The Resilience Challenge
The mission of the Resilience to Nature’s Challenges National Science Challenge is to accelerate Aotearoa New Zealand’s resilience to natural hazards through innovative, collaborative research.
What we do
The challenge
To enhance New Zealand’s resilience to natural hazards.
Science
All over the country our scientists are investigating how we can build New Zealand’s resilience.
Co-creation
Working with stakeholders and end-users to ensure our research is useful and usable.
News & stories
New poster series for Taranaki Maunga
Resilience Challenge researchers have contributed to a new series of posters about volcanic processes associated with Taranaki Maunga.
Webinar: Modelling disruption
The MERIT (Modelling the Economics of Resilient Infrastructure) team will outline how their tools can help communities understand the impacts of disruptive events and assess mitigation options.
Ākina te Tū Kaupapa Māori Research Fund
This fund supports further engagement and capability development for our tangata whenua partners. Find out about the successful recipients.
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Meet Kristie-Lee Thomas
Nau mai, haere mai to Kristie-Lee Thomas (Ngāti Mutunga ō Wharekauri, Te Atiawa, Ngāi Tohora), the new co-leader of our Whanake te Kura i Tawhiti Nui programme.
Get gone?
A research team from Massey University analysed how Wellington residents reacted to the 5th of March 2021 East Cape earthquake – whether they evacuated in case of a tsunami and why they did or didn’t.
Student profile: Holly Faulkner
Holly is one year into her PhD at the University of Canterbury, looking at Auckland Volcanic Field eruption scenarios to assess the ability of current governance structures to deal with an eruption.
