Staff Awards 2004-2005

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

Prestigious Awards

BEEVER, Ross
Fellow of The New Zealand Institute of Agricultural & Horticultural Science, in recognition of Ross's contribution to New Zealand's horticulture and agricultural industries

BEEVER, Ross
Fellowship of the Royal Society of New Zealand

BUCHANAN, Peter
New Zealand Science Communicator's Award for 2004.  This is fitting recognition of Peter's efforts in promoting events like BioBlitz and Fungal Forays, and for his passion and commitment to communicating science in schools and to the public

FORD, Kerry
Canterbury Botanical Society's Junior Bledisloe Trophy. This is awarded annually to a member who has done meritorious work in popularising and extending interest in and knowledge of the native flora 

FUKAMI, Tad
Denzaburo Miyadi Award, Ecological Society of Japan, awarded by the Society annually to two young-to-mid career society members for their contribution to ecology.

McLENNAN, John
Hawke's Bay Conservation Council ※Conservator of the Year§ in recognition of his work with kiwi

ROSSER, Suzanne
Fellow of the Association of Administrative Professionals (AAPNZ)

SPARLING, Graham
Norman Taylor Memorial Award from the NZ Soil Science Society recognising Graham as one of New Zealand's topsoil scientists, and his outstanding contribution to soil science.

STANLEY, Margaret
The inaugural ※Peter Ingram Memorial Award" from the NZ Biosecurity Institute. The award recognises a NZ Biosecurity Institute member who undertakes further study in the field of pest plants or helps others to learn more

SYKES, Bill
Canterbury Botanical Society's Senior Bledisloe Trophy. This is awarded annually to a member who has done meritorious work in popularising and extending interest in and knowledge of the native flora 

WAGSTAFF, Steve
National Geographic Grant from the Committee for Research and Exploration

WARBURTON, Bruce
Bronze Medal from the Royal Society, for his significant contribution to progressing the humane treatment of wildlife in research and management, both nationally and internationally

YEATES, Gregor
Honorary Member of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Manawatu Branch

YUAN, Guodong
Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Fellowship to visit Canada and study Canadian policy on, strategies for, and advances in hydrogen technology, and to develop linkages there for the benefit of New Zealand. Only seven Churchill Fellowships have been funded from nearly ten times as many applications

 Grants and Prizes

AUSSEIL, Anne-Gaelle
ISAT travel grant to visit the Institut de recherche pour le Development (IRD) in Noumea, New Caledonia. The goal is to develop a project on erosion modelling on a site in New Caledonia, and study effects on the coastal zone (coral reefs in particular).

BAISDEN, Troy (and others)
Presentation: ※High Riverine Carbon Export in New Zealand: Potential Significance of Soil Erosion to Carbon Accounting§ was chosen from dozens of submissions as one of the 5 carbon cycling talks for presentation at the carbon cycle plenary session of the first Symposium of the Earth System Scholars Network

BAISDEN, Troy (and others)
Best Conference Poster presentation Best Poster presentation, Soil and Climate Symposium: Durelle T Scott, W. T. Baisden, Nick J. Preston, Noel A. Trustrum, R. Davies-Colley, Ross A. Woods, Murray Hicks, Basil Gomez, Michael J. Page, K.R. Tate: High riverine transport of particulate organic carbon in New Zealand: potential significance of soil erosion to carbon accounting. Joint Australian and NZ Soil Science Societies ※SuperSoils§ conference in Sydney in December 2004.

BRACKLEY, Hannah
Victoria University Science Faculty Small Research Grant to help her attend the AGU Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting in Honolulu, where she presented the poster, ※Changes in organic carbon from land to ocean in the Waipaoa Sedimentary System, New Zealand§

BRIGGS, Craig
QE II Technicians Study Award to travel to Edmonton to look at systems for rural fire risk prediction

GILTRAP, Donna
Funding from the Climate Change Office to travel to US under the US/NZ Climate Change Partnership and work with Changsheng Li, the developer of the DNDC model.

