ProfessorMark Milke

Supply of samples of work, evidence of continuing professional development, and referee reports. Oral interview to check on maintaining of competence.

Member

Supply of samples of work, evidence of continuing professional development, and referee reports. Oral interview to check on maintaining of competence.

Civil Engineering and Environmental Systems

Review of Catalyst grant applications for overseas collaborations.

One of three panel members responsible for degree accreditation. Review of voluminous documentation, two day site visit, written 16 page report.

Co-convenor of New Zealand Water Post-Graduate Research Workshop, Christchurch (July 2011). The Universities of Auckland and Canterbury combined to provide a one-day workshop on water-related post-graduate research. 11 post-graduates presented research in the morning sessions. Attendance included a number of industry leaders as well as academic staff with a total of 43 in attendance. One afternoon session provided keynote talks by water industry leaders, a second provided post-graduate students with advice on career development, and a third was a facilitated workshop to identify key needs for the water sector. The workshop met a need for post-graduate students to present their research and also to develop professional links.

International Wastes Working Group

Member of Waste Technical Advisory Group for the NZ Emissions Trading Scheme, Ministry for the Environment. I suggested that I would be available for this advisory group, and was one of 6 people nationally appointed in 2010. This group met 3 times in Wellington and developed a number of documents to help develop the regulations. I was the only one with research experience, and I believe my appointment was to fill a perceived gap in research knowledge needed to advise on new regulations.

Member of Managing Board of IWWG (2009-present). One of 11 members of the managing board for the leading organisation for solid waste researchers. The board oversees management of the top solid waste journal, Waste Management, and also co-ordinates a series of conferences every year. My role has been to advise on issues related to the journal based on my 6 years as Assoc. Ed. I have also taken a lead in rewriting the constitution.

Chartered Professional Engineer-- Institution of Professional Engineers New Zealand (since 2007). The application requires demonstration (both through printed evidence and an oral interview) of competency across a range of criteria. It also requires demonstration of continuing professional development. Few research engineers have CPEng status. An ability to form a bridge between research and practice for an applied discipline such as engineering is critical to long-term research impact within NZ.

Advisory Forum member for Open Polytechnic of NZ's Bach. Technology degree. I was nominated to a place on the advisory board in 2006. I am one of six members that meet annually and provide comment on the degree. I am the only university academic or researcher on the board.

Royal Society of Edinburgh, Academic Visitor Grant. I applied for, and was awarded, a 2,600 pound (NZ$7,000) grant to support my visit to Napier University in Jan-June of 2006. This was a competitive fund to which I made application. The funds were to support my research work in collaboration with John McDougall at Napier.

Session Chair. ICLRS, Colorado, 2008. Chair of session on 'Uncertainty in Gas Generation Model Parameters'. The Intercontinental Landfill Research Symposium runs every two years and rather than based on platform presentations, the symposium is structured around focused sessions which include a mixture of presentations and workshop activities. Duty as session chair involves writing a proposal, developing a programme, running the session, and writing a summary.

Invited speaker at Southern Environmental Trust's annual public forum, August, 2001, Christchurch.