Division of Sciences Departments
The Division of Sciences is responsible for a full range of sciences including degree courses in Applied Science, Consumer and Applied Sciences, Physical Education, and Surveying. The Division is a leader in many areas of genetic research and computer and information technology.
Sub-communities within Division of Sciences Departments
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Psychology [313]
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Te Koronga [9]
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Zoology [402]
Collections in Division of Sciences Departments
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Botany [69]
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Chemistry [150]
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Computer Science [68]
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Food Sciences [66]
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Geology [197]
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Human Nutrition [333]
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Marine Science [140]
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Physics [101]
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Surveying [105]
Recent Deposits
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Snell’s Law and Necklace States for Vortex Dipoles in a Quantum Gas
A quantum vortex is an excitation of a superfluid that carries angular momentum, in which the superfluid is expelled from and circulates around a region known as the vortex core. A quantum vortex dipole consists of two ... -
Cognitive Load Theory and Flight Simulator-Based Instructional Design for Novices
As flight simulators have become more commonplace in aviation training, empirical research for the optimum instructional design to be used to train novices has been left behind. The most common accident during instructional ... -
Instrumentation and Calibration of the Transient Array Radio Telescope
The Transient Array Radio Telescope (TART) is a 24-element aperture synthesis array radio telescope. It is designed as a low-cost test bench for hardware, calibration, and imaging algorithm development, as well as a ... -
Motivations and Attitudes of New Zealand Conservation Volunteers
Conservation in New Zealand is a massive enterprise, combining government, public, and private efforts. Volunteers work across these sectors to restore the unique flora and fauna of this island archipelago. In light of ... -
Feynman, vortices and resistance in atomtronic circuits
In a 1955 paper on liquid helium Richard Feynman suggested that a superfluid flowing at sufficient speed through a channel into an infinite reservoir would produce uniformly spaced vortex pairs from the corners of the ... -
Dunedin rock and roll: 3D seismic wave velocity modelling for seismic hazard analysis.
Earthquake hazards are significant in New Zealand. Many active faults are known to be close to urban areas, and damaging earthquakes have been known to occur on previously unknown faults (such as the Mw~7.1 Darfield ... -
Flavones from Cyclopropanes: Development of Methodology and the Total Synthesis of Integrin and (±)-Oxyisocyclointegrin
Cyclopropanes are important substrates in organic chemistry able to participate in many different classes of reactions which can be broadly classified as ring opening, cycloaddition and rearrangement reactions. The unique ... -
A Multi-Basin Approach to Investigate Paleoclimate and Carbon Burial in Fiordland, New Zealand
The latitudinal position and strength of the Southern Hemisphere westerly winds (SHWW) influence mid-latitude precipitation patterns and air-sea gas exchange in the Southern Ocean. Fiordland is ideally located to constrain ... -
Source of Expertise Affects Perceived Credibility of an Interview Used in a Medical Documentary
This thesis is composed of two integrated components: a creative project and original academic research. The creative component is a 25-minute medical documentary called Fairy Steps. Fairy Steps follows a 4-year-old girl ... -
Exploring the Applications of Subwavelength Nanostructures Fabricated by Solid Immersion Lloyd's Mirror Interference Lithography
Nanofabrication is a powerful tool in modern scientific and technological advancement and plays a key role in the production of consumer electronics, sensors and actuators, and nanophotonic applications. Developed originally ... -
An Ecological Dynamics Approach for Movement Assessment
Ecological dynamics has gained increasing acceptance as a theoretical framework in the field of motor development. This framework underpins this research programme, which postulates that humans are open, complex systems ... -
Eruptions and deposition of volcaniclastic rocks in the Dunedin volcanic complex, Otago Peninsula, New Zealand
The Otago Peninsula is part of the Dunedin Volcanic Complex and the Dunedin Volcanic Group, of Miocene age. Tephra and a suite of alkali basalt magma began erupting in the Sandfly Bay area. The Dunedin Volcanic Complex ... -
Marine anoxia during Oceanic Anoxic Event 2: Constraints from the southern palaeo-Pacific and Tethys Oceans using carbon- and uranium-isotope systems
The Cenomanian–Turonian anoxic event or ‘Oceanic Anoxic Event 2’ (OAE 2), occurring c. 94 million years ago, marks one of the most severe climatic disturbances in Earth’s history and is associated with widespread ocean ... -
Mt. Morning, Antarctica : geochemistry, geochronology, petrology, volcanology, and oxygen fugacity of the rifted Antarctic lithosphere
Mt. Morning is a 2,732 m high, Cenozoic, alkaline eruptive centre situated in the south-west corner of McMurdo Sound in the Ross Sea, Antarctica. Mt. Morning is approximately 100 km south-west of Mt. Erebus, the world's ... -
The design, analysis and evaluation of a food frequency questionnaire for assessing the nutrient intake of New Zealand adults
A food frequency questionnaire was designed to assess the usual nutrient intake of New Zealand adults. National diet survey data was used as a basis for compiling the food list. The optimal design and analysis of the ... -
European women's dresses in nineteenth-century New Zealand
Dress encodes complex cultural information and operates as an aesthetic sign system, indicating ideas about status, wealth, and taste. Fashionable women's day dresses of the mid to late nineteenth century in Western culture ... -
A Seismic Investigation into the Thermal and Physical Properties of the Hydrate Bearing Pukeroro Ridge, Hikurangi Margin, New Zealand
Understanding the subsurface dynamics of the world’s oceans has become more important over time due to current climate issues, hazard evaluations and an ever-decreasing abundance of resources. Fluid and heat flow processes ... -
Associations between intuitive eating, food patterns, mindfulness, experiential avoidance, and BMI : a random population study of New Zealand women
Background: Given the high prevalence of obesity and the poor long- term success of traditional weight loss treatments, non-dieting approaches are attracting increasing attention. Recent studies have shown that a number ... -
Studies to improve consumer hedonic measures : a comparison of hedonic measurement techniques and the development of a method to evoke consumption contexts in a laboratory test setting
Studies one through three used a between groups design. However this design did not permit an understanding of how different evoked context influenced the same group of consumers. Hence in the fourth study, a counterbalanced, ... -
Tectonic Geodesy: An Analysis of the Crustal Deformation of the Western Sundaland Plate from Nearly Two Decades of continuous GPS Measurements
The Sundaland plate (hereinafter, Sunda plate) is located in a tectonically active region where the Eurasia, India-Australia, Yangtze, Burma, Molucca Sea, Banda Sea, and Timor plates converge and share common boundaries. ...