Student profile: Anna-Kay Spaulding Agbenyegah Post-disaster recovery from a high-impact weather event in Auckland I am currently a PhD candidate in Disaster Management at Massey University’s School of Construction and…
Predictors for estuarine flooding in New Zealand I am currently in my first year of my PhD in Earth Sciences at Waikato University’s Coastal Marine research group, supervised by Professor…
Locally-augmented resilience measurement in New Zealand 11/12/2018 By Ellie Kay and Dr Joanne Stevenson The Trajectories Toolbox team are working to extend the New Zealand Resilience Index (NZRI) for specific…
The response to the January 15 Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha’apai eruption and tsunami involved significant New Zealand science capability, including that of Resilience Challenge (RNC) researchers. Volcanoes team member Assoc Prof…
The 2020-21 year has seen significant developments in the policy frameworks covering climate adaptation and managed retreat. In 2019-20 we reported on the publication of the GNS Science report Reducing…
Aotearoa New Zealand’s changing coastline By Emma Ryan, Mark Dickson and Murray Ford In partnership with Northland Regional Council, researchers within the Coastal programme have been busy mapping Northland’s shorelines…
In the 2021-22 year, RNC research outputs and tools have informed decisions relating to coastal planning, infrastructure planning, and emergency management. Consistent engagement over many years between Volcanoes programme researchers…
News & Events News & Events Here you can find a selected list of links to media stories featuring our researchers and their work. New Zealanders have had their say…
How did Resilience Challenge research have an impact in 2019-2020? Central to our mission to accelerate natural hazard resilience is the development of new models and tools to quantify hazards…
Cyclone Gabrielle caused widespread flooding over much of the North Island of Aotearoa New Zealand. The flood impacts were greatest in Hawke’s Bay and Tairāwhiti regions, including loss of life and significant damage to buildings, land, infrastructu
Cyclone Gabrielle caused severe flooding and damage across parts of the North Island. In the months following the event, Hawke’s Bay Regional Council (HBRC) initiated a project to identify potential…
Approaches to identifying natural hazard risks, hazards and impacts and ways to mitigate them have been based on western scientific methods with little consideration of other perspectives and worldviews. This approach misses the benefit of insights that T
Student Profile: Maddie Brown Exploring Vegetation Controls on Foredunes And Their Response to Climate Change June 20202 A bit about me Summer for most Australians is usually described as days…
The role of te reo knowledge and scholarship in the compilation of traditional and contemporary mōteatea 27/08/2018 Nā Taiarahia Black Te tātari, te rangahau i te here kaha o te…
