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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.


CRISiSLab Webinar: Earthquake Early Warning in China and Beyond
On 8 June 2023, we invited Professor Tun Wang from China to share with our Earthquake Early Warning Community of Practice on the topic of...
Jun 12, 2023


Upcoming CRISiSLab Webinar: Earthquake Early Warning in China and Beyond
Our CRISiSLab Earthquake Early Warning (EEW) Webinar continues and we are excited to announce our next speaker Prof. Tun Wang from China...
May 23, 2023


Exciting Opportunity to Join CRISiSLab Team
CRISiSLab welcomes exceptional young talent aspiring to become future leaders in technology! We are looking for several interns (paid) to...
May 21, 2023


CRISiSLab Challenge 2023 launch
The annual CRISiSLab Challenge 2023 is officially back! We launched it this morning at Massey University Wellington Campus. Twenty-one...
May 17, 2023


PhD student showcases innovative EEW research at SSA Conference in Puerto Rico
PhD student Chanthujan Chandrakumar recently had the opportunity to present his groundbreaking research at the annual SSA conference in...
May 12, 2023


CRISiSLab Earthquake Early Warning Webinar – The Human Side of EEW
On 18 August 2022, our star social scientists Associate Professor Julia Becker and Dr Lauren Vinnell shared some of their research on how...
Feb 27, 2023


Drone VS Rūaumoko? Students continued to shine in the CRISiSLab Challenge 2022
CRISiSLab at Joint Centre for Disaster Research at Massey University successfully hosted the CRISiSLab Challenge 2022 Final Demonstration...
Oct 4, 2022


CRISiSLab Webinar: Saving Precious Seconds – A New Decentralised Architecture for EEW
On the 2nd of June, 2022, CRISiSLab conducted the newest webinar presented by some of our team members. The topic is: “Saving Precious...
Jun 3, 2022


Google presented at the CRISiSLab webinar
On the 29th of March 2022, product manager Micah Berman for Android Safety from Google presented at CRISiSLab Webinar. His presentation...
Apr 21, 2022


Journal Paper on a Novel Architecture for Low-cost Earthquake Early Warning System
The CRISiSLab team’s earthquake early warning technical paper, entitled “Saving Precious Seconds”, was recently published in the...
Apr 21, 2022


Introducing our EEW work with ISCRAM at EENA
We had an opportunity with the Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM) Association to present our earthquake...
Feb 23, 2022


The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing
On the 8th of February, we had our first CRISiSLab webinar in the new year 2022. Dr Elizabeth Reddy gave us a passionate presentation to...
Feb 9, 2022


CRISiSLab Webinar: Thoughts on Earthquake Early Warning and Operational Forecasting in Southwest Ice
On the 1st of December, CRISiSLab hosted the last webinar of the year 2021 regarding the Earthquake Early Warning theme. We invited Dr...
Feb 2, 2022


Fully Funded PhD Scholarship in Geographic Information Retrieval/Machine Learning for Disaster App
Research Areas: Extraction of disaster impacts from text-based social media sources Integrating the text data with sensor data and...
Oct 28, 2021


Webinar on the Community Seismic Network and EEW
On the 7th of October, CRISiSLab hosted another Earthquake Early Warning themed webinar. We invited Research Professor Monica Kohler from...
Oct 12, 2021


College students shine in CRISiSLab Challenge 2021
On the 10th of August, we proudly witnessed a bright future for Aotearoa New Zealand in the space of science and technology emerging from...
Aug 17, 2021


Conference proceedings: insights from the community-of-practice.
Early in 2020, we started to support a community of researchers and practitioners on earthquake early warning (EEW)! We continue to host...
Jul 6, 2021
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