School of Environment
Academic staff
The School of Environment comprises a team of academics, highly qualified technical and administrative staff and a lively postgraduate and undergraduate community.
| Name | Position | Research interest | Location | Phone +64 9 373 7599 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kench, Paul | Head of School, Professor |
Coastal processes, Coral reefs, Coastal management | p.kench@auckland.ac.nz | B302 room 629 | ext 88440 |
| Adam, Ludmila | Senior Lecturer | Geophysics, rock physics, seismic methods and geophysical well logging, fluid-rock interactions. | l.adam@auckland.ac.nz | B301 room 427b | ext 86458 |
| Augustinus, Paul | Associate Professor | Quaternary paleoclimates, Glacial geomorphology in Antarctica and Australasia, Long-term landscape evolution | p.augustinus@auckland.ac.nz | B302 room 719 | ext 87603 |
| Baker, Tom | Lecturer | Human Geography | t.baker@auckland.ac.nz | B302 room 459 | ext 88554 |
| Baker, Joel | Professor | Geochemistry and cosmochemistry; solar system formation; igneous and volcanic geochemistry; paleoclimatology and paleoceanography; environmental chemistry | j.baker@auckland.ac.nz | B301 room 527a | ext 83034 |
| Barker, Simon | Research Fellow | Volcanology, geochemistry, petrology | simon.barker@auckland.ac.nz | B302 room 725 | ext 83318 |
| Bartos, Annie | Lecturer | Cultural, political and environmental geography, feminist political geography, children and youth geographies, environmental education for sustainability | a.bartos@auckland.ac.nz | B302 room 413 | ext 82571 |
| Beetham, Eddie | Research Fellow | Coral reef systems, coastal dynamics, nonlinear wave transformation, impacts of sea-level rise on atoll islands | e.beetham@auckland.ac.nz | B302 room 435 | ext 83919 |
| Black, Philippa | Professor, Emeritus | Mineralogy, Metamorphic Petrology | pm.black@auckland.ac.nz | B302 room 530 | ext 87560 |
| Blue, Lyndsay | Senior Tutor | Environmental management, Cultural ecology in South West Pacific, Bridging education | l.blue@auckland.ac.nz | B302 room 461 |
ext 88443 |
| Boswijk, Gretel | Senior Lecturer | Dendrochronology, Dendroarchaeology, Environmental change |
g.boswijk@auckland.ac.nz | B302 room 565 | ext 83886 |
| Bowen, Melissa | Senior Lecturer | Wind-driven ocean variability, South Pacific Ocean boundary currents and mesoscale variability, satellite oceanography, stirring and dispersion in the ocean, estuarine dynamics | m.bowen@auckland.ac.nz | B301 room 529b | ext 89037 |
| Brierley, Gary | Professor of Physical Geography | Fluvial geomorphology, River rehabilitation, Water resources management | g.brierley@auckland.ac.nz | B302 room 717 | ext 88956 |
| Brook, Martin | Senior Lecturer | Engineering geology, environmental change, engineering geophysics | m.brook@auckland.ac.nz | B302 room 713 | ext 88917 |
| Campbell, Kathy | Professor | Paleoecology, Paleoenvironments, Sedimentology | ka.campbell@auckland.ac.nz | B301 room 435 | ext 87418 |
| Coco, Giovanni | Associate Professor | Geomorphology, Physical Oceanography, Coastal and Estuarine processes, Complexity and Pattern Formation, Machine Learning | g.coco@auckland.ac.nz | B302 room 559 | ext 88367 |
| Collins, Francis | Senior Lecturer | Urban Geography, Migration and Transnationalism, Politics of Cultural Diversity, International Student Mobilities | f.collins@auckland.ac.nz | B302 room 419 | ext 83129 |
| Coombes, Brad | Senior Lecturer | Resource and environmental management, Indigenous participation in conservation, Sustainability and environmental justice | b.coombes@auckland.ac.nz | B301 room 529a | ext 88455 |
| Cronin, Shane | Professor | Volcanic geology and physical volcanology, including volcanic hazard and the interaction between volcanism, the environment, agriculture and communities. Volcanic geology and hazard studies in New Zealand, the Southwest Pacific, Indonesia, Korea, as well as Saudi Arabia and parts of Europe. Natural hazard and risk education and communication, including traditional practices related to volcanism and disaster mitigation | s.cronin@auckland.ac.nz | B302 room 417 | ext 86795 |
| Dickson, Mark | Associate Professor | Coastal processes; Geomorphic modelling; Rock and gravel coasts; Coastal management | m.dickson@auckland.ac.nz | B302 room 469 | ext 88329 |
