Vicki Ferrini from Columbia University in the US, is a specialist at processing data from the side scanning sonar. In the photo taken from the shelter on the lake shore, she is showing her american colleagues some of the images that she has produced shortly after downloading data from the last AUV mission. Sharon Walker […]
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There are three more days left before the scientists have to end the survey, and all systems are operating well. A boat from the University of Waikato has been used for several different purposes, including a magnetometer survey and also CTD (Conductivity Temperature and Depth) measurements. Data from the different surveys are processed each day
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The submersibles, like two faithful and intelligent mechanised mammals, conitnued their diving and tracking progress today, closely monitored by their attentive minders. Seeking them at the end of a mission when they automatically float to the surface, is very reminiscent of looking for whales or dolphins, with only their ‘dorsal fins’ visible above water. Most
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Today was a very active day for our research below and around Lake Rotomahana The different teams were working on or around the lake included: A gravity survey of the back country to the East of the Lake Magnetic survey of the lake floor Rock sampling survey of volcanic deposits from points around the lake
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Over the last two days quite some time was spent testing the Automated Underwater Vehicles. They are transported in the back of a van – in the photo you can see Rob Littlefield from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution preparing one of them for a trial run. The two AUVs each carry a different type
The Rotomahana Project is of great interest to the Te Arawa people who regard the whole area around Mount Tarawera to be a sacred site. It is 125 years since that eruption of Mount Tarawera which took over 100 lives, destroyed several villages along with the Pink and White Terraces, and devasted the surviving Maori
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The Rotorua Public Library has a display of about 70 posters created by Rotorua school children who have taken up the challenge of the GNS Science Poster Competition. Their challenge was to represent their prediction of what the Rotomahana Project scientists will discover in the next few days in their survey of the lake. There
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The Deep Fault Drilling Project begins its first phase of drilling in the next few days. In this video Rupert Sutherland tells why scientists want to drill into New Zealand’s huge Alpine Fault.
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For the latest on the Alpine fault drilling visit Rupert’s Blog This NASA photo of the South Island of New Zealand shows the green of lowland vegetation contrasting clearly with snow in the mountains of the Southern Alps. The straight edge of the mountains is the line of the famous Alpine Fault. This fault is
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