Mihi and I discussed the challenge of flooding for Aotearoa and the new opportunity with ESNZ this morning @RNZ @Earth Sciences New Zealand www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...

Strong and unusual currents expected through the weekend could still be dangerous. We summed up the science of this huge quake @earthsciencesnz on @radionewzealand with Susie www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Lots of ash from the fire fountain in this Hawaii live feed from USGS. www.youtube.com/live/oG5zz9S...

It was like a scene from Fargo in the carpark today, but with a rocksaw not a woodchipper. That's a big rock. #geologyrocks

Tsunami evacuation signs in Samoa, complete with suitable attire as drawn by locals back when we helped them set up their evacuation zones

'The wall is lava' complete with mostly submerged volcanologist. Nice work Misha Jamieson Frew! (reproduced with permission) $80

Pop quiz, what do mandarins (foreground Wellington market this morning) and pomelo (back) have in common with only one other fruit?

Half a hyaloclastite mound, dissected by the Pacific ocean, one of many uplifted as Chatham Island

Recovering politician Grant Robertson opens the NZ geosciences conference in Ōtepoti as the new Vice Chancellor Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka #GSNZ2024

We were still the same species as chimpanzees when Christchurch’s local volcanoes forming Banks Peninsula were last erupting! (8ish million y ago)