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Undergraduate Advisors
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Academic Staff
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Professor Glenn McGregor
Director of School
Research Interests: Synoptic climatology, Climate and Health, Large scale hydrology, Climate and Society.
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Dr
Paul Augustinus
Senior Lecturer
Research Interests: Glacial geomorphology in
Antarctica and Australasia, Paleoenvironmental reconstruction,
Longterm landscape evolution
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Dr Tawan Banchuen
Lecturer
My research interests are Geographic Information Science and Technology, Geocomputation, Decision Support System, Climate Change, Water Resources Management.
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Dr Lucy Baragwanath
Research Fellow
Research Interests: Broadly within the rubric of economic geography, my interests include resource management, economic development, environmental policy
analysis, and economics applied to public policy.
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Professor Emeritus Philippa Black
Research Interests: Mineralogy, Metamorphic Petrology
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Lyndsay
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Senior Tutor
Research Interests: Environmental management,
Cultural ecology in South West Pacific, Bridging education.
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Dr Gretel Boswijk
Lecturer
Research Project: Working on kauri tree-rings and climate and the development a thousand year chronology from eastern New Zealand with John Ogden and Anthony Fowler.
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Dr Belinda Bray
Lecturer
Research Interests: Communication of science to non-academic audiences; Informal science learning opportunities for education groups; The interaction between science and society.
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Dr Marc-Andre Brideau
Lecturer
Research Interests: Engineering geology, slope stability, geomorphology, rock engineering
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Professor Gary Brierley
Professor of Physical Geography
Research Interests: Fluvial geomorphology, Geo-ecology, Sediment budgets, Water resources management, Use of science in environmental decision-making.
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Associate Professor Kathy Campbell
Research Interests: Paleoecology, Paleoenvironments, Sedimentology
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Dr John Cassidy
Senior Lectuer
Research Interests: Applied Geophysics
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Professor Mick Clout
(jointly appointed with School of Biological Sciences)
Research Interests: Conservation biology, invasive species impacts on biodiversity, frugivory, ecology of introduced vertebrate.
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Dr
Brad Coombes
Senior Lecturer
Research Interests: Resource and environmental
management, Maori participation in environmental planning, Environmental
politics of Treaty settlement, Sustainability and environmental
justice.
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Associate
Professor Chris de Freitas
Research Interests: Environmental
climatology, Climate
change, Atmospheric hazards.
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Dr Mark Dickson
Lecturer
Research Interests: Coastal geomorphology, Coastal dynamics, Geomorphic modelling, Sediment transport, Climate change
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Laurence Dolan
Senior Tutor
Research Interests: Solid Waste Management,
Landfilling
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Joe Fagan
Senior Tutor
Research Interests: Coastal Geomorphology, Interactions between land & sea, Ecotourism
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Dr Karen Fisher
Lecturer
Research Interests: Environmental management; Water governance; Participatory development; Development and the environment
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Professor
Pip Forer
Research Interests: GIS and visualisation,
Space, time, accessibility and urban spatial processes, Modelling
tourist movements and impacts, Health Geographics, Computer mediated
learning in geography, Geodemographics and economic development,
Society and Spatial Technology.
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Dr
Anthony Fowler
Senior Lecturer
Research Interests: Climate change,
Hydroclimatology, Climate impact assessment, Dendroclimatology.
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Dr
Ward Friesen
Senior Lecturer
Research Interests: Migration, ethnicity and identity in New Zealand; Mobility systems in Asia-Pacific; Development, transformation and livelihoods in the Pacific; Tourism; Population structure and change; Suburban residential development; Demographic, ethnic and socio-economic change in the city.
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Professor Mark Gahegan
Research Interests: Geographic Information Science, Visualization, Geocomputation, Computing with Geoscientific Knowledge, Remote sensing, Cyber-Infrastructure / e-Science, e-Education.
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Dr JC Gaillard
Senior Lecturer
Research Interests: Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), Participatory tools for DRR, Ethnicity and DRR, Gender and DRR, Armed conflicts and DRR, Post-disaster Resettlement
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Dr
Jay Gao
Senior Lecturer
Research Interests: Geographic information
systems, Remote sensing and image analysis, Digital image analysis,
Spatial analysis.
