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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
The Australasia Astrobiology Meeting was held in Rotorua on 25-26 June 2018. It was organised by the New Zealand Astrobiology Network (NZAN) in partnership with the Australian Centre for Astrobiology and Te Ao Mārama, and was supported by Blue Marble Space...