Rupert Sutherland
Rupert Sutherland | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1967 (age 58–59) |
| 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 | edit source]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 | edit source]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 | edit source]- 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]
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External links
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