School of Environment
PhD students
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 | Topic |
|---|---|
| Aiken, Simon | Tectonic impacts upon draingage basin morphology, longitudinal profile form, rate of incision and bedload transport along rivers on the margin of the Qinghai-Tibet plateau |
| Andres, Ulrike | Cultural geography |
| Arthurs, James Melvin | Engineering Geology of rhyolitic deposits in the Bay of Plenty |
| Aslam, Mohamed | Coastal Hydrodynamics & Sediment Transport around ATOLL Islands |
| Atkin, Daniel Robert Edward | Geochemical Proxies for Environmental Change in Auckland Maar Crater Lakes |
| Baars, Roger Cloud | The Social Construction of Common Identities in the ASEAN Region |
| Bade, David | Heritage management and the nature/culture dualism: managing cultural heritage on conservation islands in New Zealand |
| Bijoux, Denise | Everyday Lives: the role of 'place of residence' in health, wellbeing, identity & belonging for new residents of Auckland city |
| Blue, Brendon | Anthro-fluvial interactions in the Sanjiangyuan region, China |
| Booden, Mathijs | Geochemistry of altered and unaltered volcanic rocks in the Coromandel Volcanic Zone |
| Bradbury, Matthew | Urban development of the contemporary waterfront |
| Buckenberger, Corina | 'Myths' of housing qualities in an owner-occupant dominated environment: experiences from the Auckland Region |
| Coleman, Tara | Geographies of health & wellbeing: Ageing in place |
| Damken, Claas | Insects in Mountainous Landscapes: Influence of Habitat Fragmentation and Climate Change |
| de Freitas Colin (Alex) | At the intersection of digital & physical public space: free Wi-Fi and the changing geographies of the city and its 'public' |
| Diamond, Howard | A climatological study of tropical cyclones in the Southwest Pacific Ocean basin |
| Downs, Drew | Deciphering the 4D geological framework of the Taupo-Reporoa Basin: implications for deep hydrothermal flow |
| Doyle (Fowler), Louise | The Geochemistry and Petrography of the Mangaone Subgroup, Okataina |
| Drecki, Igor | Visualisation of uncertainity in multi-variate geographical data |
| Eagle, Michael | Taxonomy of Mesozoic Crinoids of New Zealand and New Caledonia |
| Ergler, Christina Rebekka | Understanding the relationships between activity and neighbourhoods in children's geographies - the power of feelings |
| Etherington, Thomas | Mapping Invasion Risk of Brushtail Possums Using Spatially and Temporally Explicit Modelling |
| Figueira, Brigida | Salt Marsh foraminiferal record of late Holocene sea level rise around NZ |
| Fildes, Christine | Miocene megaturbidites of New Zealand: emplacement mechanics, hinterland characterisation and chronostragraphic significance |
| FitzHerbert, Stephen | Following Māori vegetables: geographies of circulation and exchange in New Zealand |
| Flynn, Sarah | The Role of a Native Understorey in Nutrient Cycling in a Chronosequence of Pine Plantations |
| Gorter, Rendt S | Participation in environment governance in New Zealand and the Fiji islands: a deliberative analysis of public deliberation |
| Gregory, Claire | Enabling sustainable river futures: exploring institutional interventions |
| Haney, Christine Elizabeth | Communication and co-management of Lands in Western New South Wales, Australia |
| Herdianita, Rina | The Mineralogy and Evolution of the Darajat Geothermal Field |
| Hock, Barbara | Visualisation for communitcating forest sustainability |
| Kokje, Amit | Enhancing the accuracy of urban feature extraction: the data fusion approach |
| Kularatne, Kiribathgodage Indrapriya Ajithalal | Lichen as atmospheric pollution bio-monitors |
| Kuo, Cheng-Wei (Daniel) | Typhoon-induced adjustments to bedrock river morphology along the Liwu River, Taiwan |
| Lafary, Eric | Coastal and estuarine ecosystem services |
| Le Corvec, Nicolas | Physical controls on monogenetic basaltic volcanism, Auckland volcanic field, New Zealand |
| Lee, Jane | Korean New Zealanders' return migrations to 'homeland', 1999~2009 |
