DoctorKari Bassett

Chair of Dept Research Committee (2006-2009) - Administered the dept internal research grants, developed protocols for their disbursement, helped write the dept research strategy document. Helped create the dept list of capital purchases planned over the next 5 years. Also drafted the dept comments on the review of the PBRF process which were then adopted by the HoD and dept.

President of Geological Society of New Zealand Canterbury Branch (2001 to ongoing)

Member of international ANDRILL Consortium including NZ, USA, Germany and Italy, a $12 million Antarctic drilling research programme on paleoclimate/tectonic reconstruction of the Ross Sea

invited participant in Penrose Conference Workshop on Terrane accretion along the western Cordilleran margin: Constraints on timing and displacement; Winthrop, WA, USA (1999)

Invited panel member on Provenance Analysis – State of the Research Panel in Penrose Conference Workshop on Terrane accretion along the western Cordilleran margin: Constraints on timing and displacement; Winthrop, WA, USA (1999)