Pūtahitanga: The intersection of western science and mātauranga Māori in the context of Aotearoa New Zealand’s physical oceanography

Stevens, Craig L.Paul-Burke, KuraRussell, Peter2024-06-082024-06-082021Stevens, C. L., Paul-Burke, K., & Russell, P. (2021). Pūtahitanga: The intersection of western science and mātauranga Māori in the context of Aotearoa New Zealand’s physical oceanography. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 55(1), 249-263. https://doi.org/10.1080/00288330.2019.16986210028-8330https://hdl.handle.net/10289/16627Aotearoa New Zealand is a land and cultures surrounded by one of the planet’s larger marine exclusive economic zones per capita. Understanding, living within and utilising this domain requires a well-developed knowledge of the physical oceanography–fate, provenance and transfer of ocean-water, material and energy. In the Aotearoa New Zealand context, understanding and utilising the environment through science also requires that Māori have a stake in the science and a pathway to connecting with their mātauranga. The pūtahitanga (intersection) of mātauranga Māori and western science perspectives brings challenges for implementation of the Vision Mātauranga framework for physical oceanographic science. Here we discuss the drivers and key themes for the pūtahitanga and propose a mahere kaupapa/plan bound by: (i) climate, (ii) decolonisation, (iii) shared language, (iv) data sovereignty, and (v) developing a cohort who can lead the field in the coming decades.en© 2020 New Zealand National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Mātauranga Māoriphysical oceanographyAotearoa New Zealandcross-cultural studieste reointerdisciplinary scienceScience & TechnologyLife Sciences & BiomedicinePhysical SciencesFisheriesMarine & Freshwater BiologyOceanographyMatauranga Maoriphysical oceanographyAotearoa New Zealandcross-cultural studieste reointerdisciplinary scienceCOOK STRAITKNOWLEDGECLIMATEMARINECIRCULATIONPEOPLESFUTURELIFEPūtahitanga: The intersection of western science and mātauranga Māori in the context of Aotearoa New Zealand’s physical oceanographyJournal Article10.1080/00288330.2019.16986211175-880531 Biological sciences37 Earth sciences41 Environmental sciences