| Li, Xilai | The spatio-temporal dynamics of four plant-functional types in Kobresia meadow as affected by human disturbances in the Sanjiangyuan region, China |
| Liu, Cheng (Aaron) | Agent negotiation mechanism when executed the synchronous distribution of finite city resources in the frameworks of MAS and CA |
| Mahdavi Ardestani, Babak | Modelling residential segregation: An empirical and simulation-based study |
| Mandlier, Philipp | Coral reef hydrodynamics. Driving mechanisms for circulation processes around small reef islands. |
| McEntee, Marie | Science Communication for Sustainable Land Management |
| McGee, Lucy | Magmatic processes in the Auckland volcanic field |
| Meijer, Petra | Public ecology in ecological restoration: Can community-based monitoring link science, values and beliefs? |
| Morales San Martin, Narkis | Restoration Ecology and natural resource management |
| Morgan, Kyle | Sand generation on a Maldivian reef platform: reef to island linkages |
| Nadoll, Patrick | Geochemistry of magnetite from hydrothermal ore deposits and host rocks |
| Nicoll, Tami | Spatial and temporal variability in disturbance response of river systems |
| Ogawa, Hiroki | Wave processes on sub-horizontal shore platforms |
| Pegman, Andrew Paul | Seed dispersal and demographics in Miro & Puriri |
| Phipps, Hilary Lee | Preserving plurality: valuing conservation of restoration of NZ's indigenous biodiversity |
| Pirie, Maryann | The climate history of New Zealand reconstructed from Speleothems and kauri tree rings: enhancements through the use of novel statistical methodology |
| Rahnama, Bizhan | Governance and institutional arrangements for the management of natural resources |
| Reid, Helen | Sediment conveyance and planform change: Using a conceptually framed sediment budget to underpin Rehabilitation with the Tongariro River, New Zealand |
| Resture, Alan | Tuvalu and Climate Hazards: Understanding differences in vulnerability in small atolls: A case study of climate extremes in Nanumea, Nukufetau, and Funafuti Islands, Tuvalu |
| Saether, Kristian | A taxonomic and paleobiogeographic study of cold seep fossil assemblages from the Hawke's Bay region, NZ |
| Saunders, Justine | Multivariate responses of marine communities to environmental change |
| Scholz, Christopher | Tectonic evolution of the Whakatane Graben |
| Selby, Megan | Species based conservations programs with social development components |
| Sharma, Sanjay | Identities and rights in the integrated conservation and development projects in Nanda Devi biosphere reserve, Uttaranchal, India |
| Steer, Jamie | Deconstructing ‘wildlife’ in New Zealand |
| Stephens, Thomas William | Inter-hemispheric climate variability: a novel multi-proxy application of oxygen and silicon isotopes to a southern hemisphere maar crater lake |
| Storm, Sonja | Crystallisation history of rhyolite magmas at Tarawera volcano, New Zealand, from in-situ 238U-230Th disequilibrium dating of zircon |
| Suonio, Enni Elina | Interaction between business practices & environmental strategies for new media technologies & services |
| Thompson, Mary Anne | The interface between probablistic volcano hazard analysis (PVHA) and risk management in New Zealand |
| Trafford, Julie | Emerging spaces of knowledge production: communities of practice and co-learning in postgraduate geography education in New Zealand |
| Utami, Pri | Lahendong geothermal field, Sulawesi and its evolution |
| van Kerckhoven, Liesbeth | Evolution of deep-sea benthic foraminifera & impacts of the Paleoecene-early Eocene climate crisis |
| White, Toni Denise | Production and environment: an investigation of the New Zealand dairy space |
| Whitehead, Brandon | 'Fingerprinting' geoscientific discovery from hypothesis to results |
| Zawalna-Geer, Aleksandra | Developing new methods for tephra correlation and chronology in Auckland area |
| Zhao, Jinfeng | Optimising representational mix in a multi-representational cartographic interface |
