Category: News
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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…
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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.…
