Katherine de Silva : Urban Restoration Research

Katherine de Silva is a budding botanist traveling the country in a campervan studying 45 urban restoration plots as part of her Masters Degree. She's half way through the expedition, in which she's analysing the soil, temperature and climate to find out why some plants thrive, and more importantly why some don't, in each region.

Katherine De Silva credit: Vanessa Patea

Katherine De Silva collecting data

Measuring the trees in the Manawa Karioi Plot

A light well in the canopy from a fallen tree

Katherine De Silva driving the campervan (which she is living and working from)

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