[dropcaps style=’square1′ background_color=”]L[/dropcaps]ast week, former PhD student Daniel Hogg was awarded the Best PhD research award at the CRCSI Annual Dinner in Sydney. Daniel is also a finalist in the New Zealand Spatial Excellence Awards to be announced later in November 2016. Daniel’s PhD used spatial and spatio-temporal analysis techniques to examine when and where higher and lower than expected mood and anxiety symptom treatments occurred in the severely affected Christchurch urban area after the 2010/11 Canterbury earthquakes. High-risk groups were identified and a possible relationship between exposure to the earthquakes and their physical impacts and mood and anxiety symptom treatments was assessed. The main research aim is to test the hypothesis that more severely affected Christchurch residents were more likely to show mood and anxiety symptoms when seeking treatment than less affected ones, in essence, testing for a dose-response relationship.
Nationally Consistent Flood Hazard and Risk Information for Aotearoa
This talk will report on results from a 5-year MBIE-funded Endeavour Programme, Mā te Haumaru o te Wai on the development of a semi-automated workflow to consistently model flood hazard and risk over all of Aotearoa for current and future climates, and show results from this work that are being made available on our flood hazard and risk viewing platform to help ensure there is consistent information available.
