Course organiser:Margaret Sweet
17 Aug:
Prof. Jim Cole, BSc (Spec, Leics), PhD (Wellington), FRSNZ, is currently a Professor and Research Associate at UC on ‘Tarawera and Its Setting in the Ring of Fire.’This talk will put New Zealand volcanology in a Pacific context, and will include
similarities between Maori legends and plate tectonics theory.
24 Aug:
Dr. Paul Ashwell, BSc (Hons), PhD on 'The Eruptions of Tarawera.'Paul will talk about the volcanic history of Tarawera, styles of eruption and what we can learn from experimental research on the rocks from Tarawera., such as that being done in the‘Magma Brewery’ laboratory at the University of Canterbury.
31 Aug:
Philip Andrews, MA (Hons), QSM, President of the Rotorua and District Historical Society on ‘Tarawera, Terraces and Tourist Tales.’This session will look at the impact of the eruption of Mt Tarawera, 10 June 1886, on the
surrounding communities. From the 1870s onwards intrepid visitors came from across the world, intent on seeing the famed Pink and White Terraces. The journey to Rotomahana and
the wonders to be seen there are described in the words of six separate women tourists.
7 Sep:
Josh Hayes, MSc (Hons), PhD candidate in the Hazard and Disaster Management programme at UC on ‘Effects of Explosive Eruptions, Like Those of Tarawera, on the North Island.’Josh's MSc thesis looked at hypothetical scenarios of cleaning up volcanic ash in Auckland after volcanic eruptions. He will now build on this work in his PhD, which will assess clean-up and restoration of urban areas after volcanic eruptions.
14 Sep:
Bob Rogers M.A. on 'A Maori View of Volcanology.'An outline of the Maori beliefs about Ruuaumoko, the God of Volcanoes, and how these compare with some other cultural beliefs about seismological events and their sources.