People of the Otago Paleomagnetism Research Facility
Staff
Gary Wilson
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Gary graduated from Victoria University of Wellington with bachelor's degrees in Science and Music and a doctorate in Geology. Since graduating in 1993, he has taught in the USA at the University of Nebraska and The Ohio State University and, most recently, he comes to the University of Otago from the Oxford University in the UK.
His research interests focus on increasing the resolution of understanding of Antarctic ice sheet and climate history and their role in the evolution and development of global climate. Fieldwork takes him all over the Southern Hemisphere from the South Pole to the Atacama Desert. He has participated in more than a dozen scientific expeditions to Antarctica and is currently one of the lead proponents of the multinational ANDRILL (Antarctic drilling) project.
He has been the recipient of a Fulbright Award to teach at the University of Nebraska, USA; the Byrd Fellowship for Antarctic research at The Ohio State University; and a Foundation for Research, Science & Technology (FRST) Fellowship to study the role of Antarctica in the global climate system. He has been awarded a number of grants for his research from the US National Science Foundation, the UK Natural Environmental Research Council, the Royal Society and the NZ Foundation for Research, Science & Technology.
For more information and contact details see Gary Wilson's webpage
Dr. Faye Nelson
Assistant Research FellowBSc, MSc (Lethbridge), PhD (Otago)
- Paleomagnetic and environmental magnetic analysis of marine cores
- Quaternary paleoclimates
Email: faye.nelson (at) otago ac nz
Students
Current Students
Recent Students
- Christian Ohneiser - Chronology of the middle Miocene climatic deterioration: the record from the Waiau Basin, Southland, New Zealand. (MSc)