Assoc. Prof. Daphne E. Lee
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Part time BSc PhD(Otago) Paleobotany, Paleontology and Paleoecology
Email daphne.lee@otago.ac.nz Phone: +64 3 479 7525 Office - Geology 1S11 |
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The 6th International Brachiopod Congress Post-Conference Field Trip to Doubtful Sound (Feb 2010)
Contact for
100-level courses, school visits, geology in schools
Teaching
100-level
- EAOS 111 Earth and Ocean Science (Semester 1)
- GEOL 112 Dynamic Earth: A New Zealand Perspective (Semester 2)
300-level
- Core paper GEOL 302 Independent Field Studies
400-level

Research Interests
- living and fossil brachiopods
- paleoclimatology
- paleobotany (see fossil fern database)
- geological education
Selected Recent Publications
- Cohen, B. L., Bitner, M. A., Harper, E. M., Lee, D. E., Mutschke, E., & Sellanes, J. (2011). Vicariance and convergence in Magellanic and New Zealand long-looped brachiopod clades (Pan-Brachiopoda: Terebratelloidea).Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 162(3), 631-645. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2010.00682.x
- Harper, E. M., Robinson, J. H., & Lee, D. E. (2011). Drill hole analysis reveals evidence of targeted predation on modern brachiopods. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 305(1-4), 162-171. doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2011.02.029
- Jordan, G. J., Carpenter, R. J., Bannister, J. M., Lee, D. E., Mildenhall, D. C., & Hill, R. S. (2011). High conifer diversity in Oligo-Miocene New Zealand.Australian Systematic Botany, 24(2), 121-136. doi: 10.1071/sb11004
- Maciunas, E., Conran, J. G., Bannister, J. M., Paull, R., & Lee, D. E. (2011). Miocene Astelia (Asparagales: Asteliaceae) macrofossils from southern New Zealand. Australian Systematic Botany, 24(1), 19-31. doi: 10.1071/SB10035
- Carpenter, R. J., Bannister, J. M., Jordan, G. J., & Lee, D. E. (2010). Leaf fossils of Proteaceae tribe Persoonieae from the Late Oligocene-Early Miocene of New Zealand. Australian Systematic Botany, 23(1), 1-15. doi: 10.1071/sb09015
- Carpenter, R. J., Jordan, G. J., Lee, D. E., & Hill, R. S. (2010). Leaf fossils ofBanksia (Proteaceae) from New Zealand: An Australian abroad. American Journal of Botany, 97(2), 288-297. doi: 10.3732/ajb.0900199
- Conran, J. G., Kaulfuss, U., Bannister, J. M., Mildenhall, D. C., & Lee, D. E. (2010). Davallia (Polypodiales: Davalliaceae) macrofossils from Early Miocene Otago (New Zealand) with in situ spores. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 162, 84-94. doi: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2010.06.001
- Ferguson, D. K., Lee, D. E., Bannister, J. M., Zetter, R., Jordan, G. J., Vavra, N., & Mildenhall, D. C. (2010). The taphonomy of a remarkable leaf bed assemblage from the Late Oligocene-Early Miocene Gore Lignite Measures, southern New Zealand. International Journal of Coal Geology, 83(2/3), 173-181. doi: 10.1016/j.coal.2009.07.009
- Hartwich, S. J., Conran, J. G., Bannister, J. M., Lindqvist, J. K., & Lee, D. E. (2010). Calamoid fossil palm leaves and fruits (Arecaceae: Calamoideae) from Late Eocene Southland, New Zealand. Australian Systematic Botany, 23(2), 131-140. doi: 10.1071/SB09027
- Jordan, G. J., Bannister, J. M., Mildenhall, D. C., Zetter, R., & Lee, D. E. (2010). Fossil Ericaceae from New Zealand: Deconstructing the use of fossil evidence in historical biogeography. American Journal of Botany, 97(1), 59-70. doi: 10.3732/ajb.0900109
- Kaulfuss, U., Harris, A. C., & Lee, D. E. (2010). A new fossil termite (Isoptera, Stolotermitidae, Stolotermes) from the Early Miocene of Otago, New Zealand. Acta Geologica Sinica, 84(4), 705-709. doi: 10.1111/j.1755-6724.2010.00275.x
- Lee, D. E., Bannister, J. M., Raine, J. I., & Conran, J. G. (2010). Euphorbiaceae: Acalyphoideae fossils from early Miocene New Zealand:Mallotus-macaranga leaves, fruits, and inflorescence with in situ Nyssapollenites endobalteus pollen. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology,163(1-2), 127-138. doi: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2010.10.002
Also See Publications
Postgraduate Students
Current
- Beth Fox - The pace of climate change: weak magnetism and rates of environmental change in the Southern Hemisphere (PhD)
- Simone Hicks - Ecological and sedimentological evolution of the volcanically active Oligocene continental shelf, east Otago, New Zealand (PhD)
- Uwe Kaulfuss - Geology of Foulden Maar, Otago, New Zealand (PhD)
- Jeffrey Robinson - Fossil and Recent Brachiopods (PhD)
Recent
- Jeff Robinson - Systematics and paleoecology of the Everetts Quarry Limestone biota. (MSc)
- Tony Hocken -The contributions of James Hector to New Zealand geology, 1861-1905. (PhD)
- Jamie Wood - Late Quaternary evolution of the dryland ecosystem, Central Otago, New Zealand. (PhD)


