Ben Hines

GEOLOGIST - ADVENTURER - NEW ZEALANDER

        Current

PhD Candidate (Submitted)

Cretaceous - Paleogene Palinspastic Reconstruction of the East Coast Basin

Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

        Previous

Master of Science (Geology) with First Class Honors

The Early Eocene Succession of Tora, New Zealand: Stratigraphy and Paleoclimate

Victoria University of Wellington

                Awards & Scholarships

  • Sarah Beanland Memorial Scholarship (GNS Science)
  • OMV NZ Ltd. Student Scholarship (OMV New Zealand Ltd.)
  • John Gamble Award in Geology (Victoria University)
  • Young Researcher Grant (Geoscience Society of New Zealand)
  • Australasian Antarctic Expedition Scholarship (University of New South Wales) 

                 Licenses & Certifications

  • Class 1 (car) Drivers License 
  • First Aid Certification 
  • AH1 Approved Handlers Licence (Class 1; explosive substances)
  • L1 Traffic Controller Certification 
  • Advance Open Water PADI Scuba Diving Qualification
  • Firearms Licence
  • Sea Survival Certification
  • Four-Wheel Drive Certification 

                  Affiliations & Memberships

  • Geoscience Society of New Zealand
  • Geological Society of America
  • American Association of Petroleum Geologists 
  • Professional Association of Diving Instructors (PADI)
  • Victoria University Geological Society 
  • Te Aroha Camera Club

          Publications

  • Hines, B. R., Hollis, C. J., Atkins, C. B., Baker, J. A., Morgans, H. E. G., Strong, C. P. (2017). Reduction of oceanic temperature gradients in the Early Eocene Southwest Pacific Ocean. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. DOI. 10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.02.037.
  • Hines, B. R. (2015). Paleogene stratigraphy and paleoenvironment of the Tora coast. Geoscience Society of New Zealand Field Guide. Geoscience Society of New Zealand Miscallaneous Publication number 143b. 33 p. ISBN 978-1-877480-50-8.
  • Hines, B. R., Kulhanek, D. D., Hollis, C. J., Atkins, C. B. & Morgans, H. E. G. (2013). The Paleogene stratigraphy and paleoenvironment of Tora, southeast Wairarapa, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics. DOI: 10.1080/00288306.2013.836112.
  • Dallanave, E., Bachtadse, V., Crouch, E. M., Tauxe, L., Shepherd, C. L., Morgans, H. E. G., Hollis, C. J., Hines, B. R., Sugisaki, S. (2016). Constraining early to middle Eocene climate evolution of the southwest Pacific and Southern Ocean. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2015.11.010.
  • Hollis, C. J., Hines, B. R., Littler, K., Villasante-Marcos, V., Strong, C. P., Kulhanek, D. K., Zachos, J. C., Eggins, S. M., Northcote, L. & Phillips, A. (2015). Onset of the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum in the southern Pacific Ocean (DSDP Site 277, Campbell Plateau). Climates of the Past Discussions (11), 243-278, doi:10.5194/cpd-11-243-2015.
  • Turney, C., McGlone, M., Palmer, J. Fogwill, C., Hogg, A., Thomas, Z., Lipson, M., Wilmshurst, J., Fenwick, P., Jones, R., Hines, B. & Clark, G. (2015). Intensification of Southern Hemisphere Westerly Winds during the First Millennium CE: Evidence from the Subantarctic Campbell and Auckland Islands (50-52˚S). Journal of Quaternary Science, DOI: 10.1002/jqs.2828.
  • Hollis, C. J., Taylor, K. W. R.., Handley, L., Pancost, R. D., Huber, M., Creech, J. B., Hines, B. R., Crouch, E. M., Morgans, H. E. G., Crampton, J. S., Gibbs, S., Pearson, P. N. & Zachos, J. C. (2012). Early Paleogene temperature history of the Southwest Pacific Ocean: Reconciling proxies and models. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. Vol. 349-350, pp. 53-66. Doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2012.06.024
  • Dallanave, E., Agnini, C., Bachtadse, V., Muttoni, G., Crampton, J. S., Strong, C. P., Hines, B. R., Hollis, C. J., & Slotnick, B. S. (2014). Early to middle Eocene magneto-biochronology of the southwest Pacific Ocean and climate influence on sedimentation: Insights from the Mead Stream section, New Zealand. Geological Society of America Bulletin, (doi: 10.1130/B31147-1)
  • Dallanave, E., Bachtadse, V., Agnini, C., Muttoni, G., Hollis, C. J., Hines B. R., Morgans H. E. G, Strong C. P, Tauxe L, Crampton J. S. (2014). Early-middle Eocene magneto-biochronology of the Southern Pacific Ocean: new data from the South Island of New Zealand. Rend. Online Soc. Geol. It., Vol. 31 (2014), pp. 50-51, Società Geologica Italiana, Roma 2014 (doi: 10.3301/ROL.2014.40)
  • Hollis, C. J., Pascher, K., Hines. B. R., Littler, K., Kulhanek, D. K., Strong, C. P., Zachos, J. C., Eggins, S. M. & Phillips, A. (2014). Was the Early Eocene ocean unbearably warm or are the proxies unbelievably wrong? Rend. Online Soc. Geol. It., Vol. 31 (2014), pp. 109-110, Società Geologica Italiana, Roma 2014. (doi: 10.3301/ROL.2014.71)

