2025 GSNZ President tour Geology seminar
Martian monsters, giants, and recipes for disaster: Landslide curiosities, hazards, and a slippery future
This year's Geoscience Society of New Zealand (GSNZ) President is Dr Sam McColl, who is giving the 2025 GSNZ President Talk at the Department of Geology.
Sam is a quantitative geomorphologist who applies cross-disciplinary approaches to solve problems spanning natural hazards, agriculture, engineering, and environment, with primary expertise in landslide processes and Quaternary geomorphology. He is the Engineering Geology Team Leader at Earth Sciences New Zealand and the current President of the Geoscience Society of New Zealand.
Come along to briefly hear of the latest developments of the Geoscience Society, including new training and funding opportunities. You will have the opportunity to provide feedback or suggestions to the Society. Sam will then take you on a foray through the fascinating world of landslides, from the unbelievably large landslides on Mars to common problems in your back yard. The talk will explore why New Zealand has so many landslides and why they cost more than any other natural hazard. Some thoughts will be given to the big questions in landslide science and projections for landslides in a warming world.