Qualifications
BSc (Hons), MSc
Location
Wellington
Science Centre
Contact Details
Biography
Ryan is a natural hazards risk researcher with 13 years of combined professional and research experience in natural hazard risk assessment and management. He is the NIWA programme leader for the RiskScape joint-venture with GNS Science. His current research covers a broad range disciplines including natural hazard impact and risk assessment, post-event damage surveys, vulnerability modelling and software development for natural hazard impact and risk analysis. Ryan works with a range of government and non-government organisations to apply natural hazard impact and risk information in disaster risk management activities.
External Profiles
Recently Featured Work
New reports highlight flood risk under climate change
Media release
21 August 2019
Two reports released today by NIWA and the Deep South National Science Challenge reveal new information about how many New Zealanders, how many buildings and how much infrastructure could be affected by extreme river and coastal flooding from storms and sea-level rise.
Tsunami evacuation zones home to 1 in 10 New Zealanders
Media release
19 August 2020
NIWA scientists have completed the first national assessment of people and buildings at risk in New Zealand’s tsunami evacuation zones.