Henry Gard

Henry is a Laboratory and Collection Technician within the Geological Research Laboratories and Collections Team in the Laboratory and Collections Department. His role includes preparation of foraminifera, rock powder, mineral separation, grainsize and sediment core samples in GNS laboratories and curation of micropaleontology samples in the National Paleontology Collections held at GNS Science. He is a trained skipper, the manager of the Micropaleontology Laboratory, a trained transitional facility operator for an MPI approved facility at GNS Science and has been involved in sample collection on fieldwork, particularly collection of lake sediment core. He has research interests in Paleontology, specifically Cenozoic Mollusca of New Zealand and has been involved in projects across the GNS Science themes.