Rupert Sutherland
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]
Education
[edit]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]
Career and impact
[edit]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]
Awards and honours
[edit]- Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand[3]
- Hamilton Award[15]
- Hutton Medal for "fundamental discoveries in global plate tectonics, the evolution of Zealandia and the implications for active faulting and large magnitude earthquakes in New Zealand".[16]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Rupert Sutherland | School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences | Victoria University of Wellington". www.victoria.ac.nz. Retrieved 12 February 2019.
- ^ "ORCID". orcid.org. Retrieved 12 February 2019.
- ^ a b "2013 Academy Annual Report" (PDF).
- ^ "Explorers probe hidden continent of Zealandia | Australasian Science Magazine". www.australasianscience.com.au. Retrieved 12 February 2019.
- ^ Sutherland, R.; Kim, K.; Zondervan, A.; McSaveney, M. (2007). "Orbital forcing of mid-latitude Southern Hemisphere glaciation since 100 ka inferred from cosmogenic nuclide ages of moraine boulders from the Cascade Plateau, southwest New Zealand". Geological Society of America Bulletin. 119 (3–4): 443–451. Bibcode:2007GSAB..119..443S. doi:10.1130/B25852.1. ISSN 0016-7606.
- ^ Rupert Sutherland and Chris Hollis (March 2001). "Cretaceous demise of the Moa plate and strike-slip motion at the Gondwana margin". Geology. 29 (3): 279–282. Bibcode:2001Geo....29..279S. doi:10.1130/0091-7613(2001)029<0279:cdotmp>2.0.co;2.
- ^ "The spas in our Fault: Potential for geothermal resources discovered on South Island's Alpine Fault". 17 May 2017. ISSN 1170-0777. Retrieved 12 February 2019.
- ^ "Drill just short of Alpine Fault". Radio New Zealand. 15 January 2015. Retrieved 12 February 2019.
- ^ Sutherland, Rupert; Woodman, Nick; Williams, Jack; Wiersberg, Thomas; Weaver, Konrad; Valdez, Robert; Tobin, Harold; Teagle, Damon; Taylor-Offord, Sam (2017). "Extreme hydrothermal conditions at an active plate-bounding fault". Nature. 546 (7656): 137–140. Bibcode:2017Natur.546..137S. doi:10.1038/nature22355. ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 28514440. S2CID 205256017.
- ^ "Greenpeace exploiting emotive issue of seismic surveying, says professor". Stuff. 8 May 2017. Retrieved 12 February 2019.
- ^ Martin, Sean (18 May 2017). "BIG ONE WARNING: New Zealand in store for 'EXTREME' earthquake as fault lines collide". Express.co.uk. Retrieved 12 February 2019.
- ^ "Scientists just came back from an expedition to Earth's lost eighth continent". The Independent. 5 October 2017. Retrieved 12 February 2019.
- ^ "Secrets of lost continent Zealandia revealed". Otago Daily Times Online News. 28 September 2017. Retrieved 12 February 2019.
- ^ Williams, Jacqueline (28 July 2017). "Scientists Take to the Sea to Study a Lost Land: Zealandia". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 12 February 2019.
- ^ "Major accolades / Media Releases / News and Events / Home – GNS Science". www.gns.cri.nz. Retrieved 12 February 2019.
- ^ "Research Honours Aotearoa winners celebrated in Te Whanganui-a-Tara". Royal Society Te Apārangi. Retrieved 22 November 2022.
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