Bruce Hayward

Bruce William Hayward (born 1950) is a New Zealand geologist, marine ecologist, and author. He is known as a leading expert on living and fossil foraminifera.

Education and career At the University of Auckland, Hayward graduated in geology with BSc (Hons) in 1971 and PhD in 1975. In 1976–1977, he was a postdoc at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. From 1978 to 1991, Hayward was a micropaleontologist for the New Zealand Geological Survey, Lower Hutt. In March 1991, Hayward became the curator of marine invertebrates at the Auckland Institute and Museum, after the retirement of Walter Olivier Cernohorsky. From 1997 to 2002, he was a self-employed research associate in the Geology Department of the University of Auckland, as well as from 1998 to 2000, a James Cook Research Fellow at the University of Auckland. In 2003, he became the founder and principal scientist of Geomarine Research, located in Auckland. He was the principal scientist for three Marsden Fund grants: from 2000 to 2002 "Foraminifera and paleoceanography of Bounty Trough, east New Zealand", from 2003 to 2005 "The last global marine extinction: causes and consequences for global biodiversity", and from 2007 to 2010 "Causes of evolution and global extinction in the deep sea". In addition to his research on foraminifera, he has done research on "northern New Zealand geology and landforms, marine invertebrate ecology, industrial archaeology and lichens." Also the lichens: Flavoparmelia haywardiana Elix and Johnston 1988 Lecanora haywardiorum Lumbsch 1994 Buellia haywardii Elix, A.Knight & H.Mayrhofer, 2017 Foraminifera: Palliolatella haywardi Kawagata, 2016 Tubulogenerina haywardi Gibson 1989 Rhombobolivinella haywardi Popescu & Crihan, 2005 Quinqueloculina haywardi Parker & Le Coze, 2025 Ostracoda: Microcytherura haywardi Milhau, 1993 Radiolarian: Lophocyrtis (Lophocyrtis) haywardi O’Conner, 1999.

Awards and honours 1978 — McKay Hammer Award of Geological Society of NZ for publications on "Waitakere Ranges geology" 1988 — New Zealand Association of Scientists Research Medal 1989–1991 — President of the Geological Society of New Zealand 2001 — elected Honorary Life Member of New Zealand Marine Sciences Society 2003 — elected a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi 2006 — Hochstetter Lecturer of the Geological Society of New Zealand 2006 — appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit (MNZM) in the 2006 Queen's Birthday Honours, for services to earth science and conservation 2013 — McKay Hammer Award of Geoscience Society of NZ for publications on "The last global extinction (Mid-Pleistocene) of deep-sea benthic foraminifera"

Selected publications Scientific publications

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Books

The book recounts "the fascinating geological history of the formation of Northland, Auckland and the Coromandel Peninsula and the history of its past animal and plant life." ebook