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PhD

	Gabriel Aguirre Mexico PhD title: Neogene dolphins from New Zealand, implications for the evolution of the family Delphinidae Supervisor: Ewan Fordyce Email: aguga014@student.otago.ac.nz
	Robin Andrews UK PhD title: Investigating the cratering and  thermodynamics of the phreatomagmatic 1886 Rotomahana eruption Supervisors: James White Email:  r.c.andrews@btinternet.com
	Andreas Auer Germany PhD title: Sedimentary Response to Debris Avalanche and Eruption at Mt Ruapehu Supervisor: James White Email auean368@student.otago.ac.nz
	Nicolas Barth USA PhD title: Comparative fault mechanics in quartzofeldspathic, mafic and ultramafic protoliths: a study of the Alpine Fault Zone in South Westland Supervisor: Virginia Toy, Richard Norris, Alan Cooper Email: nic@geology.co.nz NCB_LiDAR_AGUposter2011compressed.pdf(3.2MB) NCB_AlpineFaultAGUposter2010compressed (3.7MB)
	Marco Billia Switzerland PhD title: The effects of fluids on the deformational behaviour of the mid-crustal coupling zone: Insights from the Alpine Fault, NZ. Supervisor: Virginia Toy, Richard Norris Email: marco.billia@alumni.ethz.ch
	Vivienne Bryner New Zealand/Switzerland PhD title: Communicating the science of earthquake-related disaster risk reduction: stories surrounding the Canterbury Earthquakes. Supervisor:Richard Norris, Jean Fleming (Science communication) Email: vivienne.bryner@gmail.com
	Joanna Cooper Canada PhD title: Investigating water-mass mixing across the Sub-tropical Front east of the South Island using seismic oceanography. Supervisors: Andrew Gorman, Ross Vennell (Marine Science). Ingo Pecher (GNS Science) Email: coojo202@student.otago.ac.nz
	Andy Cross UK PhD title: Structure and processes near the base of the seismogenic zone along the Alpine Fault, New Zealand Supervisors: Virginia Toy, Dave Prior Email: ajcross89@gmail.com
	Claudine Curran Netherlands/Ireland PhD title: The Structure and Evolution of the Waihemo Fault System, North Otago. Supervisors: Richard Norris, Andrew Gorman Email claudine_curran@yahoo.co.uk
	Joanna (Asia) Druzbicka Poland PhD title: Linking geology with the impact of mining on the environment. Supervisor: Dave Craw Email:drujo454@student.otago.ac.nz
	Lauren Farmer UK PhD title: Investigating the temporal and spatial association between gold and tungsten at Macraes Mine, Central Otago Supervisor: Dave Craw , Damon Teagle (Southampton) Email: lauren_far@hotmail.com
	Anne Ford PhD title: Pleistocene stone tool use within the Ivane Valley, Papua New Guinea. Supervisors:Glenn Summerhayes, Richard Walter (Anthropology), Alan Cooper (Geology) Email foran158@student.otago.ac.nz
	Bethany Fox UK PhD title: The pace of climate change: weak magnetism and rates of environmental change in the Southern Hemisphere Supervisors: Gary Wilson, Daphne Lee Email: foxbe129@student.otago.ac.nz
	Douglas Fraser New Zealand PhD title: Seismic characterisation of hydrate / shallow gas systems associated with active margin sediments in the Pegasus Sub-basin, Hikurangi Margin, New Zealand Supervisors: Andrew Gorman, Ingo Pecher (GNS Science) Email:
	Carolyn Gorny USA PhD title: Origin of Pleistocene lava-hyaloclastite sheets, southeast Iceland Supervisors: James White, Magnus Gudmundsson Email: carolyngorny@gmail.com
	Simone Hicks Germany PhD title: Ecological and sedimentological evolution of the volcanically active Oligocene continental shelf, east Otago, New Zealand Supervisors: Ewan Fordyce, James White, Daphne Lee Email: simone.hicks@web.de
	Jess Hillman UK PhD title: Investigation of seafloor depression formation on the Chatham Rise, New Zealand to better understand climate-driven methane release from gas hydrates. Supervisors: Andrew Gorman, Ingo Pecher (GNS Science) Email: jithillman@gmail.com
