2026 Geoscience Society of New Zealand Geoscience Lecture 5.00 pm, Tuesday 5 May, Quad 4 Lecture Theatre, Geology Building, University of Otago, 360 Leith Street, Dunedin Do New Zealand’s active faults and volcanoes talk to each other? Insights from 25 years of trenching ancient faults Dr Pilar Villamor, Earth Sciences New Zealand, Lower Hutt In Read more about 2026 Geoscience Society of New Zealand Geoscience Lecture[…]

Thursday, 19th March, 5.15pm, Kākāpō room, Tūhura Otago Museum zoom: https://otago.zoom.us/j/7762252015?pwd=NFRJd056aDFmTVoyeWJvSXllSFp0UT09

We have just published the interviews we conducted with the ORC candidates as part of our “2022 ORC Candidate Spotlight”. You can check it out below.

The latest RSNZ newsletter is available here: https://mailchi.mp/royalsociety/alert-newsletter-541014

The Otago Institute is pleased to announce that the 2021 AGM (deferred from December 2021) will be held on Tuesday, 25 January 2022 at 17:30 in the Otago Museum Hutton Theatre, and [now online only due to COVID-19] via Zoom at https://otago.zoom.us/j/97865162919?pwd=SEJkTkgzRUx5SkNtRllEWVFPQnVVUT09 Agenda: https://otago-institute.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/agenda-agm-2021.pdf Treasurer’s Report: https://otago-institute.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Treasurers-AGM-Report-2021.pdf Last AGM minutes: https://otago-institute.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/AGM-meeting-Minutes-19_20.docx

The Otago Institute is pleased to announce the date and speakers for the 2020 edition of our annual lecture “Inside the Nobel”. In this event, six speakers will have six minutes each to speak about the importance of this year’s Nobel prizes. The 2020 speakers are: MARTIN PHILLIPPS – Singer/songwriter, The Chills DR SARAH DIERMEIER Read more about Inside the Nobel 2020[…]

Due to the evolving COVID situation we have changed the date for the What’s Hot lecture series. The new date is Thursday 1st of October. Unfortunately, again due to COVID-19, we will be holding this as a LIVESTREAM only event. While we recognise that we will possibly be in low restrictions we wish to emphasise Read more about NEW DATE – 2020 What’s Hot lecture – special edition[…]

We are delighted to announce that the Otago Institute now sponsors a second premier prize at the Aurora Science and Technology fair, focussed on Mātauraka Māori! The prize is worth $300 and is to be awarded for a science project that contains a significant Mātauraka Māori component or addresses an area which is of particular Read more about New Otago Institute Mātauraka Māori premier award at Aurora Science Fair![…]

Due to the uncertainty around travel arising from COVD-19 border closures we regret that the 2020 rounds of the Otago Institute travel awards are cancelled. However, we remain committed to supporting postgraduate arts and sciences in the Otago region and are discussing alternative support. Stay tuned for updates!

Applications are invited for the Otago Institute Postgraduate Student Travel Award, Round Two 2019 The Otago Institute for the Arts and Sciences offers travel scholarships to assist Otago/Southland-based postgraduate students to travel as part of their postgraduate study. The winner will receive $1000 for the purpose of conference attendance and/or other project-related travel. Key dates: Application deadline: Read more about Second Round of Postgraduate Travel Award for 2019 announced[…]