Event archive
18 March 2026
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Why closed seismic cycles matter for time-dependent seismic hazard: Lessons from global paleoearthquake records
Benson Common Room, Geology Building, Dunedin
02 September 2025
12:00pm to 3:00pm
ANZIC Distinguished Lecture Series – Professor Laura Wallace
Benson Common Room (Gn09), Department of Geology, 4 Boundary Street, Purakaunui, Dunedin
15 July 2025
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Geology seminar series: An overview of carbon storage
Benson Common Room, Department of Geology and via Zoom
08 April 2024
5:00pm to 6:00pm
Dunedin earthquake hazards: 50 years since the last big shake
Benson Common Room, Geology Department, Dunedin
19 March 2024
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Career opportunities for Geologists in Geotechnical Engineering – a biased Beca perspective
Benson Common Room, Geology Department and via Zoom
11 October 2023
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Research and teaching in Germany, in the midst of the Corona and European Climate and Energy Crises
Benson Common Room (Gn9, Geology Building) and online via Zoom, Dunedin
16 May 2023
5:00pm to 6:00pm
From ocean depths to mountain tops: Formation and exhumation of oceanic crust in the Troodos Ophiolite (Cyprus)
Benson Common Room (Gn9, Geology Building), Dunedin and online via Zoom
18 July 2023
5:00pm to 6:00pm
Discovering and cataloguing previously undocumented Otago and Southland earthquakes, 1855–1929
Benson Common Room (Gn9, Geology Building), Dunedin and online via Zoom
19 April 2023
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Insights into centennial-scale salt marsh morphodynamics and biogeochemistry from a tectonic margin
Benson Common Room (Gn9, Geology Building), Dunedin and via Zoom
18 April 2023
5:00pm to 6:00pm
Using citizen data to understand earthquake impacts: Aotearoa New Zealand’s earthquake Felt Reports and their current use in Science
Benson Common Room (Gn9, Geology Building) and Zoom.
22 June 2023
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Unlocking the potential of Antarctic permafrost to constrain climate models
Benson Common Room (Gn9, Geology Building) and via Zoom, Dunedin
09 May 2023
1:00pm to 2:00pm
A method of Tsunami Early Warning for New Zealand and the Southwest Pacific
Benson Common Room (Gn9, Geology Building) and via Zoom.
04 May 2023
1:00pm to 1:50pm
Measurement of Anthropogenic Gravitational Effects
Benson Common Room (Gn9, Geology Building) and via Zoom.
21 March 2023
1:00pm to 2:00pm
180 million years of the forest biome in New Zealand: New insights from fossilized wood
Benson Common Room (Gn9, Geology Building), Dunedin and online via Zoom
16 August 2022
1:00pm to 2:00pm
GSNZ President's lunchtime talk: Unlocking a record of UV-B radiation hidden in fossil pollen
Online and in person, Benson Common Room, Geology Building, Dunedin.
