Welcome to the School of Environment
The School of Environment is the place to study and research in Geography, Earth Sciences (Geology), Environmental Science, Environmental Management, Geophysics and Geographic Information Science.
Getting settled into Uni life? Keep up-to-date and stay informed about events and activities on campus. Get the real-deal about what it's like as a first-year University student from our blog, The Inside Word, and more.
Where will coral reef-fringed coastlines become uninhabitable from wave-driven flooding? Scientists have developed an efficient and accessible tool to find out.
Associate Professor Jan Lindsay gives us 10 minutes of her time to discuss her research into making society more resilient to volcanic hazards through improving understanding of volcanoes.
Our research and teaching addresses the earth surface and subsurface, climate, social, economic and cultural processes that shape our world. Learn more by visiting Our school.
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Nearly half of Kiwi students believe climate change is an ‘urgent problem’
14 March 2019Nearly half of Kiwi students taking part in a nationwide in-school census believe that climate change “is an urgent problem that needs to be managed now”. -
Social and cultural lives of animals vital tool for conservation
27 February 2019Young animals learn social and cultural behaviours from the adults around them just like humans do. Scientists say these learned social behaviours are a powerful conservation tool. -
Global call for joint action on obesity, undernutrition and climate change
28 January 2019A new international report linking obesity, undernutrition and climate change is calling for strong global actions that address all three issues at once. -
Educator and philanthropist awarded Honorary Doctorate
23 January 2019German-born scientist and education philanthropist Dr Beate Schuler will be awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Science from the University of Auckland.
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Funded Doctoral Internships in Mumbai and Medellín
12 February 2019PhD candidate Shohin Aheleroff is in Colombia building international networks and using his expertise to solve real-world industry problems. You could be too with a funded doctoral internship in Mumbai or Medellín. There are still places remaining (NZ citizens and permanent residents only). -
Apply now for a 2019 graduate teaching assistant opportunity
01 January 2019The Faculty of Science invites expressions of interest from postgraduate students for Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) positions in 2019.
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Public lecture | Seeing is Believing? Media Integrity in a Post-Truth World Event as iCalendar
25 March 2019, 6pmThe emergence of “fake news” along with sophisticated techniques using machine learning to create realistic looking media such as Deep Fakes, has led to a resurgent interest in digital media forensics. In this talk, Professor Nasir Memon will broadly discuss how media has traditionally been generated and detected. -
Evolutionary dynamics and effects of climate change in a wild bird population Event as iCalendar
01 April 2019, 1 - 2pmIn this seminar, Professor Loeske Kruuk (Research School of Biology, Australian National University College of Science) aims to illustrate two uses of long-term studies of wild animal populations, using data from a 30-year study of a cooperatively-breeding bird, the superb fairy-wren. -
Inaugural lecture | Reinventing reinforcement Event as iCalendar
03 April 2019, 6:15pmProfessor Douglas Elliffe from the School of Psychology will present his recent research that suggests reinforcement signals future successful behaviour, as well as some thoughts about the place of teaching and leadership in an academic's career. -
Metacommunity dynamics of the nectar microbiome Event as iCalendar
08 April 2019, 1 - 2pmIn this seminar, Marion Donald (PhD candidate, Rice University, Texas) will discuss the testing of competing hypotheses for how the loss of a specific floral patch-type impacts microbial metacommunity diversity using a neotropical nectar microbial metacommunity. -
Data to Insight | An introduction to data analysis and visualisation Event as iCalendar
08 April 2019 - 03 June 2019MOOC, the Department of Statistics' hugely popular, free, online course is running again from 19 March. It offers a hands-on introduction to statistical data analysis, emphasising key ideas, computer skills and statistical thinking.
