2023 programme

21 February 2023: Chris Smith, Wildbase Recovery Facility

21 March 2023: Professor Emeritus Ralph Sims, Massey University: Is the IPCC past its use-by date?

18 April 2023: Three Minute Thesis finalists

Morgan Heslop: Lessons from the bored room: Applying concepts of boredom to animals

Haroon Qazi: Digestion of complex food systems containing health-promoting compounds

Moayad Shammut: Automated vehicles and society: Why do social meanings matter?

23 May 2023: Professor Bruce Glavovic, Massey University: Navigating stormy seas: Making societal choices in the face of complexity, uncertainty, dynamism, conflict, and urgency

20 June 2023: Associate Professor Phil Battley, Massey University:  Shorebird migration timing in a changing world: insights from New Zealand-wintering bar-tailed godwits and red knots

18 July 2023: Dr Nicola Brown, Massey University: Appropriate wastewater treatment in Tonga

15 August 2023: Professor Emerita Margaret Tennant, Massey University: Lenses onto the local: Reflections of a born again local historian

19 September 2023: 2023 Hochstetter Lecture. Dr Lorna Strachan, University of Auckland: Kaikōura earthquake – Tales from the sea floor

18 October 2023: 2023 Earle Lecture. Professor Julian Heyes, Massey University: Technological change for horticulture in response to climate change and the pandemic.

21 November 2023: Professor Mary Morgan-Richards, Massey University: Wētā on islands: Dispersal, extinction, and molecular clocks and Professor Steve Trewick, Massey University: Wētā in Aotearoa and further afield.