Students reside at the Dingwall Camp which is located on the seashore and 500m from the main campus. This residential and social centre is used by students and staff during a major portion of the program. The park is a natural laboratory for the ongoing study of forest, scrub and pastoral soils, sedimentation and erosion patterns, reforestation of native species, exotic commercial silviculture, and management of human recreation uses. In addition to extended field excursions to one or more islands in the Hauraki Gulf, the semester participants will also engage in travel to The South Island. Fall '99 semester students conducting a project presentation.
Sustainability starts at home.
This is a guiding philosophy of the living and learning environment of EcoQuest. Above, students are actively involved in organic gardening at the EcoQuest centre. Kayak safety is learned on the shores of the EcoQuest campus. Students explore the extensive tidal mudflats and associated salt marsh communities along the south-western shore of the Firth of Thames. These communities are important feeding and loafing grounds for a multitude of native, endemic and migratory shore birds and waders.