Pauline Lisa Harris is a New Zealand academic. As of 2021 she is a senior lecturer at the

Victoria University of Wellington Victoria University of Wellington ( mi, Te Herenga Waka) is a university in Wellington, New Zealand. It was established in 1897 by Act of Parliament, and was a constituent college of the University of New Zealand. The university is well kno ...

Academic career

After an undergraduate at

, Harris completed a MSc and a PhD titled ''' A search for gamma ray burst neutrinos using the

Radio Ice Cherenkov Experiment Radio Ice Cherenkov Experiment (RICE) was an experiment designed to detect the Cherenkov emission in the radio regime of the electromagnetic spectrum from the interaction of high energy neutrinos (greater than 1 P eV, so-called ultra-high e ...

at the University of Canterbury, before returning to the

. Harris received many external grants, including ''A Matauranga Maori Scientific Investigation of Traditional Maori Calendars'', ''Nga Takahuringa o te ao – The effect of Climate Change on Traditional Maori Calendars'' looking at calendars in

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and ''High-magnetic-field Plasma Propulsion Systems Enabling Next Generation Small Satellite Missions'' with Nick Long developing satellite propulsion systems.

Selected works

* Harris, Pauline, Rangi Matamua, Takirirangi Smith, Hoturoa Kerr, and Toa Waaka. "A review of Māori astronomy in Aotearoa-New Zealand." Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage 16, no. 3 (2013): 325–336. * Hēmi Whaanga, Pauline Harris, Rangi Matamua. "The science and practice of Māori astronomy and Matariki" New Zealand Science Review Vol 76 (1–2) 2020

Personal life

Harris is of

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, Rongomaiwahine, Ngāti Rakaipaka and

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descent.

References

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