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Environmental risk manager

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Dan is your environmental risk manager role model. When he isn’t wearing green wigs (you’ll get this later), Dan (Ngāti Maniapoto, Waikato-Tainui) is an Earth systems scientist at the University of Auckland. He works with communities to help realise their dreams and solve their challenges. Some recent and current projects include trying to listen to rivers, understanding how taniwha can help keep us safe and looking at how what we do on land impacts our oceans. When not doing research or teaching Dan might be cycling with his whānau, surfing, paddle boarding, hiking or fishing.

Resources:

Introducing the game

  • Introduction video – part 1 – YouTube video

  • Introduction video – part 2 – YouTube video

Mission 1 – Drilling for geothermal energy 

  • Environmental risk manager 1970s – YouTube video

  • Geothermal Drillers Save Planet Earth: Environmental Risk Manager – PDF

  • Geothermal Drillers Save Planet Earth drilling location – game map

Mission 2 – Energy from magma

  • Introduction to the future – 2030s – YouTube video

  • Environmental Risk Manager 2030s – YouTube video

  • Magma Drillers Save Planet Earth: Environmental Risk Manager – PDF

  • Magma Drillers Save Planet Earth drilling location – game map

Text courtesy of Magma Drillers Save Planet Earth

Image drawn by Elizabeth Mordensky

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