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University of Auckland Masters student, Natasha Ngadi, used microscopic fossils to uncover new insights about the o...
28 May 2024
Scientists are using their cutting-edge research into Hikurangi Subduction Zone earthquake forecasting to inspire h...
20 May 2024
Researchers are putting earthquake forecasting models under the microscope in their latest research, Forecasting fu...
2 April 2024
This February and March, experts will be travelling Te Ika-a-Māui/the North Island, from Bay of Plenty to Wellingt...
5 February 2024
University of Ottawa PhD student Taylor Tracey Kyryliuk, set sail on the NIWA Research Vessel Tangaroa for five fas...
21 December 2023
University of Ottawa PhD student Taylor Tracey Kyryliuk, set sail on the NIWA Research Vessel Tangaroa for five fas...
20 December 2023
University of Ottawa PhD student Taylor Tracey Kyryliuk, set sail on the NIWA Research Vessel Tangaroa for five fas...
19 December 2023
University of Ottawa PhD student Taylor Tracey Kyryliuk, set sail on the NIWA Research Vessel Tangaroa for five fas...
18 December 2023
An international team of scientists are setting off on a voyage to paint a clearer picture of our earthquake and ts...
31 October 2023
Napier communities are invited to help researchers and scientists improve their computer-based tsunami evacuation m...
14 August 2023
Masters’ student Madison Clarke has uncovered evidence of multiple volcanic eruptions over the last one million y...
24 July 2023
Scientists are about to embark on the largest seafloor geodetic and seismological instrument deployment ever carrie...
10 October 2022
University of Auckland Honours student Natasha Ngadi is studying foraminifera fossils to determine past sediment tr...
3 October 2022
University of Auckland PhD student, Laura McDonald, is seeking to understand our ocean paleoclimate, and what it co...
15 August 2022
Microscopic fossils are being used to build a picture of our past oceans to help scientists understand how climate ...
12 July 2022
For the past five years, scientists from 16 countries have been studying Aotearoa New Zealand’s largest and most ...
13 June 2022
Masters’ student Madison Clarke will use a novel scanning technique to identify tiny, hidden deposits of volcanic...
31 May 2022
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has awarded $28,000 of their Resilience Fund to East Coast LAB for ...
18 May 2022
Ākonga/students in Tairāwhiti will be the first to see this year’s East Coast Life at the Boundary (LAB) Subduc...
9 May 2022
Cheyenne Christensen-Field, a researcher at Massey University’s Joint Centre for Disaster Research, found that kn...
24 March 2022
A team of scientists, led by Dr Craig Miller at GNS, are beginning an investigation of Aotearoa New Zealand’s nea...
10 February 2022
Scientists are studying close to one million years of history on the Hikurangi Subduction Zone, using a high-resolu...
6 December 2021
Scientists have begun studying a 500-metre long sediment core, retrieved from the Hikurangi Subduction Zone, Aotear...
28 October 2021
A team of scientists are at sea off the coast of Gisborne onboard NIWA research vessel Tangaroa, deploying sensors ...
18 October 2021
Scientists find that extinct, undersea volcanoes impact subduction zones and the earthquakes that occur there.
7 October 2021
Scientists say there is 26% chance of a magnitude 8 earthquake occurring on the southern portion of the Hikurangi s...
22 July 2021
Scientists from GNS Science and Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington are installing instruments acro...
3 June 2021
The Life at the Boundary Roadshow brings the latest Hikurangi subduction zone science and hazard impact information...
18 May 2021
Scientists are opening up the amazing world of science for year 7-9 school students and teachers in the Wairarapa, ...
6 May 2021
Students at Hatea-a-Rangi and Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Tokomaru in Tairāwhiti have been the first to take part in ...
30 April 2021
GNS Science, MetService and the Earthquake Commission (EQC) have joined forces to enhance real-time forecasting mod...
27 April 2021
Scientists have started digging several pits along the south Wairarapa Coast to unearth the secrets of previous ear...
14 April 2021
New Zealand and US scientists have collected new data offshore that may give new insights into the M7.3 earthquake ...
24 March 2021
A state-of-the-art underwater Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) called ROPOS is helping a team of New Zealand and US ...
10 March 2021
Scientists are calling on New Zealanders to become citizen seismologists to help determine whether a low-cost commu...
15 February 2021
Students from Raphael House Rudolf Steiner School became scientists for the day as they learnt about faults, earthq...