            

                    Science Reports

  • Clowes, C. D., Bland, K. J., Morgans, H. E. G., Hines, B. R. (2016). Record of geological observations and sample collection from Late Cretaceous- Early Miocene strata in southern Hawke's Bay, 04-08 April 2016. GNS Science Internal Report 2016/14. 56 p.
  • Ventura, G. T., Hines, B. R., Clowes, C., Field, B. D. (2016). Section log, initial micropaleontological and geochemical analyses, and gamma ray scintillometer data for the Whangai and Waipawa formations at Okau Stream, eastern Wairarapa, GNS Science Internal Report 2016/05. 48 p.
  • Ventura, G. T., Hines, B. R., Clowes, C. D. (2016). Source rock pyrolysis properties of four Waipawa Formation sections in Wairarapa and southern Hawke’s Bay: interim results, GNS Science Internal Report 2016/06. 12p + 1 appendix.
  • Bache, F., Sutherland, R., Mortimer, N., Browne, G. H., Lawrence, M. J. F., Black, J. A., Flowers, M., Rouillard, P., Pallentin, A., Woelz, S., Wilcox, S., Hines, B., Jury, S., Roop, H. (2014). Tangaroa TAN1312 Voyage Report: dredging Reinga and Aotea basins to constrain seismic stratigraphy and petroleum systems (DRASP), NW New Zealand. GNS Science report 2014/05. 136 p.
  • Bland, K. J., Morgans, H. E. G., Hines, B. R. & Crampton, J. S. (2014). Outcrop analogues for the offshore East Coast and Pegasus basins: field trip to the southern Hawke's Bay-Wairarapa areas, 28th-31st January 2014. GNS Science Consultancy Report 2014/12. 81 p.
  • Bland, K. J., Ventura, G. T., Hines, B. R. &. Crampton, J. S. (2013). Record of sample collection from a potential Waipawa Formation outcrop at the Opouwae River Mouth, Te Kaukau Point, southeastern Wairarapa, 31 July 2013, for micropalentological and source rock analyses. GNS Science Internal Report 2013/09. 26p.

