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Christopher J. Hollis is affiliated with GNS Science in New Zealand and conducts research focused primarily within Earth and Planetary Sciences, Environmental Science, and Engineering. Their work spans several key subfields including Atmospheric Science, Paleontology, Geology, Geophysics, and Mechanics of Materials, with a substantial number of publications in these areas.

Their research topics include:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Geological and Geophysical Studies
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Hydrocarbon Exploration and Reservoir Analysis
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Geological formations and processes

Christopher J. Hollis has contributed to several recent scholarly papers, including:

  • "Global mean surface temperature and climate sensitivity of the early Eocene Climatic Optimum (EECO), Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), and latest Paleocene" (2020, Climate of the past)
  • "DeepMIP: model intercomparison of early Eocene climatic optimum (EECO) large-scale climate features and comparison with proxy data" (2021, Climate of the past)
  • "The Chicxulub Impact Produced a Powerful Global Tsunami" (2022, AGU Advances)
  • "An Austral radiolarian biozonation for the Paleogene" (2020, Stratigraphy)
  • "Re-Os geochronology and isotope systematics, and organic and sulfur geochemistry of the middle-late Paleocene Waipawa Formation, New Zealand: Insights into early Paleogene seawater Os isotope composition" (2020, Chemical Geology)

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Climate of the past
  • AGU Advances
  • Stratigraphy
  • Chemical Geology
  • Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems

Collaborations have been made with several recurring coauthors, such as:

  • Eleni Anagnostou
  • Richard D. Pancost
  • Isabella Raffi
  • Kyle Taylor
  • Kristina M. Pascher

Their research emphasizes integrating geological, paleontological, and geochemical methodologies to study climatic and environmental changes in the Paleogene period, especially focusing on stratigraphy and isotope systematics. This work includes assessments of global temperature trends during significant climatic events such as the early Eocene Climatic Optimum and Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum.

Areas of study also encompass geological processes related to tsunamis, deep-time biostratigraphy of microfossils such as radiolarians, and the geochemical characterization of sedimentary formations within New Zealand. These multidisciplinary approaches contribute to a comprehensive understanding of earth system processes from both geological and geochemical perspectives.

Best Publications

  • Indication of global deforestation at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary by New Zealand fern spike.

    Vivi Vajda;J. Ian Raine;Christopher J. Hollis

  • Early Paleogene temperature history of the Southwest Pacific Ocean: Reconciling proxies and models

    Christopher J. Hollis;Kyle W. R. Taylor;Luke Handley;Richard D. Pancost

  • Multiple early Eocene hyperthermals: Their sedimentary expression on the New Zealand continental margin and in the deep sea

    Micah J. Nicolo;Gerald R. Dickens;Christopher J. Hollis;James C. Zachos

  • Re-evaluating modern and Palaeogene GDGT distributions: Implications for SST reconstructions

    Kyle W.R. Taylor;Matthew Huber;Christopher J. Hollis;Maria T. Hernandez-Sanchez

  • The Apectodinium acme and terrestrial discharge during the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum: new palynological, geochemical and calcareous nannoplankton observations at Tawanui, New Zealand

    Erica M. Crouch;Erica M. Crouch;Gerald R. Dickens;Gerald R. Dickens;Henk Brinkhuis;Marie Pierre Aubry

  • The DeepMIP contribution to PMIP4: methodologies for selection, compilation and analysis of latest Paleocene and early Eocene climate proxy data, incorporating version 0.1 of the DeepMIP database

    Christopher J Hollis;Tom Dunkley Jones;Eleni Anagnostou;Eleni Anagnostou;Peter K Bijl

  • Tropical sea temperatures in the high-latitude South Pacific during the Eocene

    Christopher J. Hollis;Luke Handley;Erica M. Crouch;Hugh E.G. Morgans

  • Brackish foraminifera in New Zealand; a taxonomic and ecologic review

    Bruce W. Hayward;Christopher J. Hollis

  • Descent toward the Icehouse: Eocene sea surface cooling inferred from GDGT distributions

    Gordon N. Inglis;Alexander Farnsworth;Daniel Lunt;Gavin L. Foster

  • Global mean surface temperature and climate sensitivity of the early Eocene Climatic Optimum (EECO), Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), and latest Paleocene

    Gordon N. Inglis;Gordon N. Inglis;Fran Bragg;Natalie J. Burls;Margot J. Cramwinckel;Margot J. Cramwinckel

  • DeepMIP: model intercomparison of early Eocene climatic optimum (EECO) large-scale climate features and comparison with proxy data

    Daniel J. Lunt;Fran J. Bragg;Wing Le Chan;David Karel Hutchinson

  • The Paleocene–Eocene transition at Mead Stream, New Zealand: a southern Pacific record of early Cenozoic global change

    Christopher J. Hollis;Gerald R. Dickens;Bradley D. Field;Craig M. Jones

  • The DeepMIP contribution to PMIP4: experimental design for model simulations of the EECO, PETM, and pre-PETM (version 1.0)

    Daniel J. Lunt;Matthew Huber;Eleni Anagnostou;Michiel L. J. Baatsen

  • New Zealand Geological Timescale NZGT 2015/1

    JI Raine;AG Beu;AF Boyes;HJ Campbell

  • Cretaceous-Paleocene Radiolaria from eastern Marlborough, New Zealand

    Christopher John Hollis

  • Recent Elphidiidae (Foraminiferida) of the South-West Pacific and fossil Elphidiidae of New Zealand

    Bruce W. Hayward;Chris J. Hollis;Hugh R. Grenfell

  • Seismic stratigraphy and structural history of the Reinga Basin and its margins, southern Norfolk Ridge system

    R. H. Herzer;G. C. H. Chaproniere;A. R. Edwards;C. J. Hollis

  • Large-Amplitude Variations in Carbon Cycling and Terrestrial Weathering during the Latest Paleocene and Earliest Eocene: The Record at Mead Stream, New Zealand

    Benjamin S. Slotnick;Gerald R. Dickens;Micah J. Nicolo;Christopher J. Hollis

  • Foraminiferal, radiolarian, and dinoflagellate biostratigraphy of Late Cretaceous to Middle Eocene pelagic sediments (Muzzle Group), Mead Stream, Marlborough, New Zealand

    C. P. Strong;C. J. Hollis;G. J. Wilson

  • Paleoecological insights into subduction zone earthquake occurrence, eastern North Island, New Zealand

    Ursula Cochran;Kelvin Berryman;Judith Zachariasen;Dallas Mildenhall

  • South Pacific intermediate water oxygen depletion at the onset of the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum as depicted in New Zealand margin sections

    Micah J. Nicolo;Gerald R. Dickens;Christopher J. Hollis

Frequent Co-Authors

Gerald R. Dickens
Gerald R. Dickens Trinity College Dublin
Richard D. Pancost
Richard D. Pancost University of Bristol
James S. Crampton
James S. Crampton Victoria University of Wellington
James C. Zachos
James C. Zachos University of California, Santa Cruz
Matthew Huber
Matthew Huber Purdue University West Lafayette
Rupert Sutherland
Rupert Sutherland Victoria University of Wellington
Bruce W. Hayward
Bruce W. Hayward University of Auckland
Gavin L. Foster
Gavin L. Foster University of Southampton
Daniel J. Lunt
Daniel J. Lunt University of Bristol
Paul Nicholas Pearson
Paul Nicholas Pearson Cardiff University

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