	Jamie Howarth New Zealand PhD title: Reconstructing the landscape response to high magnitude disturbance in active mountain belts Supervisors: Sean Fitzsimons, Richard Norris, Marcus Vandergoes (GNS Science), Geraldine Jacobson (ANSTO) Email: jamie.howarth@geography.otago.ac.nz
	Uwe Kaulfuss Germany PhD title: Geology of Foulden Maar, Otago, New Zealand Supervisor: Daphne Lee Email kauuw275@student.otago.ac.nz
	Adrienn Kovacs Hungary PhD title: Geophysical characterisation of the Alpine Fault throughout and beneath Whataroa Valley, Haast River and Turnbull River, Westland, New Zealand Supervisors: Andrew Gorman, Richard Norris Email: kovad091@student.otago.ac.nz
	Nathalie Lefebvre Canada PhD title: Volcanology of maar-diatreme volcanic vent complexes, Hopi Buttes Volcanic Field, Arizona, USA Supervisors: James White, Alan Cooper Email: lefna448@student.otago.ac.nz
	Carolina Loch S. Silva Brazil PhD title: Comparative study of modern and fossil cetacean dentitions (Cetacea: Delphinoidea and Platanistoidea) Supervisors: Ewan Fordyce, Jules Kieser (Dentistry Department) Email: carolina.loch@otago.ac.nz
	Pont Lurcock UK/Finland PhD title: Palæomagnetic evidence for ice in the greenhouse Supervisor: Gary Wilson (Marine Science) Email: lurpo625@student.otago.ac.nz
	Felix Marx Austria PhD title: Evolution of structural disparity in the Cetacea Supervisor: Ewan Fordyce (Otago), Marcello Ruta and Michael Benton (University of Bristol, UK) Email: felix.marx@otago.ac.nz
	Ray Marx (PhD pending) New Zealand PhD title: Depositional characteristics and volcanological interpretations of Miocene – Pliocene age marine ash deposits in the forearc East Coast Basin, North Island, New Zealand. Supervisor: James White Email marra465@student.otago.ac.nz
	Michael May USA PhD title: 1886 Maar forming Eruption of Rotomahana, NZ Supervisor: James White Email: maymi024@student.otago.ac.nz
	Benjamin Moorhouse UK PhD title: Investigating the eruptive processes of shallow-marine volcanoes on the Oligocene continental shelf, east Otago, New Zealand Supervisor: James White Email: blm687@gmail.com
	Moyna Mueller PhD title: Palaeontology, Hector’s dolphin,  comparative flipper anatomy, morphology and taxonomy Supervisor: Ewan Fordyce, Jo Stanton, (Anatomy and Structural Biology), Steve Dawson (Marine Science) Email: moyna.muller@otago.ac.nz
	Rachel Murtagh Ireland PhD title: Investigation into the explosiveness of subaqueous basaltic eruptions (graduated Dec 2011) Supervisor: James White Email murra257@student.otago.ac.nz
	Dr Faye Nelson Canada PhD title: Paleomagnetic record of the last million years of climate and oceanographic change in the New Zealand sector of the South Pacific. (graduated August 2011) Supervisor: Gary Wilson Email: faye.nelson (a) otago.ac.nz
	Christian Ohneiser New Zealand/Austria PhD title: A source to sink investigation of the erosion, transport and deposition of magnetic minerals in the Ross Sea sector of Antarctica. Supervisor: Gary Wilson Email:christian.ohneiser@otago.ac.nz
	Jeffrey Robinson New Zealand PhD title: Fossil and Recent Brachiopods Supervisor:Daphne Lee Email: jeffreyhrobinson@yahoo.co.nz
	Matt Sagar New Zealand PhD title: Geology, petrology and thermochronology of the Glenroy Complex and adjacent plutons, SE Nelson Supervisor: Michael Palin, Virginia Toy Email: sagma887@student.otago.ac.nz
	Robert Smith UK PhD title: Water mass mixing processes across the Subtropical and Subantarctic fronts near New Zealand Supervisors: Ross Vennell (Marine Science) and Andrew Gorman Email: robsmithrobsmith@gmail.com
	Yoshihiro Tanaka Japan PhD title: Platanistoid-like dolphins from the Otekaike Limestone: taxonomy, systematics and lifestyle Supervisor: Ewan Fordyce Email: tanyo501@student.otago.ac.nz
	Claudio Tapia Chile PhD tile: Calibrating the Southern Hemisphere Neogene Glacioeustatic Cyclicity. Supervisor: Gary Wilson Email tapcl295@student.otago.ac.nz

