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class="honorific-suffix" style="font-size: 77%; font-weight: normal;"><span class="nobold noexcerpt nowraplinks" style="font-size:;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="/wiki/Officer_of_the_New_Zealand_Order_of_Merit" class="mw-redirect" title="Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit">ONZM</a></span></span></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">Michael John Selby</div><br /><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1936-01-13</span>)</span>13 January 1936<br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Luton" title="Luton">Luton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bedfordshire" title="Bedfordshire">Bedfordshire</a>, England</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">21 January 2018<span style="display:none">(2018-01-21)</span> (aged 82)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Alma mater</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Keble_College,_Oxford" title="Keble College, Oxford">Keble College, Oxford</a><br /><a href="/wiki/University_of_Waikato" title="University of Waikato">University of Waikato</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><b>Scientific career</b></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Fields</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="/wiki/Geomorphology" title="Geomorphology">Geomorphology</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Institutions</th><td class="infobox-data">University of Waikato</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Thesis" title="Thesis">Thesis</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><i> Runoff, infiltration and soil erodibility studies in the Otutira catchment </i> <span style="font-size:97%;">(1971)</span></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Michael John Selby</b> <span class="nobold noexcerpt nowraplinks" style="font-size:;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="/wiki/Officer_of_the_New_Zealand_Order_of_Merit" class="mw-redirect" title="Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit">ONZM</a></span></span> (13 January 1936 – 21 January 2018) was a New Zealand <a href="/wiki/Geomorphologist" class="mw-redirect" title="Geomorphologist">geomorphologist</a>, academic, and university administrator. <a href="/wiki/Mount_Selby" class="mw-redirect" title="Mount Selby">Mount Selby</a> in Antarctica's <a href="/wiki/Britannia_Range_(Antarctica)" title="Britannia Range (Antarctica)">Britannia Range</a> is named for him. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biography">Biography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Michael_Selby&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Biography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Born in <a href="/wiki/Luton" title="Luton">Luton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bedfordshire" title="Bedfordshire">Bedfordshire</a>, England, on 13 January 1936,<sup id="cite_ref-Naturalisation_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Naturalisation-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Selby studied at <a href="/wiki/Keble_College,_Oxford" title="Keble College, Oxford">Keble College, Oxford</a>, gaining a <a href="/wiki/Bachelor_of_Arts" title="Bachelor of Arts">BA(Hons)</a>, <a href="/wiki/Master_of_Arts" title="Master of Arts">MA</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Diploma_of_Education" title="Diploma of Education">DipEd</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Waikato_Calendar_2016_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Waikato_Calendar_2016-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Selby came to New Zealand on the <a href="/wiki/RMS_Rangitata" title="RMS Rangitata">RMS <i>Rangitata</i></a> in 1960,<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and was appointed as a junior lecturer at the Waikato branch of the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Auckland" title="University of Auckland">University of Auckland</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Waikato_2002_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Waikato_2002-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On the establishment of the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Waikato" title="University of Waikato">University of Waikato</a> in 1964, he joined the new Department of Geography, and then the Department of Earth Sciences when it was formed in 1970.<sup id="cite_ref-McCraw_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-McCraw-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-NZGS_Newsletter_2002_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NZGS_Newsletter_2002-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The following year, he completed a <a href="/wiki/Doctor_of_Philosophy" title="Doctor of Philosophy">DPhil</a>: the title of his doctoral thesis was <i>Runoff, infiltration and soil erodibility studies in the Otutira catchment</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was later awarded a <a href="/wiki/Doctor_of_Science" title="Doctor of Science">Doctor of Science</a> degree from the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Oxford" title="University of Oxford">University of Oxford</a> on the basis of his research linking concepts in geomorphology with quantitative measurements in engineering geology.<sup id="cite_ref-NZGS_Newsletter_2002_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NZGS_Newsletter_2002-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Selby took part in either three<sup id="cite_ref-GNIS_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GNIS-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or four<sup id="cite_ref-NZGS_Newsletter_2002_7-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NZGS_Newsletter_2002-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> field expeditions to Antarctica, including in 1968–69, 1971–72, and 1978–79.<sup id="cite_ref-GNIS_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GNIS-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On the first of these, he became the first geomorphologist to travel to Antarctica.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The 1978–79 trip to the Britannia Range–<a href="/wiki/Darwin_Glacier_(Antarctica)" title="Darwin Glacier (Antarctica)">Darwin Glacier</a> region was led by Selby, and mapped exposures in the <a href="/wiki/McCraw_Glacier" class="mw-redirect" title="McCraw Glacier">McCraw Glacier</a> area, and discovered iron meteorites on <a href="/wiki/Derrick_Peak" title="Derrick Peak">Derrick Peak</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-McCraw_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-McCraw-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Selby also made expeditions to the <a href="/wiki/Sahara" title="Sahara">Sahara</a>, <a href="/wiki/Namib" title="Namib">Namib</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Atacama_Desert" title="Atacama Desert">Atacama Deserts</a>, as well as to the <a href="/wiki/Himalayas" title="Himalayas">Himalayas</a> and <a href="/wiki/Colorado" title="Colorado">Colorado</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-NZGS_Newsletter_2002_7-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NZGS_Newsletter_2002-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also visited the Eastern Mediterranean after developing a research interest in archaeology and human evolution and dispersion.