Daniel King

The Nature Conservancy

Presentation of the findings of an ongoing literature review into the policy gaps and challenges affecting the implementation of blue carbon projects in the Asia-Pacific region. Presented at The Nature Conservancy's online Blue Carbon Policy Gaps and Challenges Workshop on the 8th November 2023.

Discussion of an ongoing review paper into the influence of different management practices on salt marsh ecosystem services

Cyclostratigraphy and astrochronology are now at the forefront of geologic timekeeping. While this technique heavily relies on the accuracy of astronomical calculations, solar system chaos limits how far back astronomical calculations can be performed with confidence. High-resolution paleoclimate records with Milankovitch imprints now allow reversi...

Vertical land movement variability around the coasts of New Zealand has introduced a great deal of uncertainty to projections of future sea-level rise around major coastal cities. To gain an understanding of how this movement has occurred and changed over time, as well as the other factors driving sea-level change around major cities, four new sea-...

The threat posed by sea-level rise around New Zealand’s cities is known to be either exacerbated or ameliorated by centennial-scale vertical land motion. To contextualise the possible influence of this process on sea-level rise around the city of Dunedin, we use foraminiferal assemblages from the salt marsh at Aramoana (at the mouth of the Otago Ha...

Cyclostratigraphy and astrochronology are now at the forefront of geologic timekeeping. While this technique heavily relies on the accuracy of astronomical calculations, solar system chaos limits how far back astronomical calculations can be performed with confidence. High-resolution paleoclimate records with Milankovitch imprints now allow reversi...

A free, non-technical online resource to help both laypeople and ecological researchers identify any plants that they find growing in New Zealand salt marshes. Last update: 27th August 2022

Salt-marsh foraminiferal assemblages serve as a key proxy for reconstructing sea level on multi-decadal to multi-millennial timescales, enabling reconstruction of sea level to potentially within 5 to 15-cm precision. The genus Trochamminita, common in salt-marsh environments, has proven unclear in recent decades with regard to the number of species...

Vertical land movement associated with interseismic subsidence and slow-slip events pose a major complicating factor when understanding how sea-level rise is likely to affect New Zealand's capital city of Wellington. To understand how these factors have affected sea level in the long-term, and thereby gain geological context for these movements, th...

Coasts in tectonically active regions face varying threat levels as land subsides or uplifts relative to rising sea levels. We review the processes influencing relative sea-level change in New Zealand, and the geological context behind ongoing land movements, focussing on major population centres. Whilst Holocene sea levels have been reconstructed u...

Presentation of ongoing research project at Geosciences 2019 (Hamilton, 2019)

The Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum (MECO) was a unique 4-6°C transient global warming event that lasted ~600 kyr (~40.6 to 40.0 Ma) and was associated with an enigmatic rise in atmospheric pCO2. To gain new perspectives on the onset of the MECO, this study documents the MECO for the first time at high resolution (~1 kyr), using new oxygen and carbo...

This study provides a record of the changes in stratigraphy, geochemistry, and palaeoenvironments across the Barremian-Aptian section (~125-120 Ma) on the Isle of Wight at Compton Bay, on the exposure to the south of the Small Chine fault, and at Atherfield Point, utilising palaeontology, X-ray fluorescence spectrometry, and gamma-ray spectrometry...