Staff Awards 1999 - 2000

Manaaki Whenua staff contributing professional expertise to other science-focussed organisations

Medals / prestigious prizes

Gary Barker
New Zealand Science and Technology Medal by the New Zealand Royal Society, for his extensive contributions to invertebrate ecology.

Ian Lynn, Colin Meurk
an award for communication from the NZ Institute of Landscape Architects for their contribution to landscape ecology

Gujja Magesan
a recognition medal by the Mayor of Hamilton city for community and social work on 21 March 2000.

Benny Theng
a long-term Fellowship from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) for X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy characterization of acid leached clays and soil minerals.

Bruce Trangmar
Friendship Medal from the People's Republic of China for his contribution to rural development and poverty alleviation in Guizhou

Noel Trustrum
DSc Victoria University for his contribution to sediment science including the role of climatic and tectonic processes on landscape evolution.

David Wardle
New Zealand Association of Scientists Research Medal for contributions to ecosystem processes research.

Janet Wilmshurst
Leverhulme fellowship (UK) for palynology (pollen records from past environments) research at Plymouth University in the UK

Zhi-Qiang Zhang
Invited, as Special Honour Guest, by the State Administration of Foreign Expert Affairs (SAFEA) of People's Republic of China (PRC) to attend the ceremonies celebrating the 50th anniversary of the PRC, in recognition of his contribution to science relations with PRC.

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Directorships & Board memberships

Bev Clarkson
Waikato Conservation Board

Charles Eason
Director of the Board of Cawthron Institute. Elected to Chair of the science sub-committee

Richard Gordon
Board of the Society for Ecological Restoration, USA

Phil Hart
Board of The Natural Step Environment Foundation Aotearoa New Zealand

Peter Johnson
Chatham Islands Conservation Board

Andy Pearce
Board of Foundation for Research, Science and Technology (FRST); Board of Wool Research Organisation of New Zealand (WRONZ); elected as a Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Management.

Richard Harris
Board of Marlborough Research Centre

Oliver Sutherland
Board of the Environmental Risk Management Authority (ERMA)

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Advisory positions

James Atari
Science Sub-Committee of NZ National Commission for UNESCO

Gary Barker
the Invasive Species Specialist Group of the IUCN Species Survival Commission

Louise Barton
National Working Party to develop a collaborative research strategy for nitrous oxide research

Jacqueline Beggs
Australia New Zealand Task Force on European Wasps (ANZECC)
Technical Advisory Group, DoC Rotoiti Nature Recovery Project
Invasive Species Specialist Group, IUCN
Roster of experts for the Convention on Biological Diversity

Ilse Breitwieser
Trustee of the Koiata Botanical Trust

Bev Clarkson
Trustee and secretary of the Wetland Trust

Murray Efford
Ecology, Evolution, and Behaviour Panel of the Marsden Fund

Simon Fowler
IUCN Invasive Species Specialist Group
Weed Management Advisory Group, Auckland City Council

Judy Grindell
Animals in Schools Education Trust (AISET)

Peter Heenan
Botanical advisor to the New Zealand Botanical Society Threatened Plant Committee.

Elena Hilario
Regional Representative for NZ for the International Study of the Origin of Life, 2000- 2002.

Colin Meurk
President, Travis Wetland Trust

Lynne Milne
National Animal Ethics Advisory Committee

John Parkes
New Zealand representative on the Vertebrate Pest Committee of the Australia and NZ Standing Committee on Agriculture and Resource Management

Ian Payton
Terrestrial Ecosystems Programme Group, Department of Conservation

Chris Phillips
Associate Director, International Erosion Control Association (IECA Australasian Branch).

Richard Harris
Australia New Zealand Task Force on European Wasps (ANZECC)

Louis Schipper
Technical Advisory Committee of the NZ Land Treatment Collective

Eric Spurr
Technical Advisory Group, Department of Conservation, Rotoiti Nature Recovery Programme

Kevin Tate
Member of an international review panel, appointed by Australian Greenhouse Office to review Australia's carbon accounting implementation plan.

Bruce Trangmar
Executive Committee of ENEX of New Zealand Inc. (Engineering Exporters)

Craig Trotter
Technical Steering Committee (Land group) for the proposed Japanese GCOM satellite series, and Technical Committee on Land Applications for setting the specifications for the successor to ADEOS-II.

Bruce Warburton
National Animal Welfare Advisory Committee
Technical Advisory Group for the National Possum Control Agencies.

Peter Wilson
Technical Advisory Group, DOC Rotoiti Nature Recovery Project

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Editorial roles with periodicals

Gary Barker
Editorial Board International Journal of Medical and Applied Malacology.

