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When Dr Christopher Cornwall began his biological research career, three unanswered questions bothered him about how climate change might affect marine organisms.
The Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington Rutherford Discovery Fellow has now won this year’s Prime Minister’s MacDiarmid Emerging Scientist Prize for helping answer them.
Dr Cornwall, in the School of Biological Sciences, becomes the third Te Herenga Waka researcher to win the $200,000 award.
His success follows the awarding last year of the top Prime Minister’s Science Prize to a team from the University’s Antarctic Research Centre, along with many other prizes to University researchers during the past 12 years.
Climate analysis: 2020 was also a hot year for wider NZ region
18 Jan, 2021 12:03 AM
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A fisherman tries his luck at Pilot Bay, Mt Maunganui, on a sunny day last November. The year finished up one of the warmest NZ has seen on and off the water. Photo / George Novak
A fisherman tries his luck at Pilot Bay, Mt Maunganui, on a sunny day last November. The year finished up one of the warmest NZ has seen on and off the water. Photo / George Novak
Last year wasn t just the one of the 10 warmest for New Zealand, but for our wider ocean territory too, new figures show.
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How weather predictions are made. This is an example of a MetService three-day rain forecasting model, mapping out what kind of weather we re in for.
EXPLAINER: If you want a weather forecast you can choose from many different providers – but sometimes their forecasts clash. The reasons why come down to complex international models, stunning supercomputers, and human judgement. On the morning of Tuesday, January 12, the MetService website, the AccuWeather app, and Apple’s weather app (powered by IBM’s Weather Channel) told different stories. .
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How Apple, AccuWeather, and MetService called the weather in Christchurch on Tuesday, January 12, 2021.