Collaborations
We collaborate with many researchers in New Zealand and abroad.
These include:
Associate Professor · Co-Director - Centre for Biodiversity and Restoration Ecology
School of Biological Sciences
Associate Professor · Programme Director, Masters of Geographic Information Science (MGIS)
School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences
Bethanna Jackson
Jason Tylianakis, University of Canterbury
Martin Hartmann, Swiss Federal Research Institute
Aimee Classen, University of Vermont
Hollei Gabrielsen, Ngati Rangi
Robert Holdaway, Landcare Research
Gavin Lear, University of Auckland
Hannah Buckley, Auckland Institute of Technology
Funding
2017 | National Science Challenge “Our Biological Heritage” – $18,000 “High through-put lipid analysis as a quality control for environmental DNA sequencing studies.”
2016 | Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment (MBIE) Vision Matauranga Capability Fund, $115,000 “The Future of Our Taonga Tipu”
2016 | Philanthropic research contribution Holdsworth Family Trust - $450,000 “Wetlands for People and Place: achieving maximal restoration outcomes for the Wairarapa wetland ecosystem”
2016 | Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden Fast Start - $300,000 “First come, best served? The role of generalist and specialist species in the assembly, diversity and productivity of ecosystems
2014 | Victoria University Research Fund - $12,500 “Ecosystem responses to direct and indirect effects of climate warming; the International Warming X Species Removal experiment”
2014 | Victoria University Research Fund - $36,789 “Plant-mycorrhizal network facilitation: a novel tool for the restoration of wetland biodiversity?”