Professor
Otago Teaching Excellence Award (2021)
Division of Sciences Early Career Teacher of the Year (2017)
University of Otago Early Career Award for Distinction in Research (2017)
Otago University Top 12 Post-graduate Supervisor (2014)
Otago University Division of Science Post-graduate Supervisor of the Year (2014)
Office – Gn5
Tel +64 3 479 7520
Email james.scott@otago.ac.nz
Google Scholar: James M. Scott
ORCID orcid.org/0000-0001-5185-6261
1. Mt Irene, the prominent peak in the distance, is composed of a metasedimentary upper plate separated from a meta-igneous lower plate by the extensional Mt Irene Shear Zone. Murchison Mountains, Fiordland.
2. A rare fine-weather day in Port Ross in the Sub-Antarctic Auckland Islands. 
3. Postdoctoral Fellow Matt Tarling and undergraduate students traversing Haast Schist on the shores of Lake Hawea. 
4. Red Mountain in the Southern Alps is a slice of accreted oceanic lithospheric mantle
Teaching
- GEOL252 Field Studies and New Zealand Geology
- GEOL353 Tectonics
- GEOL274 Metamorphism and metamorphic mineralisation
- GEOL374 Metamorphism and metamorphic mineralisation
- GEOL401 Current Topics and Advanced Methods in Geoscience
- GEOL472 Advanced Topics in Environmental Geochemistry
- GEOL474 Advanced Topics in Metamorphism and Mineralisation
Research interests
- Meteorites, solar nebula and planetary geology
- Earth's mantle composition, history, melting
- Metamorphism, mineralisation and fluid flow
- Subduction zones and element redistribution
- Environmental geochemistry
- Zealandia's tectonics
Postgraduate students
Postgraduate student opportunities with James Scott
Postgraduate students supervised by James Scott