Regular readers of UV & You will no-doubt be interested in this fantastic resource of UV Research findings - especially those relevant to New Zealand - since shortly after the discovery of the Antarctic Ozone Hole.
The resource is in the form of abstracts from a series of approximately four-yearly UV Workshops that I helped to convene over the period from 1993 to 2018. Each abstract is no more than two pages long, so you can find a lot without too much digging. I talked about convening a followup workshop a few years back, but nobody put their hand up for the task (or offered me enough money to do it myself).
Workshop papers included discussions of the Effects of UV on Health and the Environment, and Interactions between Ozone Depletion, UV radiation, and Climate Change. Over those years, many of the world’s leading UV researchers contributed, and papers from the workshops have been widely cited in the literature. I think the most-cited of them was this one, which answered the question: Where on Earth has the Highest UV? It’s a typical example of a recurring Lauder pattern: A question posed by me and answered by my colleague Ben Liley. It made us very popular in Peru. We literally put them ‘on the map’. Another such questions was: How much sea level rise would be required to make New Zealand bigger than Australia? We didn’t write a paper about that one, but the (unfortunate) answer, see here, was 940 metres.
It’s important that any cited papers remain available to the community. Unfortunately though, for a few years, links to them were lost because of various re-organisations of NIWA’s web pages. I recently persuaded the Web Team to reinstate them. It turned out to be quite a task, but it’s now been completed. Thank you Chloe and Stacy 😊. You can find links here to all of the UV Workshop programs. Further down the page are links to the abstracts since 2002.
Please do have a browse and advertise it to your colleagues because the web team will keen to see that their efforts were worth while.
The timing is good because the links appear to have (so far*) survived their first hurdle - switch from NIWA to Earth Sciences.
* So far, at least. I’m slightly troubled to see that the first part of that link is still ‘niwa’. I wouldn’t be surprised if it one day becomes ‘earthsciences’. If so, I might have to update this page. Then hopefully, it’ll be good for the next 30 years or so until the next re-organisation of science in New Zealand …
Excellent Richard. Congratulations!