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Staff Awards 2000-2001

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

• Medals / prestigious prizes
• Staff holding positions in professional societies
• Invited contributions
• Miscellaneous travel, conference & other awards
• Directorships & Board memberships
• Advisory positions
• Editorial roles with periodicals
• Staff holding university positions 2000/01

Medals / prestigious prizes

Phil Cowan
Royal Society NZ Science & Technology Silver medal, in recognition of his contribution to research on possum control.

Henry Connor, Elizabeth Edgar (Research Associates)
the 2000 Hutton Medal (plant sciences) for contributions to the botanical classification of New Zealand's flora.

Brian Daly
the 1998-2000 Blakemore Award, from the New Zealand Society of Soil Science, in recognition of outstanding performance as a soil science technician.

Charles Eason
Royal Society Silver Medal presented by Hon. Pete Hodgson, Minister of Science, together with Sir Gil Simpson, President of the Royal Society of New Zealand, in recognition of his contributions to pesticide toxicology in New Zealand.

Barry Fahey
the New Zealand Hydrological Society's award for Outstanding Achievement in the Hydrological Sciences.

Grant McPhail
Energy Manager Award from EECA for electricity management programme that reduced Lincoln power account by >40% over 5 years

Colin Meurk
Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society's prestigious 'Old Blue' Award in recognition of key contribution to protecting Travis Wetland and to other urban biodiversity restoration projects

Surya Pandey, Matthew Taylor, Bob Lee
the Degussa Innovation Award, Waikato Business and Environment Awards, for the establishment of a trial treatment wall designed to reduce the pollutant load in road run-off from part of a roundabout in Hamilton City

Noel Trustrum
Recipient of the Japanese Sumitomo Science Foundation Award, 2000, which provided funding to contribute to workshops in Japan on contrasting and comparing sediment budget approaches with New Zealand.

David Whitehead
Distinguished Service Award, presented at the world IUFRO congress in Kuala Lumpur.

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Staff holding positions in professional societies

Jackie Aislabie
Vice-President of the New Zealand Microbiological Society Inc.

Gary Barker
Immediate-past President of the Entomological Society of New Zealand.

Jacqueline Beggs
Councillor, New Zealand Ecological Society

Ross Beever
Vice-President, Auckland Botanical Society

Peter Buchanan
Councillor, Australasian Mycological Society

Bruce Burns
Councillor, New Zealand Ecological Society

Janine Clemons
Editorial Committee for the International Congress of Toxicology meeting - Brisbane

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

Murray Dawson
seconded onto National Executive, Royal New Zealand Institute of Horticulture (RNZIH) Webmaster, Royal New Zealand Institute of Horticulture (RNZIH)

David Galloway
Honorary Life President, International Association for Lichenology

Dianne Gleeson
President, Systematics Association of New Zealand

Lynley Hayes
President of the NZ Biosecurity Institute.

Robert Hoare
President of the Auckland Branch of the Entomological Society of New Zealand.

Cheryl O'Connor
Secretary of the Australasian Wildlife Management Society

Kathryn O'Halloran
NZ representative on the committee for the Australasian Society for Ecotoxicology (ASE).

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

Lindsay Rowe
Treasurer of the New Zealand Hydrological Society.

Surrinder Saggar
Executive Council of the Manawatu Branch of the NZIAS/NZSHS

Certified Practicing Agriculturialist for 2001/02 by the Australian Institute of Agricultural Science and Technology and the NZ Institute of Agricultural Science

Peter Stephens
Vice President, New Zealand Society of Soil Science

Adrian Walcroft
Council member, New Zealand Society of Plant Physiologists

Peter Wardle (Research Associate)
President of the Canterbury Botanical Society

Janet Wilmshurst
Vice-president, NZ Ecological Society

Susan Wiser
Council of the New Zealand Ecological Society.

Gregor Yeates
President of the Manawatu branch of the Royal Society of NZ

Zhi-Qiang Zhang
President 2000-2003, Systematic & Applied Acarology Society, UK

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Invited contributions

Will Allen
invited to join the steering committee for the IUCN Collaborative Management Working Group (CMWG), with responsibility for social communication.

