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Liz KennedyPaleobotanist

Kennedy Liz 1982

Department

Paleontology

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Qualifications

  • BSc, Geology
  • PhD, Paleoclimatology & Paleobotany
  • MSc, Geology

Areas of expertise

  • Geology: Paleoclimatology
  • Geology: Sedimentology
  • Paleontology: Stratigraphy
  • Geology: Field studies
  • Geology: Quaternary research
  • Geology: Paleontology
  • Geology: Paleoenvironmental Studies
  • Paleontology: paleobotany
  • Paleontology: Biodiversity
  • Paleontology: Palynology

Major Publications

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  • Prebble, J.G.; Kennedy, E.M.; Reichgelt, T.; Clowes, C.D.; Womack, T.; Mildenhall, D.C.; Raine, J.I.; Crouch, E.M. 2021. A 100 million year composite pollen record from New Zealand shows maximum angiosperm abundance delayed until Eocene, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 566: paper 110207. DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.110207. paper 110207
  • Reichgelt, T.; Kennedy, E.M.; Conran, J.G.; Lee, W.G.; Lee, D.E. 2019. The presence of moisture deficits in Miocene New Zealand, Global and Planetary Change 172: p. 268-277. DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2018.10.013. p. 268-277
  • Kaulfuss, U.; Lee, D.E.; Wartho, J.-A.; Bowie, E.; Lindqvist, J.K.; Conran, J.G.; Bannister, J.M.; Mildenhall, D.C.; Kennedy, E.M.; Gorman, A.R. 2018. Geology and palaeontology of the Hindon Maar Complex: a Miocene terrestrial fossil Lagerstätte in southern New Zealand, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 500: p. 52-68. DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2018.03.022. p. 52-68
  • Schmidt, A.R.; Kaulfuss, U.; Bannister, J.M.; Baranov, V.; Beimforde, C.; Bleile, N.; Borkent, A.; Busch, A.; Conran, J.G.; Engel, M.S.; Harvey, M.; Kennedy, E.M.; Kerr, P.H.; Keltunen, E.; Kiecksee, A.P.; Lengeling, F.; Lindqvist, J.K.; Maraun, M.; Milde 2018. Amber inclusions from New Zealand, Gondwana Research 56: p. 135-146. DOI: 10.1016/j.gr.2017.12.003. p. 135-146
  • Naafs, B.D.A.; Rohrssen, M.; Inglis, G.N.; Lähteenoja, O.; Feakins, S.J.; Collinson, M.E.; Kennedy, E.M.; Singh, P.K.; Singh, M.P.; Lunt, D.J.; Pancost, R.D. 2018. High temperatures in the terrestrial mid-latitudes during the early Palaeogene, Nature Geoscience 11: p. 766-771. DOI: 10.1038/s41561-018-0199-0. p. 766-771
  • Mildenhall, D.C.; Conran, J.G.; Kennedy, E.M.; Lee, D.E.; Bannister, J.M.; Lindqvist, J.K.; Ferguson, D.K. 2018. Palynology of the late Oligocene–early Miocene Newvale Mine, Gore Lignite Measures, Southland, New Zealand, Palaeontographica. Abteilung B, Palaeophytologie, Palaeobotany, Palaeophytology 298(1-3): p. 23-91. DOI: 10.1127/palb/2018/0060. p. 23-91
  • Conran, J.G.; Kennedy, E.M.; Bannister, J.M. 2018. Early Eocene Ripogonaceae leaf macrofossils from New Zealand, Australian systematic botany 31(1): p. 8-15. DOI: 10.1071/SB17016. p. 8-15
  • Reichgelt, T.; Lee, W.G.; Lusk, C.H.; Kennedy, E.M. 2017. Changes in leaf physiognomy of New Zealand woody assemblages in response to Neogene environmental cooling, Journal of biogeography 44(5): p. 1160-1171. DOI: 10.1111/jbi.12980. p. 1160-1171
  • Prebble, J.G.; Reichgelt, T.; Mildenhall, D.C.; Greenwood, D.R.; Raine, J.I.; Kennedy, E.M.; Seebeck, H. 2017. Terrestrial climate evolution in the Southwest Pacific over the past 30 million years, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 459: p. 136-144. DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2016.11.006. p. 136-144
  • Conran, J.G.; Jackson, J.A.; Lee, D.E.; Kennedy, E.M. 2017. Gleichenia-like Korallipteris alineae sp. nov. macrofossils (Polypodiophyta) from the Miocene Landslip Hill silcrete, New Zealand, New Zealand Journal of Botany 55(3): p. 258-275. DOI: 10.1080/0028825X.2017.1317278. p. 258-275
  • Reichgelt, T.; Kennedy, E.M.; Jones, W.A.; Jones, D.T.; Lee, D.E. 2016. Contrasting palaeoenvironments of the mid/late Miocene Dunedin Volcano, southern New Zealand : climate or topography?, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 441(4): p. 696-703. DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2015.10.029. p. 696-703
  • Reichgelt, T.; Kennedy, E.M.; Conran, J.G.; Mildenhall, D.C.; Lee, D.E. 2015. The early Miocene paleolake Manuherikia : vegetation heterogeneity and warm-temperate to subtropical climate in southern New Zealand, Journal of paleolimnology 53(4): p. 349-365. DOI: 10.1007/s10933-015-9827-5. p. 349-365
  • Yang, J.; Spicer, R.A.; Spicer, T.E.V.; Arens, N.C.; Jacques, F.M.B.; Su, T.; Kennedy, E.M.; Herman, A.B.; Steart, D.C.; Srivastava, G.; Mehrotra, R.C.; Valdes, P.J.; Mehrotra, N.C.; Zhou, Z-K.; Lai, J-S. 2015. Leaf form-climate relationships on the global stage : an ensemble of characters, Global Ecology and Biogeography 24(10): p. 1113-1125. DOI: 10.1111/geb.12334. p. 1113-1125