GILTRAP, Donna (and others)
Soil and Farming Systems Symposium Best Poster presentation: Giltrap Donna, Surinder Saggar, Kevin Tate and Changsheng Li: Using 'NZ-DNDC' model to simulate the effects of changing land management on the emissions of nitrous oxide and carbon dioxide from New Zealand grazed pastures. Joint Australian and NZ Soil Science Societies ※SuperSoils§ conference in Sydney in December 2004.

HONA, Shane
QEII technician study award to travel to the UK and work with CABI biosciences in Ascot, England to investigate new gorse and broom biocontrol agents in their native range

HOWITT, Robin
QE II Technicians Study Award to spend two months at Wildlife Genetics International in Nelson, British Columbia

HUNT, John
ISAT travel grant to undertake new collaborative research with colleagues in Texas to partition the sources of respired CO2 in a C4 grassland being invaded by C3 trees

LAUBACH, Johannes
Marsden funding to look at ※How does the atmospheric boundary layer adapt to landscape irregularities?§  The grant will be used to test new theory of turbulence in boundary layer meteorology in conjunction with atmospheric physicists from Canada and the UK

LESCHEN, Rich
Coleopterists Society Outstanding Paper of the Year award for the 2003 paper published in Coleopterists Bulletin (Leschen, R. A. B.; Newton, A. F. 2003. Larval description, adult feeding behaviour, and phylogenetic placement of Megalopinus (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) Coleopterists Bulletin, 57(4):469每493.)

LOWE, Cara
FRST postdoctoral fellowship on ※Methods to biomonitor effects of cumulative pollution in New Zealand estuarine environments§

MacLEOD, Catriona
Fast-Start Marsden grant to look at avian parasites on introduced passerines

McGILL, Alex
QE II Technicians Study Award to travel to Leeds for HPLC training

PRICE, Robbie
QE II Technicians Study Award to travel to Aberdeen to look at systems modelling

RUTLEDGE, Daniel
NZ-Hawaii Conservation Exchange Programme travel grant

SARMAH, Ajit 
Best poster award at the ※New Zealand Hydrological Society Conference, Queenstown, 16每18 November 2004: Kinetics of Degradation Mechanisms for pesticides in two contrasting New Zealand soils (with Murray Close (ESR)).

SINGH, Jagrati (and others)
T.W Walker award for Best Oral Presentation at the joint Australian and NZ Soil Science Societies ※SuperSoils§ conference in Sydney in December 2004 Singh Jagrati, Surinder Saggar and N.S. Bolan: Mitigating gaseous losses of N from pasture soil with urease and nitrification inhibitors.

TOMPKINS, Dan

(with MACLEOD, Catriona)
Marsden funding for the project  ※Lost parasites: did they miss the boat or drown on arrival?§

Travelling River art-science exhibition
Winner of the Cultural Heritage section of the Tasman District Council 2004 Environmental Awards.

TROWSDALE, Sam
Best presentation on the conference theme of ※Land Treatment of Wastewater and Stormwater in Urban catchments§ at the New Zealand Land Treatment Conference, Auckland (7每9 March).

WILMSHURST, Janet
Marsden Funding for ※Solving the kiore controversy - when did people bring the Pacific rat to prehistoric New Zealand?§

YOCKNEY, Ivor
QEII study award

YUAN, Guodong
ISAT funding to support work on clay-nanocomposites with Toyota Central R&D Labs, Japan. A senior Japanese scientist visited Palmerston North in 2004, for a symposium on clay nanocomposites

YUAN, Guodong
Aichi Fund grant to develop research links between New Zealand and Japan in the area of clay polymers with potential applications in the automotive sector

Directorships/board memberships

BARKER, Gary
Member of Waikato Conservation Board

CLEAVER, Mark
Trustee, Vision Manawatu

EASON, Charles
Board of Directors, Cawthron Institute (formerly on Trust Board)

GORDON, Richard
Board of the Society for Ecological Restoration, USA

HART, Phil
Board of The Natural Step Environment Foundation Aotearoa New Zealand

JOHNSON, Peter
Chatham Islands Conservation Board

JOLLANDS, Nigel
Executive Member of Australia New Zealand Society for Ecological Economics

