Cawthron’s coastal and freshwater expertise in resource management is backed by sound end-user focused research. Cawthron staff have developed effective and practical predictive models, guidelines and methodologies designed through their ability to understand end-user needs. These efforts have resulted in cost effective and practical solutions over a wide range of resource management issues, from sustainable development of aquatic resources through to environmental restoration.

Services

	Risk analyses and predictive modelling
	Development of guidelines, standards and management tools
	Catchment and coastal management, including restoration and remediation plans

Customers

	Industry (e.g. power, aquaculture, fishing, irrigation, dairy, land development and port companies)
	Regional and local authorities
	Central Government
	Community organisations and individuals

Tools, data and expertise

	Predictive flow based habitat models (IFIM), trout energetics based flow models, hydrodynamic models
	Dilution-dispersion models
	Water and sediment quality models
	Nutrient-phytoplankton-zooplankton models
	Food-web models
	Fish population models
	Bio-economic models