24 November 2020
Scientists from New Zealand, Japan, and the United States are currently involved in two back-to-back voyages to inv...
13 November 2020
Tamariki can now immerse themselves in the story of what to do in an earthquake and potential tsunami threat thanks...
29 October 2020
In late March, as the nation went into lockdown for COVID-19, local hazard education providers AF8 (Alpine Fault ma...
30 July 2020
You may have noticed New Zealand was significantly quieter during the COVID-19 lockdown. The noise from cars, emerg...
29 July 2020
“There’s no avoiding the fact that all of Aotearoa New Zealand is at risk of earthquakes, and all of our coasts...
17 July 2020
Researchers are collecting clues in the Pakuratahi Valley to determine when past Hikurangi subduction zone earthqua...
17 July 2020
Aotearoa New Zealand is a land shaped by immense plate boundary forces. Now, a new education cam...
9 June 2020
Scientists will beam their way into Kiwi’s homes next month, thanks to the 2020 East Coast LAB virtual talk serie...
29 May 2020
Sixty years ago, a tsunami caused by a magnitude 9.5 earthquake in southern Chile struck New Zealand – ultimately...
23 May 2020
Scientists searching for evidence of past earthquakes have dug a 90 metre long trench in Aramoana, southern Hawke...
13 March 2020
This event has unfortunately been CANCELLED. Hawke’s Bay people will get the cha...
10 March 2020
Scientists who study the seafloor use a wide range of data to get a more complete picture of complex natural proces...
6 March 2020
Kia ora koutou katoa. Ko Tessa Thomson tōku ingoa, Nō Ngāti Tukorehe ahau.This is my second blog entry since the...
6 March 2020
Earthquakes and slow slip events may be influenced by mountains on the ocean floor, or “seamounts”, according t...
4 March 2020
Earthquakes and slow slip events may be influenced by mountains on the ocean floor, or “seamounts”, according t...
4 March 2020
Scientists from GNS Science and Tokyo Institute of Technology will be installing instruments that measure the Earth...
14 February 2020
A newly-identified complex fault system north of Gisborne may shed new light on the risks of...
28 January 2020
Parents, teachers and students of early learning services and schools located in tsunami evacuation zones across th...
24 January 2020
Scientists are asking for help to find a few earthquake instruments, belonging to GNS Science and Columbia Universi...
6 January 2020
I recently graduated from the University of Otago with a Bachelor of Science double majoring in Geology and Oceanog...
18 December 2019
Kia ora koutou katoa. Ko Tessa Thomson tōku ingoa. Nō Ngāti Tukorehe ahau. I am currently attending Te Herenga ...
11 December 2019
Scientists from New Zealand and Japan are collaborating with Chorus in a pilot project to investigate the subductio...
3 December 2019
Despite their potential for large, dangerous eruptions, much remains to be discovered about the type of volcanoes k...
21 November 2019
Data collected from the Hikurangi subduction zone by an international team of scientists led by GNS Science shows t...
12 November 2019
Two of the country’s leading scientists will share the latest research into New Zealand’s largest and most acti...
5 November 2019
An international team of scientists sets off today onboard NIWA’s specialised research vessel Tangaroa to collect...
29 October 2019
Seven Napier communities are invited to a free public talk on Wednesday, 30 October to see the latest computer tsun...
25 October 2019
Analysis of seismic waves from the 2016 Kaikōura earthquake has enabled scientists to identify a body of softer ro...
22 October 2019
Members of the Lower Hutt community are invited to a free public talk at 7pm on Tuesday. 15 October at the Petone ...
8 October 2019
A chance discovery off the Gisborne coast five years ago is prompting a NIWA scientist to find out more about the l...
10 September 2019
Four of the country’s leading scientists will share the latest research into New Zealand’s largest and most act...
29 July 2019
Students from five Tairāwhiti schools will get a chance to bring science to life in the coming weeks and months as...
10 May 2019
Four of the country’s leading scientists will share the latest research into New Zealand’s largest and most act...
3 May 2019
Beneath the North Island of New Zealand there is a restless sleeper. Usually the sleeper is just breathing deeply b...
16 April 2019
A slow slip earthquake is currently taking place off the coast of Gisborne and Hawke’s Bay along the Hikurangi su...
5 April 2019
New Zealand sits on a subduction zone just like Japan does, and people should be prepared for the next large earthq...
4 April 2019
Scientists and researchers are encouraging Napier communities to help improve tsunami evacuation planning in their ...
