Natural Hazards Research Centre (NHRC)

Research Group Summary

The Natural Hazards Research Centre (NHRC) has research programmes related to studies of active tectonics and earthquakes, landscape evolution modelling, land-use planning, urban vulnerability to volcanic eruptions and health risks from eruptions.

The Natural Hazard Research Centre was established in 1997 to:
-  promote and undertake high quality research in the broad field of natural hazards, including physical process, hazard assessment and mitigation;
-  develop and foster national and international collaborative links, and promote data exchange;
-  enhance teaching and research in natural hazards at the University of Canterbury;
-  and increase public awareness and education about natural hazards and their effects on the New Zealand economic and social environment.

Key Contact

• Jim Cole: Director; School of Earth and Environment

Members - UC Staff

• David Bell: Member; School of Earth and Environment
• Erik Brogt: researcher
• Jim Cole: Director; School of Earth and Environment
• Tim Davies: Member; School of Earth and Environment
• Peter Allan Kingsbury: Collaborator; School of Earth and Environment
• Jarg Rein Pettinga: Member; School of Earth and Environment
• Thomas McDonald Wilson: Researcher; School of Earth and Environment

• Earth Sciences: Tectonics; Volcanology