Dr. Rupert Craggs has built a flourishing team with internationally recognised expertise in wastewater treatment and water quality. Dr. Craggs has led NIWA’s Aquatic Pollution group for the past ten years, managing 13 scientists, securing funding to support three Masters and six PhD students and hosting 58 student interns. His team conducts world-leading research into…
BioBrew’s Waikato-grown, live probiotic formulas are a business and scientific success story. Probiotics are microbes that are good for the digestive systems of living creatures, with flow on benefits for general health. Most commercial products contain probiotics in freeze-dried form. Only a fraction of the microbes survive the freeze-drying process and those remaining take time…
Mastitis is a concern within the dairy industry for animal welfare reasons and cost, both in terms of treatment and lost production. Cows that show no symptoms but carry the disease contribute to its persistence in the herd. Giving dry cows a blanket dose of antibiotics is a common practice to ‘insure’ against mastitis but…
Whether communicating with farmers, students, industry, scientists, iwi or media John Roche combines technical command of his subject matter with infectious enthusiasm. Principal Scientist with DairyNZ, Dr. John Roche is in demand as a presenter, media spokesperson and mentor, juggling 3-4 presentations per month in addition to his science management workload. He has a reputation…