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ProfessorJustin Morgenroth

Associate Head of School

School of Forestry

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  • Associate Head of School
    School of Forestry
  • Professor
    School of Forestry
  • +6433695966 (Work)
  • School of Forestry Rm143

TEACHING & SUPERVISION SUMMARy

I coordinate and teach two undergraduate courses, namely FORE131 - Trees in the Landscape and FORE342 - Geospatial Science in Forest Monitoring and Management. I strongly believe in the value of hands-on and experiential learning, so I place a strong emphasis on field trips as well as GIS and remote sensing tutorials.

I really enjoy supervising graduate students and mentoring them as they become high-calibre researchers in their own right. My graduates have gone on to successful careers in academia, government, and industry.

TEACHING & SUPERVISION

  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Remote sensing and AI for individual tree segmentation from a human perspective
    1 Mar 2026
    He, Xinyi
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Development of urban tree canopy growth models for street scape species in Singapore
    16 Feb 2026
    Chan, Ashlyn
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Rooted in Regulation: Municipal Constraints on Urban Street Planting in Christchurch
    16 Feb 2026
    Keeling, Alice
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Assessing the potential of UAV imagery and analysis-ready satellite embeddings for fractional cover mapping of invasive gorse (Ulex europaeus) at a regional scale
    3 Nov 2025 - 15 Feb 2026
    Ryman, Ginevra
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Mechanism-informed spatial prediction of sugar maple cultivation suitability under climate change
    1 Nov 2025
    Li, Qianhui
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Predicting Cultivation Suitability and Environmental Sensitivity of Sap-Producing Tree Species
    1 Nov 2025
    Li, Qianhui
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Beyond Vegetation Abundance: Urban Green Equity Through the Lens of an NDVI-Based Approach
    15 Jul 2024 - 22 Jul 2025
    Ashton, Hannah
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Identifying and classifying alternative forest species in New Zealand using remote sensing
    1 Mar 2024
    Avis, Joseph
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Improving seedling detection in plantations using multimodal deep learning: Integration of high-resolution RGB and multispectral UAV imagery
    1 Feb 2024 - 31 Oct 2024
    Singleton, Blake
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Hedges in Canterbury Plains, New Zealand and their implications for biodiversity conservation and sustainable agriculture
    1 Dec 2023
    Turnage, Mary Buford
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Monitoring heat islands and their relationship to greenspaces using remote sensing approaches in New Zealand cities
    1 Aug 2023
    Samarasinghe Yapa Mudiyanselage, Priyanganie
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Assessment of Eucalyptus Crown Damage using Remote Sensing
    1 Jun 2023
    Pariyar, Shiva
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Modelling Urban Forest Ecosystem Services with Remote Sensing
    1 Mar 2023
    Sharma, Gunjan
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Optimizing Urban Canopy Cover Estimation in Christchurch: A Strategic Exploration of Random Point Sampling Method for Enhanced Accuracy and Efficiency
    1 Feb 2023 - 11 Dec 2024
    Sipsa, Iro
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    The Uptake and Barriers of Geospatial Technologies in New Zealand’s Plantation Forestry Sector
    1 Feb 2023 - 31 Oct 2023
    Manning, Anna
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Urban trees and housing intensification: A spatial conflict?
    1 Sep 2022 - 20 Apr 2026
    Pedley, David
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Branching out: A Masters project to assess the efficacy of mobile laser scanning as a tool for branch-level phenotyping in young breeding trials of Pinus radiata
    1 Aug 2022 - 1 Apr 2025
    Hartley, Robin
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    An Evaluation of Landsat 9, Landsat 8, and Sentinel-2 for Large-Scale Forest Classification in the East Coast, New Zealand
    1 Feb 2022 - 21 Oct 2022
    Mace-Cochrane, Will
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Physiological and Environmental Factors Affecting the Sap Flow of Sugar Maple (Acer saccharum) Saplings Grown in New Zealand
    1 Mar 2021 - 8 Dec 2025
    Rennie, Matthew
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Improving Data Efficiency of Deep Learning-based Individual Tree Detection and Crown Delineation (ITDCD) in Urban Forests Using Aerial Imagery
    1 Feb 2021 - 30 Jan 2026
    Zhao, Haotian
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Effect of land development and tree protection strategies on urban forest structure and composition in Surrey, British Columbia
    21 Aug 2020 - 25 Sep 2024
    Grant, Laura
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Assessment of terrestrial laser scanning for tree measurements in a Pinus radiata D. Don forest, Canterbury, New Zealand
    1 Aug 2020 - 28 Feb 2022
    Sousa, Filipe
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Eco-physiological responses of several New Zealand indigenous tree species in urban forests under global climate change: A case study of Christchurch, New Zealand
    1 Feb 2020 - 13 Sep 2021
    Jang, Jihwi
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    A comparison of different photogrammetric software for the creation of structure from motion 3D point clouds for generating forest metrics
    10 Oct 2019 - 20 Feb 2020
    Lipwoni, Volga
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Optimising automated species classification for New Zealand’s indigenous forests with advanced remote sensing techniques
    1 Aug 2019 - 27 Apr 2023
    Ye, Ning