04 April 2023
1:00pm to 2:00pm
A month of fieldwork in the McMurdo Dry Valleys investigating permafrost degassing
Benson Common Room (Gn9, Geology Building), Dunedin and online via Zoom
29 September 2022
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Mining for Meaning: the Geoethics of Extractive Industries
Common Room (Gn9, Geology Building) and Zoom
09 September 2022
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Tiny but Mighty: a diatom and geochemical investigation of dynamic environmental changes along the Wilkes Land margin, East Antarctica between 2-3 Ma
Common Room (Gn9, Geology Building)
24 August 2022
5:00pm to 7:00pm
Hochstetter Lecture: The shear zones that hold back the ice sheets
QUAD 4, Geology building, University of Otago, Dunedin
14 March 2023
1:00pm to 2:00pm
The biogeochemistry of redox-sensitive elements and the δ238U isotope system in the permanently euxinic Framvaren Fjord
Benson Common Room (Gn9, Geology Building) and via Zoom
02 March 2023
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Geochemical evidence for subduction erosion in the Trans-mexican Volcanic Belt
Benson Common Room (Gn9, Geology Building), Dunedin campus and online via Zoom
02 August 2022
1:00pm to 2:00pm
New Zealand Community Fault Model v1.0
Benson Common Room, Geology Building, Dunedin and via Zoom
16 August 2022
5:00pm to 6:30pm
GSNZ President's Lecture: Tiny but Mighty – the role of pollen and palynology in the Geosciences
Quad 4, Department of Geology, University of Otago, Dunedin
27 September 2022
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Submarine landslides in Te Tai o Rēhua (Tasman Sea)
Benson Common Room, Geology Department and via Zoom
07 February 2023
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Megacrysts, orbs and pretty maps: Using crystal orientations to unpick crystal clustering processes
Benson Common Room (Gn9, Geology Building), 360 Leith Street, University of Otago, Dunedin
14 September 2022
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Holocene palaeoceanography of the western Ross Sea, Antarctica – Olivia Truax
Benson Common Room (Gn9, Geology Building) and via Zoom
11 November 2022
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Asbestos, gasoline tanks, dry cleaners, oh my! Environmental consulting in the southeastern USA
Benson Common Room, Geology Department and via Zoom
08 February 2023
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Serpentinite mud volcanoes as windows to the forearc of the Mariana Subduction Zone
Benson Common Room (Gn9, Geology Building), DunedinandZoom via https://bit.ly/otagogeology
06 September 2022
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Do silica secreting organisms regulate climate on Earth?
Benson Common Room (Gn9, Geology Building) and via Zoom
12 September 2022
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Ground motion simulations for Dunedin and Mosgiel, Otago, New Zealand
Online only
01 March 2023
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Olivine CaO as proxy to mantle wedge depletion in the trans-Mexican volcanic belt
Benson Common Room (Gn9, Geology Building), Dunedin campus and online via Zoom
23 August 2022
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Subduction cycling and its controls on hyperactive volcanism in the Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand
Benson Common Room, Geology Building and via Zoom
15 March 2023
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Diatom transfer functions for sea surface temperature reconstructions from the Southern Ocean, Pacific Sector
Benson Common Room (Gn9, Geology Building) and Zoom.
04 October 2022
1:00pm to 2:00pm
The behaviour of sulfur during volcanic degassing
Benson Common Room (Gn9, Geology Building) and Zoom
31 January 2023
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Granitic magnetic fabrics (AMS) show tectonic deformation control of episodic crustal growth
Benson Common Room (Gn9, Geology Building), Dunedin and online via Zoom
27 March 2023
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Geomorphological and spatial-temporal development and evolution of monogenetic volcanic systems
Benson Common Room (Gn9, Geology Building) and online via Zoom
27 March 2023
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Geomorphological and spatial-temporal development and evolution of monogenetic volcanic systems
Benson Common Room (Gn9, Geology Building) and via Zoom
23 March 2023
5:00pm to 6:00pm
History, revival and hidden gems of the Lapworth Museum of Geology
Benson Common Room (Gn9, Geology Building) and via Zoom.
