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Head of School

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Prof Paul Teesdale-Spittle

Head of School
School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences

Deputy Head of School

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Dr Mairead de Roiste

Deputy Head of School
School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences

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Dr Jamie Howarth

Deputy Head of School
School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences

Academic staff

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Dr Wokje Abrahamse

Associate Professor
School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences

Research Areas: 

climate change communication, pro-environmental behaviour change, climate change adaptation

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Human society Environmental sociology
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Dr Cliff Atkins

Senior Lecturer
School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences

Research Areas:  Polar aeolian sediment distribution, analysis of polar glaciomarine drillcores, terrestrial cold-based glaciers and the interaction with the landscape;Interp... read more

Geology Sedimentology
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Dr Brendon Blue

Senior Lecturer
School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences

Human geography Environmental politics Sociology and social studies of science and technology Environmental management Conservation and biodiversity Environmental geography Environment policy
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Dr Carolyn Boulton

Senior Lecturer
School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences

Research Areas:  As part of a collaborative research community, my research aims to quantify rock properties and improve seismic hazard models through better constraints on... read more

Geology Structural geology and tectonics Geophysics Natural hazards
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Dene Carroll

Lecturer (Teaching)
School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences

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Dr Calum Chamberlain

Senior Lecturer in Geophysics
School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences

Research Areas:  My research focuses on analysing fault-zone properties and earthquake processes using passive seismology. I am particularly interested in how earthquakes... read more

Seismology and seismic exploration
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Dr Kyle Clem

Senior Lecturer in Climate Science
School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences

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Prof James Crampton

Professor of Paleontology
School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences

Research Areas:  Much of my recent research has focused on identifying patterns and controls of marine biodiversity change and macroevolution on geological timescales, using... read more

Palaeontology (incl. palynology) Sedimentology Stratigraphy (incl. biostratigraphy, sequence stratigraphy and basin analysis) Other earth sciences Palaeoecology Speciation and extinction
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Dr Cathrine Dyer

Lecturer
School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences

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Dr Shaun Eaves

Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography

Antarctic Research Centre

Research Areas:  Quantitative paleoclimate reconstruction from alpine glaciers using numerical dating methods and physics-based glacier modelling Global climate model analysis... read more

Earth sciences Climate change processes Geochronology Physical geography and environmental geoscience Glaciology Palaeoclimatology Quaternary environments Geospatial information systems and geospatial data modelling Computational modelling and simulation in earth sciences Geomorphology and earth surface processes
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Dr Monica Handler

Associate Professor
School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences

Research Areas:  Geochemistry, trace metals, radiogenic isotopes, mantle processes, igneous processes and volcanic rocks, Earth formation, marine sediment chemistry, marine... read more

Geochemistry Geology Igneous and metamorphic petrology Volcanology
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Dr Valentine Ibeka

Lecturer, Human Geography and Development Studies
School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences

Migration Population geography Sociology of migration, ethnicity and multiculturalism Sociological methodology and research methods Information governance, policy and ethics Theology Social and political philosophy Development studies Sub-Saharan African history Development geography
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Prof Sara Kindon

Professor
School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences

Research Areas:  My central research interests are in equity and justice. I approach them through an intersectional feminist lens, which is attentive to subjectivity, place an... read more

Human geography Development studies Public participation and community engagement Multicultural, intercultural and cross-cultural studies Inclusive education Citizenship Development geography Urban community development Gender studies not elsewhere classified Social change Social geography Climate change impacts and adaptation
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Dr Anya Leenman

Lecturer
School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences

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Prof Katharine McKinnon

Professor
School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences

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Dr Marcela Palomino-Schalscha

Senior Lecturer
School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences

Research Areas:  My research interest is located in the intersection between Development Studies, Human Geography and Political Ecology, with special emphasis on migrants is... read more

Human geography Development studies Feminist methodologies Cultural geography
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Dr Andrew Rees

Senior Lecturer in Environmental Science · Programme Coordinator for ENSC
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Research Areas:  My research focuses on how freshwater ecosystems respond to environmental change over timescales ranging from decades to millennia. I use sediment records, bi... read more

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Prof Gerhard Reese

Associate Professor
School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences

Research Areas:  Catalysts and barriers of sustainable behavior Social identity and collective action Support for and opposition to climate policies Emotional respon... read more

Psychology Environmental sciences Health promotion
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Prof James Renwick

Professor of Physical Geography
School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences

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Research Areas:  Climate variability, climate change, weather and climate prediction... read more

Climate change processes Meteorology Physical geography and environmental geoscience Climate change science Adverse weather events
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Prof Martha Savage

Professor
School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences

Research Areas:  Seismology: tectonics, earthquake & volcanic hazards, and geothermal development... read more

Earth sciences Seismology and seismic exploration
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Dr Mirjam Schindler

Senior Lecturer in Human Geography
School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences

Research Areas:  Areas of particular interest are:- Urban green spaces - Healthy cities and urban liveability - Parent-centred urbanism - Urban morphology - Spatial analysis... read more

Modelling and simulation Urban and regional planning Urban and regional economics Human geography
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Dr Ian Schipper

