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Issue 11

11 November 2011

We have some important updates to extend to the growing CLIMsystems community. For instance, we have moved to a new office in Hamilton. We have also been on the road again and have some new developments on the software front.

New Office

Toward the end last month we shifted from our Inner Hamilton offices on Clifton Road to more spacious accommodation at 9 Achilles Rise in Flagstaff in North Hamilton. The office offers a number of staff easier access and more carbon neutral opportunities fro transport including walking and biking to work. We have plenty of parking (which was at a premium at the old office). The new office includes a bright, sunny and spacious training room with cooking facilities so we can continue to provide scrumptious meals with our training (which we have become famous for!). Our phone numbers remain the same. Come for a visit if you are passing through New Zealand and we hope to see some of you at a training soon.

Video

CLIMsystems had the honour of being included in a new movie on climate change adaptation in Vanuatu. We have been involved in climate risk assessments in Vanuatu for several years and as a result a team from UNDP visited our offices and spent a more filming and discussing issues. The short version of the video can be viewed at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUX3n8baPbU&feature=player_profilepage

Thanks to Andrea at ALM (Adpatation Learning Mechanism) and the filming and production team and to Brian and the folks in Vanuatu. We look forward to our continued engagement.

PlantGro update

Matthew Dooley of CLIMsystems is working on an update of the PlantGro code. We hope to have this completed in the next few days and will have updates for folks who are using PlantGro.

Intensity Duration methods

We have been working on methods for intensity duration curves and climate change and were fortunate to have an opportunity to apply the methods in a study for PUB in Singapore and CH2M Hill. There is increasing interest in planning for the impacts of short duration but intense rainfall events and we are happy to discuss modeling methods for including climate change in such assessments.

ADB and GENIES

CLIMsystems continues to work closely with the Asian Development Bank on the GENIES software tools for urban policy and planners in Asia. Staff from CLIMsystems attended a major workshop held in Manila and another help in recently in Viet Nam to develop the concept for a user friendly tool for climate risk assessments across sectors with the capacity for cost benefit analysis of potential adaptation options. Next year several pilot cities will be engaged and software development and testing will take place.

Linkages

We continue to develop linkages with other software products. To energise this activity CLIMsystems applied for a grant from the New Zealand government and was successful and is currently engaging with eWater of Australia in a push to developed closer relationship with the people at eWater and their software products. We have hired Dr. Chonghua Yin as an expert on climate change and software linkages to assist with this project.

There are more exciting developments to share but will leave those for the next issue of News You Can Use.

All the best from the team at CLIMsystems.

Peter