Newsletter Archive

March 2021

Newsletter Volume 20, Issue 1

  • Ten years after the 2011 Christchurch Earthquake
  • Implications of the 5 March 2021 New Zealand and Kermadec earthquakes
  • Charges filed against scientists and tour operators stemming from the 9 December 2019 White Island Volcanic Eruption, New Zealand

November 2020

Newsletter Volume 19, Issue 4

  •  A national view of storm tide flooding in Australia
  • From drought to flood: Australia’s seasonal forecast for summer 2021

July 2020

Newsletter Volume 19, Issue 3

  • Weather-related flight disruptions in a warming world
  • Risk Frontiers’ submission to the Royal Commission into Natural Disaster Arrangements
  • Risk Frontiers Seminar Series 2020
  • Appointment of new Managing Director

April 2020

Newsletter Volume 19 Issue 2

  • Bushfire impact research – NSW South Coast
  • Future of bushfire fighting in Australia
  • Risk Frontiers Seminar Series 2020 – Save the dates

January 2020

Newsletter Volume 19 Issue 1

  • 2019/2020 Australian bushfire season
  • Northern NSW Bushfire impact research
  • Bushfire deaths in Australia, 2010-2020
  • Risk Frontiers turns 25!
  • Officials acquitted of professional negligence in the Fukushima nuclear disaster
  • Earthquake risk in Australia 30 years after the 1989 Earthquake

October 2019

Newsletter Volume 18 Issue 4

  • What areas of Australia are most at risk from natural perils?
  • Bushfire and tropical cyclone activity for 2019/20
  • WeatheX

June 2019

Newsletter Volume18 Issue3

  • The need for transparency in climate services
  • Risk Frontiers Seminar Series 2019
  • Introducing Ryan Springall
  • Cracks in Strata Building Integrity

March 2019

Newsletter Volume18 Issue2

  • Sydney Hailstorm: December 20, 2018
  • Disclosure of climate-related financial risk

November 2018

Newsletter Volume18 Issue1

  • Climate science, economics and politics
  • Responses to the Lombok Earthquake, 2018 – Rapid Assessment Study

August 2018

Newsletter Volume17 Issue4

  • Is the forward motion of tropical cyclones in the Australian region slowing due to anthropogenic climate change?
  • Risk Frontiers’ seminar series 2018
  • QuakeAUS 6.0

May 2018

Newsletter Volume17 Issue3

  • The new QuakeAUS: impact of revised GA earthquake magnitudes on hazards and losses
  • Tathra 2018 Bushfires

January 2018

Newsletter Volume 17 Issue2

  • Weather-related natural disasters 2017: was this a reversion to the mean?
  • The Hawaii nuclear alert: how did people respond?
  • Risk Frontiers’ Multi-Peril Workbench 2.4 has now been released

August 2017

Newsletter Volume 17 Issue1

  • A Natural Hazard Building Loss Profile for Australia: 1900-2015
  • Risk Frontiers’ Annual Seminar: A Provisional Programme
  • Weather-related Natural Disasters: Should we be concerned about a reversion to the mean?

May 2017

Newsletter Volume 16 Issue 4

  • News Flash:  Risk Frontiers spins out from Macquarie University
  • Risk Frontiers’ Suite of CAT Models to be available on AIR Worldwide’s Touchstone Platform
  • Should governments allow fire affected communities to rebuild?

March 2017

Newsletter Volume 16 Issue 3

  • Better Managing New Zealand’s Earthquake Risks
  • Storm Direction Controls Coastal Erosion Risk in New South Wales

December 2016

Newsletter Volume 16 Issue 2

  • A conceptual approach using risk as a basis of building performance design
  • A Notable Precedent in 1371

October 2016

Newsletter Volume 16 Issue 1

  • Court orders on Byron Bay’s coastal wars
  • Joining the Dots
  • Reminder to register for upcoming Annual Seminar on 26th October, 2016

June 2016

Newsletter Volume 15 Issue 4

  • XtremeHeatAUS – Modelling Heatwave Deaths
  • Risk Frontiers Annual Seminar: A Provisional Programme

March 2016

Newsletter Volume15 Issue 3

  • Climate Change: Challenges and Opportunities
  • Risk Frontiers’ suite of Catastrophe Loss Models

November 2015

Newsletter Volume 15 Issue 2

  • Tails of Woe
  • QuakeNZ
  • Auctions and the Government’s Emissions Reduction Fund

August 2015

Newsletter_Volume 15 Issue 1

  • Lies, lies…and wretched statisticians
  • What is an Event?

May 2015

Newsletter Volume 14 Issue 4

  • Government provision of catastrophe insurance: risk-informed premiums
  • From the Cyber-Risk Frontier
  • Introducing Thomas Loridan and Andrew Gissing
 

In the spirit of reconciliation, Risk Frontiers acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the land throughout Australia and their deep connections to land, sea, and community. We pay our respects to their Elders, past and present, and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.