Category: News
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Second annual project meeting
The second annual Solar Tsunamis project meeting took place in Dunedin and online this year. 40 project members attended over 3 days to discuss the work completed over the last year, and ideas for future work. 15 people have joined the project since our inaugural meeting in February 2021, though sadly many New Zealand project…
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Summer fieldwork season begins
The Solar Tsunamis 2021/2022 summer fieldwork season has begun, with Wiebke Heise, Ted Bertrand and Malcolm Ingham from VUW and GNS undertaking magnetotelluric testing in Fiordland and the Southern Lakes via helicopter in November and December. 40 of the testing sites have been completed, with the current 8 to be removed in early 2022. The…
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Fiery experiments demostrate solar tsunamis
Toni Hoeta and Jessa Barder of Tūhura Otago Museum visited Te Wharekura O Arowhenua pupils in Invercargill in mid-November to debut demonstrations to explain the science of solar tsunamis and how solar storms could affect Earth and the electricity grid. Kyra Batchelor-Tata, pictured above, assisted Toni in simulating hydrogen fusion generates energy in a star. …
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Magnetometer deployed at Awarua Satellite Ground Station
The first of a series of magnetometer deloyments took place at Awarua Satellite Ground Station in October. The satellite ground station is owned and operated by Space Operations NZ, who are hosting the Solar Tsunamis magnetometer for the length of the project. Dr Aaron Hendry, from the Otago space physics group, lead the fieldtrip to…
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Logo design competition winner
Māikel Terekia is the winner of the logo design competition run by Tūhura Otago Museum with kura kaupapa and wharekura around Aotearoa earlier this year. 13 year old Māikel, a student from Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Horouta Wānanga in Gisbourne submitting his winning design. As part of his design being chosen, he was flown…
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Digitising 100 Year Old Scientific Records
New Zealand company NZMS – who specialise in digitising and preserving ephemeral documents – has been digitising GNS’s paper magnetograms from the New Zealand Magnetic Observatory at Eyrewell. Magnetograms have been collected continuously for New Zealand since 1916, and the paper records continue to 1994 after which they became digital, meaning almost 80 years worth…
