Dame Anne Salmond is a Distinguished Professor in Maori Studies and Anthropology at the University of Auckland. In 2013 she won the Rutherford Medal, New Zealand’s top scientific award, and became the New Zealander of the Year. She is a Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences in the US, Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy, and Foreign Member of the American Philosophical Society. In 2021 she was awarded the Order of New Zealand.
Dame Anne has a long engagement with environmental issues. In 1990 she became Deputy Chair of the Parks and Wilderness Trust, and in 1999 she and her husband Jeremy established the Waikereru Ecosanctuary in Gisborne (www.waikereru.org). She served on the Air New Zealand Sustainability Panel, and led the Te Awaroa: Voice of the River project.
As a Pure Advantage Trustee, Dame Anne is deeply involved in the ‘Recloaking Papa-tūānuku’ initiative for restoring 2.1 million ha. of indigenous forests across Aotearoa; and with Dr. Dan Hikuroa, is co-Principal Investigator in the ‘Let the River Speak’ Marsden research project. She currently has a Humboldt Fellowship to investigate climate change & forest and river restoration policies in Germany and the EU.
Tai Timu, Tai Pari (The Ebb and Flow of the Tide): Rivers, Estuaries and the Ocean
Drawing on the ‘Let the River Speak’ Marsden research project and what happened in Tairawhiti during Cyclone Gabrielle, this presentation will question the partitioning of the scientific project in relation to land, plants, animals, people, rivers and the ocean.
Focusing on the Waimatā river that runs from headwaters inland from Ūawa to the heart of Gisborne city and the ocean, and on the Waikereru restoration project, it will discuss the potential for transcultural, transdisciplinary ways of thinking in exploring the complex interactions among different living systems, and regenerative experiments.