Rate My Professor Gary Wilson

Wilson has undertaken significant leadership appointments, including Vice President of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research, Chair of the NZ Royal Society Committee on Antarctic Sciences, Trustee of the Sir Peter Blake Trust, Editor in Chief of Geological Oceanography for the Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, Councillor of the Australian Institute for Nuclear Science and Engineering, and Physical Science Lead for the NZ Antarctic Science Platform. For his leadership in advancing New Zealand's international Antarctic research profile, he received the 2021 Thomson Medal from Royal Society Te Apārangi. Key publications include 'Eccentricity-Paced Southern Hemisphere Glacial-Interglacial Cyclicity Preceding the Middle Miocene Climatic Transition' (2018, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology), 'A drill-hole calibrated geophysical characterisation of the 23 Ma Foulden Maar stratigraphic sequence, Otago, New Zealand' (2017, New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics), 'A unique annually laminated maar lake sediment record shows orbital control of Southern Hemisphere mid-latitude Southern Hemisphere across the Oligocene-Miocene Boundary' (2016, Geological Society of America Bulletin), and recent contributions such as 'Neogene plant macrofossils from West Antarctica reveal persistence of Nothofagaceae forests into the early Miocene' (2025, Communications Earth & Environment). He has presented public lectures on climate change and Antarctica, including 'Building a Sustainable Future in a Warming World' at the NZ Presbyterian School Conference (2018).