Drop, cover and hold for ShakeOut 2021
Source: Massey University
New Zealand ShakeOut drill will take place at 9:30am on Thursday, 28 October.
Massey University is yet again taking part in the New Zealand ShakeOut,...
Life in lockdown on the Chatham Islands
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Professor David Johnston, Kelvin Tapuke, Jennifer Lillo, and Brandy Alger (from University of Canterbury/QuakeCore)
On Monday 16 August, Jennifer Lillo, Kelvin Tapuke and Professor...
Inaugural CRISISLab Challenge promotes technology and emergency management
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Winning teams and their alerting devices.
Recently, 53 students from six colleges in the Wellington region participated in the inaugural CRISiSLab Challenge 2021...
Involving citizens in the science of weather
Source: Massey University
Professor David Johnston (Massey University) with Professor Qinghong Zhang (HIWeather International Coordination Office, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences), Lisa McLaren (Massey University)...
Mātauranga Māori Disaster Risk Reduction Centre launched
Source: Massey University
Te Toi Whakaruruhau o Aotearoa, the new mātauranga Māori Disaster Risk Reduction Centre began development in July 2020.
The collaborative project is led...
Massey researchers awarded Earthquake Commission Biennial Grants
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Dr Lauren Vinnell and Dr Marion Tan have been awarded funding from the Earthquake Commission, along with Associate Professor Julia Becker, from...
New partnership between Joint Centre for Disaster Research and Earthquake Commission
Source: Massey University
The first JCDR secondment working part-time with EQC on important projects is Dr Emma Hudson Doyle.
The Joint Centre for Disaster Research (JCDR) has...
Researchers mobilise citizen-scientists for community Earthquake Early Warning System
Source: Massey University
Lead researcher Dr Raj Prasanna shows some of the low-cost seismic sensors that his team has been testing.
The Joint Centre for Disaster Research at...
New Zealand’s communication of volcanic risk under the spotlight
Source: Massey University
Dr Julia Becker is the lead researcher of this new project.
New ground-breaking research could drive fundamental changes to the way New Zealand...
Higher education all in the family for Pasifika graduates
Source: Massey University
Simatavai Alefaio with his sister Associate Professor Siautu Alefaio-Tugia and her husband Wesley Tugia at the men’s graduation day in Auckland.
When Samoan...
Symposium explores stigma and discrimination in COVID-19 response
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Perceptions about China and the pandemic played a part in Asian New Zealanders’ experiences of discrimination according to new research (photo:Li Lin/Unsplash)
Research...
Managing our wellbeing in latest COVID-19 lockdown
Source: Massey University
A sense of anxiety about the new COVID-19 variant in recent community cases is normal (photo:Ayo Ogunseinde/Unsplash)
As news of a community case...