Marsden Fund Programmes
The Marsden Fund is a prestigious, contestable, investigator-driven research fund. It is administered by the Royal Society of New Zealand and funded by the New Zealand Government. The fund supports excellent, novel ideas within the fields of research, science and technology, which may not be funded through other funding systems. A number of scientists from our team have been successful in obtaining these great research grants.
Current Projects
- New Zealand’s Stormy Past (2014-2017) - Richard Levy and Gavin Dunbar
- Surviving in the Eocene Ocean: the unbearable warmness of being (2013-2016) - Chris Hollis
- Bacterial Geothermometer (2011-2014) - Marcus Vandergoes
Lessons Learned
- Ice in the Greenhouse: a Paleocene record of Antarctic deepwater flow (2009-2012) - Chris Hollis
- Was collapse inevitable on Easter Island (2009-2013) -
- New Zealand’s floral origins and the Oligocene land crisis (2008-2011) - Dallas Mildenhall and Nick Mortimer
- Evolution in deep time and shallow seas (2004- 2007) - James Crampton
- Profiling mass extinction: the K-T event from swamp to deep ocean (1997-2000) - Chris Hollis