Stella Belliss, Stephen McNeill, David Pairman, Heather North
Invited presentation at the NZ ESRI Users Group Conference: Projecting the Future. 17-20 September 2000, The Chateau on the Park, Christchurch.

Stella Belliss
Invited presentation at IIR Conference's Optimising your business and planning through the use of Geographic Information Systems, 21-22 November, 2000, Parkroyal Hotel, Wellington.

Ross Beever
Invited to present the John Smaillie Tenant Lecture 2000 (University of Otago)

Andrea Byrom
Invited to attend workshop on pika contol on the Tibetan Plateau in Xining, China, July 2000.  Workshop was run by the Qinghai Livestock Development Project, a project jointly funded by the European Economic Commission and the Qinghai Bureau of Animal Husbandry.

Jim Coleman
invited speaker at that?3rd Bovine Tb Conference, Cambridge, UK.

Phil Cowan
invited to make a presentation at a Symposium on Reproduction & Integrated Conservation Science, Zoological Society of London, on field applications of fertility control.

Brian Daly
invited to Thailand by IBSRAM to help run (with an Australian and a French soil chemist) a two week SEALNET (South East Asia Laboratory Network) workshop on soil and plant analyses.

Charles Eason
invited as a keynote speaker to address at IUTOX (International Union of Toxicologists) in Brisbane on the comparative role of biomarkers in environmental, experimental and clinical toxicology and risk assessment.

Jane Fr¨­hlich
invited to co-chair a session on biological control, and to give two papers at the Asian Mycological Congress 2000 (Hong Kong, 9/13 July).

David Galloway
invited to give the Vice President first Plenary Lecture at the 5th Congress of Latin American Lichenologists - GLAL-5 (Chile)

Allan Hewitt
invited keynote speaker to EC-sponsored conference on volcanic soils, Azores, October.

Peter Johnson
invited by the MfE Air Quality Working Group to give a presentation from his August 2000 international workshop in Wales on lichen monitoring and air pollution.

Margaret Kilvington, Will Alleninvited to co-author a conference paper by Nancy Grudens Schuck and Tasha Hargrove of Iowa State University, "The Concept of Dependency in Participatory Facilitation: Challenges for Evaluation".

Bill Lee
invited to talk on invasive weeds to the NZ Biosecurity Institute Conference Napier, July, 2001.

Richard Leschen
invited?keynote speaker at the Entomological Society of America conference (held in Montreal) in a symposium on Coleoptera Systematics honouring the retirement of John Lawrence.

Graham Nugent
invited to participate in an AHB strategic research meeting.

Gareth Lloyd-Jones
offered an appointment as visiting researcher by the Biotechnology Research Center, University of Tokyo, from 17-30 May, 2001.
invited keynote speaker at a conference in Japan, on the molecular basis of contaminant degradation by bacteria.

Grant Norbury
invited to participate in NZ-Hawaii Conservation Exchange Program July/August.

Mike Page
Invited to represent Landcare Research in initiating the New Zealand Natural Hazards Business Cluster.

Surinder Saggar
invited to author a chapter on Secondary Nutrients for the book "Processes in the Soil‑Plant System: modelling concepts and applications".

Neal Scott
Invited to present seminars at Institute of Ecosystem studies, Millbrook, N.Y., Rutgers University and Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Fort Collins, Colorado

Graham Sparling
invited to contribute a chapter on soil quality indicators to the Encyclopaedia of soil science

Eric Spurr
invited speaker at the 2001 Society for Conservation Biology Annual Meeting, in Hawaii, July/August 2001.

Peter Stephens
invited to coordinate a commercial project to link the Land Cover Database to the MfE Carbon Monitoring System.

Benny Theng (Research Associate)
 invited speaker at the International Symposium on Research and Education in the 21st Century (ISRE 2000), Tohoku University, Sendai, 21-23 August 2000.
Invited speaker at the 44th annual meeting of the Japan Clay Science Society, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 2-4 October 2000.

