Mapping
Crunching the Covid-19 numbers: Professor Shaun Hendy
Physicist, professor Shaun Hendy, heads Te Pūnaha Matatini, one of at least three teams crunching the data on Covid19. Shaun explains explains what it's going to take to beat the virus. Audio
Rifleman to royal albatross - a bird atlas for NZ
The NZ bird atlas will be a 5-year project counting common & rare birds from the Kermadecs to the far south. Audio
Dr Justin O'Sullivan: ground breaking findings by the Liggins Insitute through 3D gene mapping
Dr Justin O'Sullivan from the Liggins Institute explains the break through they've made in understanding why people with type 1 diabetes often contract seemingly unrelated diseases by using 3D gene… Audio
A flower map to help NZ beekeepers
A Honey Landscape Map for New Zealand could help beekeepers find the best flower-rich sites for their beehives. Audio
Mapping the world's sea floor
Seabed 2030 is an international collaboration to map the world's sea floor, much of which is unmapped. Audio
Our Changing World for 28 June 2018
Seabed 2030 is an ambitious international collaboration to map the world's sea floor, and astronomer Duncan Steel is concerned asbout asteroids hitting earth. Audio
Bill Robertson: getting the lay of the land
A former Director General of the Government Department of Survey and Land Information, Bill Robertson is a leading figure in surveying and mapping both here and overseas. He was instrumental in… Audio, Gallery
An atlas of coronary arteries
An atlas containing hundreds of coronary arteries mapped using MRI scans will help improve heart health. Audio
Mapping natural disasters with digital technology
Patrick Meier uses a blend of publicly available data, eyewitness accounts. social media posts and drone technology to build up detailed pictures of places after earthquake, tsunami or other natural… Audio, Gallery
Location, location: a digital horror story
Kashmir Hill of fusion.net uncovered a digital horror story that revolves around location, and how the specific GPS coordinates of Joyce Taylor's Kansas farmhouse got linked to more than half a… Audio
Cartographers use social media to map conflict zones
Nathan Ruser from Sydney is an amateur mapper and founding member of the Institute of United Conflict Analysts who monitor a number of conflicts, especially Syria and Iraq, from their homes. Their… Audio
Google mapping the human body
In a world's first researchers are using Google's technology to map the human body. The new imaging technique was announced at a convention in the United States this week. It will allow medical… Audio
Reading maps
Julie Sweetkind-Singer from Stanford University works at the intersection of the analog paper map, and new digital mapping technology. Audio
Picturesque satnav
Daniele Quercia of Yahoo Labs is working on a clever way to navigate your way around in the most picturesque way possible Audio
Antarctica's Dry Valleys
A multi-disciplinary team from Waikato and Canterbury universities is mapping the Dry Valley ecosystem to create a GIS model Audio