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Publications Cliff Atkins

Publications

Priestley, R., Dohaney, J., Atkins, C., Salmon, R., and Robinson, K (2018). Engaging new Antarctic learners and ambassadors through flexible learning, open education and immersive video lectures. Polar Record, 1 - 15, doi:10.1017/S0032247418000384

Turner, G., Alloway, B., Dixon, B. J., & Atkins, C. (2018). Thermal history of mass-flow deposits on the eastern flanks of Mt Taranaki, New Zealand: implications for future syn- and post-eruptive events and related hazards. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 353. Pp, 55-67. Doi:10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2018.01.017

Carson, C., Atkins, C., Hughes, K., & Reguero, M. (2018). Protecting Antarctica’s geological heritage. Antarctic Science, 30(1), 1-1. doi:10.1017/S0954102017000517

Bertaud-Gander, T. B., Atkins, C., & Hannah, M. J. (2017). New stratigraphic constraints on the late Miocene-early Pliocene tectonic development of the Aorangi Range, Wairarapa. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics,. doi:10.1080/00288306.2017.1402791

Hines, B. R., Hollis, C. J., Atkins, C. B., Baker, J. A., Morgans, H. E. G., & Strong, P. C. (2017). Reduction of oceanic temperature gradients in the early Eocene Southwest Pacific Ocean. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 475, 41-54. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.02.037

Atkins, C., & Carroll, D. (2015). Wellington Rocks: An introduction to Wellington geology and landscape. In C. Atkins (Ed.), Geosciences NZ 2015, Wellington: Geoscience Society of New Zealand.

Atkins, C., & Collins, K. (2015). Pleistocene cyclic stratigraphy, South Wairarapa, New Zealand. In C. Atkins (Ed.), Field Guides Geosciences 2015, Wellington. Wellington: Geoscience Society of New Zealand.

Atkins, C.B., 2015. Looking back to the Future, Palaeoclimate studies in Antarctica, In: D. Liggett et al. (eds.), Exploring the Last Continent, An Introduction to Antarctica. Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015. DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-18947-5_4.

Winton, V.H.L., Dunbar, G.B., Atkins, C.B., Bertler, N.A.N., Delmonte, B., Andersson, P., Bowie, A., Edwards, R., 2016. The origin of lithogenic sediment in the south-western Ross Sea and implications for iron fertilization. Antarctic Science.doi:10.1017/S095410201600002X

Winton, V.H.L., Dunbar, G., Bertler, N.A.N., Millet, M-A., Delmonte, B., Andersson, P., Atkins, C.,  Chewings, J.M., & Andersson, P. (2014). The contribution of aeolian sand and dust to iron fertilization of phytoplankton blooms in southwestern Ross Sea, Antarctica. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 8(4), 423–436.

Chewings, J.M., Atkins, C.B., Dunbar, G.B., & Golledge, N.R. (2014). Aeolian sediment transport and deposition in a modern high latitude glacial marine environment. Sedimentology, Sedimentology, 61(6), 1535–1557.

Joy, K., Fink, D., Storey, B., & Atkins, C. (2014). A 2 million year glacial chronology of the Hatherton Glacier, Antarctica and implications for the size of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet at the Last Glacial Maximum. Quaternary Science Reviews, 83, 46-57.

Hines, B.R., Kulhanek, D.K., Hollis, C.J, Atkins, C.B., & Morgans, H.B.G. (2013). Paleocene–Eocene Stratigraphy and Paleoenvironment at Tora, Southeast Wairarapa, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 56(4), 243-262.

C.B. Atkins (2013). Geomorphological evidence of cold-based glacier activity in South Victoria Land, Antarctica. In M. J.  Hambrey, P.F. Barker, P.J. Barrett, V.  Bowman, B. Davies, J.L.  Smellie, & M. Tranter (Eds.), Antarctic Palaeoenvironments and Earth-Surface Processes, Geological Society Special Publications 381. London, UK: The Geological Society of London.

Field, B. D., Atkins, C.B. (2012). Characterization of fine-grained sediment in the AND-2A drillhole core using QEMSCAN© (GNS Science Report 2012/42). Lower Hutt, New Zealand: GNS.

