Philippa Black

Philippa Margaret Black CNZM (born 1941[1]) is a New Zealand academic specialising in geology, specifically mineralogy and metamorphic petrology.[2] She studied at the University of Auckland and earned a MSc and PhD in geology. Her PhD focused on the Tokatea Reef in the hills behind Coromandel township.[1][3] She later got an MA in History.[4] She was appointed a professor at the University of Auckland in 1986[5] and headed the department for 15 years.[5]

Philippa Black

CNZM
Born1941 (age 79–80)
Alma materUniversity of Auckland
Scientific career
FieldsMineralogy and Metamorphic Petrology
InstitutionsUniversity of Auckland
ThesisPetrology of the Cuvier and Paritu Plutons and their metamorphic Aureoles (1967)

Between 1993 and 1997, Black was president of the Royal Society of New Zealand, the first woman to hold the role.[5] In the 1996 Queen's Birthday Honours, she was appointed a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to science.[6]

In 2013, after her retirement, she was elected Companion to the Institution of Professional Engineers New Zealand (IPENZ).[7]

References
  1. Exhibition notes to company The Art of Science, a joint exhibition of the Royal Society of New Zealand and the New Zealand Portrait Gallery, curated by Rebecca Priestley, touring New Zealand 2011–2013.
  2. "Contact our people - The University of Auckland". www.auckland.ac.nz.
  3. Petrology of the Cuvier and Paritu plutons and their metamorphic aureoles. – The University of Auckland
  4. Cornishmen and convicts : mining and European settlement of the Diahot, northern New Caledonia – The University of Auckland
  5. Kac, Juliet; Taonga, New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage Te Manatu. "Philippa Black". teara.govt.nz.
  6. "Queen's Birthday honours list 1996". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 3 June 1996. Retrieved 27 September 2019.
  7. "Two of the School's Geologists Receive Recognition - The University of Auckland". www.env.auckland.ac.nz.


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