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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…
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European Space Weather Week 2023
In mid-November Craig and Daniel Mac Manus left Dunedin to travel to Europe. The main focus of the trip was the 19th European Space Weather Week (ESWW2023) which occurred in Toulouse, France. Craig and Daniel both presented posters – Craig’s on the Solar Tsunamis research project, and Daniel on GIC mitigation. Solar Tsunamis research team members Mark Clilverd, Andrew Lapthorn, Tim…
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Expedition 15 to Antarctica
On 1 November, 2023 James Brundell and Daniel Mac Manus took off from Christchurch heading for Scott Base, Antarctica. James and Daniel make up Otago Space Physics Expedition 15, which was hoped to involve only a short trip to Scott Base. The main goal was to examine noise levels on our VLF electric field antenna near Scott Base, but also to collect…
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National Grid UK Technical Talk
On the 8th of November, Mark Clilverd from the British Antarctic Survey delivered an online seminar to National Grid, an energy company operating in the UK and US, titled “Managing the impact of solar flares in the UK – preparing for an extreme event“. There was much interest in this technical talk, and it was…
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Welcome to new team members
Welcome to Xinhu Feng 1 October 2023: The Space Physics research group is happy to welcome Mr. Xinhu Feng who is joining the Solar Tsunamis project as a new PhD student. Xinhu is going to be supervised by Prof. Craig Rodger, working on reactive power during space weather events. Welcome to Xinhu, both to our…
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General Lecture at URSI GASS 2023 in Japan
The 35th General Assembly of the International Union of Radio Science, held in Sapporo Japan, included a few general lectures given to the whole assembly by invited speakers – the objective being to acquaint an international gathering of specialist radio scientists with the “state of the art” in related radio fields. Craig Rodger was invited…
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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.…