LAWTON, Maggie
National Board of the Sustainable Business Network

LAWTON, Maggie
Auckland Regional Board of the Sustainable Business Network

LAWTON, Maggie
Co-convenor of the University of Auckland and Landcare Research Board of Management

LAWTON, Maggie
University of Auckland School of Biological Sciences Advisory Board

McLENNAN, John
Trust Board, Project Kiwi

McLENNAN, John
Board of the BNZ Kiwi Recovery Programme

MEURK, Colin
Quail Island Trust

PEARCE, Andy
Director, Wool Equities Ltd

PEARCE, Andy
Director, Canesis Network Ltd

PEARCE, Andy
Deputy Chairman, Foundation for Research Science and Technology

PEARCE, Andy
Director, Wool Research Organisation of New Zealand Inc. (until November 2003)

PEARCE, Andy
Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Management

PEARCE, Andy
Chairman, Sirtrack Ltd

PEARCE, Andy
Chairman, Marsupial CRC Ltd

PEARCE, Andy
Director, Keratec Ltd

PENMAN, David
Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) Executive Committee  and Budget Committee (Chair)

PHILLIPS, Chris
Director, Australasian Chapter, International Erosion Control Association

PHILLIPS, Chris
Board of Management of Styx Living Laboratory, Christchurch

SAGGAR, Surinder
Expert Reviewer, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)

Editorial roles with periodicals

AISLABIE, Jackie
Editorial Board, Geobiology

ALLEN, Will
Editorial Board RSNZ Social Science Journal

BECKEN, Suzanne
Editorial Board Journal of Sustainable Tourism

BEEVER, Ross
Senior editor, Australasian Plant Pathology

BELLINGHAM, Peter
Acting scientific editor, NZ Journal of Ecology

BREITWIESER, Ilse
Editorial Advisory Board of the NZ Journal of Botany

BUCHANAN, Peter
Editorial Board Fungal Science

BUCKLEY, Thomas
Systematic Biology Associate Editor

CARSWELL, Fiona
Editorial Review Board of Tree Physiology

COWAN, Phil
Editorial Board Wildlife Research

EASON, Charles
Editorial Board Biomarkers

FRŌHLICH, Jane
Editor Fungal Diversity

GALLOWAY, David
Editorial Board Nordic Journal of Botany

GLEESON, Dianne
Editorial Board, Australian Journal of Entomology

HARRIS Warwick (research associate)
Editor, Journal of the Canterbury Botany Society

HOARE, Robert
Editor, NZ Entomologist

HOARE, Robert
Editor, Fauna NZ

JOLLANDS, Nigel
Editor, Australian National University Environment and Ecology Network

KELLIHER, Francis
Editorial Board Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

LARIVIÈRE, Marie-Claude
Editor, Fauna of New Zealand Series

LEE, Bill
Editorial Board Journal of the Royal Society of NZ

LESCHEN, Richard
Co-editor, Handbook of Zoology, Coleoptera

LESCHEN, Richard
Associate Editor Dugesiana

LESCHEN, Richard
Science Editor NZ Entomologist

LESCHEN, Richard
Bulletin co-editor of Handuch der Zoologie volumes devoted to Coleoptera

McGLONE, Matt
Editorial Board The Holocene

McGLONE, Matt
Editorial Board Journal of Biogeography

McGLONE, Matt
Chairman, Editorial Advisory Board, NZ Journal of Botany

McKENZIE, Eric
Associate Editor, Mycoscience

McKENZIE, Eric
Associate Editor, Fungal Diversity

McLENNAN, John
Assistant Editor, Notornis

MCLEOD Catriona
Guest Associate Editor, NZ Journal of Ecology

O´CONNOR, Cheryl
Editorial Board Applied Animal Behaviour Science

OVERTON, Jake
Biology Conservation Special Issue

PARFITT, Roger
Editorial Board Geoderma Editor of Soil Science

PELTZER, Duane
Interim Scientific Editor, NZ Journal of Ecology

PELTZER, Duane
Editor, Plant Ecology

PENMAN, David
Editorial Board International Journal of Pest Management

PENMAN, David
Editorial Board Experimental and Applied Acarology

PENNYCOOK, Shaun
Editorial Advisory Board, NZ Journal of Botany

PENNYCOOK, Shaun
Editor, Mycotaxon

PENNYCOOK, Shaun
Editor, Fungal Diversity

PRICE, Sally
Editor, Global Change Biology

SAGGAR, Surrinder
Editorial Advisory Board Agriculture Ecosystems and Environment

