Event archive
08 April 2024
5:00pm to 6:00pm
Dunedin earthquake hazards: 50 years since the last big shake
Benson Common Room, Geology Department, Dunedin
19 March 2024
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Career opportunities for Geologists in Geotechnical Engineering – a biased Beca perspective
Benson Common Room, Geology Department and via Zoom
11 October 2023
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Research and teaching in Germany, in the midst of the Corona and European Climate and Energy Crises
Benson Common Room (Gn9, Geology Building) and online via Zoom, Dunedin
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16 May 2023
5:00pm to 6:00pm
From ocean depths to mountain tops: Formation and exhumation of oceanic crust in the Troodos Ophiolite (Cyprus)
Benson Common Room (Gn9, Geology Building), Dunedin and online via Zoom
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18 July 2023
5:00pm to 6:00pm
Discovering and cataloguing previously undocumented Otago and Southland earthquakes, 1855–1929
Benson Common Room (Gn9, Geology Building), Dunedin and online via Zoom
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19 April 2023
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Insights into centennial-scale salt marsh morphodynamics and biogeochemistry from a tectonic margin
Benson Common Room (Gn9, Geology Building), Dunedin and via Zoom
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18 April 2023
5:00pm to 6:00pm
Using citizen data to understand earthquake impacts: Aotearoa New Zealand’s earthquake Felt Reports and their current use in Science
Benson Common Room (Gn9, Geology Building) and Zoom.
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22 June 2023
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Unlocking the potential of Antarctic permafrost to constrain climate models
Benson Common Room (Gn9, Geology Building) and via Zoom, Dunedin
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09 May 2023
1:00pm to 2:00pm
A method of Tsunami Early Warning for New Zealand and the Southwest Pacific
Benson Common Room (Gn9, Geology Building) and via Zoom.
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04 May 2023
1:00pm to 1:50pm
Measurement of Anthropogenic Gravitational Effects
Benson Common Room (Gn9, Geology Building) and via Zoom.
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21 March 2023
1:00pm to 2:00pm
180 million years of the forest biome in New Zealand: New insights from fossilized wood
Benson Common Room (Gn9, Geology Building), Dunedin and online via Zoom
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16 August 2022
1:00pm to 2:00pm
GSNZ President's lunchtime talk: Unlocking a record of UV-B radiation hidden in fossil pollen
Online and in person, Benson Common Room, Geology Building, Dunedin.
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04 April 2023
1:00pm to 2:00pm
A month of fieldwork in the McMurdo Dry Valleys investigating permafrost degassing
Benson Common Room (Gn9, Geology Building), Dunedin and online via Zoom
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29 September 2022
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Mining for Meaning: the Geoethics of Extractive Industries
Common Room (Gn9, Geology Building) and Zoom
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09 September 2022
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Tiny but Mighty: a diatom and geochemical investigation of dynamic environmental changes along the Wilkes Land margin, East Antarctica between 2-3 Ma
Common Room (Gn9, Geology Building)
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24 August 2022
5:00pm to 7:00pm
Hochstetter Lecture: The shear zones that hold back the ice sheets
QUAD 4, Geology building, University of Otago, Dunedin
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14 March 2023
1:00pm to 2:00pm
The biogeochemistry of redox-sensitive elements and the δ238U isotope system in the permanently euxinic Framvaren Fjord
Benson Common Room (Gn9, Geology Building) and via Zoom
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02 March 2023
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Geochemical evidence for subduction erosion in the Trans-mexican Volcanic Belt
Benson Common Room (Gn9, Geology Building), Dunedin campus and online via Zoom
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02 August 2022
1:00pm to 2:00pm
New Zealand Community Fault Model v1.0
Benson Common Room, Geology Building, Dunedin and via Zoom
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16 August 2022
5:00pm to 6:30pm
GSNZ President's Lecture: Tiny but Mighty – the role of pollen and palynology in the Geosciences
Quad 4, Department of Geology, University of Otago, Dunedin
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27 September 2022
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Submarine landslides in Te Tai o Rēhua (Tasman Sea)
Benson Common Room, Geology Department and via Zoom
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07 February 2023
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Megacrysts, orbs and pretty maps: Using crystal orientations to unpick crystal clustering processes
Benson Common Room (Gn9, Geology Building), 360 Leith Street, University of Otago, Dunedin
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14 September 2022
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Holocene palaeoceanography of the western Ross Sea, Antarctica – Olivia Truax
Benson Common Room (Gn9, Geology Building) and via Zoom
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11 November 2022
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Asbestos, gasoline tanks, dry cleaners, oh my! Environmental consulting in the southeastern USA
Benson Common Room, Geology Department and via Zoom
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08 February 2023
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Serpentinite mud volcanoes as windows to the forearc of the Mariana Subduction Zone
Benson Common Room (Gn9, Geology Building), DunedinandZoom via https://bit.ly/otagogeology
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06 September 2022
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Do silica secreting organisms regulate climate on Earth?
