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ProfessorPieter Pelser

Professor

School of Biological Sciences

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  • Professor
    School of Biological Sciences
  • +6433695228 (Work)
  • Julius von Haast 530

TEACHING & SUPERVISION

  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Exploring Biodiversity: Principles and Methods of Systematics (University of Canterbury)
    13 Jul 2026 - 8 Nov 2026
    BIOL215-26S2
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Evolutionary Ecology (University of Canterbury)
    16 Feb 2026 - 21 Jun 2026
    BIOL371-26S1
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Exploring Biodiversity: Principles and Methods of Systematics (University of Canterbury)
    14 Jul 2025 - 9 Nov 2025
    BIOL215-25S2
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Evolutionary Ecology (University of Canterbury)
    17 Feb 2025 - 22 Jun 2025
    BIOL371-25S1
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Practical Field Botany
    14 Jan 2025 - 22 Jan 2025
    BIOL305
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Exploring Biodiversity: Principles and Methods of Systematics (University of Canterbury)
    15 Jul 2024 - 10 Nov 2024
    BIOL215-24S2
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Plant distribution patterns in the Philippines
    15 Jul 2024
    Nicholls, Callum
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Evolutionary Ecology (University of Canterbury)
    19 Feb 2024 - 23 Jun 2024
    BIOL371-24S1
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Diversity of Life
    1 Feb 2024
    BIOL113
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Practical Field Botany
    16 Jan 2024 - 24 Jan 2024
    BIOL305
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Patterns of floristic biodiversity in the Philippines
    17 Jul 2023
    Newton, Heidi
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Practical Field Botany
    17 Jan 2023 - 25 Jan 2023
    BIOL305
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    A conservation genomic study of threatened limestone populations of Senecio aff. matatini (Asteraceae)
    1 Jan 2023
    Patel, Samiksha
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    An exploration of the various mechanisms that facilitate speciation and population differentiation using the sex-role-reversed family Syngnathidae
    1 Jan 2023
    Lee, Jaehwan
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Lonely on limestone? A conservation genomics study of the Gentianella calcis complex
    1 Jan 2023 - 31 Dec 2024
    Eastman-Densem, Robb
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Seeking alleles from lost populations of the rare Canterbury endemic Veronica armstrongii
    1 Mar 2022 - 31 Dec 2023
    Gibbons, Ben Luke
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    A morphological investigation of whether the two known varieties of Haastia pulvinaris (Asteraceae: Senecioneae), H. pulvinaris var. pulvinaris and H. pulvinaris var. minor should be elevated to species level.
    21 Feb 2022 - 31 Dec 2022
    Nicholls, Callum Candish
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Banking with Banks Peninsula: a seed bank strategy for the wider Christchurch area
    21 Feb 2022 - 31 Dec 2023
    Freeman, Chavvah Skye
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Practical Field Botany
    18 Jan 2022 - 26 Jan 2022
    BIOL305
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Bringing home the lost (vegetable) sheep: A phylogenomic approach to testing the monophyly of Haastia (Asteraceae, Senecioneae).
    6 Jul 2021 - 31 Dec 2022
    Mcpherson, Kelvin Glen
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Practical Field Botany
    19 Jan 2021 - 27 Jan 2021
    BIOL305
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Practical Field Botany
    14 Jan 2020 - 22 Jan 2020
    BIOL305
  • TEACHING MENTORSHIP
    Fitt, Helen
    31 May 2018
    Mentoring Helen Fitt in her role as SCIE101 course coordinator
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Effects of invasive plants on future plant communities
    1 Mar 2018
    Green, Joanna
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Taxonomic and conservation genetics studies of the Tetrastigma loheri complex
    1 Mar 2016 - 24 Apr 2020
    Obico, Jasper JA