6 March 2019
We’ve arrived back in Wellington to finish the US research ship Roger Revelle’s New Zealand tour. This was the ...
4 March 2019
Alec Yates is a Research Assistant at Victoria University of...
28 February 2019
Hawke’s Bay’s resilience and planning for natural hazards was given a boost today thanks to $420,000 in Ministr...
28 February 2019
Alec Yates is a Research Assistant at Victoria University of...
26 February 2019
A 100-kilometre long arrangement of earthquake sensors on the Raukumara Peninsula will help scientists build a clea...
25 February 2019
Alec Yates is a Research Assistant at Victoria University of...
24 February 2019
Alec Yates is a Research Assistant at Victoria University of...
22 February 2019
Alec Yates is a Research Assistant at Victoria University of...
21 February 2019
Seven Napier communities are invited to make tsunami evacuations easier, safer and quicker in a series of work...
19 February 2019
An underwater remotely operated vehicle (ROV) called Jason is helping an international team of scientists study the...
19 February 2019
We have completed our research and made out way back to Port in Auckland, New Zealand. Everyone is proud of the wor...
19 February 2019
Fluid flow meters are the foundation of this research project. These are instruments that we install on the sea flo...
17 February 2019
We have been using all of our scientific equipment and ingenuity to hunt for seeps. They form where there are crack...
15 February 2019
Every aspect of the research we are doing, and all of the samples we are collecting are vital to our understanding ...
14 February 2019
Scientists are exploring caves near Wairoa to develop a new method to date past earthquakes.This new method if succ...
13 February 2019
A significant proportion of New Zealand’s population is under increasing threat from sea-level rise – 300,000 r...
13 February 2019
A critical mission for this research project, is to get samples of sediment deep beneath the seafloor to track deep...
11 February 2019
Researchers are carrying out soil testing across Hawke’s Bay to help better understand the potential shaking char...
11 February 2019
We collect samples of sediment called cores from the seafloor using a giant straw shaped cookie cutter or by taking...
9 February 2019
Mapping is the first thing we do at every location. We are mapping the ocean to locate bubbles, because bubbles wil...
2 February 2019
One of the main goals of this voyage is to measure and study pore water to figure out trapped water’s role in all...
1 February 2019
We are on the New Zealand subduction zone to study the causes of earthquakes in the region. A subduction zone is wh...
22 January 2019
We have finally departed Wellington aboard the US research vessel Revelle, on its second of three voyages studying ...
18 January 2019
Planning for a rupture of New Zealand’s largest fault - the Hikurangi subduction zone - has kicked into motion, w...
10 January 2019
Almost twice as many people received the test Civil Defence emergency alert to their mobile phone at its last test ...
7 January 2019
The US research ship Roger Revelle will be leaving CentrePort today for the first of three scientific voyages from ...
16 December 2018
A Napier researcher is carrying out soil testing across Hawke’s Bay to help inform and improve the assessment of ...
30 November 2018
Hawke’s Bay people had the opportunity to learn more about New Zealand’s largest fault, the Hikurangi subductio...
30 November 2018
Geophysicist Laura Wallace of GNS Science was today named as a
1 November 2018
Valuable insights into the risk of earthquakes and tsunami from New Zealand’s largest fault line will be gained a...
26 October 2018
For the past couple of weeks, teams of earthquake scientists have been visiting remote sites in the region around G...
25 October 2018
An international team of scientists sets off this weekend to place earthquake monitoring instruments along New Zeal...
5 October 2018
This week a team of researchers and scientists from GNS Science, Massey University and East Coast LAB (Life at the ...
14 September 2018
More than 250 early learning services and schools in tsunami evacuation zones along the East Coast are being encour...
3 September 2018
Hawke’s Bay people will get the chance to learn more about New Zealand’s latest coastal hazards and sea level s...
13 July 2018
Hawke’s Bay Civil Defence Emergency Management is leading a national project aimed at ensuring the country is cap...
11 July 2018
Children and disastersChildren pose an interesting challenge when it comes to Disaster Risk Reduct...
28 June 2018
Scientists have asked for public help in finding three ocean bottom seismometers, on loan from Japan, that failed t...
23 May 2018
Young scientists have been making tsunami waves in the wave tank, shaking things up with their ‘earthquake proof ...
15 May 2018
Stretching down the length of the North Island’s east coast lies a sleeping geological giant - the Hikurangi subd...
