Senior Lecturer
Division of Sciences Early Career Teacher of the Year (2017)
University of Otago Early Career Award for Distinction in Research (2017)
Otago University Top 12 Post-graduate Supervisors (2014)
Otago University Division of Science Post-graduate Supervisor of the Year (2014)
Office – Gn5
Tel +64 3 479 7520
Email james.scott@otago.ac.nz
ORCID orcid.org/0000-0001-5185-6261
1. Mt Irene, the prominent peak in the distance, is composed of a metasedimentary upper plate separated from a meta-igneous lower plate by the extensional Mt Irene Shear Zone. Murchison Mountains, Fiordland. 
2. A rare fine-weather day in Port Ross in the Sub-Antarctic Auckland Islands. 
4. Red Mountain in the Southern Alps is a slice of accreted oceanic lithospheric mantle
Teaching
- GEOL252 Field Studies and New Zealand Geology
- GEOL353 Tectonics
- GEOL274 Metamorphism and metamorphic mineralisation
- GEOL374 Metamorphism and metamorphic mineralisation
- GEOL401 Current Topics and Advanced Methods in Geoscience
- GEOL472 Advanced Topics in Environmental Geochemistry
- GEOL474 Advanced Topics in Metamorphism and Mineralisation
Research Interests
- Mantle dynamics and history
- Orogenic and mesothermal mineralisation
- New Zealand’s terranes and metamorphism
- Meteorites and shock metamorphism
Please see Petrology Research pages for more information