Atkins, C.B. (2011). Meltwater Channels. In Vijay P. Singh, P. Singh from, & U.K. Haritashya (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Snow, Ice and Glaciers. London, UK: Springer.

Atkins, C.B. (2011). “The answer is blowing in the wind”. Antarctic, The publication of the New Zealand Antarctic Society, 29, No.1(215), 22-23.

Grocott, G, Justice, R & Atkins, C.B. (2010). Engineering Geology for “Daylighting” of Tunnels 3, 4 and 5,Palmerston North-Gisborne Railway, New Zealand. In A.L. Williams, G.M. Pinches, C.Y. Chin, T.J. McMorran, C.I. Massey (Eds.), Geologically Active, Proceedings of the 11th IAEG Congress, Auckland, New Zealand, 5-10 September 2010 (pp. 2947-2954). London, UK: Taylor & Francis Group.

Fielding, C.R., Atkins, C.B., Bassett, K.N., Browne, G.H, Dunbar, G.B., Field, B.D., Frank, T.D., Panter, K.S., Pekar, S.F., Krissek, L.A., Passhier, S. & the ANDRILL-SMS Science Team (2009). Sedimentology and stratigraphy of the AND-2A core, ANDRILL Southern McMurdo Sound, Project, Antarctica. Terra Antartica, 15(1), 77-112.

Dunbar, G., Atkins, C.B., Magens, D., and Niessen, F., & the ANDRILL-SMS Science Team (2009). Physical Properties of the AND-2A Core, Southern McMurdo Sound Project, Antarctica. Physical Properties of the AND-2A core, ANDRILL Southern McMurdo Sound, Project, Antarctica. Terra Antartica, 15(1), 49-56.

Atkins, C.B., & Dunbar, G. B. (2009). Aeolian sediment flux from sea ice into Southern McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. Global and Planetary Change, 69(3), 133-141.

Atkins, C.B., Nowland, S., Levy, R., & Barrett, P. (2009). Field Guide to the Plio-Pleistocene Stratigraphy, South Wairarapa, New Zealand. Presented at ANDRILL MIS workshop, Wellington, NZ (February, 2009).

Lloyd Davies M.T., Atkins, C.B., Van Der Meer, Jaap, J.M., Barrett, P.J. & Hicock, S.R. (2009).Evidence for cold-based glacial activity in the Allan Hills, Antarctica. Quaternary Science Reviews 28 (27-28), 3124-3137.

Atkins, C.B., & Dickinson, W.W. (2007). Landscape modification by meltwater channels at the margins of cold-based glaciers, Dry Valleys, Antarctica. Boreas, 36 (1), 47-55.

Atkins, C.B. (2004). Photographic atlas of striae in glacial and non-glacial environments (Antarctic Data Series Report 28). New Zealand: Victoria University of Wellington.

Atkins, C.B., Barrett,  P., & Hicock S. (2002). Cold glaciers erode and deposit: Evidence from Allan Hills, Antarctica. Geology, 30 (7), 659-662.

Atkins, C.B. (2001). Glacial influence from clast features in Oligocene and Miocene strata cored in CRP-2/2A and CRP-3, Victoria Land Basin, Antarctica. In Studies from the Cape Roberts Project, Ross Sea, Antarctica, Scientific Results of CRP-3. Terra Antartica 8 (3), 263-274.

Naish, T.R., Woolfe, K.J., Barrett, P.J., Wilson, G.S., Atkins, C.B., Bohati, S.M. & Wonik, T. (2001). Orbitally induced oscillations in the East Antarctic Ice Sheet: Direct evidence from the Cape Roberts Drilling Project. Nature 413, 719-723.

Talarico, F., Sandroni, S., Fielding, C., & Atkins, C.B. (2000). Variability, petrography and provenance of basement clasts from CRP-2/2A drillcore (Victoria Land Basin, Ross Sea, Antarctica). In Studies from the Cape Roberts Project, Ross Sea, Antarctica, Scientific Results of CRP-2/2A, part 2. Terra Antartica, 7 (4-5), 529-544.

