Job title: Collections Manager
Phone: 64 9 373 7599 ext 87431
Office: Rm 1064, Bldg 301 & Tamaki Collection Store
Postal: School of Environment, The University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland
Email: n.hudson@auckland.ac.nz

BSc (Geology) 1981, MSc hons. (Geology) 1983, PhD (Geology) 2000.

Skills:

Sample curation, Fossil preparation, Collection Catalogue databases, Molluscan Systematics, Insect Systematics, Jurassic Biostratigraphy.

 

Areas of Responsibility:

• Geological Collections and Off-site Collection store
• Collection catalogues & databases,
• Paleontology Preparation facility,
• Support for Paleontology research and teaching,
• New Zealand Fossil Record File Masterfile Curator (Northern North Island - http://www.fred.org.nz/)

 

On top of Panekiri Bluff, Lake Waikaremoana, 3 Feb 2010

With a tray of Giant Moa bones (Dinornis novaezealandiae). January 2008 (photo B. Donovan).

Collecting Castlecliffian (Pleistocene) fossils, Ohawe Beach north Whanganui Coast, 2000 (photo P. Augustinus)

 

Most recent publications:

Challinor, A.B., Hudson, N., (in press) The Early and Middle Jurassic belemnites of New Zealand. Part 1: Belemnitina; Passaloteuthididae and Cylindroteuthididae. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics

Gregory, M.R., Campbell, K.A., Alfaro, A.C., Hudson, N., 2009. Bee and ant burrows in Quaternary “coffee rock” and Holocene sand dunes, Kowhai Beach, Northland, New Zealand.’ Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 273, 102-110.

Campbell, K. A., Grant-Mackie, J. A., Buckeridge, J. S., Hudson, N., Alfaro, A. C., Hoverd, J., Morgan, S., Horne, N. Banfield, A., 2004. Paleoecology of an Early Miocene, rapidly submerging rocky shore, Motuketekete Island, Hauraki Gulf, New Zealand, New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics 47, 731-748.

Hudson, N., 2003. Stratigraphy and correlation of the Ururoan and Temaikan Stage (Lower-Middle Jurassic, ?Sinemurian-Callovian) sequences, New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 33, 109-147.

Westermann, G.E.G., Hudson, N., Grant-Mackie, J.A., 2002. New Jurassic Ammonitina from New Zealand: Bathonian-Callovian Eurycephalitinae. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 45, 499-525.

Westermann, G.E.G., Hudson, N., Grant-Mackie, J.A., 2000. Bajocian (Middle Jurassic) Ammonitina of New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 43, 33-57.

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