SCHIPPER, Louis
Associate editor, Soil Science Society of America Journal

THENG, Benny (Research Associate)
Editorial Board Applied Clay Science

THENG, Benny
Editor, Handbook of Clay Science

TREMBLAY, Louis
Editorial Board, Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

TREMBLAY, Louis
Guest Editor, Biomarker

TREMBLAY, Louis
Editorial Board Australasian Journal of Ecotoxicology

WALCROFT, Adrian
Editorial Review Board of Tree Physiology Journal

WALKER, Susan
Associate Editor, Applied Vegetation Science

WARDLE, David
Receiving editor, Ecology Letters

WARDLE, David
Editorial Board (Chief Editor until December 2003) NZ Journal of Ecology

WARDLE, David
Editorial Board of Pedobiologia

WARDLE, David
Reviewer for >60 journals including Science and Nature

WARDLE, David
Editorial Board, Ecology (AES)

WARDLE, David
Editorial Board, Ecological Monographs (AES)

WATSON,
Editor, Journal of the World Association of Soil and Water Conservation

WHITEHEAD, David
Editorial Board Tree Physiology

WISER, Susan
Associate Editor for Journal of Vegetation Science

YEATES, Gregor
Editorial Board of NZ Journal of Zoology

YEATES, Gregor
Editorial Board Nematology

YEATES, Gregor
Editorial Board Pedobiologia

YEATES, Gregor
Editorial Board Journal of Applied Soil Ecology

YEATES, Gregor
Editorial Board Russian Journal of Nematology

YEATES, Gregor
Editorial Board Biology & Fertility of Soils

YEATES, Gregor
Editorial Board USA Journal of Nematology

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

YUAN, Guodong
Editorial Board, Journal of Environmental Science and Health (Part A) - Toxic/hazardous substances and environmental engineering

YUAN, Guodong
Editorial Board, Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis

ZHANG, Zhi-Qiang
Editorial Board Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica

ZHANG, Zhi-Qiang
Editorial Advisory Board, Zoological Research

ZHANG, Zhi-Qiang
Editor, Zootaxa

ZHANG, Zhi-Qiang
Editorial Board Member, Experimental & Applied Acarology

ZHANG, Zhi-Qiang
Assistant Editor, Acarology Bulletin

ZHANG, Zhi-Qiang
Editor-in-Chief, Systematic & Applied Acarology

ZHANG, Zhi-Qiang
Editorial Board Member, Oriental Insects

Formal advisory positions

ALLEN, Rob
Research subgroup of the standing committee on forestry, Australia - New Zealand Ministerial Council on Forestry, Fishing and Agriculture

ALLEN, Rob
Advisory Board, Australian Research Council-funded network on vegetation and futures

ALLEN, Will
International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Working Group

BARKER, Gary
Invasive Species Specialist Group of the IUCN Species Survival Commission

BARKER, Gary
Mollusc Species Specialist Group of the IUCN Species Survival Commission

BREITWIESER, Ilse
Trustee of the Koiata Botanical Trust

BUCHANAN, Peter
Forest Health Research Collaborative Management Committee

BUCHANAN, Peter
MAF Forest Biosecurity Consultative Committee

BUCHANAN, Peter
Pine Pitch Canker Technical Advisory Group

BURGHAM, Stephen
Cycling Development Subcommittee, Christchurch City Council

BURNS, Bruce
Tane Tree Trust

CHOQUENOT, Dave
Science Advisory Committee of Earthwatch, Australasia

CLARKSON, Bev
Trustee of the National Wetland Trust

COLEMAN, Jim
Animal Health Board's HokonuiII committee

COMFORT, Greg
Advisory Committee for the Graduate Diploma of Technical Communication (GDTC) at Christchurch Polytechnic.

