The IAGA / IASPEI Joint Scientific Meeting 2025 was held in Lisbon, Portugal from 31 August to 5 September 2025. Most of the University of Otago Solar Tsunamis team presented talks and posters at the conference about various aspects of the programme, including working with industry partners, the MANA magnetometer network, the outreach designed by Tūhura Otago Museum, and effects on electrical infrastructure. Other work was presented by collaborators from NZ and the UK. To see further details about the work presented, please see the book of abstracts.
- Geomagnetically Induced Current research in New Zealand: the Solar Tsunamis research programme
Craig Rodger, Daniel Mac Manus, Andrew Renton, Mark A. Clilverd, Tim Divett, Lisa Evans, Xinhu Feng, Wiebke Heise, Marijn Kouwenhoven, Malcolm Ingham, Mikhail Kruglyakov, Andrew Lapthorn, Johnny Malone-Leigh, Tanja Petersen, Kristin Pratscher, Gemma Richardson, Mark Sigley, Ting Wang - Implementing GIC mitigation during the May 2024 ‘Gannon’ G5 storm: Research informed response by the New Zealand Power Network
Daniel Mac Manus, Craig Rodger, Andrew Renton, Victor Lo, John Malone-Leigh, Tanja Petersen, Matthew Copland, Aaron Hendry, Mark Clilverd, Gemma Richardson - Magnetic field observations from the May and October 2024 geomagnetic storms in New Zealand using the MANA magnetometer array
John Malone-Leigh, Craig J Rodger, Aaron T Hendry, James Brundell, Daniel Mac Manus, Tanja Petersen, Lisa Evans, Mikhail Kruglyakov, Luke Easterbrook-Clarke, Xinhu Feng - GIC-driven reactive power responses of a single phase unit transformer during multiple geomagnetic disturbances
Xinhu Feng, Craig Rodger, Mark A. Clilverd, Daniel H. Mac Manus, Victor Lo, Andrew Renton, Michael Dalzell, James B. Brundell - Increasing community resilience to the space weather hazard in New Zealand through public engagement and outreach about Solar Tsunamis
Marijn Kouwenhoven, Jessa Barder, Lisa Evans, Craig Rodger - Cumulative and extreme storm risks to the New Zealand gas pipeline network
Malcolm Ingham, Tim Divett, Mark Sigley, Craig Rodger - Geomagnetically induced currents in the North Island of Aotearoa, New Zealand
Kristin Pratscher, Malcolm Ingham, Wiebke Heise, Ted Bertrand, Mikhail Kruglyakov, Daniel Mac Manus, Tim Divett, Craig Rodger, Johnny Malone-Leigh, Michael Dalzell - Revolutionizing geomagnetic data for space weather monitoring in New Zealand
Tanja Petersen, Jonathan- B. Hanson, Craig- J. Rodger, Luke Easterbrook-Clarke, Stewart Hardie, Johnny Malone-Leigh, Pam Scowen, Sapi Karalliyadda, Ting Wang - Validating the Differential Magnetometer Method for GIC observations during a transformer stress test at Haywards substation, Wellington, New Zealand
Juliane Huebert, Ciaran Beggan, Gemma Richardson, Andrew Lapthorn, Mike Dalzell, Craig Rodger
Above: A team dinner at Café Império in Lisbon, attended by Mark Clilverd, Daniel Mac Manus, Lisa Evans, Tim Divett, Xinhu Feng, Johnny Malone-Leigh, Craig Rodger, Gillian Turner and Malcolm Ingham
Below: Some of the Solar Tsunamis team assembled at a “Tsunami Meeting Point”; team members at lunch in Lisbon; a group visiting Sintra; and the view from the Moorish Fort in Sintra.