| Eccles, Jennifer | Senior Lecturer | Seismology, tectonophysics, scientific drilling, marine and exploration geophysics | j.eccles@auckland.ac.nz | B302 room 735 | ext 88092 |
| Fagan, Joe | Senior Tutor | Coastal Geomorphology, Interactions between land & sea, Ecotourism | j.fagan@auckland.ac.nz | B302 room 525 | ext 85381 |
| Fisher, Karen | Senior Lecturer | Environmental management; Water governance; Participatory development; Development and the environment | k.fisher@auckland.ac.nz | B301 room 509 | ext 88410 |
| Ford, Murray | Senior Lecturer | Coral reefs, coastal processes, remote sensing. | m.ford@auckland.ac.nz | B301 room 507 | ext 86309 |
| Fowler, Anthony | Associate Professor | Climate change, Hydroclimatology, Climate impact assessment, Dendroclimatology | a.fowler@auckland.ac.nz | B302 room 463 | ext 85380 |
| Friesen, Ward | Associate Professor | Economic, population and urban geographies; Migration, ethnicity and identity; Development and livelihoods; Tourism; Pacific Islands | w.friesen@auckland.ac.nz | B302 room 475 | ext 88612 |
| Gaillard, JC | Associate Professor | Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), Participatory tools for DRR, Ethnicity and DRR, Gender and DRR, Armed conflicts and DRR, Post-disaster Resettlement | jc.gaillard@auckland.ac.nz | B301 room 429a | ext 89679 |
| Gao, Jay | Associate Professor | Geographic information systems, Remote sensing and image analysis, Spatial analysis | jg.gao@auckland.ac.nz | B301 room 531a | ext 85184 |
| Hayward, David | Professional Teaching Fellow | Economic geography (regional economic analysis and development), Commodity chains and international trade | d.hayward@auckland.ac.nz | B301 room 437 | ext 88454 |
| Kearns, Robin | Professor | The cultural politics of place, Health geography, Research design and ethics | r.kearns@auckland.ac.nz | B302 room 561 | ext 88442 |
| Kenedi, Kate | Research Fellow | Vulcanology, volcanic hazard and risk, geoscience education and communication | katelk@auckland.ac.nz | B302 room 541 | ext 84632 |
| Lamarche, Geoffroy | Associate Professor | g.lamarche@auckland.ac.nz | B302 room 733 | ||
| Le Heron, Richard | Professor | Policy and governance in New Zealand’s agri-food economy, Globalisation, governmentality and geography, Supply chain realignment and competitive repositioning, Globalising dairy industry, Nature-society relations, Discourses and practices of sustainability, Post-structuralist political economy, Sites of research-led learning, Learning regions, networks and governance | r.leheron@auckland.ac.nz | B302 room 465 | ext 88453 |
| Leszczynski, Agnieszka | Lecturer | GIScience, spatial big data & society, geoinformation, geospatial technologies, geolocation economies” | agnieszka.leszczynski@auckland.ac.nz | B301 room 531b | ext 83115 |
| Lewis, Nicolas | Associate Professor | Neo-liberalism as governmentality, Political economy and political geography, Governance and the making of industries, Geographies of education, The New Zealand wine and fashion industries, The political economy of the small islands in the Pacific | n.lewis@auckland.ac.nz | B301 room 434 | ext 88214 |
| Lindsay, Jan | Associate Professor | Volcanology, Volcanic Hazards | j.lindsay@auckland.ac.nz | B302 room 557 | ext 88678 |
| McEntee, Marie | Senior Tutor | Science Communication, Agricultural Extension, social Learning for Sustainable Resource Management, Participatory Research | m.mcentee@auckland.ac.nz | B302 room 437 | ext 82499 |
| Montanaro, Cristian |
Research Fellow | Hydrothermal eruptions in geothermal systems; experimental and physical volcanology; volcanic geology and hazard studies | c.montanaro@auckland.ac.nz | B302 room 725 | ext 87173 |
| Moran, Warren | Professor, Emeritus | Regional processes and policy, Rural activity systems, Place as intellectual property, Wine industry | w.moran@auckland.ac.nz | B302 room 530 | ext 85320 |
| Murphy, Laurence |
Professor | Dynamics of globalisation and urban change. Socio-economic impacts of changing residential property markets (public housing and homeownership). Role of finance capital and institutional dynamics in the development of commercial property markets. The nature of urban governance and urban dynamics. | l.murphy@auckland.ac.nz | B302 room 521 | ext 88631 |
