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February 8, 2026

CNR/ESNZ workshop Jan 29th

Inspiring workshop held at ESNZ with CNR Italy as a research partner! Great presentations including work by Daniel Tentori and Silvia Giallini. Thank you for organising and the invitation Andrea […]
December 7, 2025

2025 NZ Annual Geoscience Conference

The 2025 Geoscience NZ annual conference showcased so many excellent talks and posters! It was a treat to be able to listen, learn and share with my colleagues! #gsnz2025conf
September 24, 2025

(Re-)Connecting with the heart of our research: Te Puni building!

Currently studying building dynamic behavior comparing seismological and engineering desktop models, supported by BRANZ. Quincy Ma, Tessa Beetham,Cain Stratford,Théo RIVET,Harry Gawne Such a special opportunity last week to connect with […]
August 20, 2025

NNW-MTMOD meeting on fault dynamics and seismic hazard in St Arnaud-Rotoiti.

The NNW-MTMOD** meeting on fault dynamics and seismic hazard in St Arnaud-Rotoiti Aotearoa-New Zealand11-15 August meeting included: Stimulating science topics such as Tandem* (presentation by Alice-Agnes Gabriel and Jeena Yun)*Scalable […]
August 12, 2025

July Visit to Samoa SMD team and DMO office

Grateful for Samoa Samoa Meteorological Services team for technical discussions about resilience to tsunami and earthquakes as part of the World Bank Pacific Region Preparedness, Adaptation And Resilience – Samoa […]
May 16, 2025

Another exciting step toward Earthquake Early Warning for Aotearoa-New Zealand

Another exciting step toward Earthquake Early Warning for Aotearoa-New Zealand 🇳🇿 ! Great work by Chandrakumar Chanthujan, Ph.D. on effective implementation of an earthquake early warning (EEW) system at a […]
April 8, 2025

Visit to the Samoa seismic network

Grateful to my Samoan colleagues from the Samoa Meteorological Division (SMD) Geoscience Unit for taking me to one of their seismic stations. Very insightful visit! Regular maintenance visits are required […]
January 20, 2025

Alpine Fault stars the first IRN-Andes-FRENSZ webinar of 2025

Grateful to IRN-Andes-FRENSZ not only for being the first webinar of 2025 but also to have presented our work on the Alpine Fault, rather outside of the subduction topic! The […]
November 6, 2024

Congratulations to PhD student Carmen Juarez-Garfias for being awarded the 2024 Paul Andrew Spudich Travel Grant.

Ilma del Carmen Juarez-Garfias, doctoral student at Victoria University of Wellington, attended the 7 th edition of the school on Passive Imaging & Monitoring in Wave Physics: From Seismology to […]
November 6, 2024

Congratulations to PhD student Chanthujan Chandrakumar for the 2024 QuakeCore Lightning Talks Audience Choice Award

Chanthujan received the award for his presentation on “Warning on a budget: A performance analysis of a community-engaged low-cost earthquake early warning system” by Chandrakumar, C., Tan, M., Holden, C., […]