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News & Updates
At CRISiSLab, we are committed to staying at the forefront of our respective fields and keeping our stakeholders informed about the latest developments in our research and activities. To this end, we regularly share news and updates through a variety of channels, including updates on this page.

Aug 27, 2024
Seismic Insights: CRISiSLab Webinar Unveils Canada’s Earthquake Early Warning System with Expert Alison Bird
CRISiSLab hosted an insightful webinar that highlighted an exciting topic: Canada's Earthquake Early Warning (EEW) system. The session...


Jul 14, 2024
Monitoring Cliffs and Rockfalls: A PhD Journey Across Aotearoa New Zealand
One of the PhD students from our CRISiSlab team, Alfredo Jaramillo Velez, is currently working on implementing cliffs and rockfall...


Jun 21, 2024
CRISiSLab Webinar: Situation Awareness in Emergency Management
On June 13, former Chief Scientist for the U.S. Air Force, Dr. Mica Endsley, delivered an outstanding presentation in our CRISiSLab...


Jun 19, 2024
CRISiSlab Shines on the International Stage: Milestones in France and Germany
Dr. Marion Tan, one of the key members of our CRISiSlab team, attended a tour in France from May 16th-17th, where she met with the Risk...


May 19, 2024
CRISiSLab Launches 4th Annual High School Competition - CRISiSLab Challenge 2024
For the fourth consecutive time, CRISiSLab is set to host the CRISiSLab Challenge a science and technology-based competition for high...

Apr 15, 2024
Quake-Ready Wellington: Amplifying Earthquake Preparedness with Phase Two Sensor Installation
The recent completion of the second phase in deploying ground motion sensors marks a pivotal advancement in CRISiSLab's mission to...


Mar 22, 2024
CRISiSLab Webinar 2024 - Experiments in Earthquake Early Warning Transplantation
The presentation is on work undertaken by GNS Science as part of the RCET program in New Zealand, and EEW work from ShakeAlert in the US.


Feb 22, 2024
CRISiSLab Publications: Two Book Chapters in 'Case Studies in Disaster Response'
CRISiSLab, through Dr Raj Prasanna and Dr Marion Tan, has contributed two chapters to the newly published book "Case Studies in Disaster...


Feb 8, 2024
CRISiSLab Summer Interns Showcase Innovation
It is truly inspiring to witness our interns culminate their summer internship at CRISiSLab with a captivating presentation. Over the...

Jan 18, 2024
Unlocking Innovation: A Journey to Guangdong, China, for Research and Education Collaboration
The CRISiSLab team leads, Associate Professor Raj Prasanna and Dr Marion Lara Tan, visited the SUSTech (Southern University of Science...


Dec 11, 2023
A fruitful year with international interns and research assistant
2023 was a great year for CRISiSLab as we hosted international interns and a research assistant. We had interns Adrian Durando from...

Dec 6, 2023
CRISiSLab Summer Internship Project: LoRa - an alternative for Internet during a disaster
For our summer internship project, this year's CRISiSLab Challenge winners Mihir Rallapudi, Alex Vautier, and Brian Ngan from Wellington...


Nov 22, 2023
Back-to-back EEW research publications
We recently published two manuscripts showcasing our social science and technological research in New Zealand earthquake early warning...

Oct 5, 2023
People's perception of earthquake alerts: To continue subscribing or not?
A paper on New Zealand’s public perception of the Android Earthquake Alert (AEA) system has been published in the International Journal...


Oct 2, 2023
Natural hazards education engagement in Rotorua
Research led by Dr Marion Tan focuses on the sustainable sharing of resources in natural hazard education and strengthening community...


Sep 25, 2023
Understanding the Influence of Human Weather and Impact Reports: Insights from a Webinar
Thomas Krennert from GeoSphere Austria, also known as the Austrian National Weather Service, presented at the fourth webinar of the...


Sep 18, 2023
People's Choice Award - 3MT Massey University
Congratulations to Chanthujan Chandrakumar for winning the People's Choice Award for the Three-Minute-Thesis (3MT) competition at Massey...

Sep 13, 2023
How have Kiwis reacted to earthquake early warning?
A recent paper has been published on how Kiwis perceived and reacted to earthquake early warning (EEW) alerts sent out by the Android...


Sep 1, 2023
CRISiSLab at the 2023 QuakeCoRE Annual Meeting
The 2023 QuakeCoRE Annual Meeting was held in Napier from 29-31 August. Almost 250 attendees from different organisations within and...


Aug 30, 2023
Here we go again! Astonishing performances by the High Schoolers in the CRISiSLab Challenge 2023
CRISiSLab at the Joint Centre for Disaster Research at Massey University proudly hosted the final demonstration day of the third...


Jul 31, 2023
Let's Talk Weather: Webinar on evaluating weather forecasts using user feedback
Maureen Ahiataku, a Senior Meteorologist from Ghana Meteorological Agency (GMet), presented at the recent YESS-HIWeather webinar. Maureen...

Jul 13, 2023
Into the second phase of our EEW network
For the past three years, we have been operating a network of 30+ sensors hosted by community members to enhance our research on...


Jul 12, 2023
Webinar: Science communication with maps and memes
In this webinar, we had a friendly presentation and light-hearted conversation with Dr BA Racoma from the University of the Philippines...


Jul 3, 2023
Webinar on citizen science and the warning value chain
Dr Marion Tan from the CRISiSLab presented on a webinar organised by the YESS Community and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO)...
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