11 July 2023
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Paleoenvironment and sediment basins in Dusky Sound, New Zealand, characterised through seismic stratigraphy and sediment cores
Benson Common Room (Gn9, Geology Building)
12 September 2023
5:00pm to 6:00pm
Hochstetter Lecture: Kaikōura earthquake – Tales from the seafloor
Quad 4 lecture theatre, Geology building, University of Otago, Dunedin
26 September 2023
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Geology Department seminar: Fractures and fluid flow through naturally fractured geothermal reservoirs, Taupō Volcanic Zone, New Zealand
Benson Common Room (Gn9, Geology Building), Dunedin and online via Zoom
08 March 2024
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Foundation settlement and tilt of the Millennium Tower in San Francisco, California
Benson Common Room, Department of Geology and Zoom
16 April 2024
1:00pm to 2:00pm
An estimated-radiated-energy catalogue for New Zealand seismic events
Benson Common Room, Geology Building, 360 Leith Street, Dunedin and online via Zoom
15 May 2024
5:00pm to 6:00pm
Tracking it down: How we found New Zealand’s tenth meteorite
Benson Common Room (Gn9), Geology Building, 360 Leith Street, Dunedin
30 July 2024
5:30pm to 7:00pm
Inaugural Professorial Lecture - Professor Andrew Gorman
Archway 1 Lecture Theatre, Dunedin
16 July 2024
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Geology seminar series: Petrogenesis of pounamu and associated rocks
Benson Common Room (Gn9), Geology Building, 360 Leith Street, Dunedin
23 July 2024
5:00pm to 6:00pm
GSNZ Seminar Series: The making of the geological map of Te Riu-a-Māui/Zealandia
Benson Common Room (Gn9), Geology Building, 360 Leith Street, Dunedin
27 August 2024
5:30pm to 6:30pm
Thirst for Knowledge: Southern Ocean controls on climate warming - novel approaches to disentangle complex problems
Ombrellos Kitchen and Bar, 10 Clarendon Street, Dunedin
05 September 2024
3:30pm to 6:00pm
Aquavan - Project Salt
Cromwell College, Barry Avenue, Cromwell, 9 Barry Avenue, Cromwell 9310, Cromwell
15 October 2024
5:00pm to 6:00pm
Geoscience Society of New Zealand’s 2024 Hochstetter Lecture: The sea versus the land – will there be a winner?
Hutton Theatre, Tūhura Otago Museum, 416 Great King Street North, Dunedin
22 October 2024
1:00pm to 2:00pm
The timing and mechanics of tabular calving and the response of the Brunt Ice Shelf, Antarctica
Benson Common Room (Gn09), Department of Geology, 360 Leith Street, Dunedin
12 March 2025
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Tracking deep crustal dynamics around tectonic faults with seismic waves from large distant earthquakes
Benson Common Room (Gn09), Department of Geology, Dunedin
25 March 2025
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Late Pleistocene and Holocene Paleoclimate and Environmental Change in Alpine Fiordland, New Zealand
Benson Common Room (Gn09), Department of Geology, Dunedin
08 April 2025
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Geology seminar: Formation and modification of Archean and post-Archean ultra-refractory lithospheric mantle
Benson Common Room (Gn09), Department of Geology, Dunedin
27 May 2025
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Geology seminar series talk: Active plate tectonics in the Paleoarchean, Simon Lamb
Benson Common Room (Gn9), Geology Building, 360 Leith Street, Dunedin and online
22 July 2025
1:00pm to 3:00pm
Geology seminar series talk: Career opportunities for geologists in geotechnical engineering
Benson Common Room (Gn9), Geology Building, 360 Leith Street, Dunedin and online
23 July 2025
1:00pm to 3:00pm
Geology seminar series talk: Paleoenvironmental reconstructions of the Pacific Sector, Southern Ocean
Benson Common Room (Gn9), Geology Building, 360 Leith Street, Dunedin and online
12 August 2025
1:00pm to 3:00pm
2025 GSNZ President tour Geology seminar
Benson Common Room (Gn9), Geology Building, 360 Leith Street, Dunedin and online
11 September 2025
5:00pm to 6:00pm
Geoscience Society of New Zealand 2025 Hochstetter Lecture
Quad 4 lecture theatre, Geology Building, 360 Leith Street, Dunedin
28 August 2025
12:30pm to 1:30pm
Geology seminar series talk: Luce Lacoua
Benson Common Room (Gn9), Geology Building, 360 Leith Street, Dunedin and online
12 September 2025
1:00pm to 2:00pm
GSNZ 2025 Hochstetter Supporting Lecture: John Townend
Benson Common Room (Gn9), Geology Building, 360 Leith Street, Dunedin
13 January 2026
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Geology Seminar: Role of biogenic silica in Antarctic nutrient removal
Benson Common Room, Department of Geology and Marine Science, 360 Leith Street, Dunedin
05 May 2026
5:00pm to 6:00pm
Hochstetter Lecture — 2026 Geoscience Society of New Zealand Geoscience Lecture
Quad 4 Lecture Theatre, Geology Building, University of Otago