Category: News
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The Solar Tsunamis team at IAGA/IASPEI 2025
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…
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MBIE Endeaviour Fund awarded to Solar Tsunamis “Next Generation”
Out of 154 proposals submitted to the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment Endeavour Fund in 2025, 19 were awarded funding. One of these was the University of Otago Department of Physics project – Solar tsunamis: Next-generation space weather prediction and response for New Zealand. (This proposal is known to the Solar Tsunamis team as…
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Solar Tsunamis at Parliament House
On the 26th of March, the Solar Tsunamis showcase was installed in the Banquet Hall at Parliament House in Wellington, hosted by Scott Willis MP. A number of MPs and stakeholders were invited to a reception event with speeches by Scott, Craig Rodger, Marijn Kouwenhoven from Tūhura Otago Museum, and Andrew Renton from Transpower. The…
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Space Weather photography exhibition opens at Lloyd’s of London
In early March Lloyd’s of London had a series of space weather information events. Craig Rodger was asked to attend these to provide information on the risk to electricity networks and supply. One of the events was the launch of the “Life in the Sun’s Atmosphere: From Disruption to Resilience” photography exhibition by Max Alexander, in Lloyd’s London HQ.…
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Second Injection Campaign
For more detailed background information about the Solar Tsunamis Injection Campaigns, please see the post about our first Injection Campaign, conducted in January 2023. The second injection campaign took place in early January 2025 using the High Voltage DC link (HVDC) and the substation earth grid at Haywards, Wellington. The team members present included Andrew…
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Craig’s “big trip”!
During much of October and some of November this year, Craig went around the world in 27 days – first visiting Christchurch for the 2024 National Lifeline Utilities Forum; then to College Park in Maryland for the 2024 Workshop on Geomagnetically Induced Currents; then to London to discuss Solar Tsunamis research work with space weather-linked…
