Official information request for - Budget information - various areas of science research.
I refer to your official information request dated 01 July 2022.
The information you have requested is below.
| SCIENCE and RESEARCH CONSULTANCY subjects x budgets and people | Budget 2023 | Names of budget holders | role title | spent in the last 3 years |
| Air quality | $0 | Robert Rose | Environmental Team Leader | Nothing |
| Biosecurity | | | | |
| Civil Defence | $0 | Jeff Graham | Senior Emergency Management Adviser | No research projects, normal operating costs only. |
| Climate change | | | | |
| Coastal processes | | | | |
| District Planning- land use and hazards | | | | |
| Drinking water quality | $0 | Robert Rose | Environmental Team Leader | Nothing |
| Drought | | | | |
| Energy planning | $26,000 | Rebecca Bell | Strategy Manager | Staff research and planning only |
| Erosion and sediment deposition | | | | |
| Extractive resources | | | | |
| Extreme Weather | | | | |
| Fire risk and response | | | | |
| Flooding- river, coastal | | | | |
| Geothermal risks | | | | |
| Groundwater | $0 | Robert Rose | Environmental Team Leader | Nothing |
| Harbour sedimentation | | | | |
| Insurance Risk Assessment | | | | |
| Lake health | | | | |
| Landslide dams | | | | |
| Landslide, avalanche, debris flow | | | | |
| Liquefaction | | | | |
| Seismic Hazards | $0 | Jeff Graham | Senior Emergency Management Adviser | $8,424 from MDC budgets with further $80,000 funding given from EQC. |
| Pandemic | | | | |
| Pollution | | | | |
| Rockfall | | | | |
| Subsidence and land instability | | | | |
| Supply Chain disruption | | | | |
| Tsunami | | | | |
| Volcanic Activity | | | | |
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