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Dr
David Hayward
Senior Lecturer
Research Interests: Economic geography
(regional economic analysis and development), Commodity chains
and international trade.
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Dr Dan Hikuroa
(jointly appointed with IESE)
Earth Systems Science, Integrating Indigenous Knowledge with Science, Geothermal Energy
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Associate Professor Paul Hoskin
Geothermal Geology, Geochemistry, Analytical Geochemistry
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Professor Robin Kearns
Research Interests: The cultural politics of
place, Health geography, Research design and ethics.
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Associate Professor Paul Kench
Deputy Director
Research Interests: Coastal geomorphology, coastal hydrodynamics
and sediment transport, Coral reef geomorphology, Coastal management.
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Professor Richard Le Heron
Research Interests: Policy and governance in
NZ's agri-food economy, Globalisation, governmentality and geography,
Supply chain realignment and competitive repositioning, Nature-society
relations, Discourses and practices of sustainability, Post-structuralist
political economy, Sites of research-led learning, Learning regions,
networks and governance.
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Dr Nicolas Lewis
Lecturer
Research Interests: The geographies of neo-liberalism
and the state, Globalisation, governmentality and geography,
Governance and the making of industries, The geography of education,
The development of the NZ wine and fashion industries, The political
economy of the small island Pacific.
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Associate Professor Corinne Locke
Research Interests: Applied Geophysics
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Dr Jan Lindsay
Research Associate
Volcanology, Volcanic Hazards
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Marie McEntee
Senior Tutor
Research Interests: Science Communication, Social Learning, Agricultural Extension, Public Engagement in Science, Science in the media.
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Dr
Neil Mitchell
Senior Lecturer
Research Interests: Restoration ecology, conservation,
modelling of species/climate interaction and climate change.
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Emeritus Professor
Warren Moran
Research Interests: Regional processes and
policy, Rural activity systems, Place as intellectual property,
Wine industry.
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Dr Jeffrey Mauk
Senior Lecturer
Research Interests: Economic Geology
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Dr Barry O'Connor
Senior Tutor
Research Interests: Micropaleontology, Engineering Geology, Hydrogeology
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Associate Professor David O'Sullivan
Research Interests:
Spatial modelling, complexity theory, geocomputation, applying GIS tools to the urban environment.
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Dr Susan Owen
Academic Manager
Research Interests: Health and voluntary geographies, environmental management
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Dr George Perry
Senior Lecturer
Research Interests: Vegetation dynamics and plant ecology, landscape ecology, environmental modelling, spatial statistics and spatial analysis.
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Dr Warwick Prebble
Senior Lecturer
Research Interests: Engineering Geology
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Dr Julie Rowland
Senior Lecturer
Research Interests: Structural Geology, Tectonics
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Dr Jenny Salmond
Lecturer
Research Interests: Urban air pollution, urban meterology, boundary layer meterology, meso-scale flows
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Dr Luitgard Schwendenmann
Lecturer in Carbon and Ecosystem Science
Research Interests: Carbon and nutrient cycling in natural and managed ecosystems, stable isotopes, ecohydrology, biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, global change
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Emma Sharp
Senior Tutor / Foundation Programme Coordinator
Research Interests: disaster relief, the role of charities, climate change adaptation and mitigation, voluntourism, gender, glaciology
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Dr Phil Shane
Senior Lecturer
Research Interests: Quaternary Geology, Volcanology
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Dr Angela Slade
Research Fellow/Lecturer
Environmental Geochemistry
Water: geothermal, fresh, ground and ocean. Analytical, societal and cultural aspects of water. Isotope geochemistry related to water, soil and rocks.
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Associate
Professor Ian Smith
Research Interests: Igneous Petrology, Volcanology
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Associate Professor
Willie Smith
Research Interests: Natural resources, Rural
systems, Public policy.
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Dr Lorna Strachan
Lecturer
Research Interests: Sedimentology
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Dr Sam Trowsdale
Lecturer
Research Interests: Urban Hydrology; Water and Society; Water Sensitive
Urban Design; Positive Impact Living
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Melanie Wall
Senior Tutor
Research Interests: Race, culture, difference,
Maori identity, youth, music, everyday life.
