Research Area:

Health

USING RISKSCAPE TO MEASURE THE IMPACT OF FLOOD UNCERTAINTY ON DECISION-MAKING

Abstract   Flooding is a major hazard in Aotearoa. In 2022 and 2023 alone, the combined cost of damage was more than 3.5 billion dollars. To address...

Analysis of New Zealand daily weather patterns (DWTs) and large-scale climatic patterns as extreme rainfall and flooding drivers 

The overall aim of this research project is the generation of flood inundation maps for a specific study site, namely the Wairewa catchment (Little River, Canterbury) for...

Advancing efficiencies in remote sensing of Ross Sea Adélie penguin populations

Project Aim Identify an objective method to assess guano area characteristics over the 2009-2021 austral summers for four colonies, to improve this tool toward better assessment of...

Reducing Flood Inundation Hazard and Risk across Aotearoa New Zealand

Flooding is one of New Zealand’s most damaging hazards, which will also change the most rapidly in intensity and nature as a result of climate change. At...

Rongowai:
Partnering to fly the Next-generation of Global Navigation Satellite System Receivers for Advancing Earth Observation

[custom_font font_size=”15″ line_height=”26″ font_style=”normal” text_align=”center” font_weight=”300″ text_decoration=”none” padding=”0px” margin=”0px”] Rongowai [/custom_font]In the Rongowai (sensing water) project, a next-generation Global Navigation Satellite Systems Reflectometry (GNSS-R) sensor is being...

Integrated Surveillance

This project aims to develop a Mātauranga Māori Framework for Surveillance (MMFS) of plant pathogens that seeks to enable strategic trust relationships between hapū kaitiaki and rangatira...