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 Geographical Information Science.
Summer Research Scholarships are a great way to gain valuable research experience, enhance your career opportunities and work with leading researchers in the School of Environment. Applications close 3 August.
The effects of climate change on the lands of the Pacific are more complicated than tiny islands disappearing into the sea. Professor Paul Kench and his team have discovered some atolls are actually growing in size.
According to the 2018 QS World University Rankings by subject, geography at the University of Auckland is ranked 29th in the world. Find out more.
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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University of Auckland professor announced as new Chief Science Advisor
12 June 2018Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern visits the University of Auckland today to announce Professor Juliet Gerrard will take up the role of Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor. -
Distinguished Scholarship Award
01 June 2018Professor Robin Kearns from the School of Environment has been awarded the Melinda S Meade Distinguished Scholarship Award in Health and Medical Geography. -
Curious kids explore the super STEM Fair at MOTAT
23 April 2018MOTAT was inundated with a gaggle of excited and curious young scientists in early April at the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) Fair -
New PhD Leadership Development Programme launches this month
20 April 2018Four doctoral candidates from the Faculty of Science have been accepted into a new leadership development programme with The New Zealand Leadership Institute (NZLI).
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Women’s leadership in science and industry: 125 years on from the suffragists Event as iCalendar
26 June 2018, 6 - 7:30pmCome and hear three extraordinarily accomplished women share their personal perspectives on female leadership in science and industry. -
Research Bazaar 2018 Event as iCalendar
27 June 2018 - 29 June 2018The Research Bazaar 2018 (ResBaz) is an annual, three-day festival hosted by the University of Auckland’s Centre for eResearch and the eResearch community promoting digital literacy in modern research. -
Ontogeny of white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) research in New Zealand Event as iCalendar
02 July 2018, 1 - 2pmIn this seminar Clinton Duffy from the New Zealand Department of Conservation will describe the origin, development and major findings of the white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) research project. -
Joint Seminar: Fruit and vegetable by-products | Weaponry in sheet web spiders Event as iCalendar
09 July 2018, 1 - 2pmNinna Granucci and Leilani Walker, both PhD students in the School of Biological Sciences, will be discussing their respective doctoral research. Ninna's work aims to optimise a fermentation process to convert fruit and vegetable by-products into new food products; while Leilani has been gaining a more total understanding of how sexual selection can influence the characteristics of male weaponry in sheet web spiders.
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Entries open for New Zealand's most illustrious science prize
20 June 2018Entries for the 2018 Prime Minister’s Science Prizes are now open, with New Zealand’s most talented established and emerging scientists, science teachers and science communicators able to apply for awards worth a combined value of $1 million across five categories. -
New criteria for Science Journalism Fund | applications open
18 June 2018Round three of the Aotearoa New Zealand Science Journalism fund is open with new eligibility criteria in place. Applications from science communicators and those with an interest in science-related reporting (but no previous experience) will now be accepted. Grants range from $500 to $5000. Applications close 27 July.