| O'Connor, Barry | Professional Teaching Fellow | Micropaleontology, Engineering Geology, Hydrogeology | b.oconnor@auckland.ac.nz | B301 room 429b | ext 88638 |
| Owen, Susan | Senior Lecturer | Health and voluntary geographies, environmental management | s.owen@auckland.ac.nz | B302 room 563 | ext 85185 |
| Parsons, Meg | Lecturer | Climate change adaptation, climate policy, social justice and environmental justice, environmental management, indigenous geographies, and the history and philosophy of science | meg.parsons@auckland.ac.nz | B302 room 473 | ext 89263 |
| Pecher, Ingo | Senior Lecturer | Marine geophysics, high-resolution seismic, gas hydrates, shallow gas, fluid flow | i.pecher@auckland.ac.nz | B301 room 436 | ext 83245 |
| Perry, George | Professor | Vegetation dynamics and plant ecology, Landscape ecology, Environmental modelling, Spatial statistics and spatial analysis | george.perry@auckland.ac.nz | B302 room 457 | ext 84599 |
| Richards, Nick | Professional Teaching Fellow | Engineering and environmental geology, slope stability and geomorphology, soil mechanics | n.richards@auckland.ac.nz | B302 room 439 | ext 85286 |
| Rowe, Michael | Senior Lecturer | Geochemistry, subduction to intraplate Volcanism, exsolution of Trace metals and fluids from magmas, volcanology/volcanic hazards, igneous petrology, economic geology | michael.rowe@auckland.ac.nz | B301 room 438 | ext 86682 |
| Rowland, Julie | Associate Professor | Structural Geology, Tectonics | j.rowland@auckland.ac.nz | B302 room 751 | ext 87412 |
| Ryan, Emma | Research Fellow | Coral Reef Geomorphology, Coastal Processes, Coastal Hazards, Coastal Management |
e.ryan@auckland.ac.nz |
B302 room 435 | ext 83919 |
| Salmond, Jenny | Associate Professor | Urban air pollution, urban meterology, boundary layer meterology, meso-scale flows | j.salmond@auckland.ac.nz | B301 room 527b | ext 88650 |
| Schwendenmann, Luitgard | Associate Professor | Carbon and nutrient cycling, ecosystem functioning, tropical ecosystems, stable isotopes, ecohydrology, global change | l.schwendenmann @auckland.ac.nz |
B302 room 425 | ext 84301 |
| Shane, Phil | Associate Professor | Quaternary Geology, Volcanology | pa.shane@auckland.ac.nz | B302 room 737 | ext 87083 |
| Simon, Kevin | Associate Professor | Freshwater and ecosystem ecology, watershed biogeochemistry, human influence on lakes and streams |
k.simon@auckland.ac.nz | B302 room 715 | ext 82679 |
| Strachan, Lorna | Senior Lecturer | Sedimentology | l.strachan@auckland.ac.nz | B301 room 439 | ext 83522 |
| Thompson, Mary Anne |
Research Fellow | Volcanic hazards and the communication pathways that connect hazard scientists, decision makers and the public | m.thompson@auckland.ac.nz | B302 room 725 | ext 87173 |
| Tost, Manuela | Research Fellow | Volcanic hazards, mass-wasting events, short- and long-term landscape evolution, and the mitigation pathways that connect the scientific approach with the public | mtos734@aucklanduni.ac.nz | B302 room 541 | |
| Trowsdale, Sam | Senior Lecturer | Urban Hydrology; Water and Society; Water Sensitive Urban Design; Positive Impact Living | s.trowsdale@auckland.ac.nz | B301 room 433 | ext 88710 |
| Tunnicliffe, Jon | Lecturer | Fluvial Geomorphology, Hydraulics and sediment transport modelling, Sediment budgets and the long-term evolution of fluvial systems, Environmental geophysics, Quaternary geochronology, Environmental impact assessment |
j.tunnicliffe@auckland.ac.nz | B302 room 749 | ext 82320 |
| Wall, Melanie | Senior Tutor | Race, culture, difference, Maori identity, youth, music, everyday life | m.wall@auckland.ac.nz | B301 room 508 | ext 87949 |
| Williams, Paul | Professor, Emeritus | Geomorphology (karst, tectonic, China, South Pacific), Hydrology (karst, urban), Environmental | p.williams@auckland.ac.nz | B302 room 530 | ext 88459 |
| Wilmshurst, Janet | Associate Professor | Palaeoecology; human impacts; extinctions; fire history; environmental change; vegetation change; subantarctic islands. | janet.wilmshurst@auckland.ac.nz | ||
| Yoon, Hong-key | Associate Professor | Cultural geography, Cultural attitudes to the environment, East Asia, Ethnic mosaic in Auckland | hk.yoon@auckland.ac.nz | B302 room 567 | ext 88466 |
