebrate identification and enumeration and three composite core samples were collected for sediment contaminant and grain size analysis. The surface sediment (0-3 cm) was removed from 5 or 6 smaller cores (7 cm diameter) and these fractions were pooled to produce a composite core sample for contaminant and grain size analysis. One core (13 cm diameter x 15 cm deep) was collected from each intertidal site at low tide from within one 5 m x 5 m grid to determine community composition. A 0.25 m² quadrat was also photographed adjacent to each macroinvertebrate core for later assessment of epifaunal invertebrate community and macroalgal cover. Three samples of surface sediment (0-2 cm) were collected from each site for sediment contaminant and grain size analyses. Three composite samples were prepared, by combining samples from grids A, B, C, D, E (sample 1), from grids F, G, H, I, J (Sample 2), and from grids K, L, M, N, O (Sample 3). All sediment contaminant samples were collected using clean HDPE plastic trowels and trays. Samples were sealed in double zip-lock bags and stored on ice until shipped to the laboratory for processing.

This archive contains data used in the manuscript Journal of Applied Ecology - 2015-00815.R1. Incorporating human behaviour into the risk-release relationship for invasion vectors: why targeting only the worst offenders can fail to reduce spread by Oliver Floerl; Graeme Inglis and Jan Diettrich. The study used an epidemiological model of recreational boaters to evaluate the efficacy of management campaigns aimed at reducing the spread of invasive biofouling organisms by improving antifouling behaviour. It examined the influence of three factors on the effectiveness of the campaigns: (i) the proportion of the vessel population that is targeted by the measure, (ii) the average amount of change in behaviour made by individual boaters, and (iii) the rate of uptake of the measure by the targeted population.

This report describes the winter 2013 (Baseline 2) marine benthic monitoring, conducted in early July, and presents a brief description of the benthic invertebrate communities, habitats, sediment types, and sediment contaminant concentrations found at each site. All samples collected were surface samples from either intertidal or subtidal locations. Sampling was conducted at 10 subtidal and 10 intertidal monitoring sites in Porirua Harbour, to quantify and describe benthic communities, sediment characteristics and sediment contaminant levels. Specifically, at the subtidal sites, eight 10 cm diam. x 15 cm deep cores were collected using divers, for macroinvertebrate identification and enumeration and three composite core samples were collected for sediment contaminant and grain size analysis. The surface sediment (0-3 cm) was removed from 5 or 6 smaller cores (7 cm diameter) and these fractions were pooled to produce a composite core sample for contaminant and grain size analysis. One core (13 cm diameter x 15 cm deep) was collected from each intertidal site at low tide from within one 5 m x 5 m grid to determine community composition. A 0.25 m² quadrat was also photographed adjacent to each macroinvertebrate core for later assessment of epifaunal invertebrate community and macroalgal cover. Three samples of surface sediment (0-2 cm) were collected from each site for sediment contaminant and grain size analyses. Three composite samples were prepared, by combining samples from grids A, B, C, D, E (sample 1), from grids F, G, H, I, J (Sample 2), and from grids K, L, M, N, O (Sample 3). All sediment contaminant samples were collected using clean HDPE plastic trowels and trays. Samples were sealed in double zip-lock bags and stored on ice until shipped to the laboratory for processing.

New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone: The exclusive economic zone (EEZ) is a zone extending from the outer limits of the territorial sea to a distance of 200 nautical miles from the baselines of the territorial sea in which New Zealand, as the coastal state, has sovereign rights over the living and non living resources of the sea and seabed and other states have certain freedoms, including the freedoms of navigation and overflight. Maritime Boundary Definitions: http://www.linz.govt.nz/hydro/nautical-info/maritime-boundaries/definitions#zones Further References: http://www.linz.govt.nz/hydro/nautical-info/maritime-boundaries

Centre line navigation extracted from em300 multibeam data files. Use for searching line numbers and coverage details. Raw multibeam data held in archives in the Greta Point Tape Store and a duplicate copy on R.V. Tangaroa in the multibeam lab.

The New Zealand Land Resource Inventory (NZLRI) is a national database of physical land resource information. It comprises two sets of data compiled using stereo aerial photography, published and unpublished reference material, and extensive field work: 1. An inventory of five physical factors (rock type, soil, slope, present type and severity of erosion, and vegetation). A 'homogeneous unit area' approach is used to record the five physical factors simultaneously to a level of detail appropriate for presentation at a scale of 1:50,000. 2. A Land Use Capability (LUC) rating of the ability of each polygon to sustain agricultural production, based on an assessment of the inventory factors above, climate, the effects of past land use, and the potential for erosion. The NZLRI covers the country in 11 regions, each with a separate LUC classification. The first edition NZLRI provides national coverage from mapping between 1973 and 1979 at a scale of 1:63,360. A limited revision regional upgrade of the north Waikato area was completed at a scale of 1:63,360 in 1983. Second edition NZLRI regional upgrades at a scale of 1:50,000 have been completed for Northland, Wellington, Marlborough and Gisborne-East Cape. Third edition NZLRI layers contained a restructured polygon attribute table to allow the core NZLRI to complement the newly created fundamental soil layers with minimal duplicationThe first edition NZLRI provides national coverage from mapping between 1973 and 1979 at a scale of 1:63,360. These data were digitised for GIS retrieval in 1981 (Version 1.1) A limited revision regional upgrade of the north Waikato area was completed at a scale of 1:63,360 in 1983. (Version 1.2) A polygon boundary and attribute validity edit over the whole database was completed in 1992. Attributes to accommodate second edition classifications were added in preparation for incorporating 1:50,000 remapping (Version 2.1) Second edition NZLRI regional upgrades at a scale of 1:50,000 were completed for Northland in 1988 and Wellington in 1991and incorporated into the datbase (not present in this layer) in 1992. (Version 2.2) A second edition NZLRI regional upgrade at a scale of 1:50,000 was completed for eastern Marlborough in 1995 (Version 2.3) A second edition NZLRI regional upgrade at a scale of 1:50,000 was completed for Gisborne-East Cape (not present in this layer) in 1999 (Version 2.4) In 2000, at the time the first generation fundamental soil layers were created, the (mainly soil elements of the) polygon attribute table was restructured so that the two datasets would be complementary with minimal diplication (Version 3.1) Incidental error correction has occurred as necessaryThe multi-factor, homogenous unit area mapping, method tends to result in themes being delineated at lower resolution than a single factor map of equivalent scale. Erosion and Vegetation were often recorded within units defined primarily on the basis of Rock, Soil, and SlopeWhile mapping scale remained constant (at 1:63,360 and later 1:50,000), polygon resolution increased in detail as the survey progressed, and was variably constrained by the quality of source information available to the mapperSurvey date, and therefore currency of data, varies from 1973 to 1998. Rock, Soil, and Slope are less affected by survey date than vegetation and erosionhttps://lris.scinfo.org.nz/layer/135/ & https://lris.scinfo.org.nz/layer/48134-nzlri-north-island-edition-2-all-attributes/