ABOUT JULIE

• Visionary for clean water’s quest to ‘look down on water from above’ born out of long-term close-up observation of the impact of agriculture and local industry on natural water resources
• Mission to improve quality of surface water globally through:
• Providing vital and timely data and analysis to critical stakeholders globally
• Validating and advising on sustainable practices to address commercial and public interest requirements
• Ensuring a win-win for stakeholders (business, citizen, regulators, central and local governments)

Marketer and promoter; general business advisor; problem-solver; persuader; driver of opportunities; developer of initiatives.

Co-founder and co-builder of inaugural processes and procedures for livestock sales agency; local market leader over 40 years.

Ghostwriter of 25 commercial, industry, business, family and individual volumes; astutely capturing and writing replicas of the subject’s unique voice and style, unaltered or uninfluenced by personal agenda; shrewd perception of truth and tale.

Advocate, coach, mentor, for mainstreaming the vision impaired to education; observation, empathy, compassion to coalesce disparate factions of special needs, community, family, educators; to overcome distinct prejudices to amicably produce successful academia - from ages 3 to university.

Founder, developer and manufacturer of ground-breaking audible sports equipment for the vision impaired; drawing on innovation, creation, design to develop first-off technology, electronics and plastic moulding.  Products sold globally; world-wide contracts won; company sold.

Founder, developer of world-first light-spectrum contact lens visual aids; requiring specific integrity by observation of the subject; application of brainpower, scrutiny and surveillance of the subject of movement of light rays through the eye, coded by the brain, creating vision; laboratory testing of sunlight and moonlight waves to subtly reverse day to night/night into day. 

WATERSHOT – founder/owner/director

“I have an intense fascination with wavelength, formation of light, reflection, shadow, shade – to use Earth’s naturally creative forces to garner colour to provide information - WATERSHOT.”
 

Dr. Andrew Taylor

I began my career in Space Science using radar to observe meteors, space probes around
the Solar System to detect meteoroids and telescopes on Earth to observe asteroids.
Recently I changed perspective, using satellites to look down on the country I grew up in.

From confirming the detection of road traffic in mid-resolution satellite imagery with school
children, to collaborating with space research professionals to investigate one of New
Zealand’s most polluted lakes, I take delight in sharing my expertise.

Exploiting data from diverse spacecraft missions to help improve the environment for local
communities in New Zealand is a developing passion. Analysing complex data streams to
help explain what is happening in the world around us is a core part of my identity.

Project Publications

A.D. Taylor and D.I. Steel, Satellite spectral observations of one of NZ’s most-polluted lakes,
NZ Institute of Physics Conference, 2019.

A.D. Taylor, et al, Chasing Rainbows: Monitoring road traffic using multispectral satellite
imagery, NZ Institute of Physics Conference, 2019.

A.D. Taylor, Astronomy Looking Down, Vatican Observatory Conference, Europe, 2019.
 

About

• Successful agricultural business, Founder/Owner/Director with proven track record of profit growth over 40 years into market leader
• Practical, technical, theoretical, management and commercial agricultural capabilities
• Extensive experience and knowledge in farming, agricultural systems, both from a business and an ecological perspective:
• Adaptive to rapidly changing industry; creating models and instigating inaugural practices to fit changing markets; adaptive to compliance issues pertinent to industry and industry personnel.
• Unique and creative thinker who does not allow convention, legislation, regulation to limit the scope and achievement of opportunities
• Commercial negotiations expertise, broad-thinking approach in negotiations; creates outcomes to match industry objectives
•  Warm respect across rural communities
• Current crucial objective, politically, commercially and sociably, is fresh water sustainability - Watershot

Watershot - founder/owner/director

• Mission to improve quality of surface water globally
• Providing vital and timely data and analysis to customers globally
• Validating and advising on sustainable practices to address commercial and public interest requirements
• Ensuring a win/win for businesses, citizens, regulators, central and local government)
• Exceptional communication and inter-personal skills to address customer needs