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Community Science Opportunity with DEVORA’s volcano age-dating programme

DEVORA are searching for lava rock and organic material from throughout Auckland to help our age-dating programme. Can you help ?

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Professor Jan Lindsay’s Inaugural Lecture Insights into volcanic risk from Auckland to the Antilles, Andes and Arabia.

A night to celebrate our co-leader Jan's promotion to Professor. A huge accomplishment, and Jan is one of only three Professor of Geosciences in Aotearoa. The lecture followed Jan's journey around the globe, the many research projects, doctoral students and post-doctoral researchers Jan has collaborated with.

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DEVORA Rocks, Pops and Bubbles @ MOTAT Stem Fair and Polyfest 2021

April has been a busy month for DEVORA outreach, with exhibitions at both the annual MOTAT STEM Fair, and at Polyfest in conjunction with Massey Universities JCDR and Niupatch and QuakeCore. Click inside to see some photos and at home experiment ideas.

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The Auckland Volcanic Field bucket list!

Looking for the definitive list of Auckland Volcanic Field centres to check off and ensure you've seen them all? Look no further!

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Volcanic missiles help Auckland prepare for threats from below

Scientists unleashing volcanic ballistics onto Kiwi roofs hope to help Aucklanders understand and manage their volcanic hazards. Wilson and his team have been researching a variety of aspects of volcanic activity, simulating what may happen to buildings exposed to a future Auckland Volcanic Field (AVF) eruption.

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13th Annual DEVORA Forum

Highlights of the 13th Annual DEVORA Forum held on November 3rd, 2020.

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Aiming for a More Resilient Auckland

The DEVORA Research Programme aims to make Auckland more resilient, better prepared for, and safer from volcanic activity.

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DEVORA at GSNZ 2020

This year we had a variety of researchers presenting at the Geoscience Society of New Zealand (GSNZ) conference in Christchurch. The talks and posters ranged from outreach and education to faults and eruptions.

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Behind-the-Scenes of DEVORA — A Blog for Auckland’s Volcanic Research

Auckland is the City of Volcanoes and it deserves its own blog—this is what Elaine Smid, DEVORA research assistant since 2008, was thinking many years ago, so she started one.