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Master of Science (MSc)

	Jacob Anderson New Zealand MSc title: Glacial history of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, Escalade Peak, Antarctica Supervisor: Gary Wilson Email: jth.anderson@gmail.com
	James Ashley New Zealand MSc title: Surface heat flow in the Otago Region and its implications for ground temperatures Supervisor: Andrew Gorman Email: j_c_ashley@hotmail.com
	Callum Bruce Thesis: Seismic imaging of natural gas occurrences and migration pathways in the seafloor of the Reinga Basin, west of Northland. Supervisor: Andrew Gorman Email: bruca012@student.otago.ac.nz
	Anthony Cross New Zealand MSc title: Greenhills Complex dunite: mineralogy, geochemistry and potential for carbon sequestration. (submitted 2011) Supervisor: Michael Palin Email: croan343@student.otago.ac.nz
	Matthew Hennessey (withdrawn for 2011) New Zealand MA title: A Morphological, Stylistic and Physico-Chemical Analysis of Ceramics from the 'Early Papuan Pottery' Culture of South Central Papua. Supervisor: Glenn Summerhayes / Alan Cooper Email henma793@student.otago.ac.nz
	Nick Hogg New Zealand MSc title: On the Edge : Studying Colonisation and Mobility in the Western Pacific Supervisors: Glenn Summerhayes, Alan Cooper Email hogni630@student.otago.ac.nz
	Kirstin Hutton MSciComm title: The Vanished World Trail: Delving into the Depths of Time Supervisor: Jean Fleming (Science communication), Ewan Fordyce (Geology) Email: kirstenlhutton@hotmail.com
	Daniel Jones New Zealand MSc title: The Geophysical Characterisation of the Foulden Hill Maar, Central Otago, New Zealand (msc submitted) Supervisor: Gary Wilson Email: jonda881@student.otago.ac.nz
	Jeremy Kilner (on hold) New Zealand MSc title: Seismic imaging of eastern Otago active fault structures. Supervisor: Andrew Gorman / Richard Norris Email kilje925@student.otago.ac.nz
	Angus King (on hold) New Zealand MSc title:  Supervisor: Gary Wilson Email: kinan464@student.otago.ac.nz
	Tim Lennon (on hold) Ireland MSc title: Geophysical exploration offshore Stewart Island Supervisor: Andrew Gorman Email lennon.tim@gmail.com
	Kate McKercher New Zealand Thesis: Unroofing active and ancient mountains: applications of the Ti-in-quartz geothermometer to sedimentary rocks and river sediments Supervisor: Candace Martin / Michael Palin Email: mxdmsgs@hotmail.com
	Natalie-Jane Reid New Zealand MSc title: The Mineralogy and Geochemisty of bedload sediments, Taieri River, South Island, NZ Supervisor: Candace Martin Email hovna502@student.otago.ac.nz
	Zoe Reid Lindroos Thesis: Microstructures developed during creep deformation of olivine and quartz: An investigation of the relationship between shape preferred orientation and crystallographic preferred orientation Supervisor: Virginia Toy Email: reizo955@student.otago.ac.nz
	Ewen Rodway MSc: title: Titanium-in-quartz thermometry and sediment provenance of Western Southland basins. Supervisor: Michael Palin Email: rodew288@student.otago.ac.nz
	Hannah Scott New Zealand MSc title: A Comparative study of the mechanisms of particle size reduction and the extent of cataclastic damage in immature and mature faults. Supervisor: Virginia Toy Email: scoha945@student.otago.ac.nz
	Matt Smillie New Zealand MSc title: Reprocessing marine multi-channel seismic data to image water masses in the Great South Basin. Supervisor: Andrew Gorman Email: smima003@student.otago.ac.nz
	Ben Teele New Zealand MA title: Chemical analysis of Lapita and Polynesian Plainware ceramics from Samoa in order to determine settlement mobility and changes that occur to Samoan settlement strategies over the first 1,000 years of occupation. Supervisors: Glenn Summerhayes, Alan Cooper Email: teebe264@student.otago.ac.nz

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Bachelor of Science with Honours (BSc(Hons))

	Sam Bain BSc(Hons) project: Seismic anisotropy in the Haast Schist Supervisor: Andrew Gorman Email:
	Sophie Briggs BSc(Hons) project: Geology, petrology and geochemistry of the Alpine Dike Swarm north of the Haast River Supervisor: Alan Cooper Email: briso768@student.otago.ac.nz
	Charlotte Buxton-Blue BSc(Hons) project: The interplay of chemical and mechanical processes in the development of serpentinised fault zones Supervisor: Virginia Toy Email: c.buxtonblue@gmail.com
	Ant Rayner BSc(Hons) project: Structural controls on Au-mineralisation, Big River Shear Zone, Reefton Goldfield, NZ Supervisor: Doug MacKenzie Email: rayan873@student.otago.ac.nz
	James Smith BSc(Hons) project: Geology near Blackwater Mine, Reefton Gold Field Supervisor: Doug MacKenzie Email: smija603@student.otago.ac.nz