Senior Lecturer
School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences

Research Areas:  volcanic eruption mechanisms, magma-water interaction, experimental volcanology/petrology, magma vesiculation, permeability, and textural evolution, volatile... read more

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AProf Dan Sinclair

Associate Professor
School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences

Research Areas:  My current projects include:
- Pacific Speleothems
- Deep-Sea Corals
- Marine Nutrient Proxies
- Biomineralisation
- Ocean Acidification... read more

Geochemistry Environmental sciences
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Dr Polly Stupples

Associate Dean, Students and Taught Postgraduate · Senior Lecturer in Human Geography
Faculty of Science and Engineering

Research Areas:  Social and cultural geography, Critical geopolitics, Creative practice, social change and the creative economyCommunities of filmmaking, Sustainable devel... read more

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Prof Rupert Sutherland

Professor of Geophysics and Tectonics
School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences

Research Areas:  Tectonics, geophysics, earthquake hazards, geothermal, sedimentary basins, geophysical surveying, paleogeography and paleoclimate.... read more

Sedimentology Structural geology and tectonics Geophysics
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Dr Amanda Thomas

Senior Lecturer in Environmental Studies
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Research Areas:  My central research interest is in democracy, particularly environmental democracy, and approaching this through a political ecology lens that is attentive to... read more

Human geography Environmental politics
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Prof John Townend

Professor of Geophysics
School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences

Research Areas: 

Earthquakes and Fault Mechanics, Plate tectonics, Tectonophysics, Seismology, Structural Geology, Alpine Fault, Geothermal Energy, Distributed Acoustic Sensing.

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Structural geology and tectonics Geophysics Seismology and seismic exploration
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Dr Billy van Uitregt

Senior Lecturer
School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences

Research Areas:  I'm interested in how indigenous voices, knowledges and worldviews are represented in contemporary environmental policy and management. There are many examples... read more

Environmental sciences Ngā mātauranga taiao o te Māori (Māori environmental knowledges) Environment policy
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Prof Colin Wilson

Professor of Volcanology
School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences

Research Areas:  My research covers a broad range of topics in areas of volcanology, geochemistry and petrology. My earlier career was built around intensive field focussed pr... read more

Geochemistry Geology Geochronology Igneous and metamorphic petrology Volcanology

Research staff

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Dr Barker

Senior Research Fellow

School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences

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Dr Jenni Hopkins

Senior Research Fellow
School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences

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Dr Finnigan Illsley-Kemp

Senior Research Fellow
School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences

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Dr Mike Joy

Senior Research Fellow
School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences

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El Mestel

Postdoctoral Fellow
School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences

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Dr Aisling O'Kane

Postdoctoral Fellow in Earth Science
School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences

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Dr Maja Zonjić

Post Doctoral Fellowship · Human Geography
School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences

Administration staff

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Belinda Behle

School Manager
School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences

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Meena Swortzel

Administrator, Operations Support
School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences

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Alina Egorova

Programme Administrator, ESCI (Earth Sciences)
School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences

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Mary Mason

Programme Administrator, Geography

School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences

Technical staff

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Kosta Tashkoff

Manager, Technical Services
School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences

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Aleksandr Beliaev

Computing Systems Administrator
School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences

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Jasmine Casidy

Research Assistant

Antarctic Research Centre

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Dr Bruce Charlier

Geochemistry Lab Manager
School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences

Senior Research Fellow
School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences

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Jane Chewings

Senior Technical Officer
School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences

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Frans Gerber

Technician, Geochemistry
School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences

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Kerstin Gruender

Research Assistant

Tutor

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Barbara Lyndsell

Technician, Petrology
School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences

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Felipe Perez

Geospatial and Field Support Technician

School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences

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Dez Tessler

Technician, Field Support
School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences

Emeritus professors, adjunct staff, teaching fellows

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Paul Blaschke

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Raimundo Brahmscott

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John Carter

Adjunct Professor
School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences

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Ralph Chapman

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Prof John Gamble

Emeritus Professor
School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences

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Rose Gregersen

Adjunct Research Fellow
School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences

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AProf Michael Hannah

Adjunct Professor
School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences

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Margaret Harper

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Dr Chris Hollis

Adjunct Professor

School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences

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Aline Homes

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Simon Lamb

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Marine Leminor

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Prof Tim Little

Emeritus Professor
School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences

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Aj Marshall

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Philip Morrison

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Warwick Murray

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Prof Rewi Newnham

Adjunct Professor
School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences

Head of School
School of Science in Society

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Kevin Norton

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Juergen Oesterle

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Prof John Overton

Emeritus Professor
School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences

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Graham Rickard

Adjunct Research Fellow
School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences

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Eduardo Salazarmoreira

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Prof Tim Stern

Adjunct Professor
School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences

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Shelley Stevens

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Dr Smrithi Talwar

Adjunct Professor
School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences

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Richard Willis

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Dr Marie Doole

Adjunct Research Fellow
School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences

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Dr Howard Larsen

Adjunct Professor
School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences, NZCCRI

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Dr Sebastian Naeher

Adjunct Teaching Fellow
School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences

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Dr Julie Vry

Adjunct Professor
School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences

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