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Hutt Hospital
Recent research
- Climate & EnvironmentOpen access
Forecasting Cascading and Compounding Flood Risk From Earthquake‐Induced Ground Deformation
ABSTRACT Large earthquakes can disrupt river systems and produce abrupt, unforeseen changes in flood risk. Forward modelling of earthquake‐related surface deformation and its influence on inundation extent, depth, and frequency enables pre‐emptive assessment of exposure to this c...
- Climate & EnvironmentOpen access
Convergent margins provide an array of geological settings where serpentinization of ultramafic rocks may generate natural hydrogen. Aotearoa New Zealand (A-NZ) is an archetypal example of a convergent margin where tectonic assembly, spatiotemporal variability of serpentinization...
- Climate & EnvironmentOpen access
Abstract The onset of the COVID‐19 pandemic in North America and the lockdowns that followed in March 2020 brought forth a rapid change to societal functions disrupting many aspects of normal life, including the greenhouse gas emissions associated with them. In this work, we exam...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Introduction International studies suggest that advancing diagnostic technologies have the potential to reduce uncertainty and improve management of acute respiratory infections. Aim This study aimed to observe the impact that laboratory-based polymerase chain reaction testing fo...
- Climate & Environment
Heat, Health and Holidays: Reported Heat Related Adjustments to Australian Tourist Behaviour
ABSTRACT Extreme heat is one of the fastest growing threats to human health, already causing tens of thousands of deaths annually and projected to affect hundreds of millions more people under continued warming. Australians are highly mobile and live in one of the most heat‐expos...