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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…
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Toni Hoeta Joins Solar Tsunami Project
Toni Hoeta has recently joined the Solar Tsunami team as Science Engagement Co-Ordinator Māori at Tūhura Otago Museum. Toni will be leading the programme’s outreach along with colleagues from Tūhura Otago Museum. Despite being new to the job Toni has already given multiple interviews, which are linked below, and joined fellow scientists and science communicators on…
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Field Work Begins
As of January 2021 fieldwork to investigate the electrical conductivity of the ground around New Zealand has begun. Project members Wiebke Heise (GNS), Ted Bertrand (GNS), and Malcolm Ingham (VUW) are undertaking a years-long fieldwork campaign to make magnetotelluric measurements in Otago/Southland and Northland, as these have yet to be measured.
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First Annual Project Meeting
The first annual Solar Tsunami Endeavour Programme meeting was held this week at the University of Otago. New Zealand based members travelled to Dunedin to present on their ongoing involvement in the project, while overseas members attended by Zoom.