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Professor
Paul Williams
Research Interests: Geomorphology (karst,
tectonic, China, South Pacific), Hydrology (karst, urban), Environmental
change.
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Associate
Professor Hong-key Yoon
Research Interests: Cultural geography,
East Asia, Geographical perspectives of the Maori people, Cultural
clashes and cultural adaptation, Asian immigrants in NZ.
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Honorary Staff
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Dr Pat Browne
Honorary Research Fellow
Research Interests: Mineralogy, Metamorphic Petrology
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Dr Jack Grant-Mackie
Honorary Research Fellow
Research Interests: Macropaleontology
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Dr James Goff
Honorary Research Fellow (NIWA - Christchurch)
Research Interests: Coastal hazards (tsunami), including impact of
extreme events on early Maori.
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Dr Murray Gregory
Honorary Research Fellow
Research Interests: Marine Geology, Sedimentology
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Dr Manfred Hochstein
Honorary Research Fellow
Research Interests: Geophysics of Geothermal Systems
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Dr
Mark Horrocks
Honorary Research Fellow
Research Interests: Quaternary palynology, Ethnobotany, Forensic palynology
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Dr
Peter Hosking
Honorary Senior Lecturer
Research Interests: Statistical methods,
Geomorphology (fluvial and slope processes, catchment hydrology
and management).
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Dr Terry Hume
Honorary Professor (
NIWA Hamilton)
Research Interests: Large scale coastal processes,
Coastal sand storage and movement, Sand exchange in coastal systems,
Continental shelf sedimentation processes, Sedimentation in estuaries,
Estuary and marine classification.
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Cate Macinnis-Ng
Honorary Research Fellow
Research Interests: Plant ecophysiology, ecohydrology, tree water use, measurement and modelling of ecosystem carbon and water fluxes, climate change impacts.
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Associate Professor Warwick Neville
Honorary Associate Professor
Research Interests: Economic and social development
in South-East Asia. Population - particularly issues of aging.
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Dr Jim Salinger
Honorary Research Fellow
Research Interests:
Climate Science
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Dr Bernhard Sporli
Honorary Research Fellow
Research Interests: Structural Geology, Tectonics
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Dr
Graham Ussher
Honorary Lecturer
Research Interests: Conservation ecology, particularly
threatened species management, herpetology and ecological entomology;
restoration ecology, urban restoration and environmental management. |
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Administrative & Technical Staff
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Barbara May
School of Environment Manager
Room HSB 685, ext 86478
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Sandra
Anderson
Building 733, Room 343, extension 85290
Ecologist, expertise in field survey and monitoring
techniques.
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Andres Arcila
Lapidiary and Sedimentary Laboratory Services
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Russell Clarke
Environmental ChemistryTechnician
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Louise Cotterall
Draughting, Computer Graphics, Photography
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Peter Crossley
Laboratory and Field Technician
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Igor Drecki
Geo-graphics Unit Manager
Research interests: cartographic visualisation
(geovisualisation), spatial analysis, cartographic design and
education.
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Graeme Glen
IT/Systems/GIS Manager
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Julie Haines-Gould
Administrator
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Brendan Hall
Field and Instrument Technician
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Ilse Hindle
Personal Assistant to Director
Ext 85280
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Desmond Huang
Systems Administrator
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Dr Neville Hudson
Collections Manager
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Lynne Huxford
Administration Officer (Geology)
Ext 87413
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David Jenkinson
Technical Manager
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Dr Angela Keogh
Administrator - Academic Programmes
Ext 85923
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Shannon McColley
Technician, GgU
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Anna-Marie Simcock
Financial Administrator
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Dr Ritchie Sims
Electron Microprobe, Electronics
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Luisa Soratroi
Undergraduate Student Centre
Ext 85050
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David Wackrow
Technician
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John Wilmshurst
Geochemical laboratories
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Bothwell Wong
Computer Network Manager (Geology)
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Colin Yong
Technical Officer, Geophysics
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Library
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Brian Marshall
Environmental Science & Management/Geography/Geology Librarian
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IUCN Invasive Species Specialist
Group
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