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Fulbright Fellowship / Certificate of Proficiency (COP)

	Jens-Erik Lund Snee USA Project title: Fault Mapping and Analysis Near Docherty's Creek, New Zealand. Supervisor: Virginia Toy Email: jenseriklundsnee@gmail.com

Postgraduate Diploma in Science (PGDipSci)

	Julia Lawrence New Zealand Thesis: Tentative topic: Seismic analysis of a possible gas hydrate occurrence in the Great South Basin Supervisor: Andrew Gorman Email: julia.lawrence@otago.ac.nz
	Richard Wing New Zealand Thesis: Relationship of the mineral assemblages to the structure of the Alpine Fault Supervisor: Virginia Toy Email: Kiwigeo@gmail.com

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Recent PhD Students

• Tatsuro Ando email - Functional change in penguin phylogeny ( Ewan Fordyce)
• Giulia Airoldi (g.airoldi.a@gmail.com): Magma transport and propagation of Ferrar Dolerite intrusive sheets at Allan Hills, Terracotta Mountain and Solitary Rocks, Antarctica. (Supervisors: James White, Alan Cooper, Elena Zanella (Università degli Studi di Torino))
• Hayden Cawte email - The metallurgy of the Thai Bronze Age ( Michael Palin)
• Michael Begbie email - Regional development of an extensional fault-fracture network in the mid-crust: The Glenorchy Vein Swarm, NW Otago, New Zealand (Rick Sibson)
• Heather Campbell - The Alpine Fault at Jackson River, South Westland. (Alan Cooper/Richard Norris)
• Yvonne Cook - The Skelton Group and the Ross Orogeny (Dave Craw)
• Gareth Crutchley - Gas Hydrates on New Zealand's Hikurangi Margin. (Andew Gorman)
• Donna Falconer(2011) falconer.dm@clear.net.nz - The genesis of gold and sulphide mineralisation associated with quartz pebble conglomerates in sediment-hosted gold deposits, Southern New Zealand. (Dave Craw)
• Ake Fagereng - Subduction-related fault processes: Ancient and active.(Rick Sibson, Alan Cooper)
• Kirsten Finnis webpage - Societal impacts of New Zealand eruptions. (James White)
• Miko Fohrmann webpage - New Zealand Gas Hydrates ( Andrew Gorman, Co-supervised by Dr. Ingo Pecher, GNS, Lower Hutt.)
• Phil Ford email - Geology of Au/Cu/Ag bearing mineralisation in the vicinity of the Longwood Range, Southland. ( Michael Palin)
• Kenichi Fukuda - Chemical proxies of climate change - paleoceanography (Ewan Fordyce, Russell Frew, Chemistry)
• Laura Haffert - Metal attenuation around historic mines. (Dave Craw)
• Tony Hocken email - The contributions of James Hector to New Zealand geology, 1861-1905. ( Daphne Lee)
• Hiroto Ichishima - Systematics of the latest Oligocene to the earliest Miocene Mysticeti. (Ewan Fordyce)
• Dushan Jugum - The Dun Mountain Ophiolite: geometry and evolution of the ocean crust above a subduction zone. (Richard Norris)
• Jon Lindqvist  (jonlind@ihug.co.nz) -  Sedimentology of Pakaha Group (Late Cretaceous-Paleocene) Kaitangata Sub-basin, Great South Basin, New Zealand  (Daphne Lee, James White)
• Nicola Litchfield - Quaternary coastal deformation in East Otago (Richard Norris)
• Doug MacKenzie webpage - Late metamorphic fluid flow and ductile structural evolution of the Otago Schist ( Dave Craw)
