Core Education

The following questions from schools are answered by volcanologists and an iwi-based researcher: 1. How many people would be involved in the monitoring (watching or studying) of the volcanoes in New Zealand? 2. Does ash freeze if it is too high in the atmosphere? 3. What technology do you think will be available in 50 year's time to monitor volcanoes to keep people and animals even safer? 4. How did water fill up the caldera? 5. Can you cook a meal in the hot pools at the top of the volcano? 6. How hot is the magma in the chamber under Taupō? 7. What would New Zealand’s most active or dangerous volcano be? 8. Do other countries study our volcanoes. If so why? 9. How do geologists measure when a supervolcano is going to erupt?