The Meteorological Society of New Zealand holds its 2026 Annual Conference on 25-27 November 2026 at Victoria University of Wellington's Kelburn campus, themed 'Connecting Weather, Climate and Earth Systems', with the Society's 47th AGM run alongside it.
The Meteorological Society of New Zealand Annual Conference 2026 is a three-day professional and academic conference running 25-27 November 2026 at the Kelburn campus of Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington. According to the Society's event listing, the 2026 edition carries the theme 'Connecting Weather, Climate and Earth Systems' and draws contributions from across New Zealand's weather, climate and Earth-science communities. It is the Society's flagship annual gathering and is paired, as usual, with the Society's Annual General Meeting.
The conference is organised by the Meteorological Society of New Zealand (MetSoc), the national learned society for meteorology and allied Earth sciences, which lists its registered address at Mosgiel. MetSoc has a long-running annual conference series - the 2026 meeting is tied to the Society's 47th Annual General Meeting (held at lunchtime on 26 November), and the Society's own events calendar records annual conferences stretching back through 2025, 2024, 2023 and earlier, alongside hosting of larger international meetings such as the Southern Hemisphere Meteorology and Oceanography (ICSHMO) conferences.
The conference is aimed at meteorologists, climate and Earth-system researchers, operational forecasters and students. Per the official event page, topics span atmospheric circulation, operational meteorology, hazards, remote sensing, and the history of New Zealand meteorology and oceanography. The programme is built from posters (with a one-minute introduction), 20-minute standard oral presentations including Q&A, and five-minute lightning talks. The Society places clear emphasis on student participation, offering student presenters guaranteed acceptance for thesis-based oral talks plus attendance bursaries and travel support, including a new grant for incoming students from developing countries.
The confirmed venue is the Kelburn campus of Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington, with sessions listed in room MacLaurin 101 on the Society's conference information page. The Kelburn campus sits on the hills immediately above central Wellington, a short cable-car or bus ride from the CBD, which keeps delegates close to the city's hotel stock, restaurants and the waterfront for the conference's social programme - a welcome function on the evening of Wednesday 25 November and a social dinner on Thursday 26 November (dinner venue listed as to be confirmed). The Society notes on its conference page that accommodation details are to be made available.
As the recurring national conference of New Zealand's meteorological community, this is a reliable, calendar-anchored association event on the Wellington business-events schedule. Association conferences of this kind - university-hosted, research-driven, tied to an AGM - are steady contributors to the capital's shoulder-season activity, bringing domestic and some international academic delegates into Wellington in late November. Its continuity (a decades-long series with a fixed annual cadence) and its use of a major university campus as host make it a representative example of the mid-sized academic-society conference segment that underpins much of New Zealand's association MICE calendar.
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