Public Lecture

Climate change may bring wetter and warmer conditions to southern New Zealand, but we have been there before in the distant geologic past! Exquisite plant and animal fossils preserved in swamps, estuaries, rocky shores and volcanic crater lakes enable us to reconstruct changing climates and ecosystems of long ago. Associate Professor Daphne Lee of the Geology Department at the University of Otago, will present the results of recent research in these ancient environments of Otago and Southland in a public lecture entitled: Subtropical paradise in Southern New Zealand: a story of plams, orchids, crocodiles, corals, tuatara and whitebait from Eocene swamps, Oligocene islands, and Miocene lakes. The lecture will take place on Monday 23 November in the Auditorium of the Oamaru Opera House.