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Philip M. Barnes is affiliated with the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research in New Zealand. Their academic work spans Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a focus on specialized subfields including Geophysics, Environmental Chemistry, Geology, Atmospheric Science, and Earth-Surface Processes.

The research topics covered by Barnes include:

  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques
  • Earthquake and Tectonic Studies
  • Geological and Geophysical Studies
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • High-pressure Geophysics and Materials

Some recent publications by Barnes provide insight into their areas of expertise and research contributions:

  • Slow slip source characterized by lithological and geometric heterogeneity (2020), published in Science Advances
  • Calibrating the marine turbidite palaeoseismometer using the 2016 Kaikōura earthquake (2021), Nature Geoscience
  • The New Zealand Community Fault Model - version 1.0: an improved geological foundation for seismic hazard modelling (2023), New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics
  • Physical Properties and Gas Hydrate at a Near-Seafloor Thrust Fault, Hikurangi Margin, New Zealand (2020), Geophysical Research Letters
  • Gas hydrate formation beneath thrust ridges: A test of concepts using 3D modelling at the southern Hikurangi Margin, New Zealand (2021), Marine and Petroleum Geology

Frequent collaborators with Barnes reflect the interdisciplinary nature of their research and include:

  • Ingo A. Pecher
  • Leah J. LeVay
  • Ann E. Cook
  • David D. McNamara
  • Shuoshuo Han

Barnes has contributed multiple publications to journals and venues that include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Science Advances

Best Publications

  • Complex multifault rupture during the 2016 Mw 7.8 Kaikōura earthquake, New Zealand

    Ian J. Hamling;Sigrún Hreinsdóttir;Kate Clark;John Elliott

  • National Seismic Hazard Model for New Zealand: 2010 Update

    Mark Stirling;Graeme McVerry;Matthew Gerstenberger;Nicola Litchfield

  • Tectonic and geological framework for gas hydrates and cold seeps on the Hikurangi subduction margin, New Zealand

    Philip M. Barnes;Geoffroy Lamarche;Joerg Bialas;Stuart Henrys

  • The kinematics of a transition from subduction to strike‐slip: An example from the central New Zealand plate boundary

    Laura Wallace;P. Barnes;J. Beavan;R. Van Dissen

  • Characterizing the seismogenic zone of a major plate boundary subduction thrust: Hikurangi Margin, New Zealand

    Laura M. Wallace;Martin Reyners;Ursula Cochran;Stephen Bannister

  • A model of active faulting in New Zealand

    NJ Litchfield;R Van Dissen;R Sutherland;PM Barnes

  • Surface Rupture of Multiple Crustal Faults in the 2016 Mw 7.8 Kaikōura, New Zealand, Earthquake

    Nicola J. Litchfield;Pilar Villamor;Russ J. Van Dissen;Andrew Nicol

  • Late Cenozoic evolution and earthquake potential of an active listric thrust complex above the Hikurangi subduction zone, New Zealand

    Philip M. Barnes;Andrew Nicol;Tony Harrison

  • Morphostructure and evolution of submarine canyons across an active margin: Cook Strait sector of the Hikurangi Margin, New Zealand

    Joshu J. Mountjoy;Joshu J. Mountjoy;Philip M. Barnes;Jarg R. Pettinga

  • Kaikoura Canyon, New Zealand: active conduit from near-shore sediment zones to trench-axis channel

    Keith B Lewis;Philip M Barnes

  • Strain partitioning in the transition area between oblique subduction and continental collision, Hikurangi margin, New Zealand

    Philip M. Barnes;Bernard Mercier de Lépinay;Jean-Yves Collot;Jean Delteil

  • Earthquakes drive large-scale submarine canyon development and sediment supply to deep-ocean basins.

    Joshu J. Mountjoy;Jamie D. Howarth;Alan R. Orpin;Philip M. Barnes

  • From Oblique Subduction to Intra-Continental Transpression: Structures of the Southern Kermadec-Hikurangi Margin from Multibeam Bathymetry, Side-Scan Sonar and Seismic Reflection

    Jean-Yves Collot;Jean Delteil;Keith B. Lewis;Bryan Davy

  • Rates and mechanics of rapid frontal accretion along the very obliquely convergent southern Hikurangi margin, New Zealand

    Philip M. Barnes;Bernard Mercier de Lépinay

  • Slow slip source characterized by lithological and geometric heterogeneity

    Philip M. Barnes;Laura M. Wallace;Demian M. Saffer;Rebecca E. Bell

  • Seafloor structural geomorphic evolution of the accretionary frontal wedge in response to seamount subduction, Poverty Indentation, New Zealand

    Katherine L. Pedley;Philip M. Barnes;Jarg R. Pettinga;Keith B. Lewis

  • Geophysical Constraints on the Relationship Between Seamount Subduction, Slow Slip, and Tremor at the North Hikurangi Subduction Zone, New Zealand

    Daniel H. N. Barker;Stuart Henrys;Fabio Caratori Tontini;Philip M. Barnes

  • Seismic hazard of the Canterbury region, New Zealand:

    Mark Stirling;Matthew Gerstenberger;Nicola Litchfield;Graeme McVerry

  • Faulting and extension rate over the last 20,000 years in the offshore Whakatane Graben, New Zealand continental shelf

    Geoffroy Lamarche;Philip M. Barnes;Jonathan M. Bull

  • Strike-slip structure and sedimentary basins of the southern Alpine Fault, Fiordland, New Zealand

    Philip M. Barnes;Rupert Sutherland;Jean Delteil

  • Evolution of fluid expulsion and concentrated hydrate zones across the southern Hikurangi subduction margin, New Zealand: An analysis from depth migrated seismic data

    Andreia Plaza-Faverola;Dirk Klaeschen;Philip Barnes;Ingo Pecher;Ingo Pecher

  • A model of active faulting in New Zealand: fault parameter descriptions

    Geoffroy Lamarche;NJ Litchfield;R van Dissen;R Sutherland

Frequent Co-Authors

Joshu J. Mountjoy
Joshu J. Mountjoy National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
Laura M. Wallace
Laura M. Wallace The University of Texas at Austin
Geoffroy Lamarche
Geoffroy Lamarche National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
Jarg R. Pettinga
Jarg R. Pettinga University of Canterbury
Stuart Henrys
Stuart Henrys University of Auckland
Rebecca E. Bell
Rebecca E. Bell Imperial College London
Ingo Pecher
Ingo Pecher GNS Science
Gregory F. Moore
Gregory F. Moore University of Hawaii at Manoa
Andrew Nicol
Andrew Nicol University of Canterbury

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