Welcome to the official QuakeCoRE Emerging Researcher Chapters (QERC) website!

The QuakeCoRE Emerging Researcher Chapters are a groups of students and emerging researchers within New Zealand working in the earthquake- and disaster- resilience fields. We currently have three chapters in Auckland, Wellington, and Canterbury. Read more about us.

Latest news

Research Day with East Coast LAB

26 October 2017

Hosted by the East Coast LAB, senior scientists and research students gathered for an afternoon at NIWA in Wellington. The scientists and students shared their work on or related to the East Coast. The first part of the afternoon entailed quick-fire discussion on large-scale research programmes on the East Coast (MBIE, NSC, QuakeCoRE, etc.). The second part provided an opportunity for QERC Wellington chapter students to share their research in a Lightning Talk format.

Student research presenters:

  1. Miles Crawford (JCDR, Massey University) -- How risk informs natural hazard management
  2. Nhu Cuong Nguyen (School of Economics and Finance, Victoria University) -- Earthquake insurance, economics recovery using night-light imagery
  3. Nancy Brown (JCDR, Massey University) -- Disaster resilience in the hotel sector
  4. Farnaz Pourzand (School of Economics and Finance, Victoria University) -- Droughts and flood risks for the agricultural sector in New Zealand
  5. Harmony Repia (School of Design, Massey University) -- Designing tsunami signage for East Coast communities
  6. John Guilaran (School of Psychology, Massey University) -- Social support in emergency first responders in New Zealand
  7. Marion Tan (JCDR, Massey University) -- Usability of disaster apps

2017 QuakeCoRE Annual Meeting and Lightning Talk Final

08.09.2017

The QAM 2017 is now over and has been the chance for all of us to meet (in the pool and at the bar) to know each other better. This year, brilliant Lightning Talks have been given by :

  • Shannon Abeling (UoA): Benchmarking the Resilience of Earthquake-prone URM Buildings
  • Mujaddad Afzal (UoA): Assessing the Resilience of the Auckland Transportation Network
  • Alistair Davies (UC): Increasing Resilience for Potentially Isolated Communities Through Distributed Infrastructure
  • Kevin Foster (UC): A Vs30 Map for New Zealand
  • Royce Liu (UC): Improving the Seismic Structural Redundancy of Low Damage Reinforced Concrete Bridge Piers
  • Lisa McLaren (Massey): The Science Behind Extreme Citizen Science
  • Rebecca McMahon (UoA): Nelson-Tasman Site Characterisation Study
  • Andrew Sherson (Massey/GNS): The Impact of Local and Contextual Influences on Waterpipe Repair Times in Wellington
  • Marion Tan (Massey): Usability of Disaster Apps

Among the very good talks that we heard, two were particularly outstanding: Marion's one was awarded with the Audience Award and Rebecca MacMahon won the Jury Award. Again, the three chapter presidents would like to thank every QuakeCoRE Emerging Researcher Chapter member for their participation to the QAM and Lightning Talk and invite them to the 2018 QAM, where more activities and fun will be planed. If you have any feedback to give, feel free to contact one of your representatives.