Understanding local impacts of rising seas on coastal communities
Project Leader(s) Associate Professor Wayne Stephenson (UoO), Dr Emma Ryan (UoA) Project Team Associate Professor Mark Dickson (UoA), Dr Murray Ford (UoA) Sea-level rise represents one of the most significant environmental challenges facing Aotearoa and the Pacific. In 2015, the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment noted that sea-level rise “will lead to flooding on low […]
Understanding interactions between local and global stressors: A pathway to local action
Project Leader(s) Dr Christopher Cornwall (UoW), Dr Bridie Allan (UoO), Dr Henry Lane (NIWA) Project Team Richard Taylor, Nathan Kenny Our understanding of how stressors impact marine taxa has advanced dramatically in the last decade and we now know that effects manifesting at one level within a food web can cascade to other trophic […]
Understanding local and regional thermal regimes to prepare for climate change
Project Leader(s) Dr Robert Smith (UoO), Dr Peter Russell (UoO) This project will provide a framework for predicting the locations and processes that lead to local oceanographic resilience, as well as vulnerability, in a warming ocean. Using in situ timeseries from southeast New Zealand, in conjunction with simple but accurate heat budget models, we will […]