Matt Ogden

ME 2018 Undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from The University of Auckland. Masters in Civil Engineering supervised by Associate Professor Liam Wotherspoon with support from QuakeCoRE and Tonkin+Taylor. Now working in the fields of geotechnical engineering and data science at Tonkin+Taylor, based in Nelson.



​Review and extension of the New Zealand historic database of liquefaction observations from large earthquakes occurring in the past 150 years.

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Research Title: 
Review and extension of the New Zealand historic database of liquefaction observations from large earthquakes occurring in the past 150 years.
Project summary: Review and extension of the New Zealand historic database of liquefaction observations from large earthquakes occurring in the past 150 years. Detailed case study focusing on observations of liquefaction in Blenheim resulting from the 2016 Mw7.8 Kaikoura earthquake including examination of the predictive efficacy of the simplified CPT-based assessment procedures.