School of Environment

Research topics by staff

The School of Environment is committed to excellence and innovation in research. Our staff are engaged in a wide range of original fundamental and applied research. Much of our research is of direct relevance to the community. Many of our staff are recognised internationally for their work.

Name	Degree	Research interests
Paul Augustinus	BSc, BSc (Hons), PhD	Quaternary paleoclimates, glacial geomorphology in Antarctica and Australasia and long term landscape evolution
Lyndsay Blue	BSc, Dip.Tch, MSc, MPhil (Planning) (Hons)	Environmental management, cultural ecology in the South West Pacific and bridging education
Gretel Boswijk	BA, PhD	Dendrochronology, dendroclimatology and environmental change
Belinda Bray	BSc, MSc, PhD	Communication of science to non academic audiences, informal science learning opportunities for education groups and interaction between science and society
Marc-Andre Brideau	BSc (Hons), MSc, PhD	Engineering geology, slope stability, natural hazards and rock engineering
Gary Brierley	BA (Hons),MSc, PhD	Fluvial geomorphology, river rehabilitation and water resources management
Kathleen Campbell	BSc, MSc, PhD	Paleoecology, paleoenvironments, sedimentology and Earth history
Mick Clout	BSc, PhD	Conservation biology, impacts and management of invasive species, ecology and behaviour of birds and mammals
Brad Coombes	BA (Hons), PhD	Resource and environmental management, indigenous participation in conservation and sustainability and environmental justice
Chris De Freitas	BA (Hons), MA, PhD	Environmental climatology, climate resource assessment and climate-society interaction
Mark Dickson	BSc (Hons), PhD	Coastal processes, geomorphic modelling, rock and gravel coasts and coastal management
Joe Fagan	MA	People, management of coastal systems and tourism
Karen Fisher	MSocSc, PhD	Environmental management, water governance, participatory development, development and the environment
Pip Forer	MA, PhD	Geographic information systems and visualisation, society and spatial technologies, space, time, accessibility and urban spatial processes, modelling tourist movements and impacts, health geographics, geodemorgraphics and economic development and environments for flexible learning in geography
Anthony Fowler	MA, PhD	Climate change, hydro climatology and dendroclimatology
Ward Friesen	BA(Hons), PhD	Economic, population and urban geographies, migration, ethnicity and identity, development, livelihoods and tourism and Pacific Islands
Mark Gahegan	BSc (Hons), PhD	Geographic information systems and science, geovisualisation, e-research and e-education, spatial analysis and geocomputation, representing and computing with knowledge, remote sensing, geodemographics and epidemiology, spatial technologies and their impacts on society.
JC Gaillard	PhD	Thematic interests, disaster risk reduction (DRR), participatory tools for DRR, ethnicity and DRR, gender and DRR, armed conflicts and disasters, post-disaster resettlement, regional focus, Philippines, Indonesia, Comoros, Cape Verde, Guadeloupe, Nepal, France and New Zealand
Jao Gao	BE, MS, PhD	Geographic information systems, remote sensing and image analysis and spatial analysis
David Hayward	BA, MS, PhD	Economic geography (regional economic analysis and development), commodity chains and international trade
Paul Hoskin	BSc (Hons), GDipTchng&Lrng, PhD, D. Habil	Geothermal geology, geochemistry and analytical geochemistry
Robin Kearns	MA, PhD	Urban social dynamics, neighbourhood design and active travel, health geography, children’s geographies, post asylum geographies and geographies of aging
Paul Kench	MA, PhD	Coastal processes, coral reefs and coastal management
Richard Le Heron	MA, PhD	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 and networks and governance
Nicolas Lewis	MA, PhD	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
Jan Lindsay	MSc, PhD	Petrology and geochemistry of volcanic rocks, volcanic hazard and risk assessment, risk communication and emergency management
Marie McEntee	MA (Hons), LTCL	Science communication, agricultural extension, social learning for sustainable resource management and participatory research
Glenn McGregor	MSc, PhD	Synoptic climatology, climate and health, large scale hydro climatology and climate and society
Jeffrey Mauk	BSc, MSc, PhD, SEG, AUSIMM	Geology and geochemistry of metallic mineral deposits, especially epithermal gold deposits, relations between organic matter and ore deposits, tectonostratigraphic settings of proterozaic mineral deposits and aqueous and petroleum fluid migration in sedimentary basins
Neil Mitchell	MA, MSc, PhD	Restoration ecology, conservation, analysis and modelling of species and environment interactions including species distributions and responses to climate change
Barry O’Connor	MSc, PhD	Cenozoic radiolarian, taxonomy, biostratigraphy, evolution, paleogeographic distribution of Southwest Pacific radiolarian and imaging techniques for microfossils
David O’Sullivan	BA, MSc, PhD	Geography of personal names, spatial modelling, geographic information science and urban neighbourhood change
Susan Owen	MA, PhD	Environmental governance and climate change adaptation in small island states
George Perry	BSc (Hons), MSc, PhD, PGCAP	Vegetation dynamics and plant ecology, landscape ecology, environmental modelling and spatial statistics and spatial analysis
Warwick Prebble	MSc, PhD	The influence of lithology and defects upon slope movement and on physical properties of rock and soils, geologic hazards and geotechnical mapping, geotechnical studies of volcanic deposits and landforms, weak rock slopes and South Island mountains.
Julie Rowland	PhD, BSc (Hons) DipTchg	Structural controls on crustal fluid redistribution in active hydrothermal systems and epizonal mineral deposits, magmatic continental rift systems - their structure, evolution and hydrology
Jenny Salmond	MA, MSc, PhD	Urban air pollution, urban meteorology, boundary layer meteorology and meso-scale flows
Luitgard Schwendenmann	BSc, MSc, PhD	Carbon and nutrient cycling, ecosystem functioning, tropical ecosystems, stable isotopes, ecohydrology and global change
Phil Shane	MSc, PhD	Geochemistry and geochronology of silicic magma systems, tephrochronology and volcanic geology
Angela Slade	BSc (Hons), PhD	Isotope geochemistry, water quality and aqueous geochemistry
Ian Smith	BSc, PhD	Petrology and geochemistry of volcanic rocks in the Southwest Pacific, volcanology and petrology of New Zealand Cenozoic volcanic sequences and magma chamber processes
Willie Smith	MA, MSc, PhD	Natural resources, rural systems and science and public policy
Lorna Strachan	BSc (Hons), PhD	Deep marine sedimentary processes and products, field sedimentology, seismic interpretation and experimental sedimentology
Sam Trowsdale	BSc(Hons), PhD	Urban hydrology, water and society, water sensitive urban design and positive impact living
Mel Wall	BA, MA	Social geographies, race, youth and cultural difference
Hong-Key Yoon	BA, MS, PhD	Cultural geography, cultural attitudes to the environment, East Asia and ethnic mosaic in Auckland

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