Atkins, C.B. (2000). Clast features: striae, size and roundness. In Cape Roberts Science Team,  Barrett, P.J., Sarti, M., & Wise, S. (Eds.), Initial report on CRP-3, Cape Roberts Project, Antarctica. Terra Antartica 7 (1-2).

Atkins, C.B., & Barrett, P.J. (2000). Field report for 1997 on glacial deposits at Allan Hills, Antarctica (Antarctic Data Series Report 22). New Zealand: Victoria University of Wellington.

Atkins, C.B. (1999). Clast fabric and clast shape. In Cape Roberts Science Team,  Fielding, C.R., & Thompson, M.R.A., (Eds.), 1999, Initial report on CRP-2/2A, Cape Roberts Project, Antarctica. Terra Antartica, 6(1-2).

Atkins, C.B. (1998). Clast shape. In Cape Roberts Science Team,  Barrett, P.J., Fielding, C.R., & Wise, S (Eds.), Initial report on CRP-1, Cape Roberts Project, Antarctica. Terra Antartica, 5(1).

Conference Presentations

Atkins, C. (Invited Keynote, 2017, May 22). Antarctic dust: Sources, distribution and impact. In International Conference on High Latitude dust. Reykjavik, Iceland.

Thomas, A.,Cox, S., Atkins, C., Howarth, J. and the DFDP-2 Science Team (2017). New insights into glacio-lacustrine sedimentation in South Westland. In: In: Baker, J. and Rowe, M. (eds). Abstracts, Geosciences 2017, Auckland, Geoscience Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication 147A. p. x.

Atkins, C., Dunbar, G., & Golledge, N. (2016). Dust distribution in the Ross Sea, Antarctica. In A. Abu Samah, & J. Baeseman (Eds.), Abstracts from the XXXIV SCAR Open Science Conference 'Antarctica in the Global Earth System: From the Poles to the Tropics'. Cambridge. doi:10.5281/zenodo.162116

Priestley, R., Atkins, C., Salmon, R. & Dohaney, J. Antarctica Online: engaging learners in an interdisciplinary online conversation about Antarctica. Abstracts from the XXXIV SCAR Open Science Conference 'Antarctica in the Global Earth System: From the Poles to the Tropics'. Cambridge. doi:10.5281/zenodo.162116

Bertaud-Gandar, T. L. B., Atkins , C. B.,  Hannah, M.  (2016). The Clay Creek Limestone: A depositional model for an unusual deep-water coquina limestone, NZ. In: Riesselman, C. and Roben, A. (eds). Abstracts, Geosciences 2016, Wanaka, Geoscience Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication 145A. p.x.

Thomas, A. Cox, S. Atkins, C. Howarth, J. Sutherland, R. Upton P., and the DFDP-2 Science Team (2016). Rapid post-glacial sedimentation in the DFDP-2 drillholes: A record of mass wasting and deglaciation in South Westland. In: Riesselman, C. and Roben, A.(eds). Abstracts, Geosciences 2016, Wanaka, Geoscience Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication 145A.

Bertaud Gander, T., Atkins, C., and Hannah, M. (2015). New stratigraphic constraints on the tectonic development of the Aorangi Range, Wairarapa. In: MacKay, R., Savage, M. and Wilson, C. (eds). Abstracts, Geosciences 2015, Wellington, Geoscience Society of New Zealand Misc Publication 143a.

Milner, A., Atkins, C and Bland, K.  (2015). Manawatu Gorge marine to terrestrial emergence. In: MacKay, R., Savage, M. and Wilson, C. (eds). Abstracts, Geosciences 2015, Wellington, Geoscience Society of New Zealand Misc Publication 143a.

Atkins, C., & Bradwell, T. (2015). Comparison of cold-based glacial geomorphology in Antarctica and NW Europe. In International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences, Goa, India.

Atkins, C., Priestley, R., and Salmon, R. 2015. Antarctica Online: Communicating Antarctic Science with the public via an interactive online course. International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences (ISAES), Goa, India, 13-17 July 2015.

