This week i traveled up to New Plymouth (to some not-so-fantastic weather) for a meeting, and also i met up with Andrew a Hydrology Officer from the Taranaki Regional Council (TRC). Back in the pre-GeoNet days the council looked after a small network of instruments around the area, we have since taken these over, upgraded them and added a few more sites (you can see the network
here). Due to their experience and knowledge of the network, the council have a unique relationship with GeoNet where their staff help maintain our current sites and occasionally help our technicians build new sites - this saves a long travel time as our technicians are based in Taupo and Lower Hutt!
Our first stop was the Taranaki Emergency Management Office (TEMO) which is home to one of our volcano cameras (
which you can see on our website here), strong-motion instrument NPCS and a repeater-hub where data from other sites goes to TEMO and is then sent on to our data centres (at Wairakei and Lower Hutt).
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| TEMO |
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| Volcano camera (circled) New Plymouth city in the background |
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| The strong-motion instrument. |
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| Data from other sites coming into the 'repeater hub' |
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