Ockie Bosch
Associate Editor Rangeland Journal

Peter Buchanan
Editorial Board Fungal Science

Phil Cowan
Editorial Board Wildlife Research

Charles Eason
Editorial Board Biomarkers

Dianne Gleeson
Editorial Board NZ Entomologist
Editorial Board Australian Journal of Entomology

Francis Kelliher
Regional Editor Agricultural and Forestry Meteorology

Rich Leschen
Associate Editor Systematic Biology
Associate Editor Dugesiana
Science Editor NZ Entomologist
Editorial Board of Coleopterists Bulletin
co-editor of Handuch der Zoologie volumes devoted to Coleoptera

Cheryl O'Connor
Editorial Board Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Roger Parfitt
Editorial Board Geoderma
Editor of Soil Science

David Penman
Editorial Board International Journal of Pest Management
Editorial Board Experimental and Applied Acarology

Surrinder Saggar
Editorial Advisory Board Agriculture Ecosystems and Environment

Graham Sparling
Board of Subject Editors Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Kevin Tate
Board of Subject Editors Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Benny Theng
Editorial Board Applied Clay Science
Co-editor (with Dr G.J. Churchman of CSIRO Land and Water in Adelaide, Australia), of a Special Issue of Applied Clay Science, devoted to clay research in Australia and New Zealand

Louis Tremblay
Guest Editor Biomarker
Guest editor Australasian Journal of Ecotoxicology

David Wardle
Board of Subject Editors Soil Biology and Biochemistry
Board of Subject Editors Pedobiologia
Board of Subject Editors Biology and Fertility of Soils
Chief editor New Zealand Journal of Ecology
Also reviewer for >40 journals including Science and Nature

David Whitehead
Editorial Board Tree Physiology
Editoral Board International Journal of Biometeorolgy

Susan Wiser
Editorial Board Journal of Vegetation Science

Gregor Yeates
Editorial Board Pedobiologia,
Editorial Board Russian Journal of Nematology
Editorial Board Biology & Fertility of Soils
Editorial Board Nematology

John Young
Chief Editor of Bradbury's Guide to Plant Pathogenic Bacteria

Zhi-Qiang Zhang
Editorial Board Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica
Editorial Board Member, Experimental & Applied Acarology
Editor, Systematic & Applied Acarology Special Publications
Assistant Editor, Acarology Bulletin
Editor-in-Chief, Systematic & Applied Acarology
Editorial Board Member, Oriental Insects

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University positions

Breck Bowden
Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of New Hampshire, in recognition of the role Breck will play in the development of the EcoQuest programme.

Ilse Breitwieser
Research Associate of University of Canterbury

Barry Fahey
Senior Fellow, Department of Geography at the University of Canterbury as a result of Barry's long-standing contributions to the Department, in both research and teaching

Peter Heenan
Research Associate, University of Canterbury

John Mclennan
Honarary Research Associate, Massey University
Honarary Research Associate, University of Canterbury

Benny Theng
Visiting Professor, University(of Shizuoka, Japan

David Wardle
Adjunct Professor with the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences at Umea, Sweden

David Whitehead
Research Associate with University of Canterbury's Department of Plant & Microbial Sciences
Honorary Lecturer, Lincoln University Soil, Plant and Ecological Sciences Division

Gregor Yeates
Visiting Professor, Danish Centre for Experimental Parasitology, The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Copenhagen, Denmark (August-September 1999).
Honorary Research Associate in the Institute of Natural Resources, Massey University.

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Professional societies & associations

Gary Barker
President of the Entomological Society of New Zealand.

Jacqueline Beggs
Councillor, New Zealand Ecological Society

Peter Buchanan
Councillor, Australasian Mycological Society

Brian Daly
Certificate of Appointment to International Accreditation NZ (IANZ)--authority to act as a technical expert in chemical testing

Lynley Hayes
President of the NZ Biosecurity Institute.

Cheryl O'Connor
Vice-president of Australasian Wildlife Management Society

David Pairman
Director of The Remote Sensing & Photogrammatry Association of Australasia

Chris Phillips
Editor of the newsletter "Broadsheet" of the New Zealand Association of Resource Management

Craig Ross
Companion of the Royal Society of NZ

Surrinder Saggar
Executive Council of the Manawatu Branch of the NZIAS/NZSHS
Certified Practising Agriculturialist for 2000-01 by the Australian Institute of Agricultural Science and Technology and the NZ Institute of Agricultural Science

Peter Stephens
Council Member, New Zealand Society of Soil Science

Peter Wardle (Research Associate)
elected an honorary life member of the NZ Ecological Society for services to ecology
President of the Canterbury Botanical Society
Janet Wilmshurst Vice-president, NZ Ecological Society
Gregor Yeates President of the Manawatu branch of the Royal Society of NZ

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Invited contributions

Ilse Breitwieser
invited to co-organise and contribute to the Symposium on Asteroideae at the XVI International Botanical Congress in St Louis (1999)
invited to contribute to the Compositae workshop at the 14. Symposium Biodiversitaet und Evolutionsbiologie in Jena (1999)
invited to co-author the chapter on Gnaphalieae in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) The families and genera of vascular plants. Flowering plants-Dicotyledons: Compositae. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.

