Job title: Senior Lecturer
Phone: +64 9 923 8678
Office: Room 1006, Science Centre Building (301)
Postal: School of Environment, The University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland
Email: j.lindsay@auckland.ac.nz

Ph.D. Geological Sciences, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen & GFZ-Potsdam (1999)

MSc. Geology, University of Auckland (1995)

BSc. Geology, University of Auckland (1993)

I grew up in Rotorua, Western Samoa and Auckland, all places that are known for their volcanoes, although my serious interest in geology was not sparked until university. After my MSc project on Little Barrier volcano off the coast of Auckland in 1994, I took up a research assistant position in the geothermal programme at the GNS Science (then IGNS) Wairakei Research Centre in Taupo. This was great timing, as it provided me with first-hand experience in emergency management when Ruapehu erupted in 1995. In 1996 I moved to Germany to take up a PhD at the GeoForschungsZentrum (GFZ) in Potsdam, where I worked on a project unraveling the history of the large La Pacana caldera in the Altiplano-Puna plateau in Chile. After a short post-doc at the GFZ, in 2000 I moved to the warmer climes of Trinidad and Tobago, where I spent four years as a Research Fellow in the Seismic Research Centre of the University of the West Indies. Whilst in the Caribbean I was involved in the monitoring and hazard assessment of the volcanoes of the Lesser Antilles, and related outreach programmes. In 2006 I returned to the University of Auckland to take up a New Zealand Earthquake Commission (EQC)-funded research fellowship in volcanic hazard and risk, originally in the Institute of Earth Science and Engineering (IESE). I serve on the National Committee of the Geoscience Society of New Zealand, as President in 2010 and 2011.  Outside of work I enjoy yoga, reading, camping, and going on adventures with my German partner Volker and our two sons Tom (born 2003) and Leon (born 2005).

Research Interests

I am interested in all aspects of volcanoes, including the petrogenesis of their magmas, the surficial deposits they generate and the hazards they pose. My main areas of research and interest are:

• Volcanic geology, hazard and risk assessment of monogenetic basaltic fields. I co-lead two multi-agency, multi-disciplinary projects in this research area: Determining Volcanic Risk in Auckland (DEVORA), and Volcanic Risk in Saudi Arabia (VORiSA). 

Some of the UoA DEVORA team, from L to R: Ian Smith, Nicolas Le Corvec, me, Ola Zawalna-Geer and Lucy McGee, on a lava flow from Paricutin. Mexico 2009  

• Developing effective methods of communicating volcanic hazard and risk. This requires a holistic approach, and encompasses outreach activities, volcano monitoring, volcanic hazard assessment and hazard mapping techniques, eruption response plans and eruption forecasting tools, such as BET_EF.

Me with (L to R): Graham Leonard (GNS), BET_EF developer Warner Marzocchi (INGV, Italy) and Robert Constantinescu (Babes Bolyai University, Romania), during Exercise Ruaumoko in 2008.

• Geological history and geochemistry of the volcanic islands of the Caribbean, in particular Dominica and Saint Lucia; geology, hazards and seismicity of the submarine volcano Kick ‘em Jenny. Most of my work in the Caribbean is summarised in the Volcanic Hazard Atlas for the Lesser Antilles.

L to R: Roman Kislitsyn (U Kansas), Axel Schmitt (UCLA), me, Richard Robertson (U West Indies), Saint Lucia 2008

• Volcanological and magmatic evolution of large silicic systems, most recently through U-Th and (U-Th)/He zircon dating of eruptions and magmatic processes as a tool for identifying magmatic longevity and cyclicity.

McGee LE, Millet M-A, Smith IEM, Nemeth K, Lindsay JM The inception and progression of melting in a monogenetic eruption: Motukorea Volcano, the Auckland Volcanic Field, New Zealand. (in press, lithos)

Kenny JA, Lindsay JM & Howe TM: Post-Miocene faults in Auckland: insights from borehole and topographic analysis, In press New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, DOI:10.1080/00288306.2012.706618

Kereszturi G, Procter J, Cronin SJ, Németh K, Bebbington M, Lindsay J  (2012) LiDAR-based quantification of lava flow susceptibility in the City of Auckland (New Zealand). Remote Sensing of Environment 125: 198–213

Danišík M, Shane P, Schmitt AK, Hogg A, Santos GM, Storm S, Evans NJ, Fifield LK, Lindsay JM (2012) Re-anchoring the late Pleistocene tephrochronology of north island (New Zealand) based on concordant radiocarbon ages and combined 238U/230Th disequilibrium and (U–Th)/He zircon ages. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 349–350 240–250

Shane P, Storm S, Schmitt A, Lindsay J (2012) Timing and conditions of formation of granitoid clasts erupted in recent pyroclastic deposits from Tarawera Volcano (New Zealand) Lithos 140-141: 1–10

Storm S, Shane P, Schmitt A, Lindsay J (2012) Decoupled crystallization and eruption histories of the rhyolite magmatic system at Tarawera volcano revealed by zircon ages and growth rates. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 163(3): 505-519

Sandri L, Jolly G, Lindsay J, Howe T, Marzocchi W (2012)  Combining long- and short-term PVHA with cost-benefit analysis to support decision making in a volcanic crisis from the Auckland Volcanic Field, New Zealand. Bulletin of Volcanology 74:705–723 DOI 10.1007/s00445-011-0556-y

Joseph E, Fournier N, Lindsay J, Fischer T (2011) Gas and water geochemistry of geothermal systems in Dominica, Lesser Antilles island arc. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 206(1-2):1-14

