A successful workshop was held in Nelson in February 2009 with ICM researchers and Tasman District Council exploring how the IDEAS modelling framework operates as well as discussing elements of the individual models that contribute to IDEAS. The "loose coupling" approach of IDEAS was explained by John Dymond who also talked about the central data link in which outputs from models are used as input for others.

The scenarios modelled to date include a pre–historic land cover in which the catchment was covered in native forest, present day land use, and an intensive land use in which dairying and other agriculture was expanded into areas currently in production pine...
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• 1/12/2022 - "Upper Motueka river gravel management (including new Gravel Envelope assessment method)" presented by David Stephenson, TDC at MCC workshop, Tapawera 29 September 2022
  
• 5/07/2022 - "Alternative Approaches to River Management and how they may relate to the Motueka River" by Mike Harvey and Seb den Doncker. Presentation to Motueka Catchment Collective on 27 June 2022
  
• 31/05/2022 - MCC Forestry in the upper Motueka catchment - Heather Arnold OneFortyOne - May2022
  
• 11/04/2022 - Presentation to Motueka Catchment Collective – River Gravel Management (by David Stephenson, Tasman District Council), 11 April 2022
  
• 1/11/2021 - Presentation to Upper Motueka Water Users and MCC Nov 2021 - Water allocation update and monitoring review (J Thomas, A Fenemor)
  
• 1/09/2021 - Upper Motueka Flood Management and the July & Sept 2021 Flooding - TDC presentation to MCC 11 Oct 2021 (M Doyle, B Scoles, R Lowe)