Associate Professor James Scott is the President of the Geoscience Society of NZ and based in the Department of Geology at the University of Otago.
Photo: University of Otago
In his role as an editor of the NZ Journal of Geology and Geophysics, he's just put together a two-part special issue which brings together updated knowledge of nearly everything there was to know about volcanology in NZ. The previous go-to book for this information was dated in 1986 - and we've learned a lot since then!