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Aerial image of the braided channels of the Waimakariri River
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The River’s Lizard Tail: Braiding Indigenous Knowledges with Geomorphology

by Kate Evans 14 September 20208 October 2021

Indigenous Knowledges can be accurate, rigorous, and precise, say researchers in New Zealand, and they can help geomorphologists see landscapes in a new, richer way.

Wide image of a group of researchers looking through slabs of rock in a ditch in a dry paddock
Posted inNews

Ancient “Pickled” Leaves Give a Glimpse of Global Greening

by Kate Evans 3 September 202026 January 2023

A unique fossil lake bed in New Zealand has revealed insights into global climate under elevated levels of carbon dioxide but is now off-limits to scientists.

In September 2009, a tsunami triggered by a magnitude 8.1 earthquake in the Tonga Trench inundated towns in American Samoa.
Posted inScience Updates

Sensor Network Warns of Stealth Tsunamis

by B. Fry, S.-J. McCurrach, K. Gledhill, W. Power, M. Williams, M. Angove, D. Arcas and C. Moore 26 May 20206 June 2022

A next-generation network of seismic and wave sensors in the southwestern Pacific will warn coastal residents of an approaching tsunami before they see the wave.

Drillers in hardhats work on the rig floor of a research vessel.
Posted inNews

Getting to the Bottom of Slow-Motion Earthquakes

Adityarup Chakravorty, freelance science writer by Adityarup Chakravorty 24 April 20202 December 2022

For close to 20 years, slow-motion earthquakes have been an enigma. Core samples provide new clues to their origins.

This aerial view shows Lake Taupō amid the whenua (land) of Ngāti Tūwharetoa on the North Island of New Zealand.
Posted inScience Updates

Implications of a Supervolcano’s Seismicity

by F. Illsley-Kemp, S. J. Barker, B. Smith and C. J. N. Wilson 5 March 202029 September 2021

Last year’s rumblings beneath New Zealand’s Taupō supervolcano, the site of Earth’s most recent supereruption, lend new urgency to research and outreach efforts in the region.

A synthetic seep generator for calibrating gas bubble echo sounding data is deployed into New Zealand’s Bay of Plenty.
Posted inScience Updates

Gas Bubble Forensics Team Surveils the New Zealand Ocean

by G. Lamarche, Y. Le Gonidec, V. Lucieer, Y. Ladroit, T. Weber, A. Gaillot, E. Heffron, S. Watson and A. Pallentin 26 September 201929 March 2023

An international research group recorded the acoustic signatures of gas bubbles rising from a hydrothermal vent field to gather clues about greenhouse gases escaping into the atmosphere.

River through a green mountain valley
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Dry Rivers Offer a Preview of Climate Change

by S. Larned 19 September 20198 November 2022

As the climate warms, many rivers that are currently perennial may become intermittent.

A research vessel traverses Sydney Harbor with the Sydney Opera House in the background.
Posted inScience Updates

Australia–New Zealand Plan for Future Scientific Ocean Drilling

by M. F. Coffin, J. Parr and L. Armand 29 May 201914 March 2023

Australian–New Zealand IODP Consortium Ocean Planet Workshop; Canberra, Australia, 14–16 April 2019

Landslide in southern Haiti was triggered by the magnitude 7.0 earthquake that struck the country in 2010.
Posted inNews

Landslides Send Carbon-Rich Soils into Long-Term Storage

Katherine Kornei, Science Writer by Katherine Kornei 10 September 20183 March 2023

Earthquake-triggered landslides move soils down steep slopes and deposit the sediments near rivers, sequestering the carbon contained within them for millions of years.

Researchers drill into New Zealand’s Alpine Fault to better understand fault structure and earthquake physics
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Drilling into a Future Earthquake

Alexandra Branscombe by A. Branscombe 26 February 20186 October 2021

Researchers drill into a fault that is anticipated to rupture in coming decades to study fault structure and earthquake physics.

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