Media Releases

Geothermal has come of age as a versatile and user-friendly energy source judging by some of the finalists in this year’s Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority Awards.

Scientists have found a submarine volcano in New Zealand waters that has undergone the fastest episode of collapse and growth ever recorded at a volcano.

A wide range of new geoscience information has become instantly available to the petroleum exploration industry with the culmination of a two-year project by a team of researchers at GNS Science.

An 18-year-long project to produce a new series of geological maps of New Zealand has just finished.

Nineteen new research projects have received a total of $7 million in funding for three years under the Natural Hazards Research Platform.

Scientists have backed up findings from last year to show that a substantial portion of the Pink Terraces appears to have survived the 1886 eruption of Mount Tarawera and is sitting at the bottom of Lake Rotomahana covered by two metres of sediment.

A five-year New Zealand-funded project to increase the resilience of Vanuatu to volcanic eruptions gets underway this week.

Advances in science and technology mean that information on earthquakes will be publicly available much faster from this week.

The scientists who found remnants of the Pink and White Terraces under Lake Rotomahana last year are going back to the lake to unearth more information on the Terraces and the geothermal system that created them.

Cutting edge advances in shallow survey techniques will be the focus for over 200 scientists and marine charting experts from around the world when they gather in Wellington this week for the 6^th International Shallow Survey Conference.