ProfessorDavid Dempsey

Professor

Civil and Environmental Engineering

  • Professor
    Civil and Environmental Engineering

TEACHING & SUPERVISION

  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Physics-based modelling of hydrothermal eruptions
    1 Apr 2026
    Hekmatkhah, Ramtin
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Modelling of dissolved CO2 injection into deep saline aquifers
    1 Jun 2025
    Zamorano, Rodrigo
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Green Hydrogen Storage in Old Mine Shafts
    22 Jul 2024 - 4 Nov 2024
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Improving Volcanic Eruption Forecasting with Machine Learning
    22 Jul 2024 - 4 Nov 2024
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Flood prediction in poorly instrumented catchments using transfer machine learning
    17 Jul 2024 - 4 Nov 2024
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Pore scale modelling of hydrogen geostorage
    1 Jun 2024
    Khan, Riaz
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Establishing Induced Seismicity Baselines in Aotearoa Geothermal Fields
    17 Jul 2023 - 6 Nov 2023
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Improving Volcanic Eruption Forecasting with Machine Learning
    17 Jul 2023 - 6 Nov 2023
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Optimising Monitoring for the Leakage of Green Hydrogen in Geostorage
    17 Jul 2023 - 6 Nov 2023
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Evaluation of Seal Rocks in Taranaki for Hydrogen Geostorage
    1 Mar 2023
    Edward, Yates
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Reservoir simulation of hydrogen geostorage
    1 Dec 2022 - 31 Mar 2026
    Liu, Jinjiang
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    A Fast Surrogate Model for Making Sustainable AllocationDecisions with Groundwater in Canterbury
    1 Jul 2022 - 1 Nov 2022
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Carbon Negative Geothermal: quantifying the risks and opportunities of carbon storage in New Zealand geothermal systems
    1 Jul 2022 - 1 Nov 2022
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Evaluation of a Synthetic Earthquake Catalog for New Zealand
    1 Nov 2021 - 1 Mar 2023
    Alfaro, Jorge
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Hydrogen Geo-Storage: Implement a H2 Equation of State
    1 Jul 2021 - 1 Nov 2021
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Modelling the Impacts of Reinjection from Ground Source Heat Pumps on Groundwater Levels in Christchurch
    1 Jul 2021 - 1 Nov 2021
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Ruapehu Eruption Forecasting: Classifying Anthropogenic and Weather Noise
    1 Jul 2021 - 1 Nov 2021
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Role of Heterogeneity in Seawater Intrusion into Groundwater
    1 Jun 2021 - 16 Jun 2025
    Cleary, Connor
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Carbon Negative Geothermal: A Feasibility Study for Aotearoa and Beyond
    1 May 2021 - 16 Jun 2025
    Titus, Karan
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Surface water-groundwater interaction in braided rivers
    1 Jan 2021 - 30 Sep 2025
    Sai Louie, Alice
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Ground Motion Simulation of Hauraki Rift Earthquakes
    1 Mar 2019 - 1 Nov 2019
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Volcanic Eruption Forecasting using Time Series Feature Engineering
    1 Mar 2019 - 1 Nov 2019
    Mei, Samuel
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Volcanic Eruption Forecasting with the Failure Forecast Method
    1 Mar 2019 - 1 Nov 2019
    Cheung, Jeremy
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Spatiotemporal analysis of human-induced seismicity
    1 Feb 2019 - 1 Nov 2019
    Mora, Vanessa
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Non-linear relations between acoustic emissions and fluid pressure in saturated and critically-stressed sandstone
    1 Jan 2019 - 1 Jun 2020
    Catalinac, Alexander