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Deep Cove in Fiordland

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Last week I went to Fiordland to meet up with some of the Trustees of the Deep Cove Education Trust. The drive across from Dunedin lead towards some interesting cloud formations, presaging bad weather ahead. Accessed via a 50 minute ferry trip across Lake Manapouri, and then about 20kms of unsealed road, Deep Cove is […]

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Hi I’m Julian Thomson and I am involved in science communication and education in ways that link geoscientists with teachers and students, mostly in New Zealand, but also in Asia. This includes consultancy with school faculties and individual teachers around their earth science, ecology or outdoor programmes, running geoscience workshops and field trips, creating school learning resources, making educational videos and authoring web pages.

In my work I love to highlight the wonders of the natural world and ways that we can explore, become fascinated and never lose the sense of awe. I am also very interested in ways we can best safeguard ourselves from Natural Hazards which are a continual issue in New Zealand, sitting across a collision plate boundary as we do.