Category: News
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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…
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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…
