Mark Rupert Sutherland FRSNZ (born 1967) is a New Zealand geologist and academic specialising in tectonics and geophysics at the Victoria University of Wellington and a principal scientist at GNS Science.
[1] Sutherland's research has included the deep ocean drilling of the Zealandian continent[4] and ancient climate change.
As a result of this project, exceptionally high heat flow was discovered on the West Coast.
[9] Sutherland is often used by the national and international media as an expert on seismic surveys,[10] earthquakes[11] and geology in general.
[12] His involvement of the promotion of Zealandia to a continent gained a particularly high amount of media attention.