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DoctorMarwan Katurji

Associate Professor

School of Earth and Environment

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  • Associate Professor
    School of Earth and Environment
  • +6433694287 (Work)
  • Beatrice Tinsley 313

SERVICE & LEADERSHIP

  • EVENT PARTICIPATION
    Conference (opens in a new tab)⁠
    2 Sep 2025
    Invited speaker to the AI satellite meeting in Te Pae, Christchurch, New Zealand
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  • BROADCAST INTERVIEW
    US Embassy (opens in a new tab)⁠
    17 Mar 2025
    How can we better predict wildfires to protect our communities?
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  • CONFERENCE REVIEWING / REFEREEING
    14th International Conference on Southern Hemisphere Meteorology and Oceanography
    4 Dec 2024
    Anonymous peer review
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    Antarctic Science Platform Senior Leaderhsip Team
    1 Nov 2024
    Member
  • OFFICE HELD
    Geography Program Coordinator in School of Earth and Environment
    3 Jun 2024 - 17 Feb 2025
    School of Earth and Environment, University of Canterbury
  • JOURNAL REVIEWING / REFEREEING
    Nature Communications
    15 Apr 2024
  • JOURNAL REVIEWING / REFEREEING
    Boundary-Layer Meteorology
    28 Mar 2024
    Anonymous peer review
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    Marsden fund ESA panel
    1 Mar 2024
    Reviewer
  • BOOK PROPOSAL REVIEWING OR REFEREEING
    The Weather and Climate of Australia and New Zealand, 3rd Edition
    1 Feb 2024
  • BROADCAST INTERVIEW
    Newshub - TV news (opens in a new tab)⁠
    25 Jan 2024
    Scientists studying wildfire behaviour amid South Island's record-dry summer
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  • BROADCAST INTERVIEW
    Radio National New Zealand, Nine to Noon (opens in a new tab)⁠
    25 Jan 2024
    Predicting the spread of wildfires in Aotearoa
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  • EVENT PARTICIPATION
    Conference (opens in a new tab)⁠
    15 Dec 2023
    Invited speaker for session on Advances in Wildland Fire-Atmosphere Interactions: : Interactions Between Atmosphere and Fire: Exploring Turbulence Scale Processes
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  • JOURNAL REVIEWING / REFEREEING
    Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
    25 Jun 2023
    Anonymous peer review
  • EVENT ADMINISTRATION
    Conference
    24 Apr 2023 - 28 Apr 2023
    European Geophysical Union Session convener
  • JOURNAL REVIEWING / REFEREEING
    Weather and Forecasting
    17 Mar 2023
    Anonymous peer review
  • EDITORIAL
    Boundary-Layer Meteorology: an international journal of physical and biological processes in the atmospheric boundary layer
    3 Jan 2023
    Journal article
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    Faculty of Science Research Committee
    2 Jan 2023
    Chair
  • INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW
    Ministry for Environment, Ministry for the Environment
    1 Sep 2022
    Review of the: COMPILATION OF POTENTIAL ATTRIBUTES OF ECOLOGICAL INTEGRITY FOR AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND
  • JOURNAL REVIEWING / REFEREEING
    Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR): Atmospheres
    8 Jun 2022
    Anonymous peer review
  • INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW
    School of Mathematics and Staistics, University of Canterbury
    6 Jun 2022 - 9 Sep 2022
    I chair the panel for the 2022 Graduate Year Review for the Master of Applied Data Science/ Postgraduate Diploma in Applied Data Science. In this role I am responsible for reporting to the Faculty of Science on the sustained academic quality of this teaching program.
  • JOURNAL REVIEWING / REFEREEING
    International Journal of Wildland Fire
    19 Apr 2022
    Anonymous peer review
  • CONFERENCE REVIEWING / REFEREEING
    International Conference on Southern Hemisphere Meteorology and Oceanography
    20 Oct 2021
  • GRANT APPLICATION ASSESSMENT
    Needs assessment
    15 Mar 2021
    National Science Foundation (NSF) grant application
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    New Zealand Meteorological Society
    1 Feb 2021 - 2 Dec 2024
    Vice president
  • MEMBERSHIP
    Offshore Wind Working Group, New Zealand Wind Energy Association (NZWEA)
    1 Jan 2021