Category: News
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MANA Field Work Wrap-up
Above: James Brundell and Xinhu Feng with solar panels. In 2024-25, Johnny Malone-Leigh has made a number of trips to different MANA sites to work on the MANA network magnetometers. Over two field trips in November and December 2024, he was joined by James Brundell, PhD student Xinhu Feng, and summer student James Elford, in…
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NEMA Exercise Tahu-nui-a-Rangi
Over 5-6 November, NEMA hosted a national exercise simulating a severe space weather event to test New Zealand’s readiness to respond to and recover from its potential cascading effects, ensuring robust coordination across agencies and sectors. The scenario for this exercise was based on Daniel Mac Manus’ PhD research and the outputs of the Solar…
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Mikhail’s trip to Germany and European Space Weather Week in Sweden
Above: Mikhail and Pauline Dredger representing the Solar Tsunamis project at European Space Weather Week. In October and November, Mikhail travelled to Germany and Sweden to meet with collaborators and attend European Space Weather Week (ESWW) in Umeå. GFZ in Potsdam, Germany from Oct 20 to 23 At GFZ in Potsdam, Mikhail delivered a seminar…
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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:
