I'm Gary Wilson, chief scientist at GNS Science.
And I'd like to introduce you to our Science Roadmap.
Our Science Roadmap is a ten year view as to what we should be working on
as an organization to support society and the challenges
that they're going to face ten years into the future.
We've got at the head of this hierarchy of our roadmap
the societal challenges that we're going to face over the next decade
and then underneath that, a number of the science challenges.
That is the challenges that we're going to face in terms
of delivering that better benefit for society.
And then underneath that, the key
research questions that we are going to work on over
the next decade as a research organization to help progress
the benefits that
we need for society out of our research.
And if we get that right,
then the impact on society is going to be all about building
greater resilience, resilience in our economy, resilience
for people, resilience in terms of society's well-being.
We recognize that we have an important role to play
in future energy and ensuring that the energy
that the country needs, that society needs
is more resilient, low carbon
and better placed for what the future of our society is looking for.
We also recognize that there are long term environmental
and climate challenges, which actually we have a huge role to play
in resolving the better understanding we have of the carbon cycle,
of how ice melting and sea level rise and works.
The better we can plan for society to either help
manage our impact on climate, environment or understand
how we have to adapt to things that we can't manage immediately.
An important part of that is how we as a society work together to use
the research knowledge to better manage our environment for future generations.
When it comes to natural hazards and risk,
this is something that GNS Science has been working on for quite some time,
and it will continue to be something that we work on
because we live on a very active plate boundary
on an island as part of a bigger continent under the water.
And that brings with it a number of natural processes
that generate hazards, which in turn generates risk for society.
Importantly, our roadmap is about people.
GNS exists because there are people on the surface of the planet,
not because the planet has a surface.
If there's one thing you take away from our Science Roadmap,
it's that we want to start a conversation about this.
We're looking out ten years.
This is about people.
This is about how important our research is for the betterment of society
and well-being.
And we just like to start those conversations with you to ensure
that we have really good impact from the research we're doing.