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…

With it nearly being 3 months to the day since the 7.1 magnitude hit Canterbury clean-up efforts around the area have been miraculous. Fences and barriers are now being pulled-back from roads around the city as repairs and removals progress on earthquake-damaged buildings. The majority of shops in the centre that were affected have now been relocated or repairs have…