Mike Ross
@eruptionchaser.bsky.social
Mike Ross (he/him)
Red Shift Leader | PSA Delegate
National Geohazards Monitoring Centre | Te Puna Mōrearea i te Rū
Geologist, firefighter, hacker, dad.
Tolerance for intolerance zero. Toitū Te Tiriti.
Red Shift Leader | PSA Delegate
National Geohazards Monitoring Centre | Te Puna Mōrearea i te Rū
Geologist, firefighter, hacker, dad.
Tolerance for intolerance zero. Toitū Te Tiriti.
No bad pies??? Welcome to Aotearoa New Zealand!
November 26, 2025 at 2:29 AM
No bad pies??? Welcome to Aotearoa New Zealand!
Large amounts of flying tephra visible on the USGS V3 cam right now.
November 26, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Large amounts of flying tephra visible on the USGS V3 cam right now.
Watching 'A House of Dynamite' for our night shift movie on the Bridge in the NGMC. Cue my team yelling at the screen: "That's not how you run a response! Don't bother applying to be a Shift Leader! Wouldn't last 5 minutes in a big geohazard response!" 😆
November 23, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Watching 'A House of Dynamite' for our night shift movie on the Bridge in the NGMC. Cue my team yelling at the screen: "That's not how you run a response! Don't bother applying to be a Shift Leader! Wouldn't last 5 minutes in a big geohazard response!" 😆
To no surprise whatever...
November 19, 2025 at 7:34 AM
To no surprise whatever...
Oh gosh... I remember GNUstep... 16 years ago!
November 17, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Oh gosh... I remember GNUstep... 16 years ago!
We're keeping an eye on it here at Geonet in New Zealand too!
November 12, 2025 at 3:04 PM
We're keeping an eye on it here at Geonet in New Zealand too!
On the night shift at work and been keeping an eye on the CME:
November 12, 2025 at 3:03 PM
On the night shift at work and been keeping an eye on the CME:
Hi from the Corestore!
November 7, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Hi from the Corestore!
The same applies to lab workbenches; mine sadly appears to involve an entire family of racoons...
October 16, 2025 at 9:29 AM
The same applies to lab workbenches; mine sadly appears to involve an entire family of racoons...
Well played, Toka Tū Ake - great hazard comms!
October 13, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Well played, Toka Tū Ake - great hazard comms!
The best angle is one that's intact ;-)
October 7, 2025 at 7:21 AM
The best angle is one that's intact ;-)
Still have a do have ;-)
October 7, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Still have a do have ;-)
As a geohazard analyst (earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunami etc) I can off a unique Q&A & tour of my 'office' - and it's shift work so all time zones are possible. Holler if you can use me, I'm registered!
October 7, 2025 at 3:17 AM
As a geohazard analyst (earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunami etc) I can off a unique Q&A & tour of my 'office' - and it's shift work so all time zones are possible. Holler if you can use me, I'm registered!
Finally got ALL my i5/OS toys up and running!
October 5, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Finally got ALL my i5/OS toys up and running!
In Iceland, where we appear to have run out of road!
September 9, 2025 at 4:22 PM
In Iceland, where we appear to have run out of road!
Doesn't look too bad on the webcam. Rain and humidity can definitely affect the visible volume of plume, but I'm not sure what could cause the flying projectiles other than an energetic event of some kind. There were quite a few of them and they looked pretty substantial:
September 4, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Doesn't look too bad on the webcam. Rain and humidity can definitely affect the visible volume of plume, but I'm not sure what could cause the flying projectiles other than an energetic event of some kind. There were quite a few of them and they looked pretty substantial:
Just wondering if we've just had a wee energetic event at Kilauea? Around 11:44 local, a noticeable increase in plume activity, and some flying material - ?ejecta? - clearly visible on V1 cam:
September 4, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Just wondering if we've just had a wee energetic event at Kilauea? Around 11:44 local, a noticeable increase in plume activity, and some flying material - ?ejecta? - clearly visible on V1 cam:
The chlorophyll filter on Worldview showed a strong signal recently, but this signal seems quite common there so I'm not sure how to interpret it:
September 2, 2025 at 5:20 AM
The chlorophyll filter on Worldview showed a strong signal recently, but this signal seems quite common there so I'm not sure how to interpret it:
Ahhh you probably get far more astronomy done than we do - we have the Mother Of All Telescopes, but the sheer effort needed to set it up militates against its frequent use! We need a permanent observatory set up... it's on the list!
August 31, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Ahhh you probably get far more astronomy done than we do - we have the Mother Of All Telescopes, but the sheer effort needed to set it up militates against its frequent use! We need a permanent observatory set up... it's on the list!
So tonight, being bored, I cooked a three course meal... While waiting for a web browser window to open on Solaris 7, and load the default homepage from WASD running on a MicroVAX (spoiler: it's not the VAX that's the holdup here...) #slowaris
August 18, 2025 at 10:09 AM
So tonight, being bored, I cooked a three course meal... While waiting for a web browser window to open on Solaris 7, and load the default homepage from WASD running on a MicroVAX (spoiler: it's not the VAX that's the holdup here...) #slowaris
Not the only ones: Babylon 5? The Grey Council?
August 18, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Not the only ones: Babylon 5? The Grey Council?
@starkitty.gay in case you need cheering up, I also finally had success in my ZuluSCSI vs. SPARCstation LX cage fight:
August 18, 2025 at 4:07 AM
@starkitty.gay in case you need cheering up, I also finally had success in my ZuluSCSI vs. SPARCstation LX cage fight:
Ugh, we use those for observing submarine volcanic activity. In visual light, there's a very faint 'plume' of discoloured water, easily missed. But turn on the chlorophyll filter and it glows in the dark!
August 17, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Ugh, we use those for observing submarine volcanic activity. In visual light, there's a very faint 'plume' of discoloured water, easily missed. But turn on the chlorophyll filter and it glows in the dark!
I got a nice solution in NZ tonight:
August 12, 2025 at 12:38 PM
I got a nice solution in NZ tonight: