Selwyn_Times: October 11, 2023

Selwyn Times Wednesday October 11 2023
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NEWS
Fonterra
partners
with
university
FONTERRA HAS become the
latest partner to join the South
Island Dairying Demonstration
Centre at Lincoln University.
Formed in 2001, SIDDC is a
partnership between the university,
DairyNZ, Ravensdown,
LIC, AgResearch, dairy farmers
through the South Island Dairy
Event, and now Fonterra. The
partnership aims to lead and
demonstrate the very best sustainable
dairy production systems.
SIDDC partners forum chair
and Lincoln University vice-chancellor
professor Grant Edwards
said Fonterra’s participation will
have significant and far-reaching
benefits for the partnership, and
for the wider dairy farming sector.
“The addition of Fonterra to
SIDDC will harness the global
dairy co-operative’s unique and
world-leading understanding of
current and future needs, expectations
and demands of milk and
dairy consumers.
“Fonterra’s contribution will
complement the existing partner
expertise in . . . the overall
management of high-performing
sustainable pastoral dairy farms,”
he said.
RESEARCHERS have received
EQC funding to investigate how
climate change could increase
the risk of damage triggered by
earthquakes and landslides.
Canterbury University School
of Earth and Environment
senior lecturer Dr Timothy Stahl
is leading the research.
Stahl says earthquakes and
landslides are two of New
Zealand’s deadliest and most
costly natural disasters.
“Cumulatively, landslides
have caused more deaths in
New Zealand than any other
natural hazard and lead to $300
million in insurance claims each
year. Our research programme
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DISASTERS:
Canterbury
University senior
lecturer Dr Timothy
Stahl is leading
new research
into how climate
change could
increase the risk of
damage triggered
by earthquakes and
landslides. Left – a
concrete shelter
protects a driver
from rockfall at
Arthur’s Pass in 2021.
Landslides cause more deaths
than any other natural hazard
spans geology and disaster risk
resilience and provides a better
fundamental understanding of
these processes,” he said.
“We plan to create up-to-date
models for these hazards that
will ultimately allow us to be
more prepared and resilient.
We’ll also drive new research
into how natural disasters,
such as landslides, cliff collapse
and flooding triggered by
earthquakes, are affected by
climate change.”
A big quake on the alpine
fault is expected to trigger major
landslides and cut communities
off.
Stahl says it is a high priority
area of research because a
warming climate and more
frequent storms will continue
to increase the cost of insurance
claims and have a profound
impact on people’s lives and
property.
“It’s very important because
climate change, which is linked
to varying storm frequency,
intensity and duration, has
an impact on several other
hazards.
“If you have more saturated
ground prior to an earthquake
this increases the risk of
earthquake-induced flooding
and also means there’s a greater
risk of landslides on hillsides.
“Rising sea levels and rivers
running higher will also change
patterns of earthquake-induced
flooding.”
The research team is one
of three from the university
awarded funding from EQC
to fill knowledge gaps and
improve engineering practices.
Each programme will receive
$450,000 over three years from
2024.
Stahl said the study will
expand geological data at key
locations along active faults,
produce better models of
earthquake and landslide multihazards,
and improve guidance
for building near active faults.
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