We are very happy to announce that the Air Quality Collective along with our colleagues at the University of Canterbury have been awarded $415,000 by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment’s Strategic Catalyst fund for a project called “Supporting HALO-South: New Zealand-German Climate Science Collaboration”.
HALO-South is part of the larger umbrella project known as Go-south, which has been running since 2022. Go South is a collaboration between The Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS), University of Hannover, University of Canterbury, University of Leipzig and The Air Quality Collective. You can read more about it here: Go South – Finding the missing Southern Ocean clouds.
HALO-South will see the Go-South partners working with the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) and Metservice to bring the High Altitude, LOng-range Research Aircraft (HALO) to Christchurch in September and October 2025 to make measurements of aerosol and cloud formation over southern Aotearoa, the Tasman Sea, South Pacific and Southern Oceans. Alongside the airborne observations, team will be making ground based measurements at coastal sites near Invercargill and Christchurch until mid 2026. Our role will be to lead Aotearoa’s contribution to the ground based aerosol measurements and to support logistics and measurements for the rest of the team. The project runs until June 2026.
