Category: News
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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…
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A spectacular night for auroras
On Friday the 11th of October 2024, several of the magnetometers in the Solar Tsunamis MANA network recorded a very strong geomagnetic disturbance in the wake of a large Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) emitted from the Sun a few days before. The plots below show the strength of the horizontal magnetic field during the storm…
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The showcase visits Raetihi Marae
It has been a very busy year for the Solar Tsunamis showcase and the Tūhura Otago Museum team. After being installed in the Papakura Museum in South Auckland, the exhibition and planetarium film then travelled to Raetihi, the hometown of former Solar Tsunamis outreach coordinator Toni Hoeta. Wiebke Heise from GNS Science and Kristin Pratscher from…
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Solar Tsunamis meeting with Firstgas – 2024
On 19-20 of August, the Solar Tsunamis team had their annual meeting with Firstgas in New Plymouth. Malcolm Ingham and Tim Divett from Victoria University of Wellington have been working closely with Firstgas to model the response of gas pipeline network electrical systems to Geomagnetically Induced Currents (GICs) caused by space weather, and they shared…
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Solar Tsunamis on the big… round… screen!
As part of their work on Solar Tsunamis outreach and engagement, the team at Tūhura Otago Museum has been working with artists at Ariki Creative and animation director Oana Jones (University of Canterbury) to develop a planetarium show. It had its first screenings at MOTAT in Auckland last month, and will be heading to Papakura…
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Solar Tsunamis roadshow and talks at MOTAT
The Museum of Transport and Technology in Auckland started hosting the Solar Tsunamis roadshow from Saturday 15 June 2024. They also had a “Weather Day” on Sunday 16 June 2024, and Dr Johnny Malone-Leigh and Craig Rodger travelled to MOTAT to give public talks on aurora and space weather. They met up with Marijn Kouwenhoven…