• Doris Maicher - Dynamics of basalt-eruptions in the deep sea. (James White)
• Adam Martin - Mount Morning, Antarctica: Geology of an alkali basalt volcano, and its crustal and mantle xenoliths. (Alan Cooper, Michael Palin)
• Uli Martin webpage - Volcanic structure and eruptive history of the Otago Peninsula, Dunedin Volcanic Complex. (James White)
• Murray McClintock webpage - Volcanology of a flood basalt vent-complex, South Africa. (James White)
• Mark Mitchell - Alluvial platinum group materials (PGM), southern South Island, New Zealand. (AR)
• Karoly Nemeth (webpage) - Volcanology study of the Waipiata Volcanics, Central Otago, New Zealand (in comparison with the Bakony- Balaton Highland Volcanic Field, Hungary). (James White)
• Richard O'Driscoll - A sidescan survey of schooling fish off the Otago Peninsula. (POK)
• Caroline Orchiston- (COrchiston@business.otago.ac.nz) Seismic risk and the tourism industry in the zone of the Alpine Fault, New Zealand: disaster preparedness and business resilience. ( Rick Sibson (Geology), James Higham (Tourism))
• Stephen Read- Koettlitz Glacier Alkaline Province: Late Neoproterozoic extension in southern Victoria Land, Antarctica. (Alan Cooper)
• Pierre-Simon Ross webpage - Evolution of large debris-filled volcanic vents, Coombs Hills, Antarctica (James White)
• Jean-Baptiste Rosseel webpage - Phreatic and phreatomagmatic processes of the 1886 Rotomahana eruption: destruction of an active hydrothermal system along an eruption (James White)
• Julie Rowland - Hydrothermal fluid redistribution in a magmatic continental rift: The Ruaumoko Rift System, Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand. (Rick Sibson)
• Ian Schipper (schipper.ian@gmail.com) - Submarine explosive volcanism at Lo`ihi Seamount, Hawai`i (James White, Professor Bruce Houghton, University of Hawaii)
• James Scott (2008) webpage- Petrology of Eastern Fiordland. (Alan Cooper)
• John Scott email - Structural controls on fault hosted gold-quartz mineralisation in the Otago Schist. (Rick Sibson)
• Beate Segschneider - Redistribution of tephra from the 1800 year Taupo eruption in the Hawke Bay region. (James White)
• Daniel Thomas (2009) daniel.thomas@uct.ac.za - Evolution of the penguin humeral plexus established using oxygen isotopes. (Ewan Fordyce)
• Kirsty Tinto (2010) kirsty.tinto@stonebow.otago.ac.nz: The Marshall Paraconformity and its significance for global climate
  change in the Oligocene. (Supervisor: Gary Wilson)
• Virginia Toy webpage - Mylonites and pseudotachylytes found adjacent to the central Alpine Fault. ( Richard Norris/ Alan Cooper/ Rick Sibson)
• Stephen White - Kinematics and displacment history of the Moonlight - Haast River fault, NW Otago and brittle fault deformation of schist. (Richard Norris)
• Jamie Wood webpage - Late Quaternary evolution of the dryland ecosystem, Central Otago, New Zealand. ( Daphne Lee)
• John Youngson email - Physical and chemical processes affecting the formation of alluvial gold deposits in Central Otago, New Zealand. ( Dave Craw)
• Christoph Zink - Middle Eocene to Middle Miocene evolution of the Te Anau Basin, Western Southland, New Zealand. (Richard Norris)

