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Geology alumni 2022

Jack Beagley image 2021Jack Beagley

New Zealand

MSc topic: Investigating carbon sequestration through changing climatic conditions in the fjords of New Zealand using marine seismology
Supervisors: Andrew Gorman, Chris Moy, Gary Wilson (GNS Science)


Julianne Burns image 2021Julianne Burns

USA

BSc(Hons) topic: Ross Ice Shelf ocean currents and retreat using paleomagnetic techniques
Supervisor: Christian Ohneiser


Sophie Bonnington image 2022Sophie Bonnington

New Zealand

BSc(Hons) topic: The mantle beneath North Canterbury, New Zealand
Supervisor: James Scott


Markus Dengg imageMarkus Dengg

Austria

PhD topic: Trace metal limitation of phytoplankton growth in lakes of the Taupo Volcanic Zone
Supervisors: Claudine Stirling, Malcolm Reid, Susie Wood (Cawthron), Piet Verburg (NIWA)


Grace DukeGrace Duke

USA

PhD topic: Characterising Antarctic primary productivity during the Pliocene using nitrogen bound in frustules
Supervisors: Christina Riesselman, Robert Van Hale (Chemistry) and Rebecca Robinson (University of Rhode Island)


Danielle EaglesDannielle Eagles

New Zealand

MSc topic: Fossil baleen whales
Supervisor: Ewan Fordyce


Martin ForbesMartin Forbes

PhD (Surveying) topic: Structural provinces and limits on rift propagation in the Ross Ice Shelf
Supervisors:
Christina Hulbe (School of Surveying), Dave Prior (Geology), Andrew Gorman (Geology)


Ian GearyIan Geary

New Zealand

PhD topic: The Miocene to Quaternary macrofossil plant and fungal floras of Auckland and Northland
Supervisors: Daphne LeeJanice Lord (Botany) John Conran (The University of Adelaide)


Ellie Grant image 2022Ellie Grant

New Zealand

BSc(Hons) topic: Designing an instrument to investigate in situ deformation of glacier ice
Supervisor: Dave Prior


Tayla HillTayla Hill image 2020

New Zealand

MSc topic: Determining the preconditioning and triggering mechanisms of submarine mass movement over anticline ridges, offshore Wairarapa
Supervisors: Andrew Gorman, Joshu Mountjoy (NIWA) and Sally Watson (NIWA)


Georgia Holdsworth imageGeorgia Holdsworth

New Zealand

PGDipSci topic: Using Sediment cores to evaluate past climate change in New Zealand; in particular using Itrax elemental techniques to decipher how climate has changed in Southern New Zealand since the Holocene
Supervisor: Chris Moy


Mark Ireland imageMark Ireland

New Zealand

BSc(Hons) topic: Sm-Nd dating of metamorphic scheelite, Central Otago, New Zealand
Supervisor: James Scott


Katie MattsKatie Matts

UK

PhD topic: Fossil penguins
Supervisor: Ewan Fordyce


Shane_Meekin_60x80_webShane Meekin

New Zealand

MSc topic: Describing a specimen of Waipatiid, or tusked dolphin
Supervisor: Ewan Fordyce


Jakob Morgan Jakob Morgan image 2020

New Zealand

MSc topic: Deeply sourced lithic fragments in overlapping maar deposits of central Hopi Buttes volcanic field, Navajo Nation, Arizona, USA
Supervisor: James White


Ben Perret imageBen Perrett

New Zealand

MSc topic: Geological and hydrological controls on trace elements and their isotopes in pristine South Island rivers.
Supervisor: Claudine Stirling, Malcolm Reid, Matt Druce


Katherine Perry imageKatherine Perry

New Zealand

BSc(Hons) topic: West Wanaka diatreme, New Zealand
Supervisor: James Scott


Olivia TruaxOlivia Truax

USA

PhD topic: Integrating proxy and model estimates of Holocene climate variability in the Ross Sea, Antarctica
Supervisors: Christina Riesselman, Gary Wilson (GNS), Craig Stevens (NIWA and UoA)


Mathew VannerMathew Vanner

New Zealand

PhD topic: Jurassic to Quaternary fossil wood of the South Island, New Zealand
Supervisors: Ewan Fordyce


Caroline Wilsher Caroline Wilsher image 2020

New Zealand

MSc topic: Eocene-Oligocene climate sensitivity reconstructed using sediments from Winton Basin, Southland
Supervisor: Christian Ohneiser


Laura Wilson image 2021Laura Wilson

New Zealand

MSc topic: Geochemistry of Dunedin Volcanic Group lavas within the Maniototo basin, Central Otago
Supervisor: James Scott


Erika Wright imageErika Wright

New Zealand

PGDipSci topic:Predicting the characteristics of an Auckland Volcanic Field eruption from the Swinburn Volcanics
Supervisor: Marco Brenna, James White