Category: News

Geospatial Research Institute Toi Hangarau PhD Scholarship 2023

We are now accepting applications for the 2023 Geospatial Research Institute (GRI) scholarship. Closing date for applications: 30 June 2023, 17:00pm NZ Time   Detailed information about how to apply can be downloaded at: https://geospatial.ac.nz/jobs-and-scholarships/

Video: Ōtautahi Christchurch: the water city?

Watch: Ōtautahi Christchurch: the water city? A short documentary starring Prof Matthew Wilson (GRI-UC) and Dr John Reid (Ngāi Tahu Research Centre-UC) talking about Christchurch, its geography, history of floods and what to expect under climate change. Watch on RNZ now. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/488581/watch-otautahi-christchurch-the-water-city

Fourth Spatial Data Science Symposium

Dear Spatial Data Science Community,   SDSS 2023 is a FREE distributed/online symposium that brings together researchers from academia, industry, non-profits, and government from all over the world. NZ participants are welcome to join the UC symposium hub. Groups of participants will meet at the symposium hubs distributed around the world to present and discuss […]

UC Master’s mapping reveals geographical cavities

Joanne Lee - Master student

After several years as an oral health therapist in Ashburton, Joanne Lee, who graduates from UC this week with a Master’s in Health Science, was inspired to complete her postgraduate studies after noticing inequalities in access to dental care.   Click here to read more about Joanne’s great geospatial work.

Sensing Water: The Rongowai airborne remote sensing mission for GNSS-Reflectometry across New Zealand

The Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), emit radio signals in the L-band to enable precise positioning on the Earth’s surface. GNSS has become ubiquitous in our everyday lives, underpinning location-based technologies from traffic routing to precision agriculture. These GNSS “signals of opportunity” have been used in novel space borne missions such as CyGNSS (Cyclone GNSS), which is primarily designed to observe the ocean surface under tropical cyclone systems. However, signals reflected from the land surface have been found to sensitive to soil moisture and surface water, providing a valuable additional source of data.

Mātauranga Maori Framework for Surveillance (MMFS) for Plant Pathogens

In the past, there has been a disconnect and little collaboration between the people and organizations doing work on plant pathogens that cause myrtle rust and kauri dieback. This has stymied progress in the management of plant pathogens and diseases, and is still unclear where they occur or not. Here we introduce the principles and methodologies of the Mātauranga Māori Framework for surveillance (MMFS) for plant pathogens.

Video recording available at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Czj2fB_1iU&list=PLJymSfBIuEWKYLJbi6LzyiRXKtAQBbcH3&index=4

Andrew Kindon – 2023 Clinical Research Training Fellowship

Determinants of abdominal aortic aneurysm risk in New Zealand ($110,104 over 36 months)   Andrew Kindon’s research will employ geospatial technologies to spatially identify areas demonstrating excess risk of AAA death in New Zealand, and the associated environmental risk factors. This includes socioeconomic deprivation, accessibility of health services and ethnicity – factors known to influence […]

Award for researcher’s efforts to help NZers stay healthy

Wanting people to live healthier and happier lives is a big motivation for public health researcher Dr Matt Hobbs, who has been recognised for outstanding work in his field.   Dr Matt Hobbs, a Senior Lecturer in Public Health in the University of Canterbury (UC) Faculty of Health, has won a UC Early and Emerging […]