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Additional Staff at Environmental Science

Other staff at University of Otago who may be available for supervising student projects:

 

Biochemistry

  • Dr Julian Eaton-Rye: photosynthesis in plant & microbial systems, environmental detection by plant cells & cyanobacteria.
  • Assoc Professor Kevin Farnden: plant biochemistry.

Botany

  • Dr David Burritt: plant biotechnology, developmental plant physiology & stress physiology of plants.
  • Dr Catriona Hurd: marine ecology.

Marine Science

  • Dr Mike Barker: reproductive ecology of marine mammals.
  • Dr Steve Dawson: marine conservation, behaviour & ecology of marine mammals.
  • Dr Steve Wing: marine population biology.
  • Abigail Smith: marine sedimentology.

Pharmacology & Toxicology

  • Dr Rhonda Rosengren: mechanism of action of dioxin and other environmental pollutants

Geography

  • Professor Peter Holland : biogeography, environmental impacts of introduced plants & animals.
  • Dr Richard Morgan: GIS, EIA.
  • Dr Katrina Richards: urban & rural climate.
  • Dr Richard Welch: sustainable development strategies.

Geology

  • Assoc Professor Ewan Fordyce: marine geology.
  • Dr Candace Martin: environmental geochemistry, biogeochemical cycles.
  • Professor Richard Norris: structural geology, active Earth deformation, geological hazards.
  • Professor Richard Sibson: fault structure & mechanics, crustal fault zones, seismotectonics.

Law

  • Dr Nicola Wheen: international & New Zealand environmental law.

Mathematics & Statistics

  • Associate Professor Richard Barker: environmental & ecological statistics, especially mark-recapture methods.
  • Dr David Fletcher: environmental & ecological statistics.
  • Professor Vernon Squire: modelling environmental phenomena & activities in the polar regions.
  • Dr Austina Clark: environmental statistics

Physics

  • Professor Gerald Carrington: energy management, efficient energy end-use technologies.

Surveying

  • Mr A John Baldwin: land subdivision, urban planning, water margin law.
  • Dr Albert Chong: remote sensing, GPS.
  • Mr Brian Grant: GIS, remote sensing(Manager, Spatial Information Lab).
  • Mr Mick Strack: land tenure, aboriginal title, rights in rivers, Treaty issues & urban sustainability.
  • Professor John Hannah: sea level change.
  • Mr Neil Sutherland: GIS.

Zoology

  • Professor Carolyn Burns: conservation biology, lake management.
  • Dr Alison Cree: reproductive biology.
  • Assoc Professor Lloyd Davis: behavioural & evolutionary ecology.
  • Dr Henrick Moller: wildlife management, conservation biology.
  • Dr Michael Roy: conservation genetics.
  • Professor Colin Townsend: management of streams & rivers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
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