Samantha Allan
South Africa
BSc(Hons) topic: Controls on distributed and localised deformation within serpentinite shear zones.
Supervisor: Steven Smith
Email: allsa187@student.otago.ac.nz
Frances Blake
New Zealand
BSc(Hons) topic: Arsenic mobility in loess above the Hyde-Macraes Shear Zone in Otago, New Zealand
Supervisors: James Scott, Dave Craw
Email: Frances.Blake@gmail.com
Donna Condon
NZ
PGDipSci topic: Pleistocene Southern paleoceanography
Supervisor: Christian Ohneiser
Email: condo821@otago.ac.nz
Lisa Craw
New Zealand
MSc topic: Microstructure and mechanics of flowing Antarctic ice
Supervisor: Dave Prior
Email: crali915@student.otago.ac.nz
Dannielle Eagles
New Zealand
PGDipSci topic: Fossil whales
Supervisor: Ewan Fordyce
Email: eagda897@student.otago.ac.nz
Samuel Frew
New Zealand
PGDipSci topic: Evaluating the topologic placement of the New Zealand plesiosaur Kaiwhekea katiki.
Supervisor: Ewan Fordyce
Email: fresa299@student.otago.ac.nz
Emanuele Giacalone
Italy
PhD topic: Swinburn Volcano
Supervisor: James White
Email: giaem375@student.otago.ac.nz
Kacee Grant
New Zealand
BSc(Hons) topic: Mobilisation of gold in the shallow levels of the Otago Schist at Coronation North, Macraes Mine.
Supervisors: James Scott, Dave Craw
Email: graka257@student.otago.ac.nz
Talal Kadada
Palestine
PGDipSci topic(2015): Geophysical investigation of the Canterbury and Great South Basins
Supervisor: Andrew Gorman
Email: tgeologist1@gmail.com
Gemma Kerr
UK
PhD topic: Mineralogical and geochemical controls on mine water discharge composition.
Supervisor: Dave Craw
Email: kerge392@student.otago.ac.nz
Gemma is also a general staff member (part-time)
Alastair King
New Zealand
MSc topic: An investigation into the paragenesis and structure of high-grade, high angle, gold veins at Macraes in the Hyde Macraes Shear Zone
Supervisor: Doug MacKenzie
Email: kinal762@student.otago.ac.nz
Hamish Lilley
New Zealand
BSc(Hons) topic: The paragenesis of the wolframite-cassiterite ore system within Tin Range, Stewart Island.
Supervisor: James Scott
Email: lilha287@student.otago.ac.nz
Tim Lutter
New Zealand
MSc topic: Gravitational and Magnetic Modelling
Supervisor: Andrew Gorman
Email: lutti553@student.otago.ac.nz
Jasmine Mawson
New Zealand
MSc topic: Submarine eruptive processes in the Brook Street Terrane
Supervisors: James White, Mike Palin
Email:mawja702@student.otago.ac.nz
Michael May
USA
PhD topic: 1886 Maar forming Eruption of Rotomahana, NZ
Supervisor: James White
Email: maymi024@student.otago.ac.nz
Soltice Morrison
New Zealand
BSc(Hons) topic: An EBSD-based study of stress, strain, and vein formation in mylonitic rocks of the Alpine Fault
Supervisor: Virginia Toy
Email: morso212@student.otago.ac.nz
Arran Murch
New Zealand/UK
PhD topic: Investigating the fragmentation processes of explosive submarine volcanic eruptions
Supervisor: James White , Dr Rebecca Carey (University of Tasmania)
Email: arranmurch@googlemail.com
Michael William Ofman
New Zealand
BSc(Hons) topic: Fracture damage zones of the Glade Darran Fault Zone, Fiordland, New Zealand
Supervisor: Steve Smith
Email: ofmmi216@student.otago.ac.nz
Laura Penrose
New Zealand
BSc(Hons) topic: A geochemical and diatom-based Holocene paleoclimate and paleoceanographic record from the eastern Ross Embayment, Antarctica
Supervisors: Christina Riesselman, Christian Ohneiser
Email: penla170@student.otago.ac.nz
Daniel Pickering
New Zealand
BSc(Hons) topic: Characterisation and paragenesis of scheelite at Golden Point, New Zealand
Supervisors: James Scott, Doug MacKenzie
Email: daniel.pickering@postgrad.otago.ac.nz
Oliver Rees
New Zealand
BSc(Hons) topic: Seismic characterisation of sediments in Otago Harbour
Supervisors: Christina Riesselman, Andrew Gorman
Email: reeol408@student.otago.ac.nz
Andrew Robertson
New Zealand
MSc topic: Investigating the structure and properties of the Ross Ice Shelf using the reflection and conversion of seismic waves.
Supervisors: Andrew Gorman, Dave Prior
Email: roban375@student.otago.ac.nz
Bryce Robinson
New Zealand
MSc topic: Mineralogy, structure, alteration footprints and paragenesis of the Waipori and surrounding Lake Mahinerangi gold deposits, Otago, New Zealand
Supervisor: Doug MacKenzie
Email: robbr187@student.otago.ac.nz
Jeffrey Robinson
New Zealand
PhD topic: Fossil and Recent Brachiopods (completed)
Supervisor: Daphne Lee
Email: jeffreyhrobinson@yahoo.co.nz
Emma Scanlan
New Zealand
MSc topic: A geochemical study of scheelite paragenesis in Glenorchy, New Zealand
Supervisor: James Scott
Email: scaem322@student.otago.ac.nz
Meike Seideman
Germany
PhD topic: Microstructural evolution of ice during episodic creep.
Supervisors: Dave Prior, Pat Langhorne (Physics), Sean Fitzsimons (Geography)
Email: seime036@student.otago.ac.nz
Dave Sun
China
MSc topic: Garnet pyroxenites in the Kakanui Mineral Breccia
Supervisor: James Scott
Email:sunji288@student.otago.ac.nz
Rilee Thomas
New Zealand
BSc(Hons) topic: Unmixing of Rare Earth Elements-rich carbonatites and silicate magmas of the Alpine Dike Swarm, northwest Otago
Supervisor: Marco Brenna
Email: thori218@student.otago.ac.nz
Olivia Truax
USA
MSc topic: A paleomagnetic, geochemical, and diatom based record of Holocene paleoclimate evolution from Robertson Bay, Antarctica
Supervisors: Christina Riesselman, Gary Wilson (Marine Science)
Email: truol520@student.otago.ac.nz
Andrea Verolino
Italy
PhD topic: Surtseyan volcanism: case studies from Pahvant Butte and Black Point (Western USA), and Surtsey (Iceland)
Supervisors: James White
Email: veran321@student.otago.ac.nz
Joseph Whitmore
New Zealand
PGDipSci topic: Unlocking the hidden treasures of the Otago Peninsula
Supervisor: Marco Brenna
Email: whijo549@student.otago.ac.nz
