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Identifying changes to public access is an important but often overlooked dimension of natural resource management. Our new study just published in the journal GeoHazards maps changes to public access and examines the nature of human responses in parks and reserves using case studies from Aoraki Mou...

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NeSI (New Zealand eScience Infrastructure) recently wrote about the Matariki Project and how we are using their Mahuika supercomputer to scale up Satellite Photogrammetric Mapping (SPM) across the Southern Alps. NeSI resources enable us to process over 5,000 km2 of stereoimagery in Aoraki/Mt Coo...

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It was a busy summer for the Hooker Glacier terminus. Check out some of the images from one of our timelapse cameras on the ground as well as what the change looked like from space. The timelapse images are from October 1, 2022 (left) and April 9, 2023 (right). Images best viewed on a computer.

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Intense rain episodes on the West Coast this month generated several large landslides and many significant rockfalls in the Aoraki/Mt Cook National Park.

Thanks to the Pléiades Glacier Observatory (PGO), we've been lucky to obtain a new stereo acquisition as the weather cleared up on 8 February...

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MRC is leading a new collaborative project that seeks to improve the modelling of seasonal snow and catchment processes. The three-year project has received funding of 733,000 from the Deep South Challenge: Changing with our Climate, and will be led by Associate Professor Nicolas Cullen, in collabor...

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