Roger Cooper (paleontologist)
Roger Cooper | |
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| Born | Roger Alan Cooper 12 March 1939 |
| Died | 2 March 2020 (aged 80)[4] Lower Hutt, New Zealand |
| Nationality | New Zealand |
| Alma mater | Victoria University of Wellington |
| Awards | McKay Hammer Award (1980)[1] New Zealand Science and Technology Silver Medal (2003)[2] Hutton Medal (2017)[3] |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Paleontology |
| Thesis | Ordovician Biostratigraphy of North-West Nelson (1969) |
Roger Alan Cooper
Biography
Roger A. Cooper, the second of his parents' five children, grew up in
New Zealand Geological Survey.[4]
From 1963 to 1964, Cooper spent eighteen months on the United Nations Labuk Valley Project in
Labuk region. Cooper collected geochemical samples in remote jungle areas. His Iban assistants were highly skilled in jungle lore and living off the land.[4]
Upon his return from Borneo, he began work at the University of Victoria on his Ph.D. thesis. His thesis, supervised by
Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences, which was completed in 1992. In 2005 the Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences was renamed GNS Science.[4] In 2012 he retired from GNS Science after 42 years of employment.[6] After his retirement, Cooper maintained an office at GNS Science and remained scientifically active.[4]
Cooper was elected in 1988 a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi and during his career received several awards. He co-authored the current version of the geological map of the Nelson region.[4]
Cooper was divorced from his first wife, Dorothy (Dot) Cooper. Upon his death he was survived by his second wife Robyn Cooper (m. 1991), his ex-wife, two children from his first marriage, two step-children, and several grandchildren.[4]
Selected publications
- Cooper, R. A. (1974). "Age of the Greenland and Waiuta Groups, South Island, New Zealand (Note)". New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics. 17 (4): 955–962. .
- Cooper, R. A. (1979). Ordovician geology and graptolite faunas of the Aorangi Mine area, north-west Nelson, New Zealand. Vol. 47. New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontological Bulletin.
- Cooper, R.A. (1989). "New Zealand tectonostratigraphic terranes and panbiogeography". New Zealand Journal of Zoology. 16 (4): 699–712. .
- Cooper, Roger A.; Millener, Philip R. (1993). "The New Zealand biota: Historical background and new research". Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 8 (12): 429–433. PMID 21236222.
- Cooper, Alan; Cooper, Roger A. (1997). "The Oligocene bottleneck and New Zealand biota: genetic record of a past environmental crisis". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences. 261 (1362): 293–302. S2CID 29890825.<
- Münker, Carsten; Cooper, Roger (1999). "The Cambrian arc complex of the Takaka Terrane, New Zealand: An integrated stratigraphical, paleontological and geochemical approach". New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics. 42 (3): 415–445. .
- Cooper, R.A.; Crampton, J.S.; Raine, J.I.; Gradstein, F.M.; Morgans, H.E.; Sadler, P.M.; Strong, C.P.; Waghorn, D.; Wilson, G.J. (2001). "Quantitative biostratigraphy of the Taranaki Basin, New Zealand: a deterministic and probabilistic approach". AAPG Bulletin. 85 (8): 1469–1498.
- Crampton, J. S.; Beu, A. G.; Cooper, R. A.; Jones, C. M.; Marshall, B.; Maxwell, P. A. (2003). "Estimating the Rock Volume Bias in Paleobiodiversity Studies". Science. 301 (5631): 358–360. S2CID 38525949.
- Crampton, J. S.; Foote, M.; Beu, A. G.; Cooper, R. A.; Matcham, I.; Jones, C. M.; Maxwell, P. A.; Marshall, B. A. (2006). "Second-Order Sequence Stratigraphic Controls on the Quality of the Fossil Record at an Active Margin: New Zealand Eocene to Recent Shelf Molluscs". PALAIOS. 21 (1): 86–105. S2CID 53476400.
- Raine, J.I.; Beu, A.G.; Boyes, A.F.; Campbell, H.J.; Cooper, R.A.; Crampton, J.S.; Crundwell, M.P.; Hollis, C.J.; Morgans, H.E.G.; Mortimer, N. (2015). "New Zealand geological timescale NZGT 2015/1". New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics. 58 (4): 398–403. S2CID 131209497.
References
- ^ "McKay Hammer Award". Geoscience Society of New Zealand.
- ^ a b "Major accolades for two GNS Science Staff at Royal Society's awards function". GNS Science. 10 October 2017.
- ^ "2017 Hutton Medal: Understanding the geological and evolutionary origins of Zealandia". Royal Society Te Apārangi (www.royalsociety.org.nz). 10 October 2007.
- ^ a b c d e f g Crampton, James; Beu, Alan; Simes, John; Fortet, Richard. "Roger Cooper (1939–2020)". Royal Society of New Zealand.
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- ^ "Major accolades for two GNS Science Staff at Royal Society's awards function". GNS Science.
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