New Zealand
Field camp through University of Canterbury in Summer 2017.
A view across the Kaikoura Peninsula, looking towards the Southern Alps.
The sea platform at Kaikoura, which had been lifted out of the ocean by 0.5-5.5 m after the 7.8-magnitude earthquake of 2016.
One of our field exercises included mapping lava flows on Mount Ngauruhoe, the mountain used as Mount Doom in The Lord of the Rings.
A tent set up at Cass Field Station (left) and some colorful schists on Ruby Island in Lake Wanaka (right).
The crater of the active Whakaari / White Island volcano in the Bay of Plenty.
Some structures studied in the field: Sedimentary flame structures (left), active bioturbation at Kaikoura (middle), and a sigma porphyroclast in the Paparoa Metamorphic Core Complex (right).