Benson Common Room (Gn9, Geology Building) and via Zoom
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12 September 2022
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Ground motion simulations for Dunedin and Mosgiel, Otago, New Zealand
Online only
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01 March 2023
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Olivine CaO as proxy to mantle wedge depletion in the trans-Mexican volcanic belt
Benson Common Room (Gn9, Geology Building), Dunedin campus and online via Zoom
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23 August 2022
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Subduction cycling and its controls on hyperactive volcanism in the Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand
Benson Common Room, Geology Building and via Zoom
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15 March 2023
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Diatom transfer functions for sea surface temperature reconstructions from the Southern Ocean, Pacific Sector
Benson Common Room (Gn9, Geology Building) and Zoom.
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04 October 2022
1:00pm to 2:00pm
The behaviour of sulfur during volcanic degassing
Benson Common Room (Gn9, Geology Building) and Zoom
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31 January 2023
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Granitic magnetic fabrics (AMS) show tectonic deformation control of episodic crustal growth
Benson Common Room (Gn9, Geology Building), Dunedin and online via Zoom
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27 March 2023
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Geomorphological and spatial-temporal development and evolution of monogenetic volcanic systems
Benson Common Room (Gn9, Geology Building) and online via Zoom
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27 March 2023
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Geomorphological and spatial-temporal development and evolution of monogenetic volcanic systems
Benson Common Room (Gn9, Geology Building) and via Zoom
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23 March 2023
5:00pm to 6:00pm
History, revival and hidden gems of the Lapworth Museum of Geology
Benson Common Room (Gn9, Geology Building) and via Zoom.
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11 July 2023
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Paleoenvironment and sediment basins in Dusky Sound, New Zealand, characterised through seismic stratigraphy and sediment cores
Benson Common Room (Gn9, Geology Building)
12 September 2023
5:00pm to 6:00pm
Hochstetter Lecture: Kaikōura earthquake – Tales from the seafloor
Quad 4 lecture theatre, Geology building, University of Otago, Dunedin
26 September 2023
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Geology Department seminar: Fractures and fluid flow through naturally fractured geothermal reservoirs, Taupō Volcanic Zone, New Zealand
Benson Common Room (Gn9, Geology Building), Dunedin and online via Zoom
08 March 2024
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Foundation settlement and tilt of the Millennium Tower in San Francisco, California
Benson Common Room, Department of Geology and Zoom
16 April 2024
1:00pm to 2:00pm
An estimated-radiated-energy catalogue for New Zealand seismic events
Benson Common Room, Geology Building, 360 Leith Street, Dunedin and online via Zoom
15 May 2024
5:00pm to 6:00pm
Tracking it down: How we found New Zealand’s tenth meteorite
Benson Common Room (Gn9), Geology Building, 360 Leith Street, Dunedin
30 July 2024
5:30pm to 7:00pm
Inaugural Professorial Lecture - Professor Andrew Gorman
Archway 1 Lecture Theatre, Dunedin
16 July 2024
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Geology seminar series: Petrogenesis of pounamu and associated rocks
Benson Common Room (Gn9), Geology Building, 360 Leith Street, Dunedin
23 July 2024
5:00pm to 6:00pm
GSNZ Seminar Series: The making of the geological map of Te Riu-a-Māui/Zealandia
Benson Common Room (Gn9), Geology Building, 360 Leith Street, Dunedin