Staff profiles
Karen BrittenVolcano Geochemistry Technician
Biography
Karen is a senior geochemistry technician in the volcanology team. Her background has been working as an analyst in the NZGAL at Wairakei and has now moved to a role managing the GeoNet chemistry sampling program in volcanic and geothermal areas and the airborne gas flux program on NZ volcanoes. Specialist skills have been developed in areas of volcano and geothermal gas and water sampling, gas airborne flux measurements and soil CO2/H2S flux surveys. She has also picked up experience in the H&S requirements of a variety of different types of fieldwork
Qualifications
- Postgraduate Diploma, Agricultural Science
- BSc, Biochemistry & Physiology
Areas of expertise
- Geochemist: Aerosol extraction methods
- Geochemist: Geochemistry
- Geochemist: Volcanic & Hydrothermal gases
- Technical: Ion Chromatography
- Technical: Field Work
- Technical: Gas chromatography
- Technical: Ion Selective Electrode (ISE)
- Technical: Water Sampling
- Geochemist: Geothermal industrial sampling
Publications
Selection of major publications
- Twenty years of volcano data at GeoNet : collection, custodianship, and evolution of open data on New Zealands volcanoes, Bulletin of Volcanology 86: article 81. DOI: 10.1007/s00445-024-01769-x. article 81