Nau mai, Welcome! The ECLIPSE Programme aims to understand New Zealand's largest volcanoes New Zealand has the world’s most frequently active supervolcano system! The central Taupō Volcanic Zone (TVZ) has two recently active volcanic centres, Taupō and Okataina. Every few decades the TVZ experiences unrest and every few hundred years it erupts. These eruptions can be very small and short lived, or more rarely, enormous on a global scale.
Deciding if unrest will lead to an eruption, estimating the timing and impacts of any future eruptions (of whatever size), and isolating the probability of another supereruption remains one of our biggest challenges.
The ECLIPSE Programme aims to reduce the uncertainty around future TVZ supervolcano unrest episodes and eruptions with this MBIE funded Endeavour Research Programme. It brings together many New Zealand and overseas experts .