Southern View: November 02, 2023
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Budding ‘scientists’ receive ECan award<br />
• By Sasha Watson<br />
TWO CASHMERE High School<br />
students were joint winners<br />
in Environment Canterbury’s<br />
sustainable resource<br />
management awards, taking the<br />
Wrybill Trophy.<br />
Rowan Matthew, 17, was<br />
awarded for her project on<br />
manuka-derived leptospermum<br />
versus germination and preemergence<br />
growth, and Millie<br />
Palmer, 16, was awarded for<br />
her project on wools versus<br />
microplastics.<br />
Rowan started researching<br />
what the impact of manukaderived<br />
leptospermum was on<br />
the germination and<br />
pre-emergence growth of radish<br />
at a Canterbury University<br />
science camp last summer.<br />
The year 13 student also looked<br />
into the allelopathic potential<br />
of manuka to inhibit gorse and<br />
broom growth to promote beech<br />
forest conservation.<br />
Rowan sau\id they were tasked<br />
with finding solutions to the<br />
numerous inhibitors of native<br />
beech forest regrowth in the<br />
Cass area.<br />
“One solution that really stuck<br />
with me was the use of manuka<br />
to prevent the spread of weeds<br />
like gorse and broom, while also<br />
creating a mid-level canopy, in<br />
WE CAN: Rowan Matthew and Millie Edwards placed first in the Environment Canterbury<br />
sustainable resource management awards.<br />
which the beech saplings could<br />
grow, preventing death as a<br />
result of frost.”<br />
Rowan found manuka’s<br />
allelochemical, leptospermone,<br />
affected both the germination<br />
and pre-emergence growth of<br />
the radish seeds she used.<br />
Said Rowan: “It tells us that<br />
other essential enzymes and<br />
life functions are disrupted<br />
by leptospermone, such as the<br />
function of hydrolase, without<br />
which the plant could not<br />
produce energy for growth.”<br />
Rowan said the Wrybill<br />
Trophy was a fantastic way for<br />
her to share her ideas, and is<br />
excited to see where this research<br />
takes her in the future.<br />
Millie impressed the judges<br />
with a continuation of her 2<strong>02</strong>2<br />
project using wool to naturally<br />
filter microplastics out of water.<br />
In her project called Wool<br />
versus Microplastics, Millie<br />
applied different types of wool,<br />
composite and synthetic mat<br />
filters to a customised filter<br />
system attached to a washing<br />
machine.<br />
“When I looked at the water<br />
samples, I found the filters had<br />
themselves shed fibres into the<br />
water,” Millie said.<br />
“The fibres from the wool<br />
filters are natural though and<br />
will break down quickly, unlike<br />
microplastics that can take up<br />
to 1000 years to break down<br />
and cause huge damage to our<br />
marine environments.”<br />
Millie continues to research<br />
further solutions with the help<br />
of the Institute of Science and<br />
Research.<br />
The Wrybill Awards have<br />
been running since 1996 and<br />
to become a finalist, students<br />
must exhibit projects on<br />
environmental themes relating<br />
to the city council’s portfolios or<br />
work streams.<br />
DECISION:<br />
The awards<br />
were<br />
judged by<br />
Canterbury<br />
University<br />
professor<br />
John<br />
Hickford<br />
and city<br />
councillor<br />
Genevieve<br />
Robinson.<br />
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