Jack 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
USA
BSc(Hons) topic: Ross Ice Shelf ocean currents and retreat using paleomagnetic techniques
Supervisor:Christian Ohneiser
Sophie Bonnington
New Zealand
BSc(Hons) topic: The mantle beneath North Canterbury, New Zealand
Supervisor:James Scott
Markus 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 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)
Dannielle Eagles
New Zealand
MSc topic: Fossil baleen whales
Supervisor: Ewan Fordyce
Martin 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 Geary
New Zealand
PhD topic: The Miocene to Quaternary macrofossil plant and fungal floras of Auckland and Northland
Supervisors: Daphne Lee, Janice Lord (Botany) John Conran (The University of Adelaide)
Ellie Grant
New Zealand
BSc(Hons) topic: Designing an instrument to investigate in situ deformation of glacier ice
Supervisor:Dave Prior
Tayla Hill
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
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
New Zealand
BSc(Hons) topic:Sm-Nd dating of metamorphic scheelite, Central Otago, New Zealand
Supervisor:James Scott
Katie Matts
UK
PhD topic: Fossil penguins
Supervisor:Ewan Fordyce
Shane Meekin
New Zealand
MSc topic: Describing a specimen of Waipatiid, or tusked dolphin
Supervisor:Ewan Fordyce
Jakob Morgan 
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 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
New Zealand
BSc(Hons) topic: West Wanaka diatreme, New Zealand
Supervisor:James Scott
Olivia 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 Vanner
New Zealand
PhD topic: Jurassic to Quaternary fossil wood of the South Island, New Zealand
Supervisors:Ewan Fordyce
Caroline Wilsher 
New Zealand
MSc topic: Eocene-Oligocene climate sensitivity reconstructed using sediments from Winton Basin, Southland
Supervisor:Christian Ohneiser
Laura Wilson
New Zealand
MSc topic: Geochemistry of Dunedin Volcanic Group lavas within the Maniototo basin, Central Otago
Supervisor:James Scott
Erika Wright
New Zealand
PGDipSci topic:Predicting the characteristics of an Auckland Volcanic Field eruption from the Swinburn Volcanics
Supervisor:Marco Brenna, James White