Huge congratulations to Dr. Zhap on successfully completing your PhD viva! 🎉 All those long hours, late nights, and endless revisions have finally paid off. You did it! Happy PhDone, Joe! 🎓
🌳 Conference highlights from ISA 2025! Justin, Gunjan, and David attended the International Society of Arboriculture Annual International Conference at Te Pae this week. Huge congrats to Justin on receiving the prestigious L.C. Chadwick Award for Arboricultural Research! And well done to Gunjan for an excellent presentation! 👏
October was conference month! Vega was invited to present at the 23rd Conference on International Exchange of Professionals.
October was conference month! Priya, Ning, and Shiva presented their research posters at conferences. We're proud to show the excellent work happening in our lab.
Group lunch — We tried Korean food this time
Priya, Gunjan, and David competed in the final of the 2025 Whakāturanga Rangahau | Research Student Showcase events. Special congratulations to David for winning second place in the Exhibit Your Thesis competition! Well done to all three!
The team - 2025
Congratulations to Gunjan for winning second place in the Faculty of Engineering 3MT competition! 🎉#WOMENINSTEM #3MT #Engineering #Research
🎤✨ Our RSGA lab members did an amazing job presenting their research at the School of Forestry's 3 Minute Thesis event!
Professor Justin Morgenroth delivered his professorial lecture today - such a proud moment for the RSGA team! 🎓
Incredible day hosting visiting academics from Wuhan University - Kevin, Professor Fei, and Professor Liu sharing their research with us!
David did an amazing job presenting at the Esri User Conference in Christchurch this week. 🌏📍
Congrats! Joseph passed the proposal confirmation
Congratulations to Joseph who passed the drone test and got the first Pilot wings in RSGA lab!
Thank you Dr. Fei Li and Dr. Dengqiu Li for presenting their research, and Justin for sharing RSGA's work at today's seminar! Special thanks to Vega for organizing!
Happy Birthday to Joseph!
Greenhouse experiment in progress! Our RSGA team hard at work setting things up. Special thanks to Gunjan for capturing this moment (and helping out, even if she's behind the camera this time).
We held a send-off lunch for Iro, our visiting master's student from the RSGA lab. All the best!
David Pedley, recently competed in the University's Visualise Your Thesis competition and placed 2nd! Congratulations on this fantastic achievement, David!
RSGA Lab attended ForestSAT 2024 in Rotorua
Congrats! Priya passed the proposal confirmation
Congrats! Shiva passed the proposal confirmation
Celebrations! Happy Birthday to Shiva and Gunjan!
The RSGA team organised the drone demonstration for 3rd year undergraduates
Professional development - abstract writing workshop
Blake giving the dissertation presentation
The team - 2024
Vega giving lectures about AI to the forestry industry
Welcome our newest member, Iro
Priya measuring environmental variables using the portable weather station
Gunjan setting up Vertex for measuring tree height
2024 dress code for RSGA Lab
Xmas party
Shiva and Elijah setting up the Hovermap mobile laser scanner
Group lunch — Indian food
New traditions...group lunch!
The team - 2023
Justin and Robin demonstrating the Hovermap mobile laser scanner
Work with GNSS at NZDFI site
Ning's graduation celebration
In-situ data processing at Cass Station
Work with GNSS at Cass Station
Work with Hovermap at Cass Station
Survey at plantation forest
Set up the survey
Female pilots
DJI Matrice 300 on mission
Drone piloting
DJI Matrice 300 RTK