KEDA is providing project support to The Guardians of Kāpiti Marine Reserve (GoKMR) to consider the feasibility of establishing a community marine education, research and activity centre near the beachfront in Raumati.
It is proposed that this centre would include 3 main areas of business/operation as follows:
- A public marine discovery center including:
- Aquariums, wet/touch tanks, a virtual marine reserve dive experience and interactive displays about marine conservation and the local marine environment
- ECE, primary and secondary school and community environmental, marine and freshwater conservation education programs
- Waka ama and starlight/celestial navigation education and activities
- Tertiary level education and research facility offering:
- Graduate and Postgraduate level marine research programmes
- Mātauranga Māori studies
- Marine research laboratory facilities which could host:
- Marine laboratory & aquaculture research projects
- Ocean acidification, coastal erosion and sedimentation impacts and monitoring
Skills Gap: Project management, architectural design, feasibility studies, funding applications, stakeholder liaison.
Project Leader: Ben Knight
