Associate ProfessorAlexander Nichols

Associate Professor

School of Earth and Environment

  • Associate Professor
    School of Earth and Environment
  • +6433694410 (Work)
  • Beatrice Tinsley Rm 214

TEACHING & SUPERVISION

  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
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    Impacts of Manganese Carbonates on Acid Neutralizing Capacity Testing
    17 Feb 2025
    Blair, Alex
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
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    Estimating shallow magma body depths from volatiles in glass recovered during drilling at the Puna Geothermal Venture wellfield, Hawaii
    1 Mar 2024
    Kirkham, Brianna
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
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    Implications from lithics in the Manganui deposits on conduit processes of Panitahi/Fanthams Peak
    19 Feb 2024 - 25 Oct 2024
    Beck, Kylie
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
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    Morphological Evolution of Panitahi Summit, a Satellite Cone of Mt Taranaki
    19 Feb 2024 - 25 Oct 2024
    Jones, Matthew
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
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    The Effect of CO2 Reinjection on Silica Scaling in Acid-Dosed Subduction Zone Geothermal Brinesnd-Arc Geothermal Brines
    1 Feb 2024 - 25 Jan 2025
    Kamiya, Akira
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
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    Volatiles in volcanic glass from the offshore Taupō Volcanic Zone – Havre Trough
    1 May 2022 - 30 Apr 2023
    Coulter, Robert
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
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    Pyroxenes in Late Miocene volcanic rocks, Banks Peninsula, New Zealand: textures and crystal origins to inform magmatic processes
    1 Apr 2022 - 30 Jul 2023
    Overwater, Geneva
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
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    Morphology and Crystallinity of the Rangataua Lava Flow, Ruapehu, Aotearoa New Zealand
    10 Mar 2022 - 28 Oct 2022
    Marshall, AJ
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
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    Conduit establishment and evolution during explosive eruptions of Taranaki Mounga inferred from volcanic lithics
    1 Dec 2021
    Hoult, Henry
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
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    Constraining Volatile Abundances in the Vanuatu Arc (New Hebrides)
    1 Sep 2021
    Lewis, Kristen
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
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    Provenance of middle Miocene-early Pleistocene conglomerates in the northern Canterbury Basin, northeastern South Island, New Zealand
    29 Mar 2021 - 27 Apr 2022
    Parker, Matt
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
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    Observations of Ruapehu Crater Lake (Te Wai ā-moe) and implications for lake dynamics and volcano monitoring
    1 Mar 2021 - 26 Feb 2022
    Ching, Charles
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
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    Postglacial effusive activity of Ruapehu, New Zealand
    16 Oct 2020
    Doll, Pedro
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
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    The emerging educational effectiveness of a virtual microscope and virtual demonstrator during the COVID-19 crisis
    1 Oct 2020 - 1 Nov 2021
    Engel, Kamen
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
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    The origin of magma encountered during drilling of geothermal well KJ-39, Krafla, Iceland and the relationship with the nearby IDDP-1 magma
    8 Apr 2019
    Rule, Georgie
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
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    The rhyolitic magma systems fuelling an ignimbrite flare-up, Taupō Volcanic Zone, New Zealand
    1 Mar 2019 - 27 Apr 2023
    Smithies, Sarah
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
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    Assessment of the composition and reactivity of olivines from New Zealand
    1 Dec 2018 - 18 Mar 2019
    Smith, Annika
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
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    Earthquake... Volcano? Tales of seismically-triggered eruptions
    1 Oct 2017
    Seropian, Gilles
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
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    Evolution of magmatic volatiles during drilling into a magma body, Krafla Iceland
    27 Mar 2017 - 25 Mar 2018
    Watson, Tamiko
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
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    Provenance analysis of Late Cretaceous to Paleocene Rakopi, North Cape, and Farewell formations, northwest Nelson, New Zealand
    27 Feb 2017 - 22 Apr 2018
    Smithies, Sarah
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Mantle and Magmatic Processes
    15 Jul 2024
    GEOL2/309
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Building Planet Earth: Fundamentals of Earth Science
    19 Feb 2023
    GEOL101
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Rocks, Minerals and Ores
    1 Feb 2022 - 30 Jun 2022
    GEOL242
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Topics in New Zealand Geology
    20 Jul 2020 - 13 Nov 2022
    GEOL357
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Field Studies B - Field Techniques
    17 Jul 2017
    GEOL241