It was a busy weekend down in Otago for our Deputy Chief of Mission, Sue Niblock. Sue was honored to participate on a panel at the New Zealand International Science Festival on “the future of scientific collaboration across the globe”, alongside UK Deputy High Commissioner to NZ, Helen Smith, Australian High Commissioner to New Zealand, Ewen McDonald, ...
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By Public Affairs Section | 9 July, 2018 | Categories:
Chargé D’Affaires, Connecting with Kiwis, News, Science & Tech
| Tags: International Science Festival, Lauder Research Station, NASA, New Zealand, NIWA, Otago, Otago University
April 22nd celebrates Earth Day; a day to raise awareness of current environmental challenges and celebrate progress in environmental protection over the past decades. New Zealand and the United States share a long history of scientific cooperation, particularly in environmental science, and working together to tackle environmental issues – as a result, science is a ...
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By Public Affairs Section | 17 April, 2018 | Categories:
Agriculture, Connecting with Kiwis, Environment, News
| Tags: Antarctica, Earth Day, Niue, NIWA, NOAA, South Pacific, The Ross Sea Marine Protected Area, U.S.-NZ relationship
Repost from
blogs.nasa.gov/superpressureballoon . Acting U.S. Ambassador to New Zealand Visits NASA’s Super Pressure Balloon Operations in Wanaka; Some 250 Attend Open House. The acting U.S. Ambassador to New Zealand, Chargé d’Affaires Candy Green, paid a visit to Wanaka Airport, New Zealand, March 23 to see first-hand NASA’s super pressure balloon operations, the science it supports, ...
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By Public Affairs Section | 28 March, 2017 | Categories:
Chargé D’Affaires, Deputy Chief of Mission, News, Science & Tech
| Tags: Lauder Station, NASA, NIWA, NOAA, Wanaka
Charge d’Affaires Candy Green, along with embassy staff, visited the
NIWA ‘s Lauder Station on March 24 2017. Lauder Station is one of the five leading atmospheric research stations in the world. Lauder continues to lead global scientific efforts tracking the hole in the Earth’s ozone layer, and now has a growing role at the forefront of ...
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By Public Affairs Section | 24 March, 2017 | Categories:
Chargé D’Affaires, Deputy Chief of Mission, Environment, News, Science & Tech
| Tags: Lauder Station, NASA, NIWA, NOAA, Wanaka
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Wahine Toa post by By Nancy Gilbert, wife of U.S. Ambassador Mark Gilbert. On the riverbank where the Waipa and Waikato rivers meet in Ngaruawahia, I met our next Wahine Toa, Jackie Colliar. She represents a rare but growing group in New Zealand –female Māori engineers. As an Environmental Engineer at the
National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) coupled with ...
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By Mike Cousins | 29 January, 2016 | Categories:
Environment, Wahine Toa
| Tags: Environmental Engineer, Jackie Colliar, Maori, Marae, Nancy Gilbert, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, NIWA, Te Ao Māori, Te Kauhanganui Inc, Wahine Toa
