Mark Rattenbury

Full Name: Mark Rattenbury

Position: Geologist/GIS Specialist

Contact details

Email: M.Rattenbury
Phone: +64-4-570 4697

Qualifications

1981: BSc, Geology; 1983: MSc Hons, Geology; 1988: PhD, Geology

Areas of expertise

Executive management: Project mangement
Geology: 3D modelling
Geology: Field mapping & compilation
Geology: GIS
Geology: GIS modelling
Geology: Geological mapping
Geology: Structural Geology
Geology: Structural geological mapping

Professional activities

Geological Society of Australia: Member
Specialist Group in Tectonics and Structural Geology: Member
Geological Society of New Zealand: Member
The Royal Society of New Zealand: Member

Major publications

Rattenbury, M.S.; Townsend, D.B.; Johnston, M.R. (comps) 2006 Geology of the Kaikoura area : scale 1:250,000 geological map. Lower Hutt: GNS Science. Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences 1:250,000 geological map 13. 70 p. + 1 folded map

Nathan, S.; Rattenbury, M.S.; Suggate, R.P. (comps) 2002 Geology of the Greymouth area : scale 1:250,000. Lower Hutt: Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences. Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences 1:250,000 geological map 12. 58 p. + fold. map

Rattenbury, M.S.; Cooper, R.A.; Johnston, M.R. 1998 Geology of the Nelson area : scale 1:250,000. Lower Hutt: Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences Limited. Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences 1:250,000 geological map 9. 67 p. + fold. map

Specialist in geological mapping, particularly of complexly deformed and metamorphosed basement terranes including Archean rocks in Western Australia, Proterozoic rocks in Australia's Northern Territory, Paleozoic rocks in western Tasmania, Antarctica, and New Zealand's West Coast-NW Nelson, and Mesozoic rocks in central New Zealand. Led the QMAP 1:250 000 Geological Map of New Zealand programme to its conclusion in 2010 and currently leader of GNS's Geological Map of New Zealand core programme. Specialist in geological map data management and dissemination using GIS software and web services, as well as GIS analysis leading to predictive modelling applications in geological hazards and mineral prospectivity.