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.
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!