Category: News
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Speaking tour – Aurora: The Science and the Splendour
It’s that time of year when aurora are becoming clearer in our skies and fantastic photo opportunities await. From 26 June to 2 July 2023, Tūhura Otago Museum Director Dr Ian Griffin, Craig Rodger and Toni Hoeta travelled around the South Island to deliver a series of talks about where to find aurora and techniques…
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Visit to BGS
In mid-June 2023 Craig Rodger travelled to the UK and visited our Solar Tsunamis research programme team members. He joined them in Edinburgh, hosted by the Geomagnetism Team at the British Geological Survey (BGS). During the visit, he was shown the historical magnetic field measurements of the 1859 Carrington event, stored in their data archive.…
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Third Annual Project Meeting
In late January 2023 the “Year 3” meeting of the Solar Tsunamis research programme was held in Wellington, hosted by our colleagues from GNS Science Te Pū Ao. The meeting was held in the conference facilities in Te Papa, and included visits to GNS (including the National Geohazards Monitoring Centre for New Zealand), and Transpower…
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First Injection Campaign
It can be challenging to measure the real world effects of Geomagnetically Induced Currents (GICs) on the electrical grid, because researchers and engineers have to wait until solar activity causes a significant geomagnetic disturbance in the Earth’s magnetic field. Having no control over when these events might happen or how extreme they can be places…
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Daniel Mac Manus hands in PhD thesis
Today (4th Jan) Daniel Mac Manus submitted his PhD thesis – a great way to start 2023! Daniel has been working on his thesis research for a little under 4 years, which has involved some strong collaboration with our industry partners from Transpower New Zealand. The upshot of that was a recent paper in AGU’s Space Weather journal, looking…
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GNS Installs Northlands First 8 LEMI Instruments
In October 2022, Kristin Pratscher, Wiebke Heise and Malcolm Ingham installed the first 8 LEMI instruments in Northland and the remote reference site in the Kaingaroa forest. They also scouted some sites for the next fieldtrip scheduled in mid-November 2022 and found a place to store some equipment in Auckland (a friend of Malcolm Ingham).…
