Staff profiles
Regine MorgensternPaleoseismology Technician
Biography
Regine is a senior technician in the Paleoseismology team based in Avalon. Her research interests are earthquake geology, geomorphology, landslide dams, critical minerals and geochemistry. Her technical capabilities, expertise and passion include GIS, cartography, rare earth elements, photogrammetry, piloting UAVs/drones and managing UAV operations (certified to operate under Part 102), providing field support and working in remote locations. Active fault mapping and working with geospatial datasets is a large component of her role and she manages the NZ Active Faults Database. The best part of her job is conducting fieldwork throughout New Zealand where she is often flying UAVs to generate underpinning photogrammetry and lidar datasets that are used for research and GeoNet event response purposes.
Qualifications
- BSc, Geology
- MSc, Geology
Areas of expertise
- Technical: Cartography
- Technical: Field Work
- Technical: Photography
- Technical: Surveying - Engineering & Topographic
- Technical: UAV/RPAS Applications
- Geology: Geochemistry
- Geology: Geological mapping
- Geology: Mineral deposit research
- Geology: Optical Mineralogy
- Technical: Digital Photogrammetry
- Technical: Database development
- Technical: Database management
- Technical: Natural hazard mapping
- Technical: Remote sensing data applications
- Technical: Sample preparation
- Technical: Surveying - Geodetic
- Technical: Working in & accessing remote locations
- Geology: Active fault studies
- Geology: Earthquake Hazard Assessment
- Geology: GIS Specialist
- Geology: Hydrothermal alteration mapping
- Geology: Igneous Petrology
- Human resources: Health and Safety
Major Publications
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- New Zealand Active Faults Database : the high-resolution dataset v2.0, New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics : DOI: 10.1080/00288306.2024.2427396.
- Urban geochemical atlas of Wellington, New Zealand DOI: 10.21420/8ADH-F354. Lower Hutt, N.Z.: GNS Science. GNS Science report 2024/01 128 p.
- Managing active fault surface rupture risk through land use planning : barriers and opportunities, Policy Quarterly 19(4): p. 56-64. DOI: 10.26686/pq.v19i4.8568. p. 56-64
- The New Zealand Landslide Dam Database, v1.0, Landslides 21(1): p. 121-134. DOI: 10.1007/s10346-023-02133-4. p. 121-134
- The Hapuku Rock Avalanche : breaching and evolution of the landslide dam and outflow channel using high spatiotemporal resolution datasets, Frontiers in Earth Science 10: article 938068. DOI: 10.3389/feart.2022.938068. article 938068
- Landslide dam hazards : assessing their formation, failure modes, longevity and downstream impacts, Understanding and reducing landslide disaster risk. [WLF 2020]. Volume 5, Catastrophic landslides and frontiers of landslide science : p. 117-123. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-60319-9_12. p. 117-123
- Petrological and geochemical characteristics of REE mineralization in the A-type French Creek Granite, New Zealand, Mineralium Deposita 54(7): p. 935-958. DOI: 10.1007/s00126-018-0854-9. p. 935-958
- New Zealand's clean technology mineral potential, Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy 51st New Zealand Branch Annual Conference, Tauranga, New Zealand, September 17-18 : p. 235-241. p. 235-241
- Lithium mineral potential in New Zealand : a mineral systems approach, Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy 51st New Zealand Branch Annual Conference, Tauranga, New Zealand, September 17-18 : p. 325-331. p. 325-331
- Rare earth element mineral potential in New Zealand GNS Science consultancy report 2018/23 211 p.
- Rare earth element mineral potential in New Zealand : a mineral systems approach, Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy 51st New Zealand Branch Annual Conference, Tauranga, New Zealand, September 17-18 : p. 243-251. p. 243-251