5 May 2018
The research ship JOIDES resolution is undertaking scientific drilling research from March-May 2018 ...
29 April 2018
Napier will get the opportunity to learn more about New Zealand’s first offshore earthquake observatories that ar...
19 April 2018
Two world-class subseafloor observatories are now operating at the northern Hikurangi subduction zone where the Pac...
18 April 2018
Students at Maraekakaho School have been using two popular children’s pastimes to help their community become mor...
17 April 2018
Senior students from Tolaga Bay Area School and Lytton High School were scientists for a day during a recent earth ...
19 March 2018
Two Gisborne Boys’ High School students, accompanied by their teacher, toured the research vessel JOIDES Resoluti...
16 March 2018
The 2016 Kaikōura Earthquake has shown that more than 100 million dumptrucks of mud and sand flow through ...
16 March 2018
An ambitious mission to lower two sub-seafloor observatories into the Hikurangi subduction zone east of the North I...
12 March 2018
Scientists have completed the retrieval of 89 land-based sesimometer stations that have been installed in the Gisbo...
5 March 2018
A team of scientists from California State Polytechnic University Pomona has been mapping and sampling marine terra...
5 March 2018
Hawke’s Bay is known for its beautiful, sunny beaches and easily accessible coastline. This draws many people to ...
2 March 2018
QC is providing $61,000 in research funding to support its mission of reducing the impact of natural disasters on p...
19 February 2018
Communities on the East Coast of the North Island will have the opportunity to learn more about the 2011 Japan ea...
16 February 2018
Where are tsunamis likely to flow in Porirua, and what does that mean for where you put buil...
15 February 2018
After 32 days at sea on board the R/V Marcus G. Langseth, data acquisition is finally complete. It’s been quite a...
9 February 2018
The US research ship, Marcus Langseth is at Napier Port today (Friday 9 February) after finishing...
9 February 2018
Teachers have the opportunity to sign up for a live 'ship-to-shore' video experience with scientists on bo...
1 February 2018
There are 3 places on board where we can steer the ship. First and foremost is the bridge. This is where either the...
30 January 2018
Hawke’s Bay children are being given the chance to learn more about the forces beneath their feet that cause eart...
24 January 2018
We commonly get asked about marine life when conducting these sort of scientific studies. The environment is very i...
24 January 2018
With all the land seismometers and OBS instruments now in place and waiting patiently for the data to roll in,...
15 January 2018
The research ship JOIDES resolution is undertaking scientific drilling research from Dec-Jan 2018 and March-May 20...
4 January 2018
Seismometers come in many shapes and sizes. In this project we’re using three types; Guralp 6TDs, GF...
27 December 2017
With our seismometers tested, kit assembled and training complete, we split into five teams and hit the road on a m...
22 December 2017
Scientists on board the research vessel JOIDES Resolution have carefully lowered the winning entries from the Eas.....
19 December 2017
We have lift off! Years of planning, months of preparation and hours of travelling have culminated in a keen team o...
15 December 2017
A project aimed at developing a coordinated response to a rupture of the Hikurangi subduction zo...
27 November 2017
East Coast communities will soon get the opportunity to delve into the details of the research ship work occurring ...
27 November 2017
Te Hapara Primary School and Gisborne Boys’ High take out top honours in the recent Hikurangi Plate Boundary comp...
24 November 2017
An ambitious scientific expedition involving 30 scientists from around the world leaves Perth next week bound for t...
21 November 2017
Scientists have been busy over the last month installing 88 portable seismographs across the Raukumara area in Gisb...
3 November 2017
Over a thousand school children from across New Zealand have been taking part in a virtual field trip to the Hikura...
2 November 2017
A tsunami reporting station situated in the Pacific Ocean that is currently off line is to b...
25 October 2017
A Tairāwhiti (Gisborne) region school competition is now open to raise awareness of the Hikurangi plate boundary, ...
25 October 2017
Scientists are preparing for New Zealand’s largest ever deployment of seafloor earthquake recording instruments i...
17 October 2017
It is well known that earthquakes can trigger tsunami. We’ve all seen the warning signs: “If an earthquake is l...
11 October 2017
Hawke’s Bay mayors, councillors, council staff, taiwhenua representatives and Civil Defence staff from throughout...
5 October 2017
This weekend I’ll be joining a team of scientists from NZ, USA and Japan aboard NIWA’s research vessel, Tangaro...
23 June 2017
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