Category: News
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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…
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Recent field work
Swampy Summit Trip – 21st March 2024 James and Johnny went up to Swampy Summit to diagnose and fix issues with the magnetometer, VLF antenna and riometer. The magnetometer was picking up vibrations from wind, which they suspected was due to a flax plant growing out of the side of the chamber. Since the magnetometer…
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A big weekend for the Solar Tsunamis team!
This blog is reproduced from the Otago Physics Department. Check the link for the latest updates. Above: An earlier photo of an aurora in Dunedin, courtesy of Ian Griffin An extremely large “G5” geomagnetic storm occurred on Saturday 11 May 2024, leading to widespread aurora seen all over the country and all over the globe.…
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Mikhail’s trip to the UK and Germany
In March-April 2024 Mikhail travelled to the UK and Germany. He visited Solar Tsunamis team member, the British Geological Survey (BGS), the Geomagnetic Observatory in Niemegk (NGK) and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, and delivered talks about his work on the Solar Tsunamis project at each place. Last but not least, he met up with some old friends. On…
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Welcome Dr Johnny Malone-Leigh
Dr Johnny Malone-Leigh has joined the Solar Tsunamis project, taking up the role of deployment lead on the MANA project (Magnetometer Array for New Zealand Aotearoa) . Johnny’s role will be focused on the managing the magnetometer network, which monitors magnetic field variations across New Zealand during space weather events and geomagnetic storms. This can…
