Personnel

Bruce W. Hayward

Email address: firstinitial.surname@geomarine.org.nz

1971 BSc (Hons) (University of Auckland) [Geology of the Table Mt area, Coromandel Peninsula]
1975 PhD (University of Auckland) [Geology of the Waitakere Hills, Auckland, with emphasis on the paleontology]
1976 Post-Doc Fellowship, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. [Early Miocene benthic foraminifera of northern New Zealand].
1978-1991 Micropaleontologist, New Zealand Geological Survey, Lower Hutt

1985-present Convenor of NZ Geopreservation Inventory Project

1988 NZ Association of Scientists Research Medal
1988-present Associate Editor, Journal of Foraminiferal Research

1989-1991 President, Geological Society of New Zealand

1990-1993 Member, New Zealand Conservation Authority
1991-1997 Curator of Marine Invertebrates, Auckland Institute and Museum

1993-present Co-founder and Chairperson, Auckland Geology Club

1994 Foundation for Research, Science & Technology Science Communicator Merit Prize
1997-2002 Self-employed Research Associate, Geology Department, University of Auckland
1998-2000 James Cook Research Fellow
2003-present Founder and Principal Scientist, Geomarine Research, Auckland
2003 Appointed Fellow of the Royal Society of NZ
2006 Hochstetter lecturer, Geological Society of New Zealand
2006 Member New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to Earth Science and Conservation

2010-present Editor, Foraminifera, World Register of Marine Species

Research Programmes
Principal scientist, New Zealand benthic foraminifera and basin analysis, coastal marine monitoring, and earthquake histories, FRST-funded, 1991-present
Principal scientist, Foraminifera and paleoceanography of Bounty Trough, east New Zealand; Marsden-funded, 2000-2002
Principal scientist, The last global marine extinction: causes and consequences for global biodiversity; Marsden-funded, 2003-2005
Principal scientist, Causes of evolution and global extinction in the deep sea; Marsden-funded, 2007-2010
Convenor, New Zealand Geopreservation Inventory Project; Geological Society of New Zealand-sponsored, 1984-present
Intertidal and shallow marine benthic biodiversity and ecology of northern New Zealand (with Margaret Morley and colleagues); hobby research, 1992-present.

 

Hugh R. Grenfell

Email address: firstinitial.surname@geomarine.org.nz

M.Sc. (1st class Hons) Geology; Ph.D. Geology.

 

Ashwaq T. Sabaa (Research assistant)

Email address: firstinitial.surname@geomarine.org.nz

Main research programmes (past and present):

  • Recent deep-sea benthic foraminifera around New Zealand.
  • Pleistocene deep-sea benthic foraminifera and climatic changes.
  • Planktic foraminiferal biostratigraphy and paleoceanography (Pliocene - Pleistocene) east of New Zealand.
  • Shallow water foraminiferal record of human impact and earthquake history.

 

Margaret Morley

Email address: firstinitialsurname@aucklandmuseum.com

 

1993- Research Associate, Mollusca, Auckland War Memorial Museum
2003- Research Associate, Mollusca, Ostracoda, Geomarine Research, Auckland

Main research programmes (past and present):

  • Mollusca, particularly micromollusca, of northern New Zealand and Subantarctic
  • Ostracoda of northern New Zealand

 

Jill A. Kenny

Email address: firstinitial.surname@geomarine.org.nz



M.Sc. (1st class Hons) 1980 - "Geology of the Ihungia catchment, Raukumaru Peninsula."
Ph.D. (University of Auckland) 1986 - "Alternating convergent and non-convergent tectonics, 100 million years to present, Puketoro area, northeastern New Zealand."

Current research programmes:

  • Coastal landforms throughout New Zealand
  • Karst landforms in limestone and basalt throughout New Zealand
  • Updating the NZ Geopreservation Inventory, under auspices of Geological Reserves Subcommittee of Geoscience Society of NZ
  • Contract work on geological heritage of Auckland

Hobby research:

  • Identifying regional faults in Auckland.

Past research programmes:

  • SW Pacific seafloor topography and geology
  • Geology of northern Great Barrier

 

Post-doctoral Fellows, as part of these studies:

  • Shungo Kawagata, 2003-2006: Mid-Pleistocene extinctions in the deep sea.
    Present email address: surname@ynu.ac.jp
  • Katie Johnson, 2008-2009: Causes of extinction in the deep sea, the middle Miocene cooling.
    Present email address: schanoofi-at-hotmail.com

 

PhD student theses, undertaken as part of these studies:

  • Liesbeth Van Kerckhoven 2007- : Causes of evolution in the deep-sea: with emphasis on the Paleocene-Eocene record (draft title only). University of Auckland.
  • Brigida Figueira 2008- : Salt marsh foraminiferal record of late Holocene sea level rise around New Zealand.

 

MSc student theses, undertaken as part of these studies:

  • Ashwaq Sabaa 2000: Pliocene foraminiferal biostratigraphy and paleoceanography of ODP Site 1125, eastern New Zealand. University of Auckland.
  • Stuart Rodger 2003: Planktic foraminiferal evidence of paleoceanographic changes across the Subtropical Front during the late Pleistocene. University of Auckland.
  • Grace Schaefer 2003: A middle Pleistocene paleoceanographic record from the northern Chatham Rise (ODP Site 1125). University of Auckland.
  • Kate Wilson 2003: The paleoceanography of the Canterbury Bight during the past 1 million years: planktic foraminiferal evidence from ODP 1119. Massey University.
  • Andrew Matthews 2004: Foraminiferal record of human impact in the Manukau Harbour, Auckland. University of Auckland.
  • Tanya O'Neill 2005: The middle Pleistocene extinction of bathyal benthic foraminifera in the South Atlantic (ODP Sites 1082 and 1088). Massey University.
  • Francie Geiger 2005-2006: Pleistocene ostracod stratigraphy, east of New Zealand (preliminary title) Canterbury University.

·         Rhiannon Daymond-King 2006-2007: Early Miocene bathyal channels of Orongo Point, Kaipara Harbour. University of Auckland.

·         John Kay 2007-2008: Paleoichnology, sedimentology and micropaleontology of the Muriwai and Huia areas, North Auckland. University of Auckland.

·         Andrew Kolodziej 2009-2010: Late middle Pleistocene sea surface temperature record and paleoceanography off the West Coast, South Island. Victoria University of Wellington.

 

Technical staff, present and former:

·        Dr Chris J. Hollis 1991-2

·        Annette Pullin 1994-6

·        Catherine Reid 1996-8

·        Kathryn A. Hayward 1998-2006

·        Jessica Hayward 1998-2008

·        Rowan Carter 1998-2002

·        Clare Hayward 2000-4

·        Grace Schaefer 2003

·        Andrew Matthews 2004

·        Lilian Weiland 2004

·        Rhiannon Daymond-King 2003-7

·        Sophie Milloy 2008

·        Jon Kay 2008-2010