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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)...