Head of School
Professor Etienne Nel
Richardson Building, room 4C8. See Reception (Rm 4C9) to make an appointment.
Tel +64 3 479 8548
Email etienne.nel@otago.ac.nz
Economic and urban geography
Chief Course Adviser and Senior Arts Adviser
Academics
Professor Tony Binns
Richardson Building, room 4C19
Tel +64 3 479 5356
Email tony.binns@otago.ac.nz
Sustainable livelihoods and community-based development
Ron Lister Chair in Geography
Professor Sean Fitzsimons
Richardson Building room 4C13
Tel +64 3 479 8786
Email sean.fitzsimons@otago.ac.nz
Contemporary geomorphology processes
Senior Science Adviser
Professor Claire Freeman
Richardson Building, room 4C21
Tel +64 3 479 8785
Email claire.freeman@otago.ac.nz
Sustainable community planning and development
Professor Michelle Thompson-Fawcett
Richardson Building, room 4C17
Tel +64 3 479 8762
Email michelle.thompson-fawcett@otago.ac.nz
Contemporary environmental management, planning, governance and decision-making activities
On research and study leave Semester One and Two 2020
Associate Professor Nicolas Cullen
Richardson Building room 4C12a
Tel +63 3 479 3069
Emails nicolas.cullen@otago.ac.nz
Meteorology and climatology, glaciology, glacier and ice sheet mass balance and climate
Associate Professor Doug Hill
Richardson Building, room 4C14
Tel +64 3 479 8775
Email douglas.hill@otago.ac.nz
Rural development, environmental management and food security - South Asia
Associate Professor Mike Hilton
Richardson Building, room 4C16
Tel +64 3 479 8778
Email michael.hilton@otago.ac.nz
Geomorphology, ecology and management of dunal coasts
Senior Environmental Management Adviser
Associate Professor Wayne Stephenson
Richardson Building, room 4N4
Tel +64 3 479 8776
Email wayne.stephenson@otago.ac.nz
Coastal geomorphology and management
Master of International Development and Planning Programme Coordinator
Dr Sophie Bond
Senior Lecturer
Richardson Building, room 4C12
Tel +64 3 479 3068
Email sophie.bond@otago.ac.nz
Inequality, identity, power and place
Dr Sean Connelly
Senior Lecturer
Richardson Building, room 4C25
Tel +64 3 479 8771
Email sean.connelly@otago.ac.nz
Sustainable community planning and development
Dr Christina Ergler
Senior Lecturer
Richardson Building, room 4C18
Tel +64 3 479 4647
Email christina.ergler@otago.ac.nz
Geographies of children's wellbeing in urban environments
Dr Daniel Kingston
Senior Lecturer
Richardson Building, room 4C11
Tel +64 3 479 8971
Email daniel.kingston@otago.ac.nz
Hydroclimatology, atmospheric circulation
Dr Ralf Ohlemüller
Senior Lecturer
Richardson Building, room 4C22
Tel +64 3 479 8784
Email ralf.ohlemuller@otago.ac.nz
Biogeography, climate change ecology, conservation
Dr Ashraful Alam
Lecturer
Richardson Building, room 4N3
Tel +64 3 479 8769
Email ash.alam@otago.ac.nz
Urban geography, feminist political ecology, planning
Master of Planning Programme coordinator
Dr Sarah Mager
Lecturer
Richardson Building, room 4C23
Tel +64 3 479 4222
Email sarah.mager@otago.ac.nz
Hydrology, geomorphology
Dr Francisco Barraza
Lecturer
Richardson Building, room 4C24
Tel +64 3 479 8856
Email francisco@otago.ac.nz
Francisco is an Environmental Health and Climate Change Researcher. Research interests are: Environmental Health, Air pollution and human exposure,
Geo-sciences: statistics and modelling, Geochemistry and environmental management and Climate Change.
Dr Michelle Scott
Lecturer
Richardson Building, room 4C24
Tel +64 3 479 8856
Email michelle.scott@otago.ac.nz
Understanding and encouraging sustainable choices and behaviours. Research focuses on citizen science and sensing to address local environmental issues such as air and noise pollution and the transition to low carbon energy and transport.
Ben Varkalis
Teaching Fellow
Richardson Building, room 5C12a
Tel +64 3 479 9241
Email ben.varkalis@otago.ac.nz
Ben assists with the running of GEOG101, GEOG102, ENVI111 and GEOG290
Associate Professor Jenny Bryant-Tokalau
Honorary Associate Professor
