RESEARCH INTERESTS
Adapting to Climate change through safe and stable geothermal enterprises (MBIE Research Programme, Shane Cronin and Garry McDonald Leaders with Market Economics, GNS Science, Canterbury University, and LMU Munich) - focusing on geological/geophysical approaches to mitigating geothermal hazards, and developing economic and Mātauranga Māori approaches to improve the outcomes and benefits of geothermal resources.

Transitioning Taranaki to a Volcanic Future – MBIE Endeavor Research Programme (2019-2024) (Shane Cronin and Garry McDonald Leaders) with Market Economics Ltd., Canterbury, Lincoln, Otago, Massey Universities, GNS Science, Waka Digital, U. Roma Tre, U. Bari, U. Bologna, INGV Vesuvius Italy, LMU Munich, Germany, U. Andes Colombia, UNAM Queretaro, Mexico, U. Iowa and State U. New Mexico USA. Focussing on understanding and mitigating the impacts of a fundamental change to hazard state at one of our iconic composite volcanoes, through new geochemical, statistical, economic and forecasting tools.

Kuwae caldera eruption, climate and cultural impacts, Australian Res. Council (2019-2022), led by Chris Ballard and Stuart Bedford, Australian National U. Understanding the one of the largest climate-forcing eruptions of the last millennium from the submarine caldera volcano in central Vanuatu.

Tongan volcanism - explosive eruptions and hazards along the Tongan Volcanic arc, including Hunga, Tofua and other submarine volcanoes, with Tongan Geology Services, Korean Polar Research Institute, NIWA and others.

Integrating physical and chemical insights into forecasting the frequency, magnitude and style of volcanoes – NZ, Vanuatu, Fiji, Tonga, Indonesia, Korea, Saudi Arabia

Environmental, agricultural and health impacts of volcanic eruptions