Te Hiranga Rū QuakeCoRE

Join us online NEXT FRIDAY (18 October) at 10:00am for the next instalment of the QuakeCoRE Seminar Series: 🗣️ Holistic Approaches to Understanding & Supporting Indigenous Resilience Presented by: Matthew Hughes (UC Civil and Natural Resources Engineering) ⛰️ Indigenous peoples have developed deep empirical knowledge of landscapes and ecosystem processes, often encoded in traditions and language. However, for many communities historical trajectories of colonisation have led to disparities in development and disaster risk. This presentation outlines research initiatives that seek to learn from Indigenous approaches to space, time and resilience, and how science and engineering can support community development aspirations. Full details are available on our website here: https://lnkd.in/gFCAp6Mk Join this webinar on Zoom: https://buff.ly/41qNcqq (password – 389905) All welcome. 📆 Add the 2024 Seminar Series to your calendar here: https://buff.ly/44YL8Yt #QCSeminarSeries #MātaurangaMāori #DisasterRisk #DRR #SeismicResilience

✍️ Have you registered for the upcoming New Zealand ShakeOut Whakahaumaru Aotearoa? ShakeOut is the National Emergency Management Agency (NZ) national earthquake drill and tsunami hīkoi taking place on Thursday, 24 October at 9.30am. ShakeOut is held across the world to remind people of the right action to take during an earthquake - drop, cover and hold. Click here for more information and to register: https://lnkd.in/gBiuFFJn

📰 The October QuakeCoRE Newsletter is out now! 🔔 In this issue: ⌛ Reminder that the RfP and Scholarship Round close on Monday 7 October at noon. 🟠 Highlights from the 2024 Annual Meeting 📣 Recent Research Stories published 💡 News from within the QuakeCoRE community 🎫 Up Next: QuakeCoRE Seminar Series (18 October) with 🗣️ Matthew Hughes (University of Canterbury): Holistic Approaches to Understanding & Supporting Indigenous Resilience 👉 You can read all about these items and more in the QuakeCoRE Newsletter here: https://lnkd.in/gfMjFb8Z Sign up here to have the Newsletter arrive directly in your inbox each month: https://buff.ly/3OyF0gY

🎯 OPPORTUNITY: Call for PhD Candidates – Indigeneity and Resilience Te Hiranga Rū QuakeCoRE Aotearoa New Zealand’s Centre for Earthquake Resilience research, welcomes expressions of interest from potential PhD candidates. Māori and Pasifika candidates are strongly encouraged to apply. Funded projects will commence in 2025. Research topics can address communities within Aotearoa New Zealand, across the Pacific and around the Pacific Rim, and both geophysical and meteorological/climatological hazards. Research Areas are: - Spatio-temporal evolution of land tenure, development, and disaster risk - Partnership and autonomy for sustainable Indigenous-led disaster preparedness and recovery - Enhancing disaster preparedness through Indigenous-led community programmes - The future of post-disaster Indigenous cultural heritage protection. Candidates will be based at The University of Auckland or the University of Canterbury. For more information, please download the information sheet, available here (PDF): https://lnkd.in/gBhihErV To discuss further, please contact: Tūmanako Fa'aui (t.faaui@auckland.ac.nz) Matthew Hughes (matthew.hughes@canterbury.ac.nz)

⏰FINAL CALL: Applications for the 2024 Te Hiranga Rū QuakeCoRE Request for Proposals (RfP) and Scholarship Round close on Monday, 7 October, at noon. ℹ️ All information and application forms can be accessed here: https://buff.ly/3QSQCeR For further questions, email the Support Team quakecore@canterbury.ac.nz

✍️ NEW BLOG POST: Engineering Geologist Katherine Yates has found valuable support for her move into an academic career from a Te Hiranga Rū QuakeCoRE proposal development grant. ⛰️ Pursuing her fascination with loess soils took Katherine Yates from consultancy into academia. She wants to find out how certain soils behave under the wet and unstable conditions brought on by extreme weather and earthquakes. Katherine is currently investigating unsaturated soil strength as a postdoctoral fellow in the UC Civil and Natural Resources Engineering, Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha University of Canterbury. 📑 Katherine is appreciative of the funding support for early career researchers, “It was nice to have a short, supportive process unlike the bigger grant applications which can be quite confronting. The QuakeCoRE development grant gave me valuable experience in practical research skills like turning thoughts into proposals, budgeting, and managing a small project”. ➡️ Read the full #QCResearchStory here: https://lnkd.in/g5bPuwAZ 🟠 Katherine's research featured in this QuakeCoRE Research Story was funded by one of Te Hiranga Rū QuakeCoRE's annual Request for Proposals (RfP). This funding supports eighteen-month Associate Investigator-led research projects that complement the Coordinated Research Projects within the Disciplinary Themes (DT) and Inter-disciplinary Projects (IP) of QuakeCoRE's Research Programme. 🟧 At the time of publishing, the annual call for RfP Projects, Masters and PhD Scholarships funding is open, until midday, Monday 7 October 2024. For more information, visit our website: https://buff.ly/4amENIK

⏰ NEXT MONDAY | Seminar: Geospatial Technology – Saving the World's Past, Present, and Future from Natural Hazards Presenter: Michael Olsen (College of Engineering, Oregon State University) 12-1pm Monday, 30 September 2024 This Seminar will be available in-person and online. Location: University of Canterbury, Rāta (Engineering Core), Room E12 This presentation will explore examples of how expanded and effective usage of geospatial technologies can now help us proactively “save” the world through detailed mapping of our critical lifeline infrastructure to improve Notably, the presentation will showcase examples utilizing LIDAR technology to support post-earthquake research and reconnaissance analysing ground rupture, liquefaction, landslides, and rockfalls from the 2010-2011 Christchurch and 2016 Kaikōura Earthquakes. It will also highlight the value of effective geodetic network restoration strategies that were implemented in the Kaikōura Earthquake, which serve as an aspiration to surveyors across the globe. ℹ️ For the full abstract and Michael's bio, please visit our website, here: https://buff.ly/3WtitHE All welcome.

⏳ Just two weeks to go to submit your applications for the 2024 Te Hiranga Rū QuakeCoRE RfP and Scholarship Round. Applications must be received by 👉 noon on Monday, October 7, 2024 ℹ️ Additional information and application forms can be accessed here: https://buff.ly/3QSQCeR For further questions, email the Support Team quakecore@canterbury.ac.nz

NEW BLOG POST 🌎 There’s nothing like changing the context to get new perspectives on old problems – witnessing how other countries live with earthquakes offers insights for New Zealanders. 🟧 📝 Te Hiranga Ru QuakeCoRE’s International Delegation Blog Series 📝🟧 🤝 In line with its mission to foster enduring international collaborations, Te Hiranga Rū QuakeCoRE recently funded a delegation of New Zealand scientists to Chile to forge new research initiatives with overseas counterparts. Although there are big differences between the two countries, the researchers found many synergies in their efforts to make communities more resilient to earthquakes. 🗣️ Chilean-born Aotearoa New Zealand resident Catalina Miranda of the Joint Centre for Disaster Research says, “It is not so well known that Chile has an impressive record of building performance in earthquakes. New Zealand has been looking too far away; we must look a bit closer to home. New Zealand has a lot to learn from Chile.” 👉 Read the full story here: https://lnkd.in/gZKmnPUN The current QuakeCoRE Request for Proposals (RfP) Round, includes International Delegation Funding Grants. Funding is available to support major delegations that will contribute to developing strategic partnerships and major international research collaborations. Applications are open until midday on Monday 7 October 2024, visit our website for more details: https://buff.ly/3Zw5tnt cc: Julia Becker (Joint Centre for Disaster Research, Massey University), Charlotte Brown (Resilient Organisations), Tom Robinson (University of Canterbury), Liam Wotherspoon, Charlotte Toma and Max Stephens (all The University of Auckland), New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Trade. #QuakeCoREInternationalDelegation

🎉 Congratulations to the QuakeCoRE Associate Investigators who received funding for research aligned to earthquake resilience and other research areas in the recently announced Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment Smart Ideas and Research Programme awards: Ho Seok AHN (Engineering at the University of Auckland), David Dempsey (UC Civil and Natural Resources Engineering), Matthew Hughes (UC Civil and Natural Resources Engineering), Chris Massey (GNS Science), KRISHANU ROY (Waikato School of Engineering) and Derek Warner (UC Civil and Natural Resources Engineering). To find out more visit the MBIE site in the link below.