Hannah Kessenich busts ozone hole myths
For World Ozone Day, the University of Otago asked Hannah what people misunderstand about the ozone hole. The short answer: almost everything.
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Minister Penny Simmonds visits the photonics laboratory
The Minister of Science, Innovation and Technology toured the laboratory on 11 August, eight months after her predecessor made the same visit.
JPL meetings and an invited talk in Long Beach
Harald Schwefel met collaborators at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and gave an invited talk at Nonlinear Photonics, part of the Optica Advanced Photonics Congress.
Otago Daily Times: clock ticking on bid to replace important weather satellite
The ODT covered Tuwhiri's kick-off meeting and the problem the programme exists to solve — the end of a 25-year atmospheric record with no replacement planned.
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Catalyst: Seeding award to build a partnership with NASA JPL
A two-year Catalyst: Seeding project pairs Tuwhiri's photonic sensor with a flight-proven JPL microwave spectrometer, aimed at measuring stratospheric water vapour.
Tuwhiri at the EGU General Assembly in Vienna
Florian Sedlmeir and Hannah Kessenich presented the programme's photonics and atmospheric science work to around 20,000 geoscientists.
Minister Shane Reti visits the photonics laboratory
The Minister of Science, Innovation and Technology saw the up-conversion experiment that underpins the Tuwhiri instrument.
Dodd-Walls Centre annual symposium
Mallika Suresh represented the Tuwhiri photonics team at the Centre's annual gathering of New Zealand's photonics and quantum technology community.
Learning how Antarctic campaigns are run
Harald Schwefel joined Professor Inga Smith's sea ice fieldwork in Antarctica, as much to understand how a polar campaign is organised as to help with the measurements.