COOPER, Jerry
Global Biodiversity Information Facility Science Committee on the Electronic Catalogue of Names

COOPER, Jerry
Global Biodiversity Information Facility Scientific and Technical Advisory Group on Data Access and Database Interoperability

COOPER, Jerry
Convenor, Taxonomic Databases Working Group subcommittee on names of organisms

COOPER, Jerry
Convenor, Taxon names

COWAN, Phil
Beahrs Environmental Leadership Program Small Grants Initiative Awards Committee (University of California, Berkeley)

COWAN, Phil
Member, National Science Strategy Committee for the Control of Possums and Bovine Tuberculosis

CROSBY, Trevor
Samoa Plant Protection Advisor

DALY, Brian
Secretary and member of Laboratory Proficiency Sub-committee, of Australasian Soil and Plant Analysis Council (ASPAC).

DALY, Brian
International Accreditation NZ (IANZ) 每 Appointed technical expert in chemical testing

EASON, Charles
Tertiary Education Commission ( TEC) Performance-based Review Panel Member

EFFORD, Murray
Member South Island Beech Forest Working Group, Department of Conservation

FENEMOR, Andrew
Wai-iti Water Augmentation Committee, Tasman District.

FENEMOR, Andrew
Natural Resources Engineering Advisory Board, University of Canterbury

FENEMOR, Andrew
Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology (NMIT) Environmental Science advisory panel

FENEMOR, Andrew
Project advisor for Tasman District Council, Mapua FCC contaminated site remediation project

FENEMOR, Andrew
UNESCO

FISHER, Penny
Member of advisory/reference group on eradication of foxes from Tasmania.

FORDYCE, Alison
Massey University Genetic Technology Committee

FOWLER, Simon
IUCN Invasive Species Specialist Group

FRAME, Bob
FRST advisory group

FRAME, Bob
Prime Minister and Cabinet Futures Project

FUKAMI, Tadashi
US National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Programme

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

GIBB, Robert
Chairperson of GIS Antarctic Special Interest Group of the Officials Committee of Geospatial Information (OCGI - a LINZ standing committee)

GIBB, Robert
OCGI Reference Group for the Government's Geospatial Information Strategy

GORDON, Richard
Global Reporting Initiative, indicator development group

HARMSWORTH, Garth
Royal Society Committee on the International Geosphere每Biosphere programme

HARMSWORTH, Garth
Science Faculty Committee Te Whare Wananga O Awanuiarangi

HARRIS, Richard
Invasive ant technical advisory group for MAF Biosecurity Authority.

HAYES, Lynley
Advisor to the Education, Communication and Outreach working group of the Global Invasive Species Programme, Capetown

HEENAN, Peter
Botanical advisor to the New Zealand Botanical Society Threatened Plant Committee

HEENAN, Peter
Technical Work Group for National Pest Plant Accord (Biosecurity NZ)

INNES, John
Department of Conservation North Island kokako and black stilt Recovery Groups

INNES, John
Department of Conservation emergency response group for rodent arrival on an island

INNES, John
DOC Waikato Management Strategy

KILVINGTON, Margaret
MORST- invited reviewer in ※science and society§ survey

LARIVIÈRE, Marie-Claude
Invertebrate Systematics Advisory Group

LARIVIÈRE, Marie-Claude
Australian Biological Resource Survey, co-primary investigator

LAWTON, Maggie
Member of the Landcare Trust ICM advisory committee

LAWTON, Maggie
Member of the EcoQuest Research advisory committee

LAWTON, Maggie
Trustee, Tane Tree Trust

LEE Bill
Marsden Panel for ecology and evolutionary biology.

LEE, Bill
Takahe Recovery Group

LEE, Bill
Governor, Miss E. L. Hellaby Indigenous Grasslands Research