Associate ProfessorShelley MacDonell

Associate Professor

School of Earth and Environment

  • Associate Professor
    School of Earth and Environment
  • +6433691883 (Work)
  • Beatrice Tinsley Rm 425

TEACHING & SUPERVISION

  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    The application of machine learning to snow processes
    1 Apr 2025
    Chen, Yiyao
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Water Science and Management Project
    1 Apr 2025
    WATR691
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Quantifying aquatic insect emergence traits in response to flow regime variation
    1 Mar 2025 - 28 Feb 2026
    Meikle, Anna
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Quantifying snow drought in Canterbury headwaters
    1 Jan 2025 - 12 Dec 2025
    Loyda, Palita
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Tracing precipitation - exploring water isotopes in precipitation at UC
    1 Jan 2025 - 12 Dec 2025
    Ferguson, Ashleigh
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Chasing storms: Tracking event flow in a mountain catchment
    1 Apr 2024 - 31 Mar 2025
    McMecking, Jack
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Woody habitat utilisation and instream wood requirements of native New Zealand freshwater fish: Implications for river management practices.
    1 Apr 2024
    Espiner, Ciara
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Interannual Variability in Hydroclimatic Responses of a New Zealand Alpine Catchment
    1 Mar 2024 - 28 Feb 2025
    Farrugia, Ella
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Trustworthiness and ground-truthing of machine learning approach for regional scale rock glacier inventories
    1 Feb 2024
    Tamang, Sunil
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    What Has Happened to Our Lake? Characterizing the Development of a High Mountain Kahphuche Lake in Nepal
    1 Jan 2024 - 31 Dec 2024
    Gurung, Roshni
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Assessment of pack ice characteristics and sea ice mass balance in the Western Ross Sea based on remote sensing and geophysical data
    1 Aug 2023
    Barras, Pauline
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Dinámica glaciar de la Plataforma de Hielo Müller, Antártica [Ice dynamics of the Müller ice shelf, Antarctica}
    1 Jan 2022 - 31 Dec 2023
    Prado, Alberto
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    1 Jan 2022 - 31 Dec 2024
    WATR201 (University of Canterbury)
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    1 Jan 2022 - 31 Dec 2024
    WATR201 (Lincoln University)
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Modelización de Procesos Glacio-hidrológicos de Alta Montaña en los Andes Semiáridos (30°S): Caso de Estudio Microcuenca del Glaciar Tapado, Alto Río Elqui [Modeling of High Mountain Glacio-Hydrological Processes in the Semi-Arid Andes (30°S): Case Study of the Tapado Glacier Microbasin, Upper Elqui River]
    1 Jan 2022 - 31 Dec 2024
    Yáñez San Francisco, Eduardo
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Spatiotemporal analysis of changes in albedo due to light-absorbing impurities of glacier surfaces
    1 Jan 2022
    Fuchs Arce, J Pablo
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Caracterización de la Escorrentía en una Cuenca Representativa de los Andes Semiáridos en Años de Sequia [Characterisation of runoff in a representative catchment in the semiarid Andes during drought years]
    1 Jan 2021 - 31 Dec 2022
    Guzmán Piñones, Camilo
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Efecto de la megasequía en la estadística fluviométrica de la Región de Coquimbo, Chile [Effect of the megadrought on fluviometric statistics in the Coquimbo Region, Chile]
    1 Jan 2021 - 31 Dec 2022
    Araya Boyd, Francisco
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Elaboración de una red de monitoreo de niveles de aguas subterráneas para los acuíferos de la cuenca del río Limarí, Chile [Development of a groundwater monitoring network for aquifers in the Limarí River catchment, Chile]
    1 Jan 2021 - 31 Dec 2022
    Pizarro Barraza, Iván
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Identificación de soluciones basadas en la naturaleza para servicios hidrológicos en zonas áridas y semiáridas
    1 Jan 2021 - 31 Dec 2022
    Kritzner Jacowski, Llara