Our Team
The GNS CCS team in Lower Hutt, Wellington, combines ten years’ research and consulting experience in carbon storage, based on multidisciplinary experience in petroleum research and consultancy using industry standard resources, regional geological mapping and GIS, a specialised risking team and social scientists with research and consulting experience. We have collaborated with other research organisations and consultants, in principal or subcontracting roles, forming teams where necessary to achieve results best tailored for our clients’ needs.
Storage assessment
- Brad Field – Geologist, seal assessment
- Angela Griffin – Geologist, well logs
- Dominic Strogen – Sedimentary geologist, paleogeographic/facies mapping
- Greg Browne – Sedimentologist
- Karen Higgs – Sedimentologist, petrologist, fluid-rock interaction (consultant)
- Bruce Mountain – Geochemist, fluid rock interaction experimental geochemistry
- Malcolm Arnot – Sedimentologist, petroleum modelling, reservoir analogues
- Mark Lawrence – Petroleum geologist, image logs
- Chris Martin – Database analyst/developer
- Hai Zhu – Geophysicist
- Paul Viskovic - Geomodeller
- Dan Barker - Seismic interpreter
- Vaughan Stagpoole – Geophysicist, Marine Geoscience Department Head
- Mark Rattenbury – Geologist, regional mapping, storage assessment
- Lucia Roncaglia – Paleontologist, stratigrapher, Paleontology Department Head
- Kyle Bland – Geologist, basin modeller
- Rob Funnell – Geophysicist, basin moddler, Petroleum Geoscience Department Head
- Other staff with expertise in geology and geophysics (particularly petroleum)
Risking and monitoring
- Matt Gerstenberger – Risk modelling
- Annemarie Christophersen – Risking specialist
- Rob Buxton – Risk simulation modeller
- Jocelyn Turnbull – Isotope geochemist
Community relations research
- Julia Becker– Social Science Team Leader
Please contact us with any inquiries you may have.