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Richard J. Wysoczanski is a researcher affiliated with the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research in New Zealand. Their work primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with particular expertise in geophysics, atmospheric science, artificial intelligence applications, environmental chemistry, and geochemistry and petrology. This interdisciplinary approach supports investigations into geological processes and material properties under varying environmental conditions.

The scientist's research encompasses a range of topics including geological and geochemical analysis, earthquake and tectonic studies, geology and paleoclimatology research, high-pressure geophysics and materials, geochemistry and geologic mapping, methane hydrates and related phenomena, and geochemistry and elemental analysis.

Among their recent scientific contributions are several notable papers:

  • Fast and destructive density currents created by ocean-entering volcanic eruptions, 2023, Science
  • What lies beneath? Reconstructing the primitive magmas fueling voluminous silicic volcanism using olivine-hosted melt inclusions, 2020, Geology
  • Deposition and preservation of tephra in marine sediments at the active Hikurangi subduction margin, 2020, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Volcaniclastic density currents explain widespread and diverse seafloor impacts of the 2022 Hunga Volcano eruption, 2023, Nature Communications
  • TephraNZ: a major- and trace-element reference dataset for glass-shard analyses from prominent Quaternary rhyolitic tephras in New Zealand and implications for correlation, 2021, Geochronology

Wysoczanski frequently collaborates with a group of recurring co-authors, which include Michael Clare, Isobel Yeo, Sally Watson, Sarah Seabrook, and James E. Hunt. These professional associations reflect ongoing partnerships within their research community and contribute to studies published in key scientific outlets.

The venues where their work appears regularly include:

  • Science
  • Geology
  • Nature Communications
  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Geochronology

Best Publications

  • Structural and geochronological constraints on the role of partial melting during the formation of the Shuswap metamorphic core complex at the latitude of the Thor-Odin dome, British Columbia

    Olivier Vanderhaeghe;Olivier Vanderhaeghe;Christian Teyssier;Richard Wysoczanski

  • U-Pb SHRIMP-dating of zircon domains from UHP garnet-rich mafic rocks and late pegmatoids in the Rhodope zone (N Greece); evidence for Early Cretaceous crystallization and Late Cretaceous metamorphism

    Anthi Liati;Dieter Gebauer;Richard Wysoczanski

  • Microbeam Characterization of Corning Archeological Reference Glasses: New Additions to the Smithsonian Microbeam Standard Collection

    Edward P Vicenzi;Stephen Eggins;Amelia Logan;Richard Wysoczanski

  • The invisible hand: Tectonic triggering and modulation of a rhyolitic supereruption

    Aidan S.R. Allan;Colin J.N. Wilson;Marc-Alban Millet;Richard J. Wysoczanski;Richard J. Wysoczanski

  • SHRIMP zircon geochronology and geochemistry of the Orlica-Śnieżnik gneisses (Variscan belt of Central Europe) and their tectonic implications

    Krzysztof Turniak;Stanisław Mazur;Richard Wysoczański

  • Chlorine in submarine volcanic glasses from the eastern manus basin

    Weidong Sun;Raymond Binns;Raymond Binns;A.C. Fan;A.C. Fan;Vadim S Kamenetsky

  • The largest deep-ocean silicic volcanic eruption of the past century.

    Rebecca Carey;S. Adam Soule;Michael Manga;James D. L. White

  • Spectroscopic FTIR imaging of water species in silicic volcanic glasses and melt inclusions: An example from the Izu-Bonin arc

    Richard Wysoczanski;Kenichiro Tani

  • Thermal evidence for early Cretaceous metamorphism in the Shyok suture zone and age of the Khardung volcanic rocks, Ladakh, India

    William James Dunlap;R Wysoczanski

  • Using micro-FTIR spectroscopy to measure volatile contents in small and unexposed inclusions hosted in olivine crystals

    A.R.L. Nichols;R.J. Wysoczanski

  • Initiation of magmatism during the Cambrian-Ordovician Ross orogeny in southern Victoria Land, Antarctica

    Andrew Allibone;Richard Wysoczanski

  • Syncollisional rapid granitic magma formation in an arc-arc collision zone: Evidence from the Tanzawa plutonic complex, Japan

    Kenichiro Tani;Daniel J. Dunkley;Jun-Ichi Kimura;Richard J. Wysoczanski

  • Geochemistry and Petrogenesis of Silicic Magmas in the Intra-Oceanic Kermadec Arc

    S. J. Barker;C. J. N. Wilson;J. A. Baker;Marc-Alban Millet

  • Detrital zircon age patterns and provenance in late Paleozoic–early Mesozoic New Zealand terranes and development of the paleo-Pacific Gondwana margin

    R. J. Wysoczanski;G. M. Gibson;T. R. Ireland

  • Early evolution of a young back-arc basin in the Havre Trough

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  • Petrogenesis and Origins of Mid-Cretaceous Continental Intraplate Volcanism in Marlborough, New Zealand: Implications for the Long-lived HIMU Magmatic Mega-province of the SW Pacific

    Alex J. McCoy-West;Joel A. Baker;Kevin Faure;Richard Wysoczanski

  • Fast and destructive density currents created by ocean-entering volcanic eruptions

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  • Volatile contents of Kermadec Arc–Havre Trough pillow glasses: Fingerprinting slab-derived aqueous fluids in the mantle sources of arc and back-arc lavas

    R Wysoczanski;I C Wright;John A Gamble;E.H. Hauri

  • Proterozoic lithosphere in Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica: Re-Os systematics of spinel peridotite xenoliths

    Monica R. Handler;Richard J. Wysoczanski;John A. Gamble

  • Backarc rifting, constructional volcanism and nascent disorganised spreading in the southern Havre Trough backarc rifts (SW Pacific)

    R.J. Wysoczanski;E. Todd;I.C. Wright;M.I. Leybourne

  • Hf isotopic evidence for small-scale heterogeneity in the mode of mantle wedge enrichment: Southern Havre Trough and South Fiji Basin back-arcs

    Erin Todd;James Gill;Richard J. Wysoczanski;Janet Hergt

  • OH− in synthetic and natural coesite

    Monika Koch-Müller;Przemyslaw Dera;Yingwei Fei;Barry Reno

  • Sources of constructional cross-chain volcanism in the southern Havre Trough: New insights from HFSE and REE concentration and isotope systematics

    E. Todd;J. B. Gill;R. J. Wysoczanski;Monica R. Handler;Monica R. Handler

  • Subduction of the oceanic Hikurangi Plateau and its impact on the Kermadec arc

    Christian Timm;Bryan Davy;Karsten Haase;Kaj A. Hoernle

Frequent Co-Authors

Ian C. Wright
Ian C. Wright National Oceanography Centre
Joel A. Baker
Joel A. Baker University of Washington
John A. Gamble
John A. Gamble Victoria University of Wellington
Colin J.N. Wilson
Colin J.N. Wilson Victoria University of Wellington
Lionel Carter
Lionel Carter Victoria University of Wellington
Helen C. Bostock
Helen C. Bostock University of Queensland
Matthew I. Leybourne
Matthew I. Leybourne Queen's University
Alexander R. L. Nichols
Alexander R. L. Nichols University of Canterbury
Xuan-Ce Wang
Xuan-Ce Wang Yunnan University
Kenichiro Tani
Kenichiro Tani Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology

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