Staff profiles
Ian RaineEmeritus Scientist
Biography
Research Interests Palynology of Permian to Cenozoic strata for regional geological mapping, sedimentary basin studies, petroleum and coalfield exploration, biostratigraphic and taxonomic research, melissopalynology. Current projects include taxonomic and biostratigraphic study of New Zealand Jurassic and Cretaceous palynomorphs, vegetation and climate change at the Cretaceous-Tertiary and Paleocene-Eocene boundaries, biogeography of Cenozoic Antarctic and southern high latitude floras, and development of taxonomy databases. Also involved in research on the New Zealand honey flora, bee forage, and the definition of monofloral honeys.
Qualifications
- Certificate of Proficiency course in Botany III
- BSc, Geology
- PhD, Quaternary Vegetation History
Areas of expertise
- Geology: Stratigraphy
- Geology: Basin studies
- Technical: Software and database development
- Geology: Sub-Antarctic & Antarctic Geology
- Paleontology: Biostratigraphic services
- Geology: Field studies
- Paleontology: Biogeography
- Paleontology: Paleoenvironmental Analysis
- Paleontology: Palynology
- Palynology: Melissopalynology
Major Publications
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- Early to Middle Eocene vegetation dynamics at the Wilkes Land Margin (Antarctica), Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 197: p. 119-142. DOI: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2013.05.009. p. 119-142
- Sequence stratigraphy and controls on reservoir sandstone distribution in an Eocene marginal marine-coastal plain fairway, Taranaki Basin, New Zealand, Marine and Petroleum Geology 32(1): p. 110-137. DOI: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2011.12.001. p. 110-137
- Euphorbiaceae : Acalyphoideae fossils from Early Miocene New Zealand : Mallotus-Macaranga leaves, fruits, and inflorescence with in situ Nyssapollenites endobalteus pollen, Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 163(1/2): p. 127-138. DOI: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2010.10.002. p. 127-138
- Zonate lycophyte spores from New Zealand Cretaceous to Paleogene strata, Alcheringa 32(2): p. 99-127. DOI: 10.1080/03115510801916440. p. 99-127
- Mid-Miocene cooling and the extinction of tundra in continental Antarctica, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 105(31): p. 10676-10680. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0802501105. p. 10676-10680
- Pollen and spores in marine Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary sediments at mid-Waipara River, North Canterbury, New Zealand, New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 46(2): p. 255-273. Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences contribution 2757 p. 255-273
- Terrestrial palynology of Cape Roberts Project drillhole CRP-3, Victoria Land Basin, Antarctica, Terra Antartica 8(4): p. 389-400. Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences contribution 2220 p. 389-400
- Indication of global deforestation at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary by New Zealand fern spike, Science 294: p. 1700-1702. Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences contribution 2316 p. 1700-1702
- Biostratigraphic revision of petroleum exploration wells, Great South Basin, New Zealand Lower Hutt: Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences. Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences science report 93/32 146 p.
- Triassic and earliest Jurassic miospores from the Murihiku Supergroup, New Zealand Lower Hutt: New Zealand Geological Survey. New Zealand Geological Survey paleontological bulletin 62 164 p.
- Cretaceous and Cenozoic sedimentary basins of the West Coast region, South Island, New Zealand Wellington: Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. New Zealand Geological Survey basin studies 1 89 p.
- Outline of a palynological zonation of Cretaceous to Paleogene terrestrial sediments in West Coast region, South Island, New Zealand [s.l.]: [s.n.]. Report NZGS 109 82 p.