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We attended the inaugural Fox Glacier - Te Moeka o Tūawe Research Workshop, a meeting designed to bring together people with various interests in the Fox and Franz Glacier areas. The workshop included researchers from University of Canterbury, University of Otago, University of Victoria - Wellington...

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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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In 2014, MRC members responded to a Call for Proposal to enroll a selection of New Zealand sites for regular monitoring by the VENμS microsatellite (Vegetation and Environment monitoring on a New Micro-Satellite). Two sites were selected for the mission, one along the Main Divide in Aoraki Mount C...

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Action now for a flurry later

22, Jun Nicolas Cullen

A short commentary on the prospects for our snow season this winter and in the future is given by Nicolas Cullen in the Otago Daily Times. The article also links some of these broader insights to the work that MRC members have been doing in the Water Resources project as part of the Deep South N...

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Stuck at Bevan Col after fieldwork on the Bonar glacier. Very lucky to get a short clearing in the morning to get picked up.