{"id":2,"date":"2026-03-23T15:45:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T02:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/strand2\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2026-06-01T14:29:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T02:29:14","slug":"sample-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/strand2\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to STRAND2 Project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Financial Stability and Improved Policies through Spatio-temporal Hybrid Climate Stress Tests<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Welcome to the official research website for our STRAND project, hosted at the <strong>University of Otago<\/strong> and supported by a Ministry of Business, Innovation &amp; Employment (MBIE) Smart Ideas Project (2025-2027) research funding ($1,000,000), in New Zealand. This initiative represents a critical leap forward in how we quantify and manage climate risks in Aotearoa New Zealand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"660\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/strand2\/files\/2026\/03\/colored-sketch-of-the-team-1024x660.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-41\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/strand2\/files\/2026\/03\/colored-sketch-of-the-team-1024x660.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/strand2\/files\/2026\/03\/colored-sketch-of-the-team-300x193.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/strand2\/files\/2026\/03\/colored-sketch-of-the-team-768x495.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/strand2\/files\/2026\/03\/colored-sketch-of-the-team-1536x990.png 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/strand2\/files\/2026\/03\/colored-sketch-of-the-team-2048x1320.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Traditional climate stress testing often operates in silos: Either focusing on hyper-local physical damage (bottom-up) or broad economic indicators (top-down). Our research idea is to bridge this gap through hybridization. By integrating these two perspectives, we are expanding the range of influences considered in real-estate and financial system stability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">This project is a direct evolution of our foundational work under the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/strandproject\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/strandproject\/\">Marsden Fund STRAND 1 Project (2021\u20132024)<\/a><\/strong>, moving from understanding fundamental risks to building the integrated models required for systemic resilience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Financial Stability and Improved Policies through Spatio-temporal Hybrid Climate Stress Tests Welcome to the official research website for our STRAND project, hosted at the University of Otago and supported by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51353,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/strand2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/strand2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/strand2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/strand2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51353"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/strand2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/strand2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/strand2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}