Lindsay JM, Leonard G, Smid E, Hayward B (2011) The age of the Auckland Volcanic Field, New Zealand: a review of existing data. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 54(4): 379-401

 

Ashenden CL, Lindsay JM, Sherburn, S, Smith IEM, Miller C, Malin P (2011) Some challenges of monitoring a potentially active volcanic field in an urban area: The Auckland Volcanic Field, New Zealand. Natural Hazards 59(1):507-528 DOI: 10.1007/s11069-011-9773-0

Needham A, Lindsay, JM, Smith IEM, Shane, PA, Augustinus P (2011) Sequential eruption of alkaline and sub-alkaline magmas from a small monogenetic volcano in the Auckland Volcanic Field, New Zealand, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 201: 126–142. DOI:10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2010.07.017

Storm S, Shane P, Schmitt A, Lindsay J (2011) Contrasting punctuated zircon growth in two syn-erupted rhyolite magmas from Tarawera volcano: insights to crystal diversity in magmatic systems. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 301: 511–520. DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.11.034

Schmitt AK, Stockli DF, Lindsay JM, Robertson R, Lovera OM, Kislitsyn R (2010) Episodic Growth and Homogenization of Plutonic Roots in Arc Volcanoes from Combined U-Th and (U-Th)/He Zircon Dating. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 295: 91–103. DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.03.028

Lindsay JM, Marzocchi W, Jolly G, Constantinescu R, Selva J, Sandri L (2010) Towards real-time eruption forecasting in the Auckland Volcanic Field: application of BET_EF during the New Zealand National Disaster Exercise 'Ruaumoko' Bulletin of Volcanology 72: 185-204. DOI: 10.1007/s00445-009-0311-9 

Lindsay JM, Shepherd JB, Wilson D (2005) Volcanic and scientific activity at Kick ‘em Jenny submarine volcano 2001-2002: implications for volcanic hazard in the southern Grenadines, Lesser Antilles. Natural Hazards 34: 1-24. DOI: 10.1007/s11069-004-1566-2

Lindsay JM, Robertson R, Shepherd J, Ali S (eds): Volcanic Hazard Atlas of the Lesser Antilles. The Seismic Research Unit, University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago. ISBN: 9769514209 9789769514201

Lindsay JM, Trumbull RB, Siebel W (2005) Geochemistry and petrogenesis of late Pleistocene to Recent volcanism in Southern Dominica, Lesser Antilles. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 148(3-4): 253-294.  DOI: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2005.04.018

Gurenko AA, Trumbull RB, Thomas R, Lindsay J (2005) A melt inclusion record of volatiles, trace elements and Li - B isotope variations in a single magma system from the Plat Pays Volcanic Complex, Dominica, Lesser Antilles. Journal of Petrology 46(12): 2495-2526. DOI: 10.1093/petrology/egi063

Lindsay JM, Stasiuk MV, Shepherd JB (2003) Geological history and potential hazards of the late-Pleistocene to Recent Plat Pays volcanic complex, Dominica, Lesser Antilles. Bulletin of Volcanology 65:201-220. DOI: 10.1007/s00445-002-0253-y

Schmitt AK, Lindsay JM, de Silva S, Trumbull RB (2002) U-Pb zircon chronostratigraphy of early-Pliocene ignimbrites from La Pacana, north Chile: implications for the formation of stratified magma chambers. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 120: 43-53. DOI: 10.1016/S0377-0273(02)00359-1

Lindsay JM, de Silva S, Trumbull R, Emmermann R, Wemmer K (2001) La Pacana caldera, N. Chile: a re-evaluation of the stratigraphy and volcanology of one of the world’s largest resurgent calderas. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 106 (1-2): 145-173. DOI: 10.1016/S0377-0273(00)00270-5

Lindsay JM, Trumbull R, Schmitt AK, de Silva SL, Siebel W (2001): Magmatic evolution of the La Pacana Caldera system, Central Andes, Chile: Compositional variation of two cogenetic, large volume felsic ignimbrites. Journal of Petrology 42 (3): 459-486. DOI: 10.1093/petrology/42.3.459

Current Graduate Students
Hugo Mucia (PhD): Volcanology of basaltic fields in Saudi Arabia
Melody Humphreys (PhD): Volcanic and seismic hazard in Saudi Arabia
Jia Liu (PhD): Dispersion of volcanic gases in Auckland
Gabor Kereszturi (PhD): Scoria cone morphometry
Javier Augustin-Flores (PhD): Controls on phreatomagmatic volcanism
Tracy Howe (PhD): Silicic magmatism in island arcs
Mary-Anne Thompson (PhD): Probabilistic volcanic hazard analysis
Nicolas LeCorvec (PhD): Physical controls on monogenetic volcanism
Sonja Storm (PhD): Magmatic processes at Okataina volcano


Past Graduate Students
Lucy McGee
PhD (2012): Petrology of the Auckland Volcanic Field

Erik Tomsen
MSc (2010) - The use of GIS for evacuation planning

Kristin Chislett
MSc (2009) - Lava flow chemistry and modeling in Northland, New Zealand

Andrew Needham
MSc (2009) - Eruptive history of Rangitoto Island, Auckland

Jeremy Eade
MSc (2009) - Correlation of lava flows in central Auckland Volcanic Field

Caroline Ashenden
MSc (2009) - Towards a velocity model for Auckland

Erouscilla Joseph
PhD (2008) - Geothermal geochemistry o fthe volcanoes of the Lesser Antilles

Robert Constantinescu
MSc (2008) - Probabilistic eruption forecasting in the Auckland Volcanic Field