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Three auroral images taken by a citizen scientist in Dunedin, New Zealand.
Posted inEditors' Highlights

Uncovering the Mysterious STEVE Aurora

by Gang Lu 7 June 20226 June 2022

Scientists present the first direct observations on the rapid evolution of a bright red auroral arc into a thin white-mauve arc known as STEVE.

View over open ocean water with clouds tinted pink by a sunrise and a distant, lone mountain on the horizon
Posted inScience Updates

“Landslide Graveyard” Holds Clues to Long-Term Tsunami Trends

by Suzanne Bull, Sally J. Watson, Jess Hillman, Hannah E. Power and Lorna J. Strachan 3 June 20223 June 2022

A new project looks to unearth information about and learn from ancient underwater landslides buried deep beneath the seafloor to support New Zealand’s resilience to natural hazards.

Posted inNews

Crowdsourced Weather Projects Boost Climate Science Research

by Jennifer Schmidt 2 June 20227 June 2022

Historic observations, manually transcribed from handwritten records, are giving scientists a fresh glimpse into Victorian era climate.

Perspective plot looking west across the Hikurangi margin (New Zealand) at the 3 km/s S-velocity isosurface contoured in depth.
Posted inEditors' Highlights

Adjoint Tomography Illuminates Hikurangi Margin Complexity

by Michael Bostock 21 April 202226 April 2022

Waveform inversion of regional earthquakes reveals velocity anomalies interpreted as subducting seamounts that control an enigmatic segmentation in plate coupling along the Hikurangi margin.

Image of a bearded and gloved man, Robert Mulvaney, with ice inside a metal corer.
Posted inNews

Māori Arrival in New Zealand Revealed in Antarctic Ice Cores

by Kate Evans 26 October 202121 March 2022

A new study shows smoke from fires set by the first inhabitants of Aotearoa from around 1300 left a mark in the ice 6,000 kilometers away, on an island off the Antarctic Peninsula.

Posted inResearch Spotlights

Subduction Initiation May Depend on a Tectonic Plate’s History

by David Shultz 21 June 202118 January 2022

New seismic imaging study of the Puysegur Trench aims to solve one of the last major questions in plate tectonics.

Figure illustrating how earthquake-induced infrasonic acoustic waves are generated at solid-air or water-air interfaces.
Posted inEditors' Highlights

Earthquake Rupture Solution is Up in the Air

by T. Parsons 28 May 202119 October 2021

Perhaps the most complex earthquake rupture ever studied is further constrained by signals from Earth’s ionosphere.

A yellow DART buoy being lowered overboard
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Ocean Sensors Record Rare Triple Tsunami near New Zealand

by Katherine Kornei 29 April 202116 March 2022

A new suite of DART buoys in the South Pacific Ocean spotted waves set in motion by three tsunamigenic earthquakes that occurred within hours of one another.

Figures showing modeling of fault related anisotropy
Posted inEditors' Highlights

Fault Related Anisotropy in the Hikurangi Subduction Zone

by A. Becel 13 January 202118 January 2022

A new study provides the first high-resolution three-dimensional anisotropic P-wave velocity model of the shallow part of the Northern Hikurangi subduction zone offshore New Zealand.

Tourists take photos of black clouds during the eruption at Whakaari/White Island in 2019.
Posted inNews

Can Volcano Forecasting Make Visiting Whakaari Safe Again?

by Jenessa Duncombe 10 December 202028 October 2021

Last year’s explosive eruption at the New Zealand volcano tragically took tourists by surprise.

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