ProfessorJames Shulmeister

Paleoclimatology, Glacial Geology and Geomorphology, Coastal evolution, lake and bog records, long-term environmental change, human impacts on the environment, planetary scale circulation systems (long-term change).

I am a lead, co- or associate supervisor for the following graduate students.

At UC

Tim Anderson - Glacial history of the Poulter-Waimakariri confluence - primary supervision - Hons 2026

Julie Coanus - Modelling landslide dam hazard for an Alpine Fault earthquake scenario - Associate Supervisor PhD

Caeli Connolly - Extracting fire histories from inland and coastal dunes; a new proxy of environmental change and human impact -Primary Supervisor PhD

Connor Dillon - Glacial histroy of the lower Clutha Valley - Primary Supervisor MSc 

Corey Griffin - Wetland Coring for Vegetation and Paleoclimate Reconstruction in the Upper Hurunui Valley - Primary Supervisor MSc

Ayush Rawat - Provisional title - Glacial and landscape modelling of the Clutha Valley, Central Otago - Associate Supervisor PhD

Laura Gnesko - Submarine coseismic landslides and underwater landscape dynamics of the Kaikōura Canyon - Primary Supervisor PhD

Catherine Shenton - Provisional title - Timing and nature of glaciation of the Clutha Valley, Central Otago - Primary Supervisor (Start Dec 2026)

Sunil Tamang - Machine Learning Approach for Regional Scale Rock Glaciers Mapping - Associate Supervisor PhD 

Abigail Underwood - Using spatiotemporal trends of landslides to inform ground motions from nearby crustal and subduction seismic sources in the Wairarapa, North Island, New Zealand - Primary Supervisor PhD  

Outside UC

Jade Gould - First Nations Peoples Relationship with the Australian Landscape - Associate Supervisor - University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia - PhD

Martin Kohler - Understanding tsunami deposits in northern and southern Tonga - Associate Supervisor - University of Queensland, Australia - PhD

Courtney Simiss - Archaeological paleohydrology of the Channel Country in SW Queensland (provisional title) -- Associate Supervisor - University of Queensland, PhD.