Dr Joshu Mountjoy

Strategy Manager - Oceans

+64-4-386-0336

Qualifications:

Biography:

Joshu Mountjoy is a Marine Geoscientist and Programme Leader for SSIF Programme Marine Physical Processes and Resources. Joshu completed his PhD jointly with the University of Canterbury and NIWA and then took up a scientist position at NIWA. He has a broad interest in seafloor geomorphology spanning submarine canyons, landslides, active tectonics, gas and gas hydrate systems and lakes. Joshu is passionate about science communication and believes scientists are beholden to communicate what they do as broadly as possible. He recently featured in the National Geographic show Drain the Oceans https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8680494/. When not being a scientist Joshu enjoys mountain biking, surfing, skiing, cooking and tinkering in his shed.

Articles:

Carey, J.M., Crutchley, G.J., Mountjoy, J.J., Petley, D.N., McSaveney, M.J. and Lyndsell, B., 2019. Slow episodic movement driven by elevated pore-fluid pressures in shallow subaqueous slopes. Geomorphology, 329, pp.99-107.

Joshu J Mountjoy, Jamie D Howarth, Alan R Orpin, Philip M Barnes, David A Bowden, Ashley A Rowden, Alexandre CG Schimel, Caroline Holden, Huw J Horgan, Scott D Nodder, Jason R Patton, Geoffroy Lamarche, Matthew Gerstenberger, Aaron Micallef, Arne Pallentin, Tim Kane (2018). "Earthquakes drive large-scale submarine canyon development and sediment supply to deep-ocean basins." Science advances 4(3): eaar3748.

Mountjoy, J. J., X. Wang, S. Woelz, S. Fitzsimons, J. D. Howarth, A. R. Orpin and W. Power (2018). "Tsunami hazard from lacustrine mass wasting in Lake Tekapo, New Zealand." Geological Society, London, Special Publications 477: SP477. 421.

Micallef, A., J. J. Mountjoy, K. Schwalenberg, M. Jegen, B. A. Weymer, S. Woelz, P. Gerring, N. Luebben, D. Spatola, D. Otero and C. Mueller (2018). "How offshore groundwater shapes the seafloor." EOS 99.

Mountjoy, J. J., I. Pecher, S. Henrys, G. Crutchley, P. M. Barnes and A. Plaza-Faverola (2014). "Shallow methane hydrate system controls ongoing, downslope sediment transport in a low-velocity active submarine landslide complex. Hikurangi Margin, New Zealand." Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst. 15.

Mountjoy, J. J. and Barnes, P. M. 2011: Active upper-plate thrust faulting in regions of low plate-interface coupling, repeated slow slip events, and coastal uplift: Example from the Hikurangi Margin, New Zealand. G-Cubed 12(1) doi:10.1029/2010GC003326

Micallef, A. and Mountjoy, J. J. 2011: A topographic signature of a hydrographic origin for submarine gullies. Geology 39(2): 115-118.

Mountjoy, J.J., McKean, J., Barnes, P.M., Pettinga, J.R., 2009. Terrestrial-style slow-moving earthflow kinematics in a submarine landslide complex. Marine Geology, 267: 114-127.

Mountjoy, J.J., Barnes, P.M. and Pettinga, J.R., 2009. Morphostructure and evolution of submarine canyons across an active margin: Cook Strait sector of the Hikurangi Margin, New Zealand. Marine Geology, 260(1-4): 45-68.

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