Phil  Glassey

Senior Disaster Risk Reduction Scientist

Phil Glassey has been involved in wide range of engineering geological investigations mostly involving slope stability, foundation conditions and groundwater studies. More recently, Phil's specialist research interest has become landslide hazard mapping and zonation methodologies, GIS applications and database management. Between 1993 and 1996 Phil was part of a team that developed a GIS-based Hazard Information System for part of Southwest Dunedin, New Zealand. He has been leading a project on the integration of scientific databases within the Institutes as well as continued with landslide hazard work and consultancy work. He is responsible for 26 staff within the Mapping Section of GNS Science, which includes development of GIS and mapping products and GIS-based hazard analyses.