Staff profiles
Richard KellettEnvironmental Processes and Modelling Team Leader
Biography
Dr. Richard Kellett is a geophysicist who specialises in investigations of the top 100 - 200 m of the subsurface. This work is applied to groundwater, landslides, urban settings, and resource exploration. He has worked in a wide range of environments including Antarctica, New Zealand, Africa, and North America. The geophysical methods applied include electromagnetic techniques that can be deployed from helicopters (SkyTEM) or on foot (WalkTEM). Seismic and resistivity methods are also key to mapping landslides and surficial sediments. In addition to specialising in geophysics, Richard is the leader of the Environmental Modelling and Processes Team at Earth Sciences New Zealand.
Qualifications
- BSc(Hons), Geophysics
- PhD, Geodynamics
Areas of expertise
- Geophysics: Electromagnetic Methods
- Geophysics: Exploration Geophysics
- Geophysics: Seismic interpretation
- Geophysics: Shallow water geophysics
- Geomorphology: Landslide geophysics
- Groundwater: Drilling
- Groundwater: Marine Geophysics
- Groundwater: Seawater Intrusion
Publications
Selection of major publications
- Chatham Islands cabled observatory science opportunities: Workshop 2324 February 2021 Summary Report DOI: 10.21420/K1BM-RP28. Lower Hutt, N.Z.: GNS Science. GNS Science report 2021/26 70 p.
- 3D active source seismic imaging of the Alpine Fault zone and the Whataroa glacial valley in New Zealand, Journal of Geophysical Research. Solid Earth 126(12): e2021JB023013. DOI: 10.1029/2021JB023013. e2021JB023013
- Geophysical signatures of New Zealand epithermal Au-Ag deposits, and methods for new exploration, New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 62(4): p. 442-460. DOI: 10.1080/00288306.2018.1548494. p. 442-460