Craig Trotter
invited author of the opening chapter in Spatial Information and the Environment, the 8^th volume in a book series on innovations in GIS.
Invited?NZ representative at an Australian Greenhouse Gas Office meeting on carbon sequestration and modelling.

Kevin Tate
Invited to chair a workshop at an Australian Greenhouse Gas Office meeting on carbon sequestration and modelling.

Noel Trustrum
Invited participate in IGBP Land Use and Climate Change in Fluvial Systems (LUCIFS) workshop, March 2000, Bonn, Germany.
Invited convener of symposium "Sensitivity and recovery of landscape following disturbances to sediment delivery" at 5 th International Conference on Geomorphology, August 2001, Tokyo, Japan.

Noel Trustrum, Mike Page?
Invited editors of "Source‑to‑Sink Sedimentary Cascades in Pacific Rim Geo‑systems" book, to be published by Nippon Alps Sabo Center, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, Japan.

Noel Trustrum, Mike Page, Hannah Brackley
Invited to participate in US NSF MARGINS Workshop, September 2000, Lake Tahoe, USA.

Peter Wardle (Research Associate)?
Invited to present one of the jubilee papers at the 50th jubilee of the founding of the NZ Ecological Society (Christchurch, August 2001)

Gregor Yeates
Invited, keynote speaker at "2001: A Soil Odyssey" the 2001 Soil Ecology Society Conference held at Callaway Gardens, Pine Mountain, Georgia, USA (20 / 23 May 2001).

John Young
convened a symposium on taxonomy of plant pathogenic bacteria, and gave a keynote address at the10^th International Conference on Plant Pathogenic Bacteria, (Charlottetown, PEI, Canada).?John also convened?meeting of ISPP Committee on Taxonomy of Plant Pathogenic Bacteria.

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Miscellaneous travel, conference & other awards

Rob Allen
Commonwealth Science Council travel award

Louise Barton*
won both NZSSS Awards for best poster and oral presentations by a young scientist at the recent joint NZSSS/ASSS Conference, 3-8 December 2000.

Ross Beever
has had electron micographs and photographs of Neurospora crassa feature internationally in a number of recent publications about this model fungus.?

Peter Bellingham?
awarded ISAT linkages funding

Stella Belliss
Commonwealth Science Council Travel Award to attend an international conference in Sweden to present?research results.

Lynn Booth
awarded a QEII scholarship for studies in the UK on novel ecotoxicological techniques for monitoring contaminants in soil.

Breck Bowden
awarded best presentation on a mangement issue at the NZ Hydrological Society's Fresh Perspective Conference
awarded ISAT linkages funding

Hannah Brackley
Awarded Landcare Research NSOF training funding for PhD study, commencing in July 2001.
Commonwealth Science Council travel award

Andrea Byrom
awarded TPP (Technical Participation Programme - ISAT) grant from MoRST to attend a British Ecological Society Symposium on dispersal in Reading, UK, April 2001.

Janine Clemons?
awarded a "Visiting Scholarship" for 2 months (May-July 2001) at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Particle Centre within the Institute for Environmental Medicine, Dept of Medicine, New York University

Dave Forsyth
awarded a 3-6 month research associate position at the National Centre for Scientific Research, France.

Andy Glazier
a Cooperative Science Programme ISAT linkages Fund award to collaborate with Dr John Harder, Ohio State Uivelsity, USA.

Dianne Gleeson
'adopted' by Lynfield College as their 'friendly scientist'.

Margaret Kilvington
Commonwealth Science Council Travel Award

Kate Littin (PhD student)
received a student award for innovative research, at the Australasian Wildlife Management Society?annual conference.

Matthew McGlone
asked by FRST to write a report on research on climate change impacts
Malcolm McLeod Commonwealth Science Council travel award

Gujja Magesan
received a Commonwealth Science Council travel grant to attend an international conference in India in December 2000

Heather North
ISAT FRGlinkage award to visit the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) 2nd-13th October 2000

Chris Phillips
presented the best poster for "Environment" at the International Union of Forest Research Organisations (IUFRO) Congress, Kuala Lumpur, "Sediment generation following harvesting of Pinus radiata in New Zealand: a variable story".

