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Evidence Of Recent Undersea Eruption Off NZ Coast
Thursday, 12 March 2009, 11:44 am | GNS Science
Scientists have returned from exploring three submarine volcanoes in the Kermadec Arc where they found evidence of a recent large eruption at one of the volcanoes. While mapping the Rumble III volcano, they found a marked change in the shape of ... More >>
Hot science comes to Wellington
Thursday, 8 January 2009, 10:04 am | GNS Science
Over the next two weeks, the world's leading authorities on the history of climate change will converge on Wellington for a conference on the greenhouse climate of the Paleogene period, 65 to 35 million years ago More >>
Scientists To Probe Demise Of Easter Islanders
Thursday, 25 September 2008, 2:42 pm | GNS Science
A New Zealand-led group of scientists plans to use sophisticated analytical techniques to try and solve the mystery of the sudden collapse of the population on Easter Island in pre-European times. More >>
New Zealand companies honoured for disaster work
Wednesday, 10 September 2008, 3:30 pm | GNS Science
A Wellington-based business group of specialists has been honoured for its work in Indonesia following the devastating tsunami and earthquake. More >>
International disaster experts visit Wellington
Sunday, 27 July 2008, 5:02 pm | GNS Science
The storm that lashed New Zealand this weekend has coincided with the start of a major gathering of disaster experts in Wellington for a four-day conference. More >>
Bone Find Shows Largest Dinosaur Lived In NZ
Thursday, 26 June 2008, 11:39 am | GNS Science
A fossil hunter has discovered that one of the largest known dinosaurs, a titanosaurid, roamed New Zealand about 80 million years ago. More >>
Buried Volcano Inside Panmure Basin Discovered
Friday, 22 February 2008, 9:30 am | GNS Science
Geologists have found a buried volcano inside Panmure Basin, which is the mouth of a volcano that erupted about 28,000 years ago. It is extremely rare for two eruptions to have occurred at the same site in the Auckland Volcanic Field. More >>
NZ And German Research Organisations Combine
Friday, 15 February 2008, 12:23 am | GNS Science
Earth scientists from Germany and New Zealand are looking to build a longterm partnership that will bring economic and environmental benefits to New Zealand. More >>
Lower Hutt Lab Comes Out Top Of The World
Monday, 17 December 2007, 12:23 am | GNS Science
Lower Hutt Lab Comes Out Top Of The World Scientist Uwe Morgenstern prepares equipment to determine the age of a batch of water samples. The laboratory he manages produces the most accurate water dating measurements in the world. More >>
Methane-Eating Bug Holds Promise
Thursday, 22 November 2007, 4:30 pm | GNS Science
A methane-consuming microorganism that lives in geothermal areas in Rotorua has attracted international attention for its ability to live in extremely acidic conditions. More >>
NZ Scientists To Lead Submarine Investigation
Friday, 26 October 2007, 10:06 am | GNS Science
New Zealand and American scientists will join Italian colleagues next week for the first-ever systematic investigation of submarine hydrothermal activity in the Mediterranean Sea. More >>
Young River Landslide Biggest In 16 Years
Friday, 19 October 2007, 10:16 am | GNS Science
Geologists have found that the Young River landslide in Mt Aspiring National Park is the biggest landslide in New Zealand since the top fell off Mount Cook in 1991. More >>
Scientists To Look Closer At Fiordland Aftershocks
Tuesday, 16 October 2007, 1:14 pm | GNS Science
Seismologists plan to install portable instruments in Fiordland later this week to record aftershocks in the wake of today’s magnitude 6.7 quake west of Milford Sound. More >>
Funding for Three New Science Projects
Friday, 7 September 2007, 11:20 am | GNS Science
Government-owned research and consultancy company GNS Science has won funding of $2.16 million from the Marsden Fund for three new science projects. GNS Science has a strong track record in submitting successful proposals to this highly competitive ... More >>
Robotic Vehicles To Explore Offshore Volcano
Friday, 27 July 2007, 11:58 am | GNS Science
Unmanned vehicles will fly into the crater of an offshore volcano during the next three weeks to map it at high precision and search for possible mineral deposits. More >>
Geothermal Energy Looks To Contribute More
Thursday, 19 July 2007, 11:21 am | GNS Science
Geothermal energy looks set to contribute more electricity to the national grid thanks to research initiatives aimed at increasing production from New Zealand’s geothermal areas. More >>
GNS dam-cam films Crater Lake outburst
Tuesday, 27 March 2007, 3:52 pm | GNS Science
A camera installed by GNS Science near the summit of Ruapehu has captured the moment when the wall of tephra that had been holding back the Crater Lake failed, triggering last Sundays spectacular lahar. More >>
Lahar Researchers Capture Flood Of Information
Thursday, 22 March 2007, 10:20 am | GNS Science
Researchers from GNS Science and Massey University have spent the last three days gathering a flood of data about Sunday’s spectacular lahar as part of a $1 million research programme to gather maximum scientific value from the event. More >>
Increased Hydrothermal Activity Possible At Crater
Monday, 19 March 2007, 4:36 pm | GNS Science
Volcanologists today said it was possible there could be increased volcanic activity at Mount Ruapehu following Sunday’s partial emptying of the crater lake to the former overflow level. More >>
Progress in Quake Monitoring Since Edgecumbe
Thursday, 1 March 2007, 3:41 pm | GNS Science
New Zealand’s most damaging recent earthquake – a magnitude 6.1 jolt that struck eastern Bay of Plenty on the afternoon of March 2, 1987 – occurred 20 years ago. More >>
