PhD, University of California-Santa Barbara
MS, University of Missouri-Columbia
BS & BA (Geology & Phil/Hist) Texas Christian University
Office – Geology 1S5
Tel +64 3 479 9009
Google Scholar: James D. L. White
ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-2970-711X
Email james.white@otago.ac.nz
Teaching
- GEOL112 Dynamic Earth: A New Zealand Perspective
- GEOL252 Field Studies
- GEOL273/373 Sedimentary Processes and Materials
- GEOL264/364 Igneous Petrology and Volcanology
- GEOL302 Independent Field Studies (supervisor)
- GEOL464 Advanced Igneous Petrology and Volcanology
Research Interests
Explosive subaqueous and subglacial eruptions
Maar-diatreme volcanism
Volcanic magma plumbing systems / shallow intrusions
Magma-water interaction and fragmentation
- Experimental Volcanology
Primary and secondary volcaniclastic sedimentation
Postgraduate student research opportunities
View available research opportunities
Research-community service
- Associate Editor, Island Arc (2012–present)
- Associate Editor, Frontiers in Earth Science (2017–2021)
- Executive Editor, Bulletin of Volcanology (2010–2017)
- Editorial Board, Journal of Volcanology and Geotherma Research (1999–2016)
Past postdoctoral researchers
- Rosie Cole
- Tobias Dürig
- Martin Jutzeler
- Vernon Manville
- Olivier Reubi
Postgraduate Student Supervision
PhD – Current
- Rachael Baxter, Physical and petrological processes of the Ubehebe eruption, Death Valley, USA.
- Wendel Broek, Intrusive rocks of the Waiareka-Deborah volcanic field.
- Michelle Fitzgerald, Lithic fragment populations in a cluster of closely spaced volcanoes in central Hopi Buttes Volcanic Field, Navajo Nation, Arizona.
- Javiera Ruz Ginouves, Analogue modelling of thermal and geometric controls on flow localization in dikes and fissures.
- Ayla Stenning, Geology of the Dunedin Volcano.
PhD – Published/Past
- Rong Zhang (Marco Brenna lead supervisor) Drivers of monogenetic versus polygenetic intraplate volcanism.
- Rosie Cole (2018) Ice-contact volcanism at Tongariro National Park.
- Emanuele Giacalone (2018) Swinburn Volcano.
- Arran Murch (2018) Investigating the fragmentation processes of explosive submarine volcanic eruptions.
- Andrea Verolino (2018) Volcanology project on Surtseyan volcanism.
- Giuseppe Re (Peppe) (2017) Maar diatreme system in Hopi Buttes, Navajo Nation, AZ, USA.
- Carolyn Gorny Origin of Pleistocene lava-hyaloclastite sheets, southeast Iceland.
- Benjamin Moorehouse (2015) Investigating the eruptive processes of shallow-marine volcanoes on the Oligocene continental shelf, east Otago, New Zealand.
- Robin Andrews Investigating the cratering and thermodynamics of the phreatomagmatic 1886 Rotomahana eruption.
- Simone Hicks (RE Fordyce primary supervisor) Ecological and sedimentological evolution of the volcanically active Oligocene continental shelf, east Otago, New Zealand (PhD submitted 2014).
- Nathalie Lefebvre Volcanology of maar-diatreme volcanic vent complexes, Hopi Buttes Volcanic Field, Arizona, USA (PhD 2013).
- Andreas Auer Sedimentary Response to Debris Avalanche and Eruption at Mt Ruapehu (PhD 2013).
- Michael May (withdrawn) The Rotomahana Eruption of 1886: Thermodynamics of a basaltic eruption through an intensely active geothermal system, North Island, New Zealand.
- Rachel Murtagh (2011) An investigation into the explosivity of shallow subaqueous basaltic eruption.
- Giulia Airoldi (2010) Magma injection dynamics in the shallow Ferrar LIP (South Victoria Land, Antarctica).
- C. Ian Schipper (2009) Explosive Submarine Volcanism at Lō`ihi Seamount, Hawai`i.
- Jean-Baptiste Rosseel. Supervisors JDL White, BF Houghton. Project: Phreatic and phreatomagmatic processes of the 1886 Rotomahana eruption: destruction of an active hydrothermal system along an eruption fissure. (1998-2008; withdrawn).
- McClintock, M.K.(2006) Evolution of a large volcaniclastic vent complex preceding emplacement of the Karoo flood basalts, Sterkspruit, Drakensberg Mountains, South Africa.
- Finnis, K. (2006) Resilience and vulnerability in communities around Mt Taranaki.