Howarth, J.D., Cox, S.C., Sutherland, R., Langridge, R., Upton, P., Barth, N.C., Atkins, C., Li, X.  & the DFDP-2 Science Team (2015) Quaternary Geology of the DFDP-2 drill holes, Alpine Fault, New Zeland. In: MacKay, R., Savage, M. and Wilson, C. (eds). Abstracts, Geosciences 2015, Wellington, Geoscience Society of New Zealand Misc Publication 143a.

Atkins, C., & Carroll, D. (2015). Wellington Rocks: An introduction to Wellington geology and landscape. In C. Atkins (Ed.), Geosciences NZ 2015, Wellington: Geoscience Society of New Zealand.

Atkins, C., & Collins, K. (2015). Pleistocene cyclic stratigraphy, South Wairarapa, New Zealand. In C. Atkins (Ed.), Field Guides Geosciences 2015, Wellington. Wellington: Geoscience Society of New Zealand.

Priestley, R., Atkins, C., and Salmon, R. 2015. Antarctica Online: New digital methods for teaching and communicating about Antarctica: Antarctica – A Changing Environment, 2015 Antarctic Science Conference, Christchurch, June, 2015.

Atkins, C.B., Dunbar, G., Golledge, N., & Zwartz, D. (2014, August ). Aeolian dust in Terra Nova Bay Polynya, Antarctica. Oral Presentation at the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) conference, Auckland, New Zealand,.

Winton, V.,  Delmonte, B , Andersson, P., Atkins, C., Bertler, N., Dunbar, G., & Edwards, R. (2014, August ). Aeolian  dust in the Ross Sea: Local versus distal sources. Oral presentation at the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) conference, Auckland, New Zealand.

Dickinson, W., & Atkins, C. (2014, August ). The origin of buried ice and permafrost sediments in Victoria Valley, Antarctica. Oral presentation at the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) conference, Auckland, New Zealand.

Atkins, C.B, Dunbar, G & Golledge, N. (2013, June). Aeolian dust in Terra Nova Bay Polynya, Antarctica. Poster presented at the Strategic Science in Antarctica conference, Hobart, Tasmania.

Salmon, R. & Atkins, C.B. (2013, June). Communicating our Science-thinking big picture- workshop session. Workshop convenors at the Strategic Science in Antarctica conference, Hobart, Tasmania.

Atkins, C.B., Dunbar, G.B., Golledge, N.R., Chewings, J.M. (2013, May). Aeolian dust research in the SW Ross Sea, Antarctica: Links between dust, biogeochemical cycles and climate change. Oral presentation at A Joint Antarctic Research Institute Symposium on Past Antarctic Climate, GNS Science, Lower Hutt, New Zealand.

Atkins, C.B., Dunbar, G.B., Zwartz, D.P., Chewings, J.M. Golledge, N.R. (2012, October). Aeolian sediment distribution studies in the SW Ross Sea, Antarctica. Oral presentation at the Antarctica New Zealand Conference, Christchurch.

Atkins, C.B., Dickinson, W., Joy, K., & Storey, B. (2011, July). Influence of cold-based glaciers on landscape development. Oral presentation at the International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences XI, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Dickinson, W., Atkins, C.B., Sletten, R. & Niebuhr (2011, July). Relict ice deposits from Cold Based Glaciers. Oral presentation at the International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences XI, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Joy, K., Storey, B., Fink, D., & Atkins, C.B. (2011, July). 10Be amd 26Al exposure age chronology of the Darwin-Hatherton glacial system. Oral presentation at the International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences XI, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Joy, K., Atkins, C.B., Storey, B., & Fink, D. (2010, July). The Darwin/Hatherton Glacial system: Preliminary results of Geomorphological mapping and cosmogenic sampling in 2009/10. Poster presented at the Antarctica New Zealand Conference, Christchurch, New Zealand.

Atkins, C. B., Dunbar, G. B., Chewings, J.M., & Alloway, B. V (2011, April). Aeolian sediment flux in the Western Ross Sea, Antarctica. Paper presented at the Joint Antarctic Research Institute Symposium on Past Antarctic Climate, GNS Science, Lower Hutt, New Zealand.

Atkins, C.B., & Dunbar, G. (2010, April). Quantifying aeolian sediment and Iron flux, phytoplankton blooms and sedimentation in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. Poster presented at the ANDRILL SMS workshop, Erice, Sicily, IItaly.

