News & Events
Planetary prizes for Te Ao Mārama PhD candidate
Michaela Dobson, a doctoral candidate from the Faculty of Science, has become the first New Zealander to be awarded the Lunar and Planetary Institutes Eugene M. Shoemaker Impact Cratering Award. She has recieved this award because her research samples may be impact...
Publications
2021 Astrophysics van Zeist, W., Stevance, H., & Eldridge, J. (2021). Riroriro: Simulating gravitational waves and evaluating their detectability in Python. The Journal of Open Source Software, 6(59), 2968. doi:10.21105/joss.02968 Biology Carter C W Jr, Wills P...
Launch of new ASTRO200/200G Astrobiology course
In 2020, the University of Auckland started a new Astrobiology Course, ASTRO200G. This was a huge success, attracting students from all different faculties and disciplines! Now running for its second year (2021), there are over 200 keen students enrolled from...
Choice of words matter when discussing mātauranga Māori and science
TAM researchers Dr. Dan Hikuroa and Dr. Emily Parke provide a thought provoking and valuable insight into current discussions of the relationship between mātauranga Māori (Māori knowledge, culture, values and worldview) and science, by challenging ambiguous...
Grant Success for our Researchers
2021 has seen a large amount of grant and funding success for our researchers: Professor Richard Easther (Physics) was awarded a RSNZ Marsden grant, entitled “Lighting the Dark: Understanding the Early Universe.” Drs Emily Parke (Philosophy) and Dan Hikuroa (Māori...
Astrobiology Mini Symposium for Doctoral Students
TAM PhD students Ira Mautner (Physics) and Michaela Dobson (Environment) organised and hosted a mini-symposium on Astrobiology in February 2021 that attracted 170 enrollments from mainly postgraduate students within the university. It was sponsored by the “Our...
Filming for Astro200G Virtual Field Trip
Kathy Campbell (Director) went to Rotorua to film a Virtual Field Trip for Te Ao Marama's new Astrobiology course. She was joined by the director of the New Zealand Astrobiology Network, Haritina Mogosanu, as well as some research fellows, PhD students and three...
Filming has begun for a series of outreach videos
Filming is now underway for a series of videos with Te Ao Marama members explaining interesting pieces of their research. Today we started with director Kathy Campbell, who spoke about one way that we might find evidence of life on Mars - and how that is connected...
Richard Easther at Raising the Bar Auckland – Home Edition
Congratulations to Richard Easther for his great talk at Raising the Bar Auckland - Home Edition last week. You can watch the talk...
Rocket Lab and UoA’s CubeSat programme
Nicholas Rattenbury was on the news last week discussing Rocket Lab and UoA's CubeSat programme. You can watch the video...