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

Science 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.

News

Landslides Send Carbon-Rich Soils into Long-Term Storage

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

Research Spotlights

Drilling into a Future Earthquake

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.

Researchers craft new imagery to map the geophysical mechanics behind earthquakes in New Zealand’s Hikurangi subduction zone

Research Spotlights

Imaging the Underlying Mechanics of New Zealand Earthquakes

by S. Witman 18 October 201711 January 2022

Researchers create a first-of-its-kind image to map electrical properties of rocks and minerals throughout the Hikurangi subduction zone.

For 17,000 years, rain has washed sediments down the slopes of New Zealand’s Southern Alps, depositing them in Lake Ohau.

Science Updates

Shifting Winds Write Their History on a New Zealand Lake Bed

by G. B. Dunbar, M. J. Vandergoes and R. H. Levy 16 May 201715 February 2023

A team of scientists finds a year-by-year record of climate history spanning the past 17,000 years at the bottom of a South Island lake.

Researchers examine New Zealand’s Alpine Fault as it nears the end of its seismic cycle.

Research Spotlights

Alteration Along the Alpine Fault Helps Build Seismic Strain

by Terri Cook 7 March 201724 March 2023

Detailed analysis of cores drilled through New Zealand's most dangerous on-land fault indicates that its permeability and strength are altered by mineral precipitation between seismic events.

Aerial view of Orakei basin, near Auckland, New Zealand, where a research team took core samples near the center of a maar, an ancient volcanic explosion crater.

Science Updates

Probing the History of New Zealand's Orakei Maar

by P. C. Augustinus 20 September 201623 September 2022

A team of scientists drilled into the bed within a northern New Zealand explosion crater lake to gain insights into volcanic hazards and past climates.

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Research Spotlights

Revising the Displacement History of New Zealand's Alpine Fault

by Terri Cook 22 July 201624 March 2023

A reinterpretation of structural and paleomagnetic data suggests that New Zealand's Alpine Fault accommodates a far greater percentage of geologically recent plate motion than previously thought.