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NZ Volcano Fact Sheets

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The GNS Science website now has 10 one page Fact Sheets on the main New Zealand volcanoes. They give details of the landforms, rock types and eruption histories, with colourful images and diagrams.These are great for a school project, or to print off and take with you when you go for a tramp up one of our volcanoes. Don’t forget that there is lots of detailed volcano information on our website as well as webcams and updates of volcano activity levels on our GeoNet site. Watch a video of scientists monitoring White Island Volcano, or follow some students whilst they check out the amazing Volcanic Landforms of Tongariro.

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Rotomahana Fact Sheet

To have some more background information on the Rotomahana project that you can print off and have at your fingertips, go here. It answers basic questions about the purpose of the project, the technology being used, and some of the scientific questions that will be answered by the investigation. The photo shows the offical party at the Prime MInister’s Science Prize ceremony in Auckland last weekend. Cornel is second from the right. He was awarded the prestigious prize for being the top science communicator of the year 2010.

Welcome to my site

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.