DoctorHeather Purdie
Associate Professor
School of Earth and Environment
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- Associate ProfessorSchool of Earth and Environment
TEACHING & SUPERVISION
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONHaupapa/Tasman Glacier: Lake-Ice interactions and influence on glacier recession1 Oct 2026
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONPalynology & Climate - Lake Sumner Region1 Aug 2026
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONEvaluating the accuracy and consistency of public avalanche danger forecasts in Tongariro National Park, NZ.1 May 2026
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONAutomating geodetic mass balance at an alpine glacier1 Apr 2026
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONGlacial history of the Poulter – Waimakariri Confluence2 Mar 2026
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONInfrasound and avalanche prediction1 Feb 2026
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONWhat New Zealand’s glaciers reveal about global climate change and local mountain building over the last 800,000 years1 Feb 2026
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONSensitivity of mountain glacier energy and mass budgets to changes in microtopography and light-absorbing impurity deposition.1 Apr 2024
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONAn investigation into the characteristics and timing of the most recent glaciation in the Hurunui valley19 Feb 2024 - 18 Jul 2025
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONInvestigating conditions and processes associated with the Pukaki ‘Birch Hill’ moraine Sequence.19 Feb 2024 - 20 Feb 2025
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONVelocity variability at Fox Glacier from SAR Imagery19 Feb 2024 - 20 Feb 2025
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONAbundance of frazil ice along Victoria Land Coast and its relationship to fast ice persistence and ice tongue occurrence.1 Feb 2024 - 16 Apr 2025
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONThe role of avalanche deposition on the mass balance of Rolleston Glacier, Arthur’s Pass, New Zealand1 Feb 2023 - 30 May 2024
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION1 Utilising Satellite Imagery to Measure Surface Velocity of Fox Glacier, New Zealand21 Feb 2022 - 1 Feb 2023
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONMacro and microstructural responses to shear localisation in the lateral margin of the Haupapa/Tasman Glacier1 Feb 2022 - 1 Nov 2023
- PEDAGOGICAL WORKSHOP, CONFERENCE OR SEMINARTe Tiriti o Waitangi for Tertiary Educators14 May 2021
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONUsing Synthetic Aperture Radar to Monitor the End of Summer Snowline of New Zealand Glaciers1 Apr 2021 - 18 Nov 2021
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONWhat 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
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONA comparison of satellite and Unmanned Aerial Vehicle imagery in adverse conditions: A case study in Franz Josef, West Coast, New Zealand1 Jul 2020 - 1 Jul 2021
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONIce shelf morphology and mass balance of the Ross Ice Shelf based on Phase Sensitive Radar measurements1 Apr 2020 - 1 Jul 2021
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONIce tongue stability in a changing climate12 Jan 2020 - 1 Jan 2023
- PEDAGOGICAL WORKSHOP, CONFERENCE OR SEMINARKia eke ki te taumata: Success for Māori in tertiary education3 Jul 2019
- TEACHING QUALIFICATIONFellow Higher Education Academy14 Feb 2019
- PEDAGOGICAL WORKSHOP, CONFERENCE OR SEMINARCulturally Sustaining Pedagogy16 Jul 2018
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONThe role of public participation and knowledge co-production in improving urban freshwater ecosystem health. A New Zealand case study1 Mar 2018 - 30 May 2019