DoctorHeather Purdie

Associate Professor

School of Earth and Environment

  • Associate Professor
    School of Earth and Environment
  • +6433694131 (Work)
  • Beatrice Tinsley 314

TEACHING & SUPERVISION

  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Haupapa/Tasman Glacier: Lake-Ice interactions and influence on glacier recession
    1 Oct 2026
    White, Rory
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Palynology & Climate - Lake Sumner Region
    1 Aug 2026
    Griffin, Corey
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Evaluating the accuracy and consistency of public avalanche danger forecasts in Tongariro National Park, NZ.
    1 May 2026
    Hoyle, Andrew
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Automating geodetic mass balance at an alpine glacier
    1 Apr 2026
    Sibahara, Kiri
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Glacial history of the Poulter – Waimakariri Confluence
    2 Mar 2026
    Anderson, Tim
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Infrasound and avalanche prediction
    1 Feb 2026
    Senior, Evie
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    What New Zealand’s glaciers reveal about global climate change and local mountain building over the last 800,000 years
    1 Feb 2026
    Dillon, Connor
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Sensitivity of mountain glacier energy and mass budgets to changes in microtopography and light-absorbing impurity deposition.
    1 Apr 2024
    Fuchs, Juan Pablo
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    An investigation into the characteristics and timing of the most recent glaciation in the Hurunui valley
    19 Feb 2024 - 18 Jul 2025
    Somerville, Laura
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Investigating conditions and processes associated with the Pukaki ‘Birch Hill’ moraine Sequence.
    19 Feb 2024 - 20 Feb 2025
    Hamlyn, Riley
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Velocity variability at Fox Glacier from SAR Imagery
    19 Feb 2024 - 20 Feb 2025
    Jacka, Olivia
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Abundance of frazil ice along Victoria Land Coast and its relationship to fast ice persistence and ice tongue occurrence.
    1 Feb 2024 - 16 Apr 2025
    Boyland, Daniel
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    The role of avalanche deposition on the mass balance of Rolleston Glacier, Arthur’s Pass, New Zealand
    1 Feb 2023 - 30 May 2024
    Spera, Alison
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    1 Utilising Satellite Imagery to Measure Surface Velocity of Fox Glacier, New Zealand
    21 Feb 2022 - 1 Feb 2023
    Andrews, Nathanael
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Macro and microstructural responses to shear localisation in the lateral margin of the Haupapa/Tasman Glacier
    1 Feb 2022 - 1 Nov 2023
    MacClure, Zoe
  • PEDAGOGICAL WORKSHOP, CONFERENCE OR SEMINAR
    Te Tiriti o Waitangi for Tertiary Educators
    14 May 2021
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Using Synthetic Aperture Radar to Monitor the End of Summer Snowline of New Zealand Glaciers
    1 Apr 2021 - 18 Nov 2021
    Boyland, Daniel
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    What is the relationship between Himalayan Tahr population densities and Landscape/Land cover characteristics in Department of Conservation management control units in the Southern Alps of New Zealand?
    1 Apr 2021 - 1 Apr 2022
    Robinson, Ben
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    A comparison of satellite and Unmanned Aerial Vehicle imagery in adverse conditions: A case study in Franz Josef, West Coast, New Zealand
    1 Jul 2020 - 1 Jul 2021
    Lama, Shrota
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Ice shelf morphology and mass balance of the Ross Ice Shelf based on Phase Sensitive Radar measurements
    1 Apr 2020 - 1 Jul 2021
    Snodgrass, joe
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Ice tongue stability in a changing climate
    12 Jan 2020 - 1 Jan 2023
    Gomez Fell, Rodrigo
  • PEDAGOGICAL WORKSHOP, CONFERENCE OR SEMINAR
    Kia eke ki te taumata: Success for Māori in tertiary education
    3 Jul 2019
    Ako Aotearoa Professional learning and development
  • TEACHING QUALIFICATION
    Fellow Higher Education Academy
    14 Feb 2019
  • PEDAGOGICAL WORKSHOP, CONFERENCE OR SEMINAR
    Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy
    16 Jul 2018
    Invited to make contribution to this workshop run by Liz Brown, Kaiārahi Matua during the universities teaching week
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    The role of public participation and knowledge co-production in improving urban freshwater ecosystem health. A New Zealand case study
    1 Mar 2018 - 30 May 2019
    Keay, Will