Craig Stevens is an oceanographer based in New Zealand with a joint position in the Physics Department at the University of Auckland and in the Ocean group at NIWA. His research focus is on extreme ocean environments like tidal turbulence, ice shelf cavity oceanography, greenhouse gas uptake in the Southern Ocean, mixing in mine pits and biological survival in the wave swept intertidal.

His focus is on observing how these environments work and has participated in 14 Antarctic field campaigns and nearly 50 ocean experiments. He currently leads an Antarctic Science Platform Project on Antarctic oceans as well as a NIWA SSIF programme on understanding New Zealand’s oceans.

He trained in Australia and held an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of British Columbia and has been based in New Zealand since 1996. He takes a strong interest in communicating science and is a past President of the New Zealand Association of Scientists. He is on the International Advisory Committee for ICOE.