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Assoc. Prof. Daphne E. Lee

Daphne Lee

Part time

BSc PhD(Otago)

Paleobotany, Paleontology and Paleoecology

  • Cenozoic paleobotany and paleoclimate
  • invertebrate paleontology (brachiopods)
  • Cenozoic stratigraphy
  • earth science education

Email daphne.lee@otago.ac.nz

Phone: +64 3 479 7525

Office - Geology 1S11

The 6th International Brachiopod Congress Post-Conference Field Trip to Doubtful Sound (Feb 2010)

Hi Res Poster (.jpg) Lo Res poster (.jpg)
Brachiopod community.jpg Brachipods crayfish.jpg
Calloria inconspicua.jpg Encrusted brachiopods.jpg
Liothyrella Calloria Notosaria.jpg Liothyrella neozelanica.jpg
Liothyrella neozelanica.jpg Neoaemula vector.jpg
Notosaria nigricans.jpg Terebratella sanguinea.jpg

Contact for

100-level courses, school visits, geology in schools

Teaching

100-level

300-level

400-level

EAOS111 at Shag Point

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 Society162(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, Palaeoecology305(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 Botany24(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 Botany24(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 Botany23(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 Botany97(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 Palynology162, 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 Geology83(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 Botany23(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 Botany97(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 Sinica84(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)