School of Environment
Research staff by discipline
Read more about School of Environment staff research interests. Visit individual staff pages for possible postgraduate research opportunities.
Earth Science: Geology and Geophysics
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Geophysics, rock physics, seismic methods and geophysical well logging, fluid-rock interactions |
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Environmental change, geomorphology in Antarctica and Australasia, high-resolution paleoclimate reconstruction from lake sediment sequences |
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Geochemistry and cosmochemistry; solar system formation; igneous and volcanic geochemistry; paleoclimatology and paleoceanography; environmental chemistry |
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Volcanology, geochemistry, petrology |
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Wind-driven ocean variability, South Pacific ocean boundary currents and mesoscale variability, satellite oceanography, stirring and dispersion in the ocean, estuarine dynamics |
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Engineering geology, environmental change, engineering geophysics |
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Paleoecology, paleoenvironments, sedimentology and Earth history |
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Volcanic geology and physical volcanology, volcanic hazard, and the interaction between volcanism, the environment, agriculture and communities. |
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Geophysics and seismology, active source seismology (on and offshore), imaging in volcanic terrains, converted wave seismology, fault zone guided waves, lithospheric scale tectonics |
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Volcanology, seismology, volcanic hazard and risk, geoscience education and communication |
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Petrology and geochemistry of volcanic rocks, volcanic hazard and risk assessment, hazard and risk communication and emergency management |
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Marine geophysics, high-resolution seismic, gas hydrates, shallow gas, fluid flow |
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Geochemistry, subduction to intraplate Volcanism, exsolution of trace metals and fluids from magmas, volcanology/volcanic hazards, igneous petrology, economic geology |
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Structural controls on crustal fluid redistribution in active hydrothermal systems and epizonal mineral deposits, magmatic continental rift systems - their structure, evolution and hydrology |
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Quaternary geology, geochemistry and geochronology of silicic magma systems, tephrochronology and volcanic geology |
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Deep marine sedimentary processes and products, field sedimentology, seismic interpretation and experimental sedimentology |
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Volcanic hazards and the communication pathways that connect hazard scientists, decision makers and the public |
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Volcanology, sedimentology, landslides, volcanic hazard, |
Earth Science: Physical Geography
Wind-driven ocean variability, South Pacific ocean boundary currents and mesoscale variability, satellite oceanography, stirring and dispersion in the ocean, estuarine dynamics |
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Fluvial geomorphology, river rehabilitation and water resources management |
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Geomorphology, Physical Oceanography, Coastal and Estuarine processes, Complexity and Pattern Formation, Machine Learning |
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Coastal processes, geomorphic modelling, rock and gravel coasts and coastal management |
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Coral reefs, coastal processes, remote sensing |
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Geographic information systems, remote sensing and image analysis and spatial analysis |
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Coastal processes, coral reefs and coastal management |
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Environmental governance and climate change adaptation in small island states |
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| Jenny Salmond | Urban air pollution, urban meteorology, boundary layer meteorology and meso-scale flows |
Geomorphology of fluvial systems, advance field survey techniques (seismic imaging, embedded electronic monitoring systems, Lidar), hillslope/channel sediment transport dynamics |
Human Geography and Environmental Management
Public policy, welfare state, social services, cities, urban politics, urban planning |
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Cultural, political and environmental geography, feminist political geography, children and youth geographies, environmental education for sustainability |
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Urban geography, migration and transnationalism, politics of cultural diversity, international student mobilities |
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Resource and environmental management, indigenous participation in conservation and sustainability and environmental justice |
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Environmental management, water governance, participatory development, development and the environment |
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Economic, population and urban geographies, migration, ethnicity and identity, development, livelihoods and tourism and Pacific Islands |
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Disaster risk reduction (DRR), participatory tools for DRR, ethnicity and DRR, gender and DRR, armed conflicts and disasters, post-disaster resettlement. |
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Geographic information systems, remote sensing and image analysis and spatial analysis |
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Urban social dynamics, neighbourhood design and active travel, health geography, children’s geographies, post asylum geographies and geographies of aging |
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Policy and governance in New Zealand’s agri-food economy, globalisation, supply chain realignment and competitive repositioning, globalising dairy industry, nature-society relations, discourses and practices of sustainability, post-structuralist political economy, |
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GIScience, spatial big data & society, geoinformation, geospatial technologies, geolocation economies |
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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 and the political economy of the small islands in the Pacific |
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Science communication, agricultural extension, participatory approaches in natural resource management. |
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Dynamics of globalisation and urban change. Socio-economic impacts of changing residential property markets, Role of finance capital and institutional dynamics in the development of commercial property markets. The nature of urban governance and urban dynamics |
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Environmental governance and climate change adaptation in small island states, health and voluntary geographies, environmental management |
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Social, economic and institutional dimensions of climate change, climate change adaptation, climate policy, social justice and environmental justice, environmental management, indigenous geographies, and the history and philosophy of science |
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Volcanic hazards and the communication pathways that connect hazard scientists, decision makers and the public |
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Cultural geography, cultural attitudes to the environment, East Asia and ethnic mosaic in Auckland |
Environmental Science
Dendrochronology, dendroclimatology and environmental change |
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Geomorphology, Physical Oceanography, Coastal and Estuarine processes, Complexity and Pattern Formation, Machine Learning |
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Climate change, hydro climatology and dendroclimatology |
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Vegetation dynamics and plant ecology, landscape ecology, environmental modelling and spatial statistics and spatial analysis |
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Urban air pollution, urban meteorology, boundary layer meteorology and meso-scale flows |
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Carbon and nutrient cycling, ecosystem functioning, tropical ecosystems, stable isotopes, ecohydrology and global change |
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Freshwater and ecosystem ecology, watershed biogeochemistry, human influence on lakes and streams |
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Urban hydrology, water and society, water sensitive urban design and positive impact living |
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Palaeoecology; human impacts; extinctions; fire history; environmental change; vegetation change; subantarctic islands. |
GIS, Remote Sensing and Modelling
Geomorphology, Physical Oceanography, Coastal and Estuarine processes, Complexity and Pattern Formation, Machine Learning |
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Coral reefs, coastal processes, remote sensing |
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Geographic information systems, remote sensing and image analysis and spatial analysis |
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GIScience, spatial big data & society, geoinformation, geospatial technologies, geolocation economies |
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Vegetation dynamics and plant ecology, landscape ecology, environmental modelling and spatial statistics and spatial analysis |
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Geomorphology of fluvial systems, advance field survey techniques (seismic imaging, embedded electronic monitoring systems, Lidar), hillslope/channel sediment transport dynamics |
