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Rabaul Twinning Project
Since 1995 Australia’s international aid agency, AusAID, has invested a substantial amount of funding in the Papua New Guinea Volcanological Service through its Papua New Guinea – Australia Volcanological Service Support Project. The funding has been mainly through the Papua New Guinea Government’s Rabaul Volcanological Observatory, which is a branch of the Geological Survey Division of the country’s Department of Mining. The Service Support Project is concerned primarily with mitigating the effects of volcanic eruptions through monitoring and eruption forecasting, volcanic-hazard and risk analysis and public-awareness activities. Geoscience Australia is the Managing Contractor for the project.
The Rabaul Twinning Project is part of the Earth Monitoring Group at Geoscience Australia.
AusGeo News
June 2006 Listening to the Earth
An arc of volcanic activity borders Australia, from New Zealand in the east to Indonesia in the west. The Indonesia–Papua New Guinea region alone contains 165 active volcanoes and significant volcanic events in the area often register on the Australian International Monitoring System (IMS) infrasound stations.
April 2000 Rabaul Volcanoes Fire 30 Year Passion
Few would know New Britain’s volcanoes like former Geoscience Australia employee, Dr Wally Johnson and no one could be more passionate about them, particularly about those which destroyed the town of Rabaul in 1994. With more than 30 years’ experience researching this volatile area in Papua New Guinea, Dr Johnson gave a glimpse of the attraction for him and other volcanologists.
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