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DoctorFrances Charters

Senior Lecturer Above the Bar

Civil and Environmental Engineering

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  • Senior Lecturer Above the Bar
    Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • +6433694632 (Work)
  • Civil and Natural Resources Engineering E307

SERVICE & LEADERSHIP

  • JOURNAL REVIEWING / REFEREEING
    Water, Air, and Soil Pollution
    11 Feb 2026
    Anonymous peer review
  • CONFERENCE REVIEWING / REFEREEING
    New Zealand Stormwater Conference 2024
    1 Feb 2024 - 31 Mar 2024
    Anonymous peer review
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    Teaching and Learning Committee (Civil and NatRes Engineering)
    15 Feb 2023
    Chair
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    UC Sustainability Programme Board
    9 Jan 2023 - 31 Dec 2023
    Member
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    UC Waterscapes Advisory Group
    9 Jan 2023
    Chair
  • TEXT INTERVIEW
    Stuff
    30 Sep 2022
    The role of stormwater in urban waterways degradation
  • JOURNAL REVIEWING / REFEREEING
    Journal of Sustainable Water in the Built Environment
    1 Aug 2022
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    Organising Committee of New Zealand Stormwater Conferences 2023 and 2024
    25 May 2022 - 17 May 2024
    Elected member
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    UC Waterscapes Advisory Group
    22 Feb 2022
    Member
  • EVENT ADMINISTRATION
    Workshop
    12 Jan 2021 - 18 Feb 2021
    Connecting Stormwater Research and Industry Needs: a workshop with a broad-range of industry and research participants (Councils, design engineers, suppliers, research engineers) to identify and prioritise key issues in the field of stormwater engineering where further research is needed. The outputs included a ranked list of identified issues and these were disseminated amongst participnats and are being assessed for further action by the Education and Training subgroup of the National Stormwater Committee (Water NZ). I was responsible for the design of the event, its logistics and planning, hosting and presenting on the day, and follow up actions.
  • JOURNAL REVIEWING / REFEREEING
    Sustainability
    3 Jun 2020
    Anonymous peer review
  • JOURNAL REVIEWING / REFEREEING
    Water
    1 May 2020
    Anonymous peer review
  • EVENT PARTICIPATION
    Symposium
    10 Feb 2020
    Three-day programme providing discipline specific development and national networking opportunities for women, from the 8 NZ Universities, early in their academic career. The discipline areas for the February 2020 programme were Geography, Geology, Environmental Sciences, Environmental Engineering and related disciplines such as Botany and Ecology.
  • CONFERENCE REVIEWING / REFEREEING
    New Zealand Stormwater Conference 2020
    20 Jan 2020 - 30 Jun 2020
    Anonymous peer review
  • DISTINCTION
    Stormwater Superhero Award
    1 Nov 2019
    Recognition of the contribution of our research to improving stormwater management in the Canterbury region.
  • DISTINCTION
    9Wire Environmental Innovation Programme
    1 Sep 2019 - 1 Sep 2020
  • DISTINCTION
    National Stormwater Innovation Award
    1 May 2019
    Recognition for our Storminator technology for dissolved metal removal from downpipe runoff. Selected by popular vote from conference attendees.
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    UC Waterscapes Advisory Group
    1 Mar 2019 - 12 Feb 2021
    Chair
  • CONFERENCE REVIEWING / REFEREEING
    New Zealand Stormwater Conference 2019
    1 Feb 2019 - 8 Mar 2019
    Anonymous peer review
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    Water New Zealand National Stormwater Committee
    18 May 2016
    Elected member
  • JOURNAL REVIEWING / REFEREEING
    Environmental Science and Pollution Research
    1 May 2016
  • JOURNAL REVIEWING / REFEREEING
    Journal of Environmental Management
    1 May 2016
  • JOURNAL REVIEWING / REFEREEING
    Science of the Total Environment
    1 May 2016
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    UC Waterscapes Advisory Group
    25 Apr 2016 - 1 Mar 2019
    Member