  • Conran, J.G.; Bannister, J.M.; Lee, D.E.; Carpenter, R.J.; Kennedy, E.M.; Reichgelt, T.; Fordyce, R.E. 2015. An update of monocot macrofossil data from New Zealand and Australia, Botanical journal of the Linnean Society 178(3): p. 394-420. DOI: 10.1111/boj.12284. p. 394-420
  • Conran, J.G.; Mildenhall, D.C.; Raine, J.I.; Kennedy, E.M.; Lee, D.E. 2015. The monocot fossil pollen record of New Zealand and its implications for palaeoclimates and environments, Botanical journal of the Linnean Society 178(3): p. 421-440. DOI: 10.1111/boj.12283. p. 421-440
  • Kennedy, E.M.; Arens, N.C.; Reichgelt, T.; Spicer, R.A.; Spicer, T.E.V.; Stranks, L.; Yang, J. 2014. Deriving temperature estimates from Southern Hemisphere leaves, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 412: p. 80-90. DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2014.07.015. p. 80-90
  • Mildenhall, D.C.; Kennedy, E.M.; Lee, D.E.; Kaulfuss, U.; Bannister, J.M.; Fox, B.; Conran, J.G. 2014. Palynology of the early Miocene Foulden Maar, Otago, New Zealand : diversity following destruction, Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 204: p. 27-42. DOI: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2014.02.003. p. 27-42
  • Mildenhall, D.C.; Kennedy, E.M.; Prebble, J.G.; Shepherd, C.L. 2014. A distinctive diporate pollen grain (Apocynaceae?) from the Late Oligocene – Early Miocene of New Zealand, New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 57(2): p. 264-268. DOI: 10.1080/00288306.2014.902855. p. 264-268
  • Pancost, R.D.; Taylor, K.W.R.; Inglis, G.N.; Kennedy, E.M.; Handley, L.; Hollis, C.J.; Crouch, E.M.; Pross, J.; Huber, M.; Schouten, S.; Pearson, P.N.; Morgans, H.E.G.; Raine, J.I. 2013. Early Paleogene evolution of terrestrial climate in the SW Pacific, Southern New Zealand, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems 14(12): p. 5413-5429. DOI: 10.1002/2013GC004935. p. 5413-5429
  • Reichgelt, T.; Kennedy, E.M.; Mildenhall, D.C.; Conran, J.G.; Greenwood, D.R.; Lee, D.E. 2013. Quantitative palaeoclimate estimates for Early Miocene southern New Zealand : evidence from Foulden Maar, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 378: p. 36-44. DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2013.03.019. p. 36-44
  • Browne, G.H.; Kennedy, E.M.; Constable, R.M.; Raine, J.I.; Crouch, E.M.; Sykes, R. 2008. An outcrop-based study of the economically significant Late Cretaceous Rakopi Formation, northwest Nelson, Taranaki Basin, New Zealand, New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 51(4): p. 295-315. DOI: 10.1080/00288300809509867. Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences contribution 3375 p. 295-315
  • Kennedy, E.M.; Alloway, B.V.; Mildenhall, D.C.; Cochran, U.A.; Pillans, B. 2008. An integrated terrestrial paleoenvironmental record from the Mid-Pleistocene transition, eastern North Island, New Zealand, Quaternary International 178(1): p. 146-166. DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2007.02.011. p. 146-166
  • McDowall, R.M.; Kennedy, E.M.; Alloway, B.V. 2006. A fossil southern grayling, genus Prototroctes, from the Pleistocene of north-eastern New Zealand (Teleostei : Retropinnidae), Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 36(1): p. 27-36. p. 27-36
  • Spicer, R.A.; Herman, A.B.; Kennedy, E.M. 2005. The sensitivity of CLAMP to taphonomic loss of foliar physiognomic characters, Palaios 20(5): p. 429-438. Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences contribution 3480 p. 429-438
  • Spicer, R.A.; Herman, A.B.; Kennedy, E.M. 2004. Foliar physiognomic record of climatic conditions during dormancy : climate leaf analysis multivariate program (CLAMP) and the cold month mean temperature, The journal of geology 112(6): p. 685-702. Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences contribution 3049 p. 685-702
  • Kennedy, E.M.; Lovis, J.D.; Daniel, I.L. 2003. Discovery of a Cretaceous angiosperm reproductive structure from New Zealand : short communication, New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 46(4): p. 519-522. Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences contribution 2865 p. 519-522
  • Kennedy, E.M. 2003. Late Cretaceous and Paleocene terrestrial climates of New Zealand : leaf fossil evidence from South Island assemblages, New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 46(2): p. 295-306. DOI: 10.1080/00288306.2003.9515010. Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences contribution 2759 p. 295-306
  • Kennedy, E.M.; Spicer, R.A.; Rees, P.M. 2002. Quantitative palaeoclimate estimates from Late Cretaceous and Paleocene leaf floras in the northwest of the South Island, New Zealand, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 184(3-4): p. 321-345. Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences contribution 2494 p. 321-345

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