The Resilience Challenge
The Resilience to Nature’s Challenges National Science Challenge is enhancing New Zealand’s ability to anticipate, adapt and thrive in the face of ever-changing natural hazards.
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
Webinar: Tourism and COVID-19
How can we ‘reimagine’ rural tourism in a way that will lead to a more sustainable & resilient future?
Spend to Save
A new GNS Science report co-authored by Dr Wendy Saunders examines case studies of property acquisition in response to natural hazard risks.
Q&A with Prof Andy Nicol
We chat to Prof Andy Nicol of the University of Canterbury about teaching, the 2016 Kaikōura earthquake, and the future of earthquake forecasting.
Tsunami preparedness in Orewa
Resilience Challenge researchers have been working in the Auckland suburb of Orewa to support a citizen science initiative focused on tsunami risk.
Student profile: Anna-Kay Spaulding Agbenyegah
Anna-Kay comes from Kingston, Jamaica and her PhD focuses on post-disaster recovery from high-impact weather events in Auckland.
Wildfire
Our research project exploring wildfire risk in the Central Otago rural/urban fringe is featured in the latest NZ Geographic magazine.
