Cities, Settlements and Infrastructure - Rethinking Extreme Events
Tracks
Cities, Settlements and Infrastructure
Wednesday, October 15, 2025 |
1:45 PM - 3:15 PM |
Speaker
Andrew Curtis
Primary Insights Ltd
Beyond extremes and averages: adapting to increased climate variability for land and water management
1:45 PM - 2:30 PMBiography
Andrew Curtis is an agricultural consultant and Director of Primary Insight. A veteran of New Zealand farming, Andrew’s background includes a decade as the CEO of Irrigation New Zealand and key advice to central government on greenhouse gas mitigation policy.
Murray Doak
Ministry for Primary Industries
Beyond extremes and averages: adapting to increased climate variability for land and water management
1:45 PM - 2:30 PMBiography
Murray Doak, Senior Investment Adviser, Sector Partnerships and Programmes at Ministry for Primary Industries, develops and guides projects that contribute positively to NZ's economic, environmental, social and cultural well-being, and complement governments primary industry policy reforms with particular emphasis on water quantity and quality management.
Matt Dumont
Kōmanawa Solutions Ltd
Beyond extremes and averages: adapting to increased climate variability for land and water management
1:45 PM - 2:30 PMBiography
Matt is the lead computational hydrogeologist and co-founder at Kōmanawa Solutions. Providing decision-support science with uncertainty exploration has been a focus for the last 10-years. His passions include Bayesian statistics, computational approaches to complex questions and using simple models to assess uncertainty and support decision making.
Mr Zeb Etheridge
Director
Komanawa Solutions Ltd
Beyond extremes and averages: adapting to increased climate variability for land and water management
1:45 PM - 2:30 PMBiography
Zeb is Principal Water Resource Scientist and Director of Kōmanawa Solutions and an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the University of Canterbury. Zeb’s research interests focus on adaptation to increasing climate variability and the secondary effects of sea level rise.
Prof Anita Wreford
Lincoln University
Beyond extremes and averages: adapting to increased climate variability for land and water management
1:45 PM - 2:30 PMBiography
Anita is an applied economist specialising in climate change adaptation, particularly in agriculture and the primary sector. With over 20 years of research experience, she focuses on economic evaluations, adaptation options, risk assessment, community resilience, and decision-making.
Prof Dave Frame
Professor Of Physics
University of Canterbury
Extreme events and the Emergence of Climate Change
2:30 PM - 3:15 PMBiography
Professor of Physics at the University of Canterbury. BA in History and Economics, a BSc in Philosophy and Physics, PhD in Physics. Director of New Zealand's first major research programme into extreme weather events, climate change, and the associated costs. Lead Author on IPCC AR5 and AR6.
Suzanne Rosier
NIWA
Extreme events and the Emergence of Climate Change
2:30 PM - 3:15 PMBiography
Mr Zeb Etheridge
Director
Komanawa Solutions Ltd
Beyond extremes and averages: adapting to increased climate variability for land and water management
1:45 PM - 2:30 PMBiography
Zeb is Principal Water Resource Scientist and Director of Kōmanawa Solutions and an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the University of Canterbury. Zeb’s research focuses on adaptation to increasing climate variability and the secondary effects of sea level rise.
Prof Dave Frame
Professor Of Physics
University of Canterbury
Extreme Events and the Emergence of Climate Change
2:30 PM - 3:15 PMBiography
Professor of Physics at the University of Canterbury. BA in History and Economics, a BSc in Philosophy and Physics, PhD in Physics. Director of New Zealand's first major research programme into extreme weather events, climate change, and the associated costs. Lead Author on IPCC AR5 and AR6