Jim Coleman
invited speaker at the 3rd Bovine Tb conference in Cambridge (UK)

Charles Eason
invited guest speaker at world conference at Eilat, Israel on pesticide impacts on birds of prey and owls

Simon Fowler
Invited speaker at International Organisation for Biological Control Symposium on Evaluating Indirect Ecological Effects of Biological Control, Montpellier, France, Oct 1999
Invited speaker at 3rd International Weed Science Congress, presenting on the Negative Impacts of Classical Biological Control Agents, Foz do Iguacu, Brazil, June 2000

Jane Frš­hlich
Invited to co-chair a session on "New Frontiers in Biological Control", and to give two papers, at the Asian Mycological Congress 2000 in Hong Kong.
Invited to co-write a chapter on "Biological control: weeds" for the book "Exploiting Filamentous Fungi" to be published by Fungal Diversity Press.

Elena Hilario
invited to write a chapter in the book "Gene Probes--Principles and Protocols" for the series Methods in Molecular Biology published by Humana Press, USA.

Gujja Magesan
keynote address on "Current status of waste management in New Zealand" in the workshop "Towards better management of wastes and contaminated sites in the Australasia-Pacific region" organised by CSIRO Land and Water, Adelaide.
invited to co-edit a book on "Urban waste management in the Australasia-Pacific Region" (to be published by Oxford/IBH press).
invited to become a regional correspondent for WISPAS (a newsletter about Water In Soil-Plant-Atmosphere Systems) published by HortResearch Institute, Palmerston North.

Matt McGlone
invited by the NZ Royal Society to present the Cockayne Memorial Lecture in 2001

Grant Norbury
invited to write a review of lagomorph research over the past decade--this is a contribution to a special issue of the New Zealand Journal of Zoology, which will act as an updated supplement to the Handbook of New Zealand Mammals

Graham Nugent
invited speaker at the Bovine Tuberculosis in Michigan 2000 conference held in Michigan (USA)

Surinder Saggar
invited to contribute a chapter on 'Secondary Nutrients' in a book 'Processes in the Soil-plant system: Modelling concepts and application"

Neal Scott
invited to participate in workshop on carbon sequestration at University of New South Wales.

Graham Sparling
invited Dekker to contribute a section to the "Encyclopaedia of Soil Science" (editor R. Lal), on soil quality indicators.

Peter Stephens
invited by Steering Committee for Soil and Vegetation Carbon Monitoring project to co-ordinate a project involving Terralink, Forest Research and Landcare Research. Project involves the use of the Land Cover Database and carbon monitoring.

Kevin Tate
invited to participate in workshop on carbon sequestration at University of New South Wales.

Craig Trotter
the opening, plenary address "Spatial Information for Monitoring and Forecasting" for the Geographical Information Systems Conference Research Conference, York, UK.

Noel Trustrum, Mike Page, Kevin Tate and Basil Gomez
invited to write a paper on sediment and carbon export dynamics for the Lake Tutira catchment, for inclusion in a special issue of a PAGES (Past Global Changes) volume to be published in an Elsevier international journal.

Noel Trustrum
invited (with Japanese colleague Professor Marutani) to organise and convene the special session on sediment budgets, for International Geomorphology Conference in Japan 2001.

David Wardle
invited to write a book for Princeton University Press on on linking above ground and below ground communities.

David Whitehead
invited co-organiser of a session on Global Climate Impacts at Pacific Science Congress, Sydney
invited to give keynote presentation and participate in a meeting "Towards the application of process models to sustainable management of southern pine forests", North Carolina, USA.

Gregor Yeates
invited participant in INBio workshop on biodiversity of terrestrial and freshwater nematodes, held by Inventario Nacional de Biodiversidad, Heredia, Costa Rica (14 - 18 February 2000).

John Young
invited to prepare short articles on Pathovars, as well as on fluorescent Pseudomonads and nonfluorescent Pseudomonads, for an Encyclopaedia of Plant Pathology to be published by Wiley Press
keynote paper entitled "Classification, Naming, and Plant Pathogenic Bacteria--what is to be done?" at the 10th International Conference on Plant Pathogenic Bacteria, in Canada.

