Congratulations to the sucessful recipients of our Capability Retention Grants. These grants were designed to retain essential capability in the natural hazards and resilience research system, and make progress on priority work during the Platform's establishment phase. The projects all support students, post-doctoral positions and other early career researchers.
Resilient Coasts: Integrating Data for Hazard Preparedness
Lead: Dr Emma Ryan
Integrating coastal erosion hazard datasets at a regional scale to better serve end users and adaptation decision-making, using the Auckland coast as a test case.
Funding: $253,492
Understanding dynamic population exposure and time-varying natural hazard risks
Lead: Dr Tom Robinson
Developing national-scale models of population distribution across time of the day, week, and year to understand how population exposure to natural hazards varies with time.
Funding: $225,000
Ngā Kōrero Parekura: Tangata whenua perceptions and experiences of risk reduction, emergency management, recovery and resilience in Te Tau Ihu
Lead: Dr Lorraine Eade
Documenting how the ‘4Rs’ are perceived and experienced by mana whenua in the Tasman-Marlborough region, to inform and enhance Māori resilience practices, and inform the work of emergency managers.
Funding: $99,000
Preparing for a future eruption in Auckland: insights from past and present volcanic gas
Lead: Prof Jan Lindsay
Measuring volcanic gas at Rangitoto volcano and integrating the results with other research to develop a conceptual model of magma rise in the Auckland Volcanic Field. This work will help researchers better understand magma behaviour in the AVF, improving hazard and impact assessments and informing emergency planning.
Funding: $205,000
Capacity retention for physics-based earthquake simulators and integrated multi-risk digital twin workflows
Leads: Prof Andy Nicol and Dr Bill Fry
Continuing the development of relevant earthquake simulator models and using these to quantify multi-peril risk. A specific aim is to develop a simulator-based end-to-end multi-risk digital twin pilot for the Wellington region.
Funding: $772,625
Leveraging Historic Floods to Enhance Flood Hazard Modelling for Future Climates
Lead: Dr Conrad Zorn
Enhancing our understanding of flooding hazards across Aotearoa New Zealand, building on previous work by developing models for historic events and future events.
Funding: $220,000
Integrating Indigenous Knowledge for Natural Hazard Resilience
Lead: Prof Taiarahia Black
Investigating the cultural and ecological consequences of natural hazard displacement for Māori communities, through case studies in the Bay of Plenty and Te Urewera.
Funding: $219,500
Increasing Papatūānuku-scale resilience of tangata whenua to natural hazards
Leads: Dr Shari Gallop and Lara Taylor
Building on research and relationships established under RNC, the project team will work with mana whenua to enhance their own research, planning, and strategic capacities and capabilities, and support their natural hazards and climate change adaptation strategies.
Funding: $297,975
Te Ara o Puia
Lead: Prof Jon Procter
Retaining key ECR capability to ensure the continuity of excellent fundamental and applied science to support resilience in response to Aotearoa New Zealand’s active volcanoes.
Funding: $300,000
Nationally consistent multi-hazard assessments for Aotearoa New Zealand
Lead: Prof Liam Wotherspoon
Developing a nationally consistent approach for assessing multiple hazards at national and regional scales, integrating outputs from across research programmes to better understand how hazards intersect, and their impacts on buildings and infrastructure networks.
Funding: $205,000
Retaining capability in volcano monitoring and geophysics
Lead: Dr Finn Illsley-Kemp
Developing quantitative earthquake behaviour profiles for all Taupō Volcanic Zone volcanoes, and expanding this work to Taranaki, Tuhua, and Auckland volcanoes, to improve understanding of volcanic behaviour during unrest and eruption and enhance scientific advice during volcanic emergencies.
Funding: $202,000