Recent MSc Students

• Leigh Anderson - (Env Sci) Drainage capture and animal speciation. ( Dave Craw/Zoology)
• Kristina Arthur (2010) artkr227@student.otago.ac.nz : Lithostratigraphy, biostratigraphy, isotopic patterns, and Middle Miocene climate change in the Bryce Burn section. (Supervisor: Ewan Fordyce)
• Mark Austin - Alluvial Gold, Southland (Dave Craw)
• Michelle Baker - Heavy metal and pH related issues in groundwater, lake water and soil, in the rehabilitation of Wangaloa Mine, Southeast Otago (Candace Martin)
• Anton Barber - Igneous geochemistry and petrology, southern Victoria Land, Antarctica (Alan Cooper)
• Tina Bayer - (Env Sci) Nutrient sources to and limitation in Lake Hayes, Otago. ( Dave Craw/Zoology)
• Sally Beckett - Frio Shear Zone: a major tectonic boundary in South Victoria Land (Dave Craw)
• Amanda Black (Environmental Science) - The environmental effects of mining and the potential for natural remediation: coalfields of South East Otago (Dave Craw)
• Brett Black - Late Tertiary terrestrial sediments of North Otago and South Canterbury, and their genetic relationships. (Ewan Fordyce)
• Hamish Blakemore - Slope stability in the upper Taieri Gorge (Richard Norris)
• Ryan Campbell - Hydrothermal alteration along the Alpine Fault, Westland, New Zealand (Dave Craw)
• Andrew Clifford - Physiography, flow charactersitics and vulnerability of the southern McMurdo Ice Shelf, Antarctica. (Gary Wilson)
• Roger Clarkson - Post 1800a Lake Taupo shoreline (James White)
• John Colley - Earthquake-triggered landslides and landslide-dammed lakes in the Nelson-Marlborough area (Richard Norris)
• John Cottle webpage - Mafic magmatism in the Carlyon Glacier region, southern Victoria Land, Antarctica (Alan Cooper)
• Bob Dagg (2011) (dagro862@student.otago.ac.nz) - Greensand at the Marshall Paraconformity. (Gary Wilson)
• Jim Daniels - Fossil Pliocene dolphins from Antarctica (Ewan Fordyce)
• Hugh Davies (2009) Geochemical changes following pH remediation within Mangatini Stream, Stockton Coal Mine, West Coast. (Barrie Peake / Dave Craw
  )
• Regan Dillon - An integrated cyclostratigraphic study of the Blackmount Formation, western Southland, New Zealand. (Gary Wilson)
• Brad Eales webpage - Structure of the Alpine Fault, South Westland (POK)
• Luke Easterbrook-Clarke (2011) - The Alpine Fault Zone along the Waitangi-taona River, West Coast, New Zealand (Richard Norris, Virginia Toy)
• Donna Falconer webpage - Gold and sulphide mineralisation, Southland (Dave Craw)
• Peter Fischer - Caples rocks and conodont biostratigraphy, Nokomai region, Southland (CAL)
• Malcolm Gollan - Presqu’lle Bréauté, southwest Fiordland:Plutonism, regional setting and igneous-hosted mineralization. (Michael Palin)
• Shelagh Gorringe - Kakanui and Oamaru volcanics and sedimentology. (Daphne Lee)
• Brian Grant - Otago Continental Shelf (POK)
• Emilie Guegan webpage - Magma-supply dynamics of the Ferrar large igneous province, Coombs Hills, Antarctica. (James White)
• Marian Hanson - The Waihemo Fault System, North Otago (Richard Norris)
• Tom Heller email - MoDaphne Leeling Nitrate & Bacterial Contamination in the Lower Waitaki Alluvium Aquifer, North Otago, New Zealand. (Dave Craw)
• Cris Henstock - Marine Geophysics, Canterbury Basin (POK)
• Matt Hill - Geophysical and Geomorphological mapping of present and past landscapes, Lake Rotoiti, Nelson Lakes. (Andrew Gorman /Gary Wilson)
• Simone Hood Hills webpage - Magma-sediment interaction, southern Victoria Land, Antarctica (James White)
• Joseph Hughes email - Acid mine drainage, Stockton and Cypress mine waste studies, West Coast, South Island - (Dave Craw, Barrie Peake Chemistry Dept)
• Zoe James - Tectonics of the Two Thumb Range (Richard Norris)
• Lisa Johnston - McMurdo Ice Shelf Seismic Ewan Fordycelection Experiment, Antarctica. (Andrew Gorman/Gary Wilson)
• Luke Kerr - Nokomai geology (Dave Craw)
• Annette King - (Env Sci) Biovariability of arsenic with respect to vegetation at the Macraes mine site. ( Dave Craw/Env Sci)
• Hanne-Kristen Paulsen - Volcanology, Mount Morning, southern Victoria Land, Antarctica. ( Alan Cooper)
• Ed Ladley - Lake Hauroko Geology (AR)
• Anna Leslie webpage - Seismic characterisation of mineralisation at Oceana Gold Ltd's Macraes Gold Mine, Otago. (Andrew Gorman)
