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Senior Lecturer

School of Earth and Environment

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  • Senior Lecturer
    School of Earth and Environment
  • +6433690287 (Work)
  • Beatrice Tinsley 210

TEACHING & SUPERVISION SUMMARy

My teaching is focused on mahinga kai, environmental change, traditional Māori agriculture, Māori archaeology, palaeoecology and palaeolimnology.

TEACHING & SUPERVISION

  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Practical Environmental Science and Management
    13 Jul 2026 - 8 Nov 2026
    ENVR210
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Towards abundant mahika kai futures for Te Waihora (opens in a new tab)⁠
    2 Mar 2026
    Meha, Jaya
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  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Introduction to Environmental Science (opens in a new tab)⁠
    1 Feb 2026 - 30 Jun 2026
    ENVR101
    MORELEARN MORE (opens in a new tab)
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Developing an Early Warning System for Algal Blooms in Te Roto o Wairewa
    5 Jan 2026
    Reid, Carissa
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    TBD
    1 Jan 2026
    Swinton, Kryselle Brittany
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Fungal pathogens as ecosystem drivers: the impact of fungi on the forest communities of Aotearoa, New Zealand over decades to centuries
    3 Nov 2025 - 3 Nov 2028
    Camara, Anna
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Predicting Algal Blooms in Te Roto o Wairewa / Lake Forsyth: Towards a Spatio-Temporal Early Warning System and Digital Twin
    2 Nov 2025
    Arpanaei, Mohammad
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Extracting fire histories from inland and coastal dunes; developing a proxy of environmental change and human impact
    31 Jul 2025 - 31 Jan 2029
    Connolly, Caeli
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Diatom analysis from Ahuahu: human impact on the hydrology of wetlands
    1 Apr 2024
    Mason, Megan
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Palm biogeography of Aotearoa and the Pacific Islands
    1 Mar 2024
    Keller, Viktoria
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Waikākahi freshwater mussels as cultural, ecological and pollution indicators
    1 Mar 2024 - 1 Nov 2024
    Smith, Kyla
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Mātāpuna Kai (opens in a new tab)⁠
    19 Feb 2024 - 8 Nov 2026
    ENVR303
    MORELEARN MORE (opens in a new tab)
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Unravelling Environmental Histories
    19 Feb 2024 - 31 May 2024
    GEOL493
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Forensic Palaeontology
    17 Jul 2023 - 9 Nov 2025
    GEOL247/347
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Mātāpuna Kai
    17 Jul 2023 - 27 Oct 2023
    ENVR320
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Introduction to the Principles and Concepts of Sustainability
    13 Feb 2023 - 14 Jun 2024
    SENS101
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Assessment of Marine Habitats in Managed Areas around Te Pātaka o Rākaihautū/Banks Peninsula Using Multibeam Echosounder (MBES) and Drop Camera Imagery: A Subsect of the Iongairo Project
    1 Feb 2023 - 30 Nov 2023
    Coulston, Lucy
  • PROGRAMME DEVELOPED
    ENVR 303 Mātāpuna Kai and Environmental Science
    1 Jan 2023
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Kia whakatoomuri te haere whakamua – Palaeoscience tools to assist in the reinvigoration of a River’s memories
    1 Jun 2022 - 31 Jan 2027
    van Schravendijk-Goodman, Cheri
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Effects of current and projected salinity and temperature on growth of Nodularia spumigena and harmful algal blooms within Te Roto o Wairewa/Lake Forsyth in Aotearoa/New Zealand (opens in a new tab)⁠
    1 Feb 2022 - 31 Dec 2025
    Dawson, Emily
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  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Unravelling Environmental Histories
    1 Jan 2022
    GEOL493
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Science, Maori and Indigenous Knowledge
    12 Jul 2021 - 8 Nov 2026
    SCIM101
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Investigating the marine-terrestrial interface of Te Whakaraupō | Lyttelton Harbour, Banks Peninsula, New Zealand over the late Holocene
    1 Apr 2021 - 1 Apr 2024
    Hanson, Johanna
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Introduction to Environmental Science
    15 Feb 2021 - 31 May 2024
    ENVR101
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Reconstructing Contaminant Accumulation History in New Zealand’s Urban Estuaries
    1 Oct 2020 - 2 Jul 2026
    Hanson, Catriona