<sup id="cite_ref-NZGS_Newsletter_2002_7-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NZGS_Newsletter_2002-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1980, Selby was appointed as a professor of earth sciences at Waikato.<sup id="cite_ref-Waikato_2002_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Waikato_2002-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During his academic career, he wrote six books and more than 80 refereed scientific papers.<sup id="cite_ref-NZGS_Newsletter_2002_7-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NZGS_Newsletter_2002-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the later part of his career, Selby was part of the senior administrative team at Waikato, and served as deputy vice-chancellor (research).<sup id="cite_ref-Waikato_2002_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Waikato_2002-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-NZGS_Newsletter_2002_7-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NZGS_Newsletter_2002-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He took part in the <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Waitangi_claims_and_settlements" title="Treaty of Waitangi claims and settlements">Treaty of Waitangi negotiations</a> with <a href="/wiki/Waikato_Tainui" title="Waikato Tainui">Waikato Tainui</a> relating to the ownership of the university campus.<sup id="cite_ref-NZGS_Newsletter_2002_7-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NZGS_Newsletter_2002-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On his retirement from Waikato in 2002, Selby was granted the title of emeritus professor.<sup id="cite_ref-Waikato_Calendar_2016_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Waikato_Calendar_2016-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Waikato_2002_5-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Waikato_2002-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He continued to serve the university as chair of the University of Waikato Foundation and as a director of companies commercialising research at the university.<sup id="cite_ref-Waikato_2002_5-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Waikato_2002-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Selby became a naturalised New Zealander in 1980.<sup id="cite_ref-Naturalisation_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Naturalisation-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He died on 21 January 2018.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Honours_and_honorific_eponym">Honours and honorific eponym</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Michael_Selby&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Honours and honorific eponym"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the <a href="/wiki/2005_New_Year_Honours" title="2005 New Year Honours">2005 New Year Honours</a>, Selby was appointed an <a href="/wiki/Officer_of_the_New_Zealand_Order_of_Merit" class="mw-redirect" title="Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit">Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit</a>, for services to education.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A peak in the Britannia Range in Antarctica was named Mount Selby, in honour of Selby, by the New Zealand Antarctic Placenames Committee.<sup id="cite_ref-McCraw_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-McCraw-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-GNIS_9-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GNIS-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Selected_works">Selected works</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Michael_Selby&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Selected works"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFSelby1967" class="citation book cs1">Selby, Michael (1967). <i>The surface of the Earth (2 volumes)</i>. London: Cassell.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+surface+of+the+Earth+%282+volumes%29&rft.place=London&rft.pub=Cassell&rft.date=1967&rft.aulast=Selby&rft.aufirst=Michael&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMichael+Selby" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSelby1982" class="citation book cs1">Selby, Michael (1982). <i>Hillslope materials and processes</i>. Oxford University Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/019874126X" title="Special:BookSources/019874126X"><bdi>019874126X</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Hillslope+materials+and+processes&rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&rft.date=1982&rft.isbn=019874126X&rft.aulast=Selby&rft.aufirst=Michael&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMichael+Selby" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSelby1985" class="citation book cs1">Selby, Michael (1985). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/earthschangingsu00selb"><i>Earth's changing surface: an introduction to geomorphology</i></a></span>. Oxford: Clarendon. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0198232527" title="Special:BookSources/0198232527"><bdi>0198232527</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Earth%27s+changing+surface%3A+an+introduction+to+geomorphology&rft.place=Oxford&rft.pub=Clarendon&rft.date=1985&rft.isbn=0198232527&rft.aulast=Selby&rft.aufirst=Michael&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fearthschangingsu00selb&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMichael+Selby" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Michael_Selby&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-Naturalisation-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Naturalisation_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Naturalisation_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><span class="id-lock-subscription" title="Paid subscription required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.ancestry.com.au/myancestry/shoeboxpage.aspx?db=1844&pid=30888">"New Zealand, naturalisations, 1843–1981"</a></span>. 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University of Waikato. 27 November 2002<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">23 January</span> 2018</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Long+serving+staff+member+honoured&rft.pub=University+of+Waikato&rft.date=2002-11-27&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.waikato.ac.nz%2Fnews%2Farchive.shtml%3Farticle%3D210&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMichael+Selby" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-McCraw-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-McCraw_6-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-McCraw_6-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-McCraw_6-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFNelsonLoweTonkin2015" class="citation journal cs1">Nelson, Campbell S.; Lowe, David J.; Tonkin, Philip J. 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