Rupert Sutherland | |
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Born | 1967 (age 56–57) |
Nationality | New Zealander |
Title | Professor |
Awards | Hutton Medal (2022) |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Otago |
Thesis | Late Cenozoic tectonics in the SW Pacific, and development of the Alpine Fault through southern South Island, New Zealand (1995) |
Doctoral advisor | Richard Norris |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Geology |
Sub-discipline | Geophysics and tectonics |
Institutions |
GNS Science Victoria University of Wellington |
Notable ideas | Moa Plate |
Mark Rupert Sutherland FRSNZ (born 1967) is a New Zealand geologist and academic specialising in tectonics and geophysics at the Victoria University of Wellington and a principal scientist at GNS Science. [1] [2] Sutherland has been described as "one of New Zealand’s leading earth science researchers" by the Royal Society of New Zealand. [3]
Sutherland completed his BA with honours from the University of Cambridge in 1989. His PhD at the University of Otago in 1995 was on the development of the Alpine Fault. [1]
Sutherland's research has included the deep ocean drilling of the Zealandian continent [4] and ancient climate change. [5] He has identified and named the ancient Moa tectonic plate. [6]
He is a co-leader of the Deep Fault Drilling Project (DFDP) of the Alpine Fault. As a result of this project, exceptionally high heat flow was discovered on the West Coast. [7] [8] Sutherland was the lead author reporting this in Nature. [9]
Sutherland is often used by the national and international media as an expert on seismic surveys, [10] earthquakes [11] and geology in general. [12] His involvement of the promotion of Zealandia to a continent gained a particularly high amount of media attention. [13] [14]
Rupert Sutherland | |
---|---|
Born | 1967 (age 56–57) |
Nationality | New Zealander |
Title | Professor |
Awards | Hutton Medal (2022) |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Otago |
Thesis | Late Cenozoic tectonics in the SW Pacific, and development of the Alpine Fault through southern South Island, New Zealand (1995) |
Doctoral advisor | Richard Norris |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Geology |
Sub-discipline | Geophysics and tectonics |
Institutions |
GNS Science Victoria University of Wellington |
Notable ideas | Moa Plate |
Mark Rupert Sutherland FRSNZ (born 1967) is a New Zealand geologist and academic specialising in tectonics and geophysics at the Victoria University of Wellington and a principal scientist at GNS Science. [1] [2] Sutherland has been described as "one of New Zealand’s leading earth science researchers" by the Royal Society of New Zealand. [3]
Sutherland completed his BA with honours from the University of Cambridge in 1989. His PhD at the University of Otago in 1995 was on the development of the Alpine Fault. [1]
Sutherland's research has included the deep ocean drilling of the Zealandian continent [4] and ancient climate change. [5] He has identified and named the ancient Moa tectonic plate. [6]
He is a co-leader of the Deep Fault Drilling Project (DFDP) of the Alpine Fault. As a result of this project, exceptionally high heat flow was discovered on the West Coast. [7] [8] Sutherland was the lead author reporting this in Nature. [9]
Sutherland is often used by the national and international media as an expert on seismic surveys, [10] earthquakes [11] and geology in general. [12] His involvement of the promotion of Zealandia to a continent gained a particularly high amount of media attention. [13] [14]