- Ross, P.S. (2005) Volcanology of the Mawson Formation at Coombs and Allan Hills, Victoria Land, Antarctica. Unpublished PhD dissertation.
- Nemeth, K. (2001) Phreatomagmatism at the Waipiata Volcanic Field, Otago, New Zealand. Unpublished PhD dissertation.
- Martin, U. (2000) Eruptions and deposition of volcaniclastic rocks in the Dunedin Volcanic Complex, Otago Peninsula, New Zealand. Unpublished PhD dissertation.
- Segschneider, B. (2000) Resedimentation of the 1.8 ka Taupo ignimbrite in the Hawke's Bay region, North Island, New Zealand. Unpublished PhD Thesis.
- Maicher, D. (1999) Hyaloclastite beds of shelf and seamount: roles of exsolution, entrapment and entrainment. Unpublished Phd Thesis.
MSc – Current
- Nicholas Hobiagi, Volcanological analysis of the 2017 ICDP core into Surtsey's diatreme.
MSc – Published/Past
- Rachael Baxter (2019) Investigating dikes at Allans Beach, using geochemistry to gain insight into the magmatic system and initial evoution of the Dunedin Volcanic Complex.
- Jasmine Mawson (2018) Submarine eruptive processes in the Brook Street Terrane.
- Sam Maloney (2016) Maar-diatreme volcanism in central Otago.
- Lewis, Bridgette, (2007). Deposition and compositional characteristics of the Potaka Tephra, Wanganui Basin, North Island, New Zealand.
- Guegan, Emilie, (2006). Magma-supply dynamics of the Ferrar large igneous province, Coombs Hills, Antarctica.
- Schipper, Christopher Ian (2004) Chemical and mineralogical characterization of pyroclastic deposits from the ca. 1 Ma Kidnappers and Rocky Hill eruptions, Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand. Unpublished MSc Thesis.
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Marx, Raymond S. (2004) The Rotorua caldera lake: volcanic eruptions and water levels from 220 ka to present. Unpublished MSc Thesis.
- Hood Hills, Simone B. (2004) Vent structures preserved in the Mawson Formation, a phreatomagmatic volcanic complex in the Allan Hills, southern Victoria Land, Antarctica. Unpublished MSc Thesis
- Lockett, Gillian M. (2003) Landslide and debris flow deposits at the margin of a large vent complex, Mawson Formation, Allan Hills, southern Victoria Land, Antarctica. Unpublished MSc Thesis
- Newton, Erin H. (2002) Resedimentation of the 1800a Taupo Ignimbrite along the Rangitaiki River Catchment, North Island, New Zealand. MSc Thesis
- von Lichtan, Isabella J. (withdrawn) Flotation and sedimentation of large hot pumice blocks in a refilling caldera lake at the end of the Taupo 1.8 ka eruption
- McClintock, Murray K.(1999) Phreatomagmatism at Coombs Hills, Antarctica: Magma-water super-volcanism in a wet, failed rift. unpublished MSc Thesis
- Clarkson, Roger A.(1996) Immediate post-c. 1800a Taupo eruption secondary deposits and shorelines. M.Sc. Thesis
BSc(Hons) – Current
- Dante Frean, Emplacement of Dunedin Volcanic Group rocks between Dunedin Volcano and the Karitane suite.
BSc(Hons) – Published/Past
- Jasmine Mawson (2017) Paleomagnetic investigations of the Waipiata volcanoes.
- Oliver McLeod (2015)- Structure and origin of mingled magma rock and columnar jointed lava at Puketeraki, Otago.
- Tim Bush-Marcinowski (2014)- Analysis of the petrology of Surtsey basalts.
- Garland, Marama. (2006) Mawson-Ferrar Dolerite relationships, northern East Ridge, Coombs Hills, Antarctica
- Hardy, Lyndon (2005) Investigation of the Rotomahana Mud and deposits of the Lake Okaro hydrothermal explosions, North Island, New Zealand.
- Dreiberg, Bede J. (1995) Post eruption deposition from the 10 June 1886, Mt Tarawera eruption.
- Townend, John (1995) The Rotomahana Eruption 1886: Heterogeneous interaction between basaltic magma and a geothermal system.
Postgraduate Diploma in Science – Published/Past
- Laurie, Blair (2004) Volcanic architecture of the Harbour Cone-Dicks Hill area, Otago Peninsula, New Zealand.
Publication profiles
- Google Scholar: James D. L. White
- ORCID ID: 0000-0002-2970-711X
- ResearcherID: D-7751-2013
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