If the news from Libya hasn’t been dominating your TV, then you’ve probably been watching the massive destruction and subsequent recovery efforts in Christchurch this week. A 6.3 magnitude earthquake hit Christchurch on Tuesday at 12:51 p.m. local time (Monday evening in the U.S.). The earthquake was centered at Lyttelton, roughly 10 kilometers southeast of Christchurch’s city center, at a…

This year AUIP staff celebrated the festive season and the end to a fantastic year with a highly enjoyable afternoon of lawn bowls followed by a delicious dinner at Kevin’s house. It was team logistics (Donna, Sara and Sheena) vs the ‘others’ (Laura, Marty and Noel) in the bowls and to begin with, it looked like team logistics were going…

With the University of Montana, Virginia Tech and Texas A&M University Wintermester programs starting in under two weeks, students will be pleased to hear that a moderate to strong La Niña is well-established in the South Pacific. La Niña and the opposite El Niño, refer to extremes of the Southern Oscillation (ENSO) cycle, when major changes in the Pacific atmospheric…