Team
See who is working on the Whakahura project and find out how to contact us.
Our team and our overseas partners are at the leading edge of relevant research fields. We are uniquely placed to develop new frontiers building upon the latest knowledge of climate change and extreme weather science.
Our work encompasses the detection and attribution of climate change, climate change emergence, disaster economics, and mātauranga Māori.
Contact us
If you’d like to talk with us about the Whakahura project, feel free to get in touch.

Nienke Kloppenburg
Project Manager
Whakahura Project
Managing Director
Climate Sigma
Senior leadership team
Science lead on Vision Mātauranga
Ngāti Porou
Director of Bodeker Scientific
Science lead on research aim 1.2
Adjunct Professor
Presenter
School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences|Wellington Uni-Professional
Chair in the Economics of Disasters and Climate Change
School of Economics and Finance
Climate Scientist (NIWA)
Science lead on research aim 1.4
Managing Director
Climate Sigma
International collaborators
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Australia |
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Austria |
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Japan |
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Switzerland |
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South Africa |
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UK |
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USA |
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