Aotearoa | New Zealand, straddling a dynamic plate boundary, with its active volcanoes, earthquakes,
dramatic landscapes, and 500 million years of geological history, is one of the best places on Earth to study
geology and broader Earth sciences. Geologists are Earth detectives and see the planet in 4 dimensions.
Looking for clues preserved in the landscapes, even down to minute materials around us, to build pictures of
the Earth changes in both 3 dimensional space and time, using the present and the past to infer the future.
Any one location on the surface of this planet has a complex history of change and movement preserved
beneath the surface, just waiting to be discovered!