Lakeshore Processes and Management
The coastal group has a long association with lakeshore management
being involved since the early 1970’s at Lakes Manapouri and Te
Anau. Management of issues on the shorelines of lakes used in hydro-electric
power schemes is a speciality, and includes investigations of hazards
and their mitigation, prediction of shoreline development on new and
changing lakes such as Lake Dunstan, and information on lakeshore processes
and morphologies for resource consents. Iain Dawe is working at Lake
Coleridge for his Ph.D., using the lake as a real world model to examine
longshore transport processes on the mixed sediment shoreline. Martin
Single and Bob Kirk are also actively involved in shore change and process
research as input to management at Lakes Mahinerangi, Manapouri, Monowai,
Pukaki, Te Anau and Waikaremoana. Martin is a co-author of the Ministry
for the Environment publication "Lake Manager's Handbook: Lake
Level Management" (2002).