Surinder Saggar
recognised as a Certified Practising Agriculturalist by Australian Institute of Agricultural Science and technology and New Zealand Institute of Agricultural Science for 2001/2002.

Kevin Tate
The paper "A multi scale analysis of a terrestrial carbon budget: Is New Zealand a source or sink of carbon?" (K R Tate et al., Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 2000), has been included as a Research Highlight on the US Department of Energy's website.

Louis Tremblay
awarded a Bilateral Research Activities Programme from the ISAT Linkages Fund to support collaboration with Dr Heather Chapman, Griffith University, Australia.

Noel Trustrum
invited by Professor Gary Brierley (Macquarie University, Sydney) along with Professor Marutani (Japan), to be a Partner Investigator in project submitted for Australian Research Council (ARC) funding .

Jacqui Whitford
poster on "Possums scavenging deer carcases" was judged the best at the 3rd Bovine Tb Conference, Cambridge, UK.

Janet Wilmshurst
was awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for 10 months (starting November) with the Quaternary Research Environments Group at Plymouth University, UK.

Deb Wilson
won a NZ Ecological Society Award for "Best Publication by a new researcher".
awarded ISAT Linkages Funding

Guodong Yuan
awarded a fellowship by the Japan Science and Technology Agency for work on surface reactions of heavy metals with clay minerals and natural organic matter - implications in cleanup of metal‑contaminated land.

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Directorships & Board memberships

Bev Clarkson
Waikato Conservation Board

Charles Eason
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

David Penman
Governing Board of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

Chris Phillips
Associate Director, International Erosion Control Association

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

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Advisory positions

Jackie Aislabie
Member of the Environmental Advisory group of Antarctica New Zealand.

Rob Allen
Research subgroup of the sanding committee on forestry, Australia - New Zealand Ministerial Council on Forestry, Fishing and Agriculture.

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

Gary Barker
the Invasive Species Specialist Group of the IUCN Species Survival Commission
Member of the 'Expert Reference Group' for Department of Conservation's ecological management strategy development process
Member of an International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) committee on Mollusca.

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 National Wetland Trust

Phil Cowan
NZ panel of experts for the Clearing House Mechanism relating to the Convention on Biological Diversity

Debra Emmett*
Chairperson of the Hamilton Community Environmental Programme

Dave Forsyth
Member of an International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) committee on Caprinae (ruminants with horns).

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

David Galloway
Fellowship Selection Panel (Plant Sciences), Royal Society of New Zealand

Dianne Gleeson
Member of the Marsden Fund's Evolution, Ecology and Behaviour panel

Richard Gordon
Global Reporting Initiative, indicator development group

Judy Grindell
Animals in Schools Education Trust (AISET)

Richard Harris
Australia New Zealand Task Force on European Wasps (ANZECC); Argentine ant technical advisory group for MAF biosecurity authority.

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.

John Innes
Member Invasive Species Specialist Group of the IUCN Species Survival Commission
Member of the 'Expert Reference Group' for Department of Conservation's ecological management strategy development process.
Member of the Department of Conservation North Island kokako and black stilt Recovery Groups

Margaret Lawton
Chaired the Reference Group on the joint Health Research Council/FRST Maori tender
National Advisory Committee for Ministry of Education funded GLOBE project
National Advisory Committee for Ministry of Education funded WaterWay's project

Bill Lee
Kakapo Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee, Department of Conservation

Matt McGlone
Member of reference group for the PCE investigation "The role of indigenous flora on non-public land".

John McLennan
Kiwi scientific and technical advisory committee, Dept of Conservation
Scientific advisor, Kuaotunu Kiwi Sanctuary

Colin Meurk
President, Travis Wetland Trust

Lynne Milne
National Animal Ethics Advisory Committee

Surya Pandey
Science Advisory Committee, The Waikato Polytechnic, Hamilton

John Parkes
New Zealand representative on the Vertebrate Pest Committee of the Australia and NZ Standing Committee on Agriculture and Resource Management.
Roster of Experts on Convention on Biological Diversity.
Member of the Marsden Fund's Ecology, Evolution and Behaviour Panel.
Member Invasive Species group, IUCN

Ian Payton
Terrestrial Ecosystems Programme Group, Department of Conservation

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

Surinder Sagger
Appointed to the Hamilton Mayor's Task Force on Jobs

Louis Schipper
Technical Advisory Committee of the NZ Land Treatment Collective

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

Peter Stephens
Vice-President of the New Zealand Society of Soil Science.