Conference Presentations

  • Hines, B. R. & Mayer, J. (2018). The East Coast Basin, one of the last frontiers: insights from geochemistry and basin modelling. New Zealand Petroleum Conference, Wellington, New Zealand. 27th – 28th March 2018.
  • Hines, B. R., Seebeck, H., Crampton, J. S. & Bland, K. J. (2017). Filling the blank wedge of Zealandia: Cretaceous to Paleogene reconstruction of the East Coast Basin, New Zealand. New Zealand Geosciences Conference, Auckland, New Zealand. 6th – 8th December 2017.
  • Hines, B. R., Crampton, J. S., Bland, K. J. & Seward, D. (2016). Palispastic reconstruction of the East Coast Basin, New Zealand. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado. 25th-28th September 2016.
  • Hines, B. R., Gazley, M. F., Ventura, G. T., Collins, K. S., Bland, K. J. & Crampton, J. S. (2016). Sequence and chemo-stratigraphic framework for the Waipawa Formation, East Coast Basin, New Zealand: controls on Paleocene black shale deposition in the southwest Pacific. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado. 25th-28th September 2016.
  • Hines, B. R., Gazley, M. F., Collins, K. S., Crampton, J. S., Ventura, G. T., Bland, K. J. & Seward, D. (2015). Crossing the Strait: Reconciling Paleogene stratigraphic linkages between Wairarapa and Marlborough. New Zealand Geosciences Conference, Wellington, New Zealand. 23rd-25th November 2015.
  • Hines, B. R., Ventura, G. T., Gazley, M. F., Bland, K. J., Crampton, J. S. & Collins, K. S. (2015). Chemostratigraphic framework for changing depositional conditions of prospective Late Cretaceous – Paleogene marine source rocks of the East Coast Basin, New Zealand. Eastern Australasian Basins Symposium, Melbourne, Australia, September 2015.
  • Hines, B. R., Hollis, C. J., Baker, J. A., Atkins, C. B., Morgans, H. E. G. & Strong, C. P. (2015). Reduced temperature gradients in the Early Eocene Southwest Pacific Ocean. Urbino Summer Scholarship Programme, Urbino, Italy, July 2015.
  • Hines, B. R., Gazley, M. F., Bland, K., Ventura, G. T., Crampton, J. S., Collins, K. S. (2015). Geochemical insights into the depositional conditions of prospective Late Cretaceous – Paleogene marine source rocks of the East Coast Basin, New Zealand. American Association of Petroleum Geologists workshop: Analogues for Modern depositional environments. Wellington, New Zealand. 19th-23rd April 2015.
  • Hines, B. R., Collins, K. S., Neil, H. L. & Gazley, M. F. (2015). Cenozoic sea temperature exhibited by crassatellid molluscs. New Zealand Geosciences Conference, Wellington, New Zealand. 23rd-25th November 2015.
  • Hines, B. R., Gazley, M., Crampton, J. S., Bland, K. & Seward, D. (2014). Developing a chemostratigraphic framework for the Whangai Formation. New Zealand Geosciences Conference, New Plymouth, New Zealand. 24th-27th November 2014.
  • Hines, B. R. & Collins. K. S. (2013). Determination of Neogene Mg/Ca seawater ratios and Mg/Ca calibrations for extinct foraminiferal lineages. New Zealand Geosciences Conference, Christchurch, New Zealand. 24th-27th November 2013.
  • Hines, B. R., Hollis, C. J., Atkins, C. B., Baker, J., Morgans, H. E. G. & Kulhanek, D. K. (2012). Early Eocene Mg/Ca Paleothermometry of the Central East Coast Basin. New Zealand Geosciences Conference, Hamilton, New Zealand. 25th-28th November 2012.
  • Hines, B. R., Atkins, C., Hollis, C. J., Morgans, H. E. G., Kulhanek, D. & Baker, J. (2011). The Early Eocene Succession at Tora, Wairarapa: Stratigraphy and Paleoclimate. New Zealand Geosciences Conference, Nelson, New Zealand. 27th November - 1st December 2011.
  • Bland, K., Clowes, C., Field, B., Hines, B., Ventura, T, Morgans, H., Strogen, D. & Sykes, R. (2016). Onshore petroleum seeps in the southern East Coast Basin, and their stratigraphic occurrences: an overview from recent fieldwork. Petroleum Geoscience Workshop, Lower Hutt, New Zealand. 22-23rd September 2016.
  • Field, B. D., Hines, B. R., Clowes, C., Rechden, R., Ventura, G. T., Hollis, C. J. & Sykes, R. (2016). Using Milankovitch cyclicity for stratigraphic correlation and prediction of petroleum generative potential in the Waipawa Formation, East Coast Basin. Advantage NZ Conference, Auckland, New Zealand. April 2016.
  • Hollis, C. J., Pascher, K., Shepard, C., Hines, B. R., Morgans, H. E. G., Strong, C. P., Naafs, D. & Pancost, R. (2016). The tolerable warmness of the Eocene hyperthermal ocean. International Conference on Paleoceanography, Utrecht, the Netherlands. 29th August – 2nd September 2016.
  • Gazley, M. F., Collins, K. S., Hines., B. R., Fisher, L. A. & McFarlane, A. (2015). Application of multivariate statistics and cluster analysis to mineral exploration and mine geology. New Zealand Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy Conference, Dunedin, New Zealand, August, 2015.
  • Kulhanek, D K., Hollis, C. J., Hines, B. R., Littler, K., Strong, C. P., Zachos, J. C. & Vilasante-Marcos, V. (2015). A new Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum record from Deep Sea Drilling Project Site 277 (Campbell Plateau): A window into calcareous nannofossil response in the southern high latitudes. International Nannoplankkton Association meeting, March 2015.
  • Ventura, G. T., Hines, B. R., Field, B. D., Bland, K. J., Strogen, D. P., Clowes, C. & Sykes, R. (2015). Paleoenvironmental and diagenetic controls on the petroleum generation characteristics of the Late Paleocene Waipawa Formation of the East Coast Basin, New Zealand. New Zealand Geosciences Conference, Wellington, New Zealand. 23rd-25th November 2015.
  • Bache, F., Sutherland, R., Stagpoole, V., Browne, G., Lawrence, M. J. F., Mortimer, N., Herzer, R., Black, J., Hines, B., Roop, H., Flowers, M., Rouillard, P., Collot, J. & Patriat, M. (2014). Geological overview of the Reinga Basin, NW New Zealand: key observations and new constraints. Advantage NZ: 2014 Geotechnical Petroleum Forum, Wellington, New Zealand. 1st-4th April 2014.
  • Dallanave, E., Agnini, C., Bachtadse, V., Muttoni, G., Crampton, J. S., Strong, P., Hines, B. R., Hollis, C. J. & Slotnick, B. S. (2014). Early to middle Eocene magneto-biochronology of the southwest Pacific Ocean and climate influence on sedimentation: new data from the Mead Stream section (Marlborough, New Zealand). In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts.
  • Hollis, C. J., Taylor, K. W. T., Pancost, R. D., Hines, B. R., Littler, K., Zachos, J. C., Kulhanek, D. K. & Strong, C. P. (2012). Early Paleogene temperature history of the Southwest Pacific Ocean. New Zealand Geosciences Conference, Hamilton, New Zealand. 25th-28th November 2012.
  • Slotnick, B. S., Dickens, G. R., Hollis, C. J., Crampton, J. S., Strong, C., Zachos, J. C., Hines, B. R. & Philips, A. (2013). Integrating South Pacific carbon cycling and climate history from Late Paleocene to Middle Eocene: an upper slope transect from eastern New Zealand. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts (Vol. 1, p. 07).