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Miscellaneous travel, conference & other awards

Chris Bailey
QEII Technicians Scholarship Award to UK to gain expertise in rodenticide sub-effects measurements and techniques for assessing the toxicity of air pollutants

Stella Belliss
sales award from SPOT IMAGE for 1999.

Lynn Booth
QEII scholarship for studies in the UK, focussing on novel ecotoxicological techniques for monitoring the fate and effects of contaminants in soil. (Consolidates links with CEH, formerly ITD in Huntingdon, UK)

Breck Bowden
MfE ISAT Technical Participation Programme award to attend the "Joint US-Japan Seminar on Hydrology and Biogeochemistry of Forested Catchments", 1-4 Feb 2000, Honolulu, Hawai'i

Fiona Carswell
FiRST Award from FRST for science poster

Janine Clemons
named as a Visiting Scholar by the Institute of Environmental Medicine as part of the New York University School of Medicine to be carried out at the United States Environmental Protection Agency Particle Matter Centre

Janine Duckworth
awarded a NZ/USA ISAT grant for travel to USA.

Charles Eason
recipient of MoRST TPP award to participate and co-chair a workshop in the UK "International Network on Soil Ecotoxicological Risk Assessment SERAS

Jane Frš­hlich
awarded a travel grant by the Commonwealth Science Council to attend the Asian Mycological Congress in Hong Kong

Alison Gianotti
awarded (jointly with Chris Winks) the New Zealand Biosecurity Institute Annual Prize for the best presentation, National Education and Training Seminar of the New Zealand Biosecurity Institute, July 1999.

Peter Johnson
Awarded funding from Commonwealth Science Council and Technical Participation Programme of ISAT to attend International Workshop on Lichen Monitoring, Wales, August 2000.

Bob Lee
on Organising Committee for Workshop on Environmental Aspects of Pesticide Use, Hamilton, 15-16 Nov 1999.

Linda Lilburne
NZ Royal Society ISAT award to visit the Joint Research Commission in Italy for 1 month.

Kate Littin
ANZCCART Student Award for presentation on Researching humane pest control and new ideas about suffering at the ANZCCART Conference on The Use of Wildlife for Research

Gujja Magesan
on the Organising Committee, and chaired the Urban Wastes session, for the second International conference on contaminants and the soil environment. New Delhi, India. 12-19 December 1999.
on the Judging Panel, New Zealand Society of Soil Science Postgraduate Awards (2000).

Grant Morriss
QEII Technicians Award to assess welfare aspects of traps in Canada

Heather North
involved in organising the Image and Vision Computing New Zealand Conference, and co-produced the proceedings.
NZ/FRG Scientific and Technological Co-operation Agreement Programme funding to visit DLR (Germany) for two weeks in September and attend the Conference on SAR Image Analysis, Modelling, and Techniques V (Rs10) at European Symposium on Remote Sensing, Barcelona.

Kathryn O'Halloran
Commonwealth Science Travel Award to go to a contaminate site workshop in India

David Pairman
involved in organising the Image and Vision Computing New Zealand Conference, and co-produced the proceedings.

Aroon Parshotam
joint winner (with Massey University co-authors) of the 1999 IPENZ (Institution of Professional Engineers NZ) Fletcher Challenge Paper Award for the best paper on a subject with a substantial chemical engineering interest, published by the Institution during the three year period ended December 1998.

Louis Schipper's
oral presentation at NZ Water & Wastes Association Conference, was awarded paper of the year for 1999

Neal Scott
co-organiser of a symposium at the 1999 Ecological Society of America meeting: Invasive species and the soil: effects on organisms and ecosystem processes.

Louis Tremblay
awarded an ISAT grant for travel to Australia

Guodong Yuan
NZ Royal Society ISAT award to visit the Institute of Soil Science, China and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology for collaborative research on organoclays and pollution abatement.

Bruce Warburton
MoRST TPP award to present a paper on bioeconomics of wallaby control at the US Vertebrate pest Conference

Chris Winks
awarded (jointly with Alison Gianotti) the New Zealand Biosecurity Institute Annual Prize for the best presentation, National Education and Training Seminar of the New Zealand Biosecurity Institute, July 1999.

Wim Wouts
invited by the Guangdong Entomological Institute to spend two weeks in Guangzhou, in January 2000, to study an undescribed nematode genus parasitising termites in China
invited by the Institute for Nematological Research of the Federal Republic of Germany to spend two weeks at the institute in July 2000 to study the identity of the yellow beet cyst nematode, a serious new pest of sugar beet.
invited by the University of Adelaide to take part in a cooperative study of the biodiversity of Pratylenchus species in South and Western Australia in cereal crops and adjoining native habitats.

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Staff awards

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