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Updated computer modelling shows a small decrease in the probability of aftershocks in Canterbury for the next 12 months compared to figures released late last year.

Scientists will head to Antarctica after Christmas to take measurements of the Earth’s magnetic field that were first taken by Scott’s Terra Nova Expedition 100 years ago.

Micropaleontology Technician at GNS Science, Randall McDonnell, has won a 2011 Bright Ideas Science Category Award for developing a device to help prepare marine microfossil bearing samples for scientists to study.

Crown Research Institutes GNS Science, Landcare Research and National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) are working together with the New Zealand Geospatial Office to improve the flow of environmental data among government agencies by harmonising the systems used for managing it.

The work of the geothermal geology team at GNS Science has been acknowledged with the presentation of The Royal Society of New Zealand 2011 President’s Award.

About 40 scientists from nine countries are meeting in Oamaru this week to review results from a scientific ocean drilling expedition that took place off the coast of South Canterbury in early 2010.

There are many examples of activities that cause human-induced seismicity, of which hydraulic fracturing (or ‘fracking’) is just one.

Scientists have adjusted their earthquake forecasting modelling technique for the Canterbury Plains Region to reflect a longer-term outlook now that the aftershock sequence is 13 months old.

New Zealand has been accepted as a member of the International Partnership for Geothermal Technology.

A three-year science project to decipher the low frequency ‘chatter’ that occurs several kilometres underground during ‘slow earthquakes’ under Poverty Bay has won funding from the prestigious Marsden Fund.