Student Profile: Bryann Avendano
Playing with Uncertainty: Facilitating community-based resilience building My Verb: to Inspire (whisper something in people’s hearts) ¡Hola! I am from Bogota DC, Colombia. I define myself as an explorer, but…
Playing with Uncertainty: Facilitating community-based resilience building My Verb: to Inspire (whisper something in people’s hearts) ¡Hola! I am from Bogota DC, Colombia. I define myself as an explorer, but…
Cyclone Gabrielle generated massive swells which impacted the east coast of the North Island, resulting in notable erosion along the coast. Many east coast communities have developed on low-lying coastal barriers, which are geologically young landforms co
Infrastructure Component Fragility and Vulnerability for Tsunami Wave Impacts and Currents I was raised on the North Shore of Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland and earned my Bachelor’s Degree in Civil and…
Post-Earthquake Decision Criteria for Steel Buildings I am from Tehran, Iran. I received my Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran, and my Master’s degree in structural…
Maintaining electricity supply and distribution across Aotearoa New Zealand is critical to post-event recovery. Following a significant Alpine Fault earthquake, large sections of the electricity distribution network could be severely impacted, leaving man
This project undertook to develop a nationally consistent framework for risk and impact information for New Zealand’s natural hazards, using scenario-based approaches. Utilising the basic formula: hazard x exposure x vulnerability = impact, the main outpu
Building community resilience 27/03/2019 By Gail Adams-Hutcheson After 15 years overseas involved in personal adventure travel, it was really easy to distil what I enjoyed about culture, people, and place.…
Student profile: Christina Hanna 14/11/2018 Managed retreat in Aotearoa New Zealand A bit about me I’m from the Waikato, where I undertook a Bachelor of Environmental Planning and worked as…
By Ryan Paulik, NIWA The Extreme Weather Research Platform project ‘Enhanced natural hazard risk assessment for Cyclone Gabrielle recovery’ accelerated RiskScape software development as a multi-hazard risk modelling and information…
The interaction of Pyroclastic Density Currents with water bodies – A large scale experimental approach I am a French student originally coming from the outskirts of Paris. I have studied…