BSc(Sheff) PhD(Otago)
Office - Geology Gn8
alan.cooper@otago.ac.nz
Professor Alan F Cooper's Inaugural Professorial Lecture 2002
Research Interests
- Metamorphic mineralogy & petrology of the Haast Schists
- Petrogenesis of carbonatites
- N.Z. lamprophyre dyke swarms
- Alpine Fault structure and activity
- Mantle petrology
- Ross Orogen, Antarctica
Recent Postgraduate Student Supervision
- Nathalie Lefebvre (2013) - Volcanological Factors Controlling the Diamond Distribution within Kimberlite Pipes Using Drill Core Information and Modern Analogues From Selected Pipes in the Attawapiskat Kimberlite Field, Northern Ontario, Canada and Hopi Buttes, Arizona, USA. (PhD)
- Andreas Auer (2013)– Sedimentary response to debris avalanche and eruption at Mt Ruapehu (PhD)
- Nic Barth (2013)- Comparative fault mechanics in quartzofeldspathic, mafic and ultramafic protoliths: a study of the Alpine Fault Zone in South Westland (PhD
- Anne Ford (2012)- Pleistocene stone tool use at Kosipe, Papua New Guinea (PhD)
- Nick Hogg (2011) On the edge: studying colonization and mobility in the Western Pacific (MSc)
- Ben Teele (2011)- Chemical analysis of Lapita and Polynesian Plainware ceramics from Samoa in order to determine settlement mobility and changes that occur to Samoan settlement strategies over the first 1,000 years of occupation. (MA)
- Sophie Briggs - Geology, petrology and geochemistry of the Alpine Dike Swarm north of the Haast River (BSc(Hons))
- Giulia Airoldi - Magma transport and propagation of intrusive sheets, Ferrar Dolerite, Allan Hills and Solitary Rocks, Antarctica. (PhD)
- Campbell Ryland - Geology, mineralisation, and structural evolution of the Bald Hill-Maori Saddle Region, South Westland, New Zealand (MSc)
- Stephen Read – Koettlitz Glacier Alkaline Province: Late Neoproterozoic extension in southern Victoria Land, Antarctica. (PhD)
- Ake Fagereng - Subduction-related fault processes: Ancient and active. (PhD)
- Adam Martin - Mount Morning volcanism, Antarctica (PhD)
- Hanne-Kristen Paulsen - Volcanology, Mount Morning, southern Victoria Land, Antarctica. (MSc)
- Tim Popham - Pounamu and Scott Basin. (MSc)
- James Scott- Petrology of Eastern Fiordland. (PhD)
- Virginia Toy - Mylonites and pseudotachylytes found adjacent to the central Alpine Fault. (PhD)
- Heather Campbell - The Alpine Fault at Jackson River, South Westland. (PhD)
- Stefan Olsson - The dykes of the Dunedin Volcano; structural and petrological implications. (PhD)
- Mark Walrond - Alpine Fault Structure. (PhD)
- Anton Barber - Felsic magmatism and host metasediments of the Ross Orogeny at Reeves Bluff, southern Victoria Land, Antarctica. (MSc)
- John Cottle -Mafic magmatism in the Carlyon Glacier region, southern Victoria Land, Antarctica. (MSc)
- Doc Richardson - Metasediments and mafic intrusions of the Ross Orogeny, Mulock Glacier, southern Victoria Land, Antarctica. (MSc)
- Matthew Wynyard - Skelton Group metamorphism: structure and petrology. (MSc)