This page attempts to describe the various research funding successes currently enjoyed by people/groups involved in snow and ice research somehow associated with New Zealand.

2019-2021 Heather Purdie was successful in obtaining $954,000 from the Marsden Fund for her proposed research titled “Cracks in the pavement?: The significance of crevassed surface geometry on glacier mass balance”

2019-2021 Jono Conway and international colleagues were sucessful in obtaining $300 000 from the Marsden Fund for their proposed research “How do clouds modify the response of mountain glaciers to climate change? ”

2019-2021 Inga Smith was successful in obtaining $954,000 from the Marsden Fund for her proposed research titled “Supercooling measurements under ice shelves”.

2018-2020. David Prior, Huw Horgan, Christina Hulbe and international colleagues were successful in obtaining $960,000 from the Marsden Fund for their proposed research titled “Stretching ice to the limit: New flow laws for ice sheets”.

2018-2020. Andrew Mackintosh, Brian Anderson, Lionel Carter, Shaun Eaves, Kevin Norton and international colleagues were successful in obtaining $960,000 from the Marsden Fund for their proposed research titled “Did a previous collapse of the Antarctic Ice Sheet cause abrupt climate change in the Southern Hemisphere?”.

2018-2020. Dan Price and international colleagues were successful in obtaining $300,000 from the Marsden Fast-Start Fund for their proposed research titled “The solution to the Southern Ocean’s sea ice mystery – its thickness”.

2017 – 2019. Inga Smith and her international colleagues were successful in obtaining $300,000 from the Deep South National Science Challenge contestable funding round with their proposed research titled “Impacts of freshwater from icebergs and ice shelf melt in the New Zealand Earth System Model“.

2017-2019. Andrew Mackintosh, Nicolas Cullen, Jono Conway, Pascal Sirguey, Brian Anderson, Ruschle Dadic, Huw Horgan, Christian Zammit, Heather Purdie and Tim Kerr were successful in obtaining $389,213 from the Deep South National Science Challenge contestable funding round with their proposed research titled “Snow, ice and glaciers in our changing climate“.

2018. Ian Fuller, Sam McColl and colleagues have received funding from the Brian Mason Scientific and Technical Trust for research on the response of the Franz Josef and Fox Glacier valleys to climate variability and glacier retreat

2018. Heather Purdie, Tim Kerr and colleagues received funding from the Brian Mason Scientific and Technical Trust to help reinvigorate snow research at Broken River ski field.