Professor Bryan Storey
Position
Director
Qualifications
Room
103 Geography Staff Building
Contact Details
Phone: +64 3 364 2136
Fax: +64 3 364 2197
Internal Phone: TBA
bryan.storey@canterbury.ac.nz
Postal address:
Gateway Antarctica
Level 1, Geography Building
University of Canterbury
Private Bag 4800
Christchurch
New Zealand
Background
Bryan Storey, BA Trinity College Dublin (1974), PhD University of Birmingham (1979), Fellow of the Geological Society of London, Polar Medal (1987), Professor of Antarctic Studies (2000), Director of Gateway Antarctica 2000-present. Twenty-four years experience as a geologist and programme leader at the British Antarctic Survey. Research interests include continental break-up processes, mantle plumes, tectonic history of Antarctica, and Earth System Science
Recent Publications
Storey, B.C. and Kyle, P.R. 1997. An active mantle mechanism for Gondwana break-up. South African Journal of Geology, 100/4, 283-290.
Storey, B.C. 1996. Microplates and mantle plumes in Antarctica. Terra Antartica, 3, 91-102.
Storey, B.C., King, E.C. & Livermore, R.A. (Eds) 1996. Weddell Sea Tectonics and Gondwana break-up, Geological; Society Special Publication No. 108, 284 pp.
Storey, B.C. 1995. The role of mantle plumes in continental break-up: case histories from Gondwanaland. Nature, 377, 301-308.
Storey, B.C. 1993. The changing face of Late Precambrian and early Palaeozoic reconstructions. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 150, 665-668.
Storey, B.C., Alabaster, T. and Pankhurst, R.J. 1992. (Eds), Magmatism and the causes of continental break-up. Geological Society, London, Special Publication No 68, 403 pp.
Storey, B.C. and Alabaster, A. 1991. Tectonomagmatic controls on Gondwana break-up models: evidence from the proto-Pacific margin of Antarctica. Tectonics, 10, 1274-1288