Niessen, F., Dunnbar, G., Atkins, C.B., Kuhn, G., Magens, D., & SMS Science Team (2010, April). Physical properties results from the ANDRILL southern McMurdo Sound Project AND-2A drillhole. Poster presented at the ANDRILL SMS workshop, Erice, Sicily, Italy.

Samuel, S., Atkins, C.B., & Arnot, M. (2009, November). Depositional history of Palaeogene strata, Canterbury Basin, New Zealand. Geological Society of New Zealand Conference, Oamaru, New Zealand.

Atkins, C.B., & Dunbar, G. (2009, June). Aeolian sediment flux and sedimentation in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. Poster presented at the Antarctica New Zealand Conference, Auckland, New Zealand.

Atkins, C.B., & Dunbar, G. (2008, November). Quantifying aeolian sediment flux from sea ice into Southern McMurdo Sound (SMS), Antarctica. Oral presentatin at the Annual conference of the Geological Society of New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand.

Grain, S., King, P., & Atkins, C.B. (2009, November). Palaeogeography of a Mid-Miocene Turbidite Complex, Moki Formation, Southern Taranaki Basin, New Zealand. Oral presentation at the AAPG International Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Grain, S., King, P., & Atkins, C.B. (2008, November). Palaeogeography of a Mid-Miocene turbidite complex, Moki Formation, Southern Taranaki Basin. Oral presentation at the Annual conference of the Geological Society of New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand.

Atkins, C.B., & Dumbar, G. (2008, June). Quantifying aeolian sediment flux on sea-ice in Southern McMurdo Sound (SMS), Antarctica. Poster presented at the Antarctica New Zealand Conference, Dunedin, New Zealand.

Atkins, C.B., & Dunbar, G. (2008, May). Aeolian sediment on sea-ice in Southern McMurdo Sound, Antarctica, (Preliminary results). Oral presentation at the ANDRILL SMS workshop, Tallahassee, Florida, USA.

Atkins, C.B. (2007, August). Advances in understanding cold-based glaciers. Oral presentation at the International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences 10, ISAES X, Santa Barbara, USA.

Atkins, C.B. & Hannah, M.J. (2007, July) “Unfreezing the continent” -Teaching Antarctica at Victoria University'. Poster presented at Antarctica: 50 years on the ice -Just the tip of the Iceberg conference, Wellington, New Zealand.

Atkins, C.B. (2003, September). Cold-based glacial erosion and deposition features, Dry Valleys, Antarctica. Oral presentation at the International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences 9, Potsdam, Germany.

Atkins, C., Barret, P., & Hicock, S. R., (2002, July). Dry-based glaciers do erode and deposit: Evidence from Allan Hills, Antarctica. Paper presented at the 2002 Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting, Wellington, New Zealand.

Lloyd Davies, M.T., Atkins, C.B., van Der Meer, Jaap J.M., Barrett, P.J., & Hickok, S.R. (2003, September). Cold-based glacier advance in the Allan Hills, Antarctica: evidence and preservation potential. Oral presentation at the International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences 9, Potsdam, Germany.

Wilson, G.S., Naish, T.R., Jordan, T.A., Damaske, D., Ali, M., Horgan, H, Balfour, …, Atkins, C.B., Moller, H.D., Hill, M., & Henderson, R. (2003, September). Using flexural modeling and geophysical data to define Neogene stratigraphic drilling targets in moat basins beneath the McMurdo Ice Shelf. Oral presentation at the International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences 9, Potsdam, Germany.

Atkins, C.B.,& Dickinson, W.D. (2003, August).Landscape modification of cold-based glacier margins, Dry Valleys, Antarctica. Oral presentation at the International Symposium on Antarctic Glaciology 7, Milano, Italy.

Dickinson, W.D., Atkins, C.B., & Sletten, R.S. (2003, August). Occurrences of ground ice in the Dry Valleys, Antarctica. Oral presentation at the International Symposium on Antarctic Glaciology 7, Milano, Italy.

Atkins, C. (1999, July). Striations as a paleoenvironmental tool. Oral presentation at the 8th International Symposium on Antarctic earth Science, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.