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There are many ways you can find out more about our amazing supervolcano. Our researchers are continually making new discoveries, exploring the underworld beneath the TVZ, and finding out the hidden history of eruptions going back in time.
To learn about New Zealand's TVZ volcanoes have a look at these GNS pages: Volcanoes, Taupo Volcano, Taupo Volcano fact sheet, Supervolcano lessons, GeoNet Taupo Volcano monitoring, GeoNet Okataina Volcano monitoring
To explore the geological landscape of the TVZ check out the Geotrips website
Check out this animation of the Oruanui supereruption creating Lake Taupõ. See it on the giant wall sized-screen at Te Papa in Wellington
Teacher and students! The LEARNZ virtual field trips for New Zealand schools is a programme of free virtual field trips taking students to remote places all over New Zealand, Antarctica and beyond. Check out the summary of the Supervolcano field trip from August 2019
Check out our ECLIPSE Research Highlights and Publications, and learn more about our Team
ECLIPSE Lead Scientist Prof Colin Wilson FRS was awarded New Zealand's top science medal, the Rutherford Medal, in 2017 for his life's work on supervolcanoes. To learn more see these videos:
Professor Colin Wilson on Supervolcanoes (2:48)
2017 Rutherford Medal winner Prof Colin Wilson and his work on supervolcanoes (0:47)
Presentation of the Rutherford Medal at the Royal Society of New Zealand Research Honours 2017 (6:48)
Prof Colin Wilson's Full length Rutherford lecture "The Life and Times of Supervolcanoes" (57:45)