![Scientists in a boat holding a sediment core from the lake.](http://static.sciencelearn.org.nz/images/images/000/005/108/full/LAKES_ART_06_Sediment_core_from_Kaweka.jpg?1675191299)
Members of the Lakes380 team collect a sediment core from Kaweka Lake 1 (Kuripapango or Twin Lakes) in Hawke’s Bay. The Department of Conservation considers the lakes to be of considerable ecological and botanical significance.
Image courtesy of Lakes380 – Our lakes’ health: past, present, future.