School of Environment
Pat Browne
Job title: Associate Professor
Phone: +64 9 373 7599 x 83791
Office: Based in IESE
Postal: Institute of Earth, Science & Engineering, The University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland.
Email: prl.browne@auckland.ac.nz
Patrick Browne studies active and extinct geothermal systems. His main interests are the way hot water and steam react with rocks and the processes that cause these fluids to deposit secondary minerals.
By studying hydrothermal minerals he seeks to learn how geothermal systems change over time, in effect viewing them as large, open, natural laboratories. This is because their subsurface temperatures and other parameters can be measured directly down drill holes and from samples of the altering fluids analysed.
He has studied geothermal systems in Indonesia, the Philippines, Kenya, Chile, USA, Iceland, Mexico and New Zealand.