Noel Trustrum
New Zealand representative on the Australia-New Zealand Geomorphology Group.

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); Member of the Executive Committee of Consulting NZ Inc (overseas consultancy organization)

Craig Trotter
Principal Investigator, algorithm design for the GLI sensor on the ADEOS-II satellite (Japanese National Space Development Agency)
Member of the Technical Steering Committee (Land group) for the proposed Japanese GCOM satellite series, setting the specifications for the successor to the ADEOS-II satellite.

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

Jim Watt
MfE Advisory Committe to Minister for Conservation on Waste Management Minimistation
MfE Advisory Committee to Ministry for Conservation on development of an Energy Efficiency and Conservation Strategy

Peter Wilson
Technical Advisory Group, DOC Rotoiti Nature Recovery Project

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Editorial roles with periodicals

Jackie Aislabie
Editorial Board, Geobiology.

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

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Staff holding university positions 2000/01

Jackie Aislabie
Honorary lecturer, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Waikato

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, Department of Plant and Microbial Sciences, University of Canterbury
Honorary Research Associate, School of Biological Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington

Bruce Burns
Honorary Lecturer, Dept Biological Sciences, University of Waikato.

Vivienne Cassie Cooper (Research Associate)
Honorary Research Associate, Freshwater Ecology Section of the Department of Biological Sciences, University of Waikato.

Bev Clarkson
Honorary Lecturer, Dept Biological Sciences, University of Waikato.

Mark Cleaver
Honorary Research Associate, Institute of Natural Resources, Massey University.

Phil Cowan
Honorary Research Associate, Institute of Natural Resources, Massey University.

John Dymond
Teaching Associate, Institute of Natural Resources, Massey University.

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;
Senior Fellow, Geography Department, University of Canterbury;
Adjunct Lecturer, School of Forestry, University of Canterbury.

David Galloway
Professorial Fellow, Department of Biochemistry, University of Otago
Honorary Fellow, Department of Botany, University of Otago
Member of Hocken Library Committee, University of Otago

Robert Gibb
Teaching Associate, Institute of Natural Resources, Massey University

Dianne Gleeson
lecturer and course coordinater for 3rd year and MSc Entomology, Auckland University; lecturer in Biogeography, Auckland University

Peter Heenan
Research Associate, University of Canterbury

John Innes
Honorary Lecturer , Dept Biological Sciences, University of Waikato.

Matt McGlone
Honorary Research Associate, Institute of Natural Resources, Massey University.

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

Roger Parfitt
Honorary Research Associate, Institute of Natural Resources, Massey University

Surya Pandey
Contract lecturer in Environmental Engineering, Department of Materials and Process Engineering, University of Waikato

Aroon Parshotam
Honorary Research Associate , Institute of Technology and Engineering, Massey University

Wim Rijkse
Honorary lecturer, Earth Sciences Dept., University of Waikato

Craig Ross
Honorary Research Associate, Institute of Natural Resources, Massey University

Surinder Saggar
Honorary Research Associate, Institute of Natural Resources, Massey University

Robyn Simcock
Honorary Research Associate, Institute of Natural Resources, Massey University

Peter Stephens
Honorary Research Associate, Institute of Natural Resources, Massey University

Louis Tremblay
Guest lecturer, Department of animal and food sciences, Lincoln University.

Craig Trotter
Teaching Associate, Institute of Natural Resources, Massey University

Noel Trustrum
Honorary Research Associate, Institute of Natural Resources, Massey University
Honorary Research Associate, School of Chemical & Physical Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington.

Benny Theng (research associate)
Visiting Professor, Universityof 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
Honorary Research Associate, Institute of Natural Resources, Massey University

Zhi-Qiang Zhang
Adjunct Professor, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

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