Geology has direct relevance for students majoring in a wide range of science subjects. Understanding geological processes is important for all those who undertake environmental and resource planning and monitoring and are concerned with the social and environmental effects of global change.

Wellington, New Zealand?s capital city, sits beside a spectacular harbour between two active faults on a major plate boundary. Nowhere on Earth are active geological processes more obvious and accessible than right here. It is a natural laboratory for studying earth movements, faulting, earthquakes, landscape development and many other active geological processes. The city is also within easy reach of the North Island?s active volcanoes and the geologically diverse South Island.

On campus, our teaching and research collaborations with the Institute of Geophysics and the Antarctic Research Centre contribute to the School?s international reputation for research into past climate change, volcanology, tectonics and the origin of our solar system.