ProfessorThomas Cochrane

Invited Keynote Speaker (fully funded). "Mekong Ecosystems at Risk: Adapting to impacts of water infrastructure development, climate change, and landuse change". Held at Tokyo Institute of Technology. Funded by the River Foundation. Organized by ECES and The Japan River Restoration Network.

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1st international workshop on kinetic energy of rainfall as a driver for soil erosion.

Invited Keynote Speaker at the AgroEnvironment 2016 Conference, Purdue University

Member (executive committee) of the Engineers for Social Responsibility New Zealand since May 2005

Member of the New Zealand Hydrological Society

Member of the Society of Soil and Water Conservation

Member engineer of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE)

Invited (and funded) guest speaker for the "Seminario Internacional: Evaluación de la degradación del Suelo Utilizando Sistemas de Información Geográfica" in Queretaro, Mexico, October 2000. Sponsored by Dr. Eusebio Jr. Ventura Ramos, Facultad de Ingenieria-Div. del Posgrado, Universidad Autonoma de Queretaro, C.U. Cerro de las Campanas, Queretaro, Qro. MEX 76010

Invited (and funded) keynote speaker in the 3rd International Conference on Land Degradation and Meeting of the IUSS Subcommission C – Soil and Water Conservation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 2001

Invited (and funded) speaker at the International Ecohealth Conference in Washington, DC, USA in 2002

Invited international presentations (fully paid): a) "River at Risk (Mekong)" - IndoBurma Freshwater Workshop, Cambodia, Phnom Pehn, March 2009 b) "Assessment of Flow Changes from Hydropower Development and Operations in Sre Kong, Se San and Sre Pok Rivers of the Mekong Basin." given at: *NHI - Natural Heritage Institute, San Francisco, USA. 17 Aug., 2011. *HEC USACE (Hydrological Engineering Centre, US Army Crops of Engineers)Davis, CA, USA: A Climate Resilient Mekong: Maintaining the Flows that Nourish Life Workshop on Data and Models, 19 Aug 2011. *Conservation International HQ - Washington D.C., United States: Expert Group Meeting, 30 Aug, 2011. c) "Hydropower Dams on the Mekong and 3S Rivers: A Regional Environmental and Socioeconomic Perspective." Stimson Center, Washington, DC, USA: 31 Aug 2011. Other invited presentations: Purdue University and National Soil Erosion Research Laboratory (2008) "Soil Erosion Research in New Zealand"