Research uses dust and dirt to reveal climate changes
Two Victoria University of Wellington-led projects are using dust and lake sediment to track past and present changes in the Earth’s climate and environment.
Two Victoria University of Wellington-led projects are using dust and lake sediment to track past and present changes in the Earth’s climate and environment.
A new study of mass coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef suggests the deeper reefs may not be a refuge from temperature anomalies caused by global warming.
Research led by Victoria University of Wellington researcher Dr Simon Barker calculates where ash from a volcano is most likely to fall and how thickly it will cover the ground, in different areas of New Zealand.
New research shows that large earthquakes may have influenced the amount of carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere over millions of years.
The Three Minute Theses (3MT) Competition requires postgraduate students to effectively communicate their research in three minutes, with the assistance of one presentation slide.
How many times have you seen a video on Facebook about mental disorder? How about an over-reaching headline on the same topic, something like “Depression: Solved by science”?
Heatwaves and other extreme weather events caused by climate change could have profound implications for personality traits and mental health, Ronald Fischer warned in his inaugural public lecture as a Professor of Psychology at Victoria University of Wellington.
Deep-sea fish have large gapes so they can eat everything they encounter, which might make them resilient to ecosystem changes, says postdoctoral researcher, Dr Monique Ladds.
PhD candidate, Amber McEwan, has been leading the translocation of two species of native mussel to Zealandia.
Victoria University of Wellington’s Dr Jeremy Owen has been appointed to the Research for Life Research Advisory Committee.