Ka mua, ka muri – Walking backwards into the future
Looking to the past to inform the future – historical events on the Hikurangi subduction zone New Zealand’s geological setting…
Exp 375 – Photo Journey to NZ’s Largest Fault
Watch photo highlights of Expedition 375 to the Hikurangi Subduction Zone – New Zealand’s largest fault.
Hikurangi on the move
HIKURANGI ON THE MOVE  The Hikurangi Plateau is currently subducting beneath the east coast of the North Island. The Plateau…
Back to the Seamount – Site 4
If you are having trouble viewing the interactive Google map above please try switching your browser to Chrome. We are…
Piecing together the puzzle of the Hikurangi subduction zone
Expedition 375 is part of a much larger research effort to piece together the story of the Hikurangi Subduction Zone….
Guest blog: Ake Fagereng
I’m sailing on this expedition as a structural geologist, and as such my main interest is in how rocks deform…
Two observatories give us stereo vision inside the slow slip zone
http:// Click on the location icons to learn more about each site. The Google Map may not work in all…
Watch ‘Old meets New’ – how we used the ‘lost art’ of rope splicing in our high-tech subseafloor observatory
Watch Patrick Fulton explain how he learnt the ‘lost art’ of rope splicing to connect the chemistry instrument (‘ososampler’) and…
Seamounts – are they an important piece of the slow slip puzzle?
As we mentioned in our last blog, Site U1520 sits at the base of TÅ«ranganui Knoll. This is an isolated…
The observatory is like a Russian Doll
The stages of installing New Zealand’s first observatory To gain a window into this previously inaccessible environment, we are taking…