Category: News
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Visit to the Chatham Islands
On Sunday 5 October, Solar Tsunamis team members Johnny Malone-Leigh, Marijn Kouwenhoven and Jessa Barder, and Anna Garden from the MacDiarmid Institute (University of Otago), left for the Chatham Islands on the RSV Evohe. Travelling by sea to the Chathams enabled the team to bring the Solar Tsunamis showcase along with them, as well as…
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Craig and Daniel visit “The Bunker”
On Wednesday 15 October, Craig Rodger and Daniel Mac Manus visited the National Crisis Management Centre, aka “The Bunker”, to attend the NEMA Science Advisory Panel Operational Readiness Forum. This event was a training opportunity for members of the NEMA hosted Science Advisory Panels to support increased awareness and understanding of the decision-making needs, structures,…
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Congratulations to Kristin!
Kristin Pratscher completed her oral exam for her PhD on the 16th of September at Victoria University of Wellington, with Malcolm Ingham and Wiebke Heise in attendance. It all went smoothly, and she only has minor corrections to make to her thesis. In Malcolm’s words:
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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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NZ leads world in solar storm preparedness, says ex-NASA centre boss
Dr Michelle Thaller, who has just retired from NASA after 27 years, visited Dunedin as a special guest of the New Zealand International Science Festival in June – July 2025. While she was visiting she caught up with the Solar Tsunamis project at our 2025 Annual Programme Meeting, and spoke to 1News about New Zealand’s…
