Cam Nelson has generously donated outcrop and petrographic images of New Zealand Oligocene, cool-water limestones and modern temperate carbonates.
Emeritus Professor at Waikato University
BSc (Hons) Well, PhD Auck FRSNZ
Cam was a founding member of the School of Science in 1971. He has received several honours: from the Geological Society of New Zealand the Hochstetter Lecturer (1984) and McKay Hammer Award (1991). He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 1995 and received the Hutton Medal (Earth Sciences) from that society in 2004.
Cam’s current research fields are:
- Applications of stable oxygen and carbon isotopes in sedimentology, stratigraphy, paleoclimatology and paleoceanography, especially in the Neogene and Quaternary periods;
- Carbonate sedimentology, especially the petrology, diagenesis and sequence stratigraphy of nontropical carbonates and limestones; and
- Cenozoic geology of the southwest Pacific region and New Zealand, especially South Auckland/King Country and East Coast Basins.