School of Environment
Academic staff
The School of Environment comprises a team of more than 40 academics, 20 highly qualified technical and administrative staff and a lively postgraduate and undergraduate community.
| Name | Position | Research interest | Phone +64 9 373 7599 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| McGregor, Glenn | Director of School | Synoptic climatology, Climate and Health, Large scale hydrology, Climate and Society | g.mcgregor@auckland.ac.nz | ext 85280 |
| Augustinus, Paul | Associate Professor | Quaternary paleoclimates, Glacial geomorphology in Antarctica and Australasia, Long-term landscape evolution | p.augustinus@auckland.ac.nz | ext 87603 |
| Black, Philippa | Emeritus Professor | Mineralogy, Metamorphic Petrology | pm.black@auckland.ac.nz | ext 87560 |
| Blue, Lyndsay | Senior Tutor | Environmental management, Cultural ecology in South West Pacific, Bridging education | l.blue@auckland.ac.nz | ext 88443 |
| Boswijk, Gretel | Lecturer | Dendrochronology, Dendroclimatology, Environmental change |
g.boswijk@auckland.ac.nz | ext 83886 |
| Bray, Belinda | Lecturer | Communication of science to non-academic audiences; Informal science learning opportunities for education groups, the interaction between science and society | b.bray@auckland.ac.nz | ext 83034 |
| Brideau, Marc-Andre | Lecturer | Engineering geology, slope stability, geomorphology, rock engineering | m.brideau@auckland.ac.nz | ext 85195 |
| Brierley, Gary | Professor of Physical Geography | Fluvial geomorphology, River rehabilitation, Water resources management | g.brierley@auckland.ac.nz | ext 88956 |
| Campbell, Kathy | Associate Professor | Paleoecology, Paleoenvironments, Sedimentology | ka.campbell@auckland.ac.nz | ext 87418 |
| Clout, Mick | Professor | Conservation biology, invasive species impacts on biodiversity, frugivory, ecology of introduced vertebrate | m.clout@auckland.ac.nz | ext 85281 |
| Collins, Francis | Lecturer | Urban Geography, Migration and Transnationalism, Politics of Cultural Diversity, International Student Mobilities | f.collins@auckland.ac.nz | ext 83129 |
| Coombes, Brad | Senior Lecturer | Resource and environmental management, Indigenous participation in conservation, Sustainability and environmental justice | b.coombes@auckland.ac.nz | ext 88455 |
| de Freitas, Chris | Associate Professor | Environmental climatology, Climate change, Atmospheric hazards | c.defreitas@auckland.ac.nz | ext 85283 |
| Dickson, Mark | Senior Lecturer | Coastal processes; Geomorphic modelling; Rock and gravel coasts; Coastal management | m.dickson@auckland.ac.nz | ext 88329 |
| Fagan, Joe | Senior Tutor | Coastal Geomorphology, Interactions between land & sea, Ecotourism | j.fagan@auckland.ac.nz | ext 85381 |
| Fisher, Karen | Lecturer | Environmental management; Water governance; Participatory development; Development and the environment | k.fisher@auckland.ac.nz | ext 88410 |
| Forer, Pip | Professor | Geographic information systems and visualization; Society and spatial technologies; Space, time, accessibility and urban spatial processes; Modeling tourist movements and impacts; Health geographics; Geodemorgraphics and economic development; Environments for Flexible Learning in Geography | p.forer@auckland.ac.nz | ext 85183 |
| Fowler, Anthony | Senior Lecturer | Climate change, Hydroclimatology, Climate impact assessment, Dendroclimatology | a.fowler@auckland.ac.nz | ext 85380 |
| Friesen, Ward | Senior Lecturer | Economic, population and urban geographies; Migration, ethnicity and identity; Development and livelihoods; Tourism; Pacific Islands | w.friesen@auckland.ac.nz | ext 88612 |
| Gaillard, JC | Senior Lecturer | 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 | ext 89679 |
| Gao, Jao | Senior Lecturer | Geographic information systems, Remote sensing and image analysis, Spatial analysis | jg.gao@auckland.ac.nz | ext 85184 |
| Hayward, David | Senior Lecturer | Economic geography (regional economic analysis and development), Commodity chains and international trade | d.hayward@auckland.ac.nz | ext 88454 |
| Hoskin, Paul | Associate Professor | Geothermal Geology, Geochemistry, Analytical Geochemistry | p.hoskin@auckland.ac.nz | ext 89345 |
| Kearns, Robin | Professor | The cultural politics of place, Health geography, Research design and ethics | r.kearns@auckland.ac.nz | ext 88442 |
| Kench, Paul | Associate Professor | Coastal processes, Coral reefs, Coastal management | p.kench@auckland.ac.nz | ext 88440 |
| 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 | ext 88453 |
| Lewis, Nicolas | Lecturer | 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 | ext 88214 |
| Lindsay, Jan | Research Associate | Volcanology, Volcanic Hazards | j.lindsay@auckland.ac.nz | ext 88678 |
| Macinnis-Ng, Cate | Research Fellow | Plant ecophysiology, ecohydrology, tree water use, measurement and modelling of ecosystem carbon and water fluxes, climate change impacts | c.macinnis-ng@auckland.ac.nz | ext 88447 |
| McEntee, Marie | Senior Tutor | Science Communication, Agricultural Extension, social Learning for Sustainable Resource Management, Participatory Research | m.mcentee@auckland.ac.nz | ext 82499 |
| Mitchell, Neil | Senior Lecturer | Restoration ecology, conservation, modelling of species/climate interaction and climate change | n.mitchell@auckland.ac.nz | ext 88367 |
| Mauk, Jeffrey | Senior Lecturer | Economic Geology | j.mauk@auckland.ac.nz | ext 87419 |
| Moran, Warren | Professor | Regional processes and policy, Rural activity systems, Place as intellectual property, Wine industry | w.moran@auckland.ac.nz | ext 85320 |
| O'Connor, Barry | Professional Teaching Fellow | Micropaleontology, Engineering Geology, Hydrogeology | b.oconnor@auckland.ac.nz | ext 88638 |
| O'Sullivan, David | Associate Professor | Spatial modelling, complexity theory, geocomputation, applying GIS tools to the urban environment | d.osullivan@auckland.ac.nz | ext 84963 |
| Owen, Susan | Academic Manager | Health and voluntary geographies, environmental management | s.owen@auckland.ac.nz | ext 85185 |
| Perry, George | Senior Lecturer | Vegetation dynamics and plant ecology, Landscape ecology, Environmental modelling, Spatial statistics and spatial analysis | george.perry@auckland.ac.nz | ext 84599 |
| Prebble, Warwick | Senior Lecturer | Engineering Geology | w.prebble@auckland.ac.nz | ext 87591 |
| Richards, Nick | Professional Teaching Fellow | Engineering and environmental geology, slope stability and geomorphology, soil mechanics | n.richards@auckland.ac.nz | ext 85286 |
| Rowland, Julie | Senior Lecturer | Structural Geology, Tectonics | j.rowland@auckland.ac.nz | ext 87412 |
| Salmond, Jenny | Senior Lecturer | Urban air pollution, urban meterology, boundary layer meterology, meso-scale flows | j.salmond@auckland.ac.nz | ext 88650 |
| Schwendenmann, Luitgard | Senior Lecturer | Carbon and nutrient cycling, ecosystem functioning, tropical ecosystems, stable isotopes, ecohydrology, global change |
l.schwendenmann @auckland.ac.nz |
ext 84301 |
| Shane, Phil | Associate Professor | Quaternary Geology, Volcanology | pa.shane@auckland.ac.nz | ext 87083 |
| Slade, Angela | Research Fellow | Isotope Geochemistry, Water Quality and Aqueous Geochemistry | a.slade@auckland.ac.nz | ext 83894 |
| Smith, Ian | Associate Professor | Igneous Petrology, Volcanology | ie.smith@auckland.ac.nz | ext 87416 |
| Smith, Willie | Associate Professor | Natural resources, Rural systems, Public policy | w.smith@auckland.ac.nz | ext 85284 |
| Strachan, Lorna | Lecturer | Sedimentology | l.strachan@auckland.ac.nz | ext 83522 |
| Trowsdale, Sam | Lecturer | Urban Hydrology; Water and Society; Water Sensitive Urban Design; Positive Impact Living | s.trowsdale@auckland.ac.nz | ext 88710 |
| Wall, Melanie | Senior Tutor | Race, culture, difference, Maori identity, youth, music, everyday life | m.wall@auckland.ac.nz | ext 87949 |
| Williams, Paul | Professor | Geomorphology (karst, tectonic, China, South Pacific), Hydrology (karst, urban), Environmental | p.williams@auckland.ac.nz | ext 88459 |
| Yoon, Hong-key | Associate Professor | Cultural geography, Cultural attitudes to the environment, East Asia, Ethnic mosaic in Auckland | hk.yoon@auckland.ac.nz | ext 88466 |
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