Back SITJAR Volume 17 Issue 1 (2025) Publish Date: Monday, 17 March 2025 Dr Jerry Hoffman (Ed.) Research #Research SITJAR Volume 17 Issue 1 (2025) Editor: Dr Jerry Hoffman http://doi.org/10.34074/sitj.171 Contents I’ll be back: The Davinator enables repeatable habitat assessment and mapping in shallow aquatic environments. David Culliford. http://doi.org/10.34074/sitj.17101 Can you hear me? The use of narrative inquiry to express participant voice. Selena Coburn. http://doi.org/10.34074/sitj.17102 Teaching presence behaviours: The impact of the instructor, learner, and institution. Jerrylynn Manuel. http://doi.org/10.34074/sitj.17103 Feasibility of cultivating Ulva lactuca in an Integrated Multi-Trophic Aquaculture system in Big Glory Bay, Stewart Island, New Zealand. Georgia Wilson & Anna Palliser. http://doi.org/10.34074/sitj.17104 Why student attrition and how to retain students? A case study of NorthTec. Angie Dang & Sue Vaughan. http://doi.org/10.34074/sitj.17105 Ecological Observations Within the Remnant Red Tussock (Chionochloa rubra) Tussock Grasslands of Sandy Point Peninsula, Murihiku Southland. Jordon Traill & Yannick Dorsman. http://doi.org/10.34074/sitj.17106