ProfessorRoger Nokes

Member of the Australasian Fluid Mechanics Society Executive Committee - one of only two NZ members of this committee. This committee controls the biennial Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference, is creating linkages between Australasian researchers in fluid mechanics and developing a range of options to support postgraduate students as well as researchers in this field. I am an active member of the executive.

Member of IPENZ Standards and Accreditation Board

In 2011 I was elected to a Fellowship of the Institution of Professional Engineers New Zealand. The Citation states "We recognize his contribution to the research field of environmental fluid mechanics and his contribution to teaching engineering at tertiary level".

I was a member of the local organising committees for the International Association of Hydraulic Research, Asia Pacific Division Conference in Auckland 2010 and the 17th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference in Auckland 2010.

Chair of IPENZ Accreditation Panel for Engineering Science and Bioengineering at the University of Auckland, 2010.

Appointed to the Executive Committee of the newly formed Australasian Fluid Mechanics Society. This society aims to represent fluid mechanicists in Australasia on a variety of bodies including the Australian Research Council panels and to manage the biennial Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference. I was the executive representative on the local organising committee of the 17th AFMC. I was reelected onto the executive in 2010.

Royal Society of New Zealand (From 1998)

As HOD of the Department of Civil and Natural Resources Engineering at the University of Canterbury I initiated and led the establishment of the UC Quake Centre following the Canterbury earthquake sequence. This Centre acts in a number of roles but in particular it facilitates research activity that is of particular interest to industry partners. It is funded by its industry partners and it has an annual budget of around $1M.

I was an invited keynote speaker at the inaugural NZ Physical Oceanography Workshop in Wellington 2009. I spoke on "Doing physical oceanography without an ocean".

One of the invited plenary lecture at the 2nd Fluids in New Zealand Conference, held in Auckland January 2014.