Research programmes

Scion leads a number of multi-year programmes that have their own websites and is involved in six National Science Challenges.

Current research programmes

• Growing Confidence in Forestry's Future (GCFF)
• Health Trees, Healthy Future (HTHF)
• Alternative Treatment for Wood Exports
• Giant Willow Aphid

National science challenges

• Building better homes, towns and cities. Ko ngā wā kāinga hei whakamāhorahora  
• New Zealand’s biological heritage. Ngā koiora tuku iho  
• Our land and water. Toitū te whenua, toi ora te wai
• Resilience to nature's challenges. Kia manawaroa – ngā ākina o te ao tūroa
• Science for technological innovation. Kia kotahi mai – te ao pūtaiao me te ao hangarau
• The deep south. Te kōmata o te tonga