Nick Mortimer

Nick is a Dunedin-based petrologist who uses the composition and texture of rocks to help answer a variety of geological, tectonic and forensic questions. He has worked in the U.S., Canada, Australia, Antarctica, all over New Zealand and in several offshore SW Pacific areas. Nick is best known for his work to define and refine the extent of Zealandia, and understand how and why it came to be Earth’s most submerged and smallest continent. This work continues. He was Senior Editor of the New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics for six years, is a former Curator of GNS Science’s National Petrology Rock Collection and Petlab database, and a past-President of the Geoscience Society of New Zealand. In 2017, Nick was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand.