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Cyclone Gabrielle resulted in major shifts in our waterways, causing significant damage - but it’s in their nature for rivers to move.
Jon Tunnicliffe is a river geomorphologist who has worked on a variety of New Zealand and Canadian river systems. He studies our rivers’ response to sedimentary disturbance across a range of timescales, from post-glacial change to catastrophic changes in the wake of earthquake-induced landslides.
Tunnicliffe believes we need to release Aotearoa’s strangled rivers to lessen the impact of future floods, changing our approach to river management and making some key environmental law changes.