• Selai Leticia - A comparison of eutrophication management between a broad spectrum fertiliser and a crop specific fertilising method. (Candace Martin, EnvSci)
• Bridgette Lewis - Marine tephra provenance in the Wanganui Basin. ( James White)
• Gillian Lockett webpage - Magma-sediment interaction, southern Victoria Land, Antarctica (James White)
• Murray McClintock webpage - Sediment-magma interactions during Jurassic volcanism, Antarctica (James White)
• Mike McDonnell email - Geology of the Mt Hamilton-Mararoa River area, Western Southland (Richard Norris)
• Grant McMurtrie - Tertiary sediments, Te Waewae Bay, W Southland (Ewan Fordyce)
• Michelle Markley - Blackstone Hill - Structure and Neotectonics (Richard Norris)
• Ray Marx -  Evolution of Lake Rotorua at 65 ka.  (James White)
• Lindsay Maw - Structure and Mineralisation, Reefton (Dave Craw)
• Sonia Mellish - Panorama Pluton, geochemistry and geochronology, southern Victoria Land, Antarctica (Alan Cooper)
• Sasha Middlemiss - Waihaorunga (Daphne Lee)
• Erin Newton webpage - Unconfined resedimentation in the Rangitaiki catchment, North Island, New Zealand. (James White)
• Brendon Norrie - Mantle metasomation (Alan Cooper)
• Christian Ohneiser webpage - Chronology of the middle Miocene climatic deterioration: the record from the Waiau Basin, Southland, New Zealand. (Gary Wilson)
• Megan Ortega orteganmegan@gmail.com Environmental and Ecological Conditions of Miocene Fossil-Bearing Units of New Zealand (Supervisor: Ewan Fordyce)
• Erich Osterberg - Otago shelf (POK)
• Diana Page - Geology around Waitui Stream, Upper Takaka (Daphne Lee)
• Colin Patchell - Western Southland Geology (Richard Norris)
• Brigitte Petrie - Gold recovery, Macraes Mine (Dave Craw)
• Tim Popham - Pounamu and Scott Basin. (Alan Cooper)
• Alissa Quinn - Environmental magnetism of Waipaoa Catchment/Poverty Bay Area. (Gary Wilson)
• Charles Rands - Porphyry style mineralisation in NW Nelson including geochemistry, tectonic setting, and comparison within earstern Australian granitoids. (Michael Palin)
• Jeff Robinson - Systematics and paleoecology of the Everetts Quarry Limestone biota. (Daphne Lee)
• Doc Richardson webpage - Metasediments and mafic intrusions of the Ross Orogeny, Mulock Glacier, southern Victoria Land, Antarctica (Alan Cooper)
• Seabourne Rust - Fossil bony fish (Actinopterygii) from Oligocene-Miocene marine sediments in southern New Zealand (Ewan Fordyce)
• Campbell Ryland (2011)- Geology, Mineralisation, and structural evolution of the Bald Hill-Maori Saddle Region, South Westland, New Zealand (submitted Jan 2011) (Alan Cooper, Dave Craw, Michael Palin)
• Ian Schipper webpage - Petrological evolution of the Cape Kidnapper and Rocky Hill ignimbrites, North Island, New Zealand. (James White, Colin Wilson GNS)
• Amy Shears - (Env Sci) sheam564@student.otago.ac.nz: Characterisation of the sediment budget of Otago Harbour. (Supervisors: Andrew Gorman / Abby Smith>
• Alanna Simpson webpage - Granitoid geochemistry and petrology, southern Victorialand, Antarctica (Alan Cooper)
• Brent Simpson - Murihiku - Maitai Terranes (CAL)
• Chloe Simpson - Geochronology of metasediments in Fiordland. (Michael Palin)
• David Thomas - Quaternary geology of the Blueskin Bay area, East Otago (CAL)
• Carolyn Timms – Reconstruction of a Grounded Ice Sheet in McMurdo Sound - Evidence from Southern Black Island, Antarctica. (Gary Wilson)
• Andrea Todd - Hydrogeology and revegitation of an historic mine site, South Otago. (Dave Craw)
• Andrei van Dusschoten - Torlesse geology of Balmacaan Stream, Mid Canterbury (Ewan Fordyce)
• Paul Viskovic (2011) (visgr191@student.otago.ac.nz) Fluid flux through the sea-floor of the Great South Basin. (Andrew Gorman)
• Izzy von Lichtan webpage - Rafted pumice in the Taupo Volcanic Zone (James White)
• Craig Wadsworth - Petrochemistry of a Gabbro-Granite Contact Zone, Pahia Point, Southland (Ewan Fordyce)
• David Wilson - Marine Geophysics, Canterbury Basin (POK)
• Craig Wright - Alpine Fault Geology (Richard Norris, Alan Cooper)
• Trevor Wright - Paleoseismicity of the Alpine Fault South of Haast (Richard Norris, Alan Cooper)
• Matthew Wynyard - Skelton Group metamorphism: structure and petrology (Alan Cooper)

Recent BSc(Hons.) Students

• Lotte Adam - Volcanic geology of southern White Island, Antarctica. (Alan Cooper)
• Damien Borcovsky – Wainui Shear Zone-separation Point Suite-NW Nelson. (Michael Palin)
• Kirstin Brown broki939@student.otago.ac.nz (2010): Provenance and metamorphism of conglomerates in the Otago Schist (Supervisors: Alan Cooper, Michael Palin)
• Callum Bruce bruca012@student.otago.ac.nz (2010): Shallow marine seismic characterisation of coast-parallel faulting south of Dunedin (Supervisor: Andrew Gorman)
• Alice Collins Petrology and geochemistry of the Alpine Dyke rocks at Pivot Creek, in the Haast Pass (Supervisors: Alan Cooper, Michael Palin)
• Gareth Crutchley –The link between gas hydrate distribution and continental slope stability off Fiordland. (Andrew Gorman)
• Ben Eggers – Differentiation of the Separation Point Granite, Able Tasman National Park, NW Nelson. (Michael Palin)
• Kelly Everitt: Hydrology - Environmental Geology      (Candace Martin/LMcKergow-GEOG)
• Marama Garland (2006) Mawson-Ferrar Dolerite relationships, northern East Ridge, Coombs Hills, Antarctica. (James White)
• Lyndon Hardy: Lake Rotomahana - Hydrothermal eruptive vents and associated erosion. (James White)
• Anicia Henne henan869@student.otago.ac.nz (2010):The structural evolution of the NE margin of the Otago Schist (Supervisor: Dave Craw)
• Jeremy Kilner: Gravity and magnetic modeling of the Alpine Fault in the region of the Paringa River valley, Westland  (Richard Norris/Andrew Gorman)
• Charlotte King (2008) Constraining Temperature of Metamorphism in the Haast Schists. (Alan Cooper / Michael Palin)
• Genevieve Luketina (2007) Northburn Vein Swarms. ( Rick Sibson
• Dusk Mains – Chemical stabilisation of mine tailings. (Dave Craw)
• Claire Mackie (2008) (Dave Craw)
• Lisa Milham (2008) ( Dave Craw)
• Scott Randall – WP intrusive rocks and Greenland Group greywacke near Haast, south Westland. (Alan Cooper)
• Natalie-Jane Reid (2007) Geochemisty of sediments in the Taieri River. ( Candace Martin)
• Sam Ritchie (2009) - Factors influencing viscosity of pseudotachylytes in footwall, hangingwall and fault core on the Central Alpine Fault zone. (Virginia Toy)
• Jenny Stein (2009)
• Jesse Robertson (2007) Field observations and mathematical modeling of strain within the Alpine Fault mylonites, Westland.. ( Richard Norris)
• Matt Sagar (2008) Timing and P/T conditions of Cretaceous continental extension in the New Zealand portion of Gondwana as recorded in the Paparoa Metamorphic Core Complex. (Michael Palin)
• James Scott – Fiordland - Doubtful Sound shear zone at Robin Saddle. (Alan Cooper)
• Kim Senger (2006) webpage - Seismic interpretation of the Canterbury slope to identify links between gas hydrate occurrences and slope stability. (Andrew Gorman)
• Kat Shaw (2008) Alan Cooper / Dave Craw
• Jenny Stein (2009)
• Rosie Sullivan (2006) Volcanology, Mount Morning, southern Victoria Land, Antarctica. (Alan Cooper)
• Daniel Thomas – Waipara reptile beds. (Ewan Fordyce)
• Allyce Zehnder (2009)

Recent BAppSci Students

• Jessamy Watts (2010) jesskatewatts@yahoo.com.au: Alluvial Hazards in Otago (Supervisors: Dave Craw (Otago), Simon Cox (GNS Science))

Recent PGDipSci Students

• Megan Adamson (2009) (Andrew Gorman)
• Amadeo Enriquez Ballesteros (2006) (Daphne Lee)
• Bjorn Berning - Paleoecology of the Eocene/Oligocene Bryozoan Limestone in North Otago (Daphne Lee)
• Tim Blackler - (Dave Craw)
• Roseanne Coulter – Volcanic geology of northern White Island, Antarctica. (Alan Cooper)
• Shannon Fitzgerald– Sediment cores from Lake Ohau. (Gary Wilson)
• Hamish Fraser (2009)- Glacial extent on Campbell Island at the last glacial maximum. (Gary Wilson, Andrew Gorman)
• Andrew Karlsen
• Florian Kober -The Quaternary geology at Glenorchy Lake Wakatipu
• Blair Laurie– Sequence stratigraphy, paleontology, structure. (Ewan Fordyce/James White)
• Alex Nichol - Sequence stratigraphy and fault movement. (Richard Norris)
• Stefan Olsson - Portobello Volcanics, Dunedin Volcano (Alan Cooper)
• Will Tregidga willtregidga@yahoo.com (2009 - Env Sci)- The production of marketable thenardite and iron ore from hydrometallurgical zinc refinery jarosite waste. (Candace Martin)
• Alissa Quinn - Environmental paleomagnetism Lake Tekapo. (Gary Wilson)
• Matthaeus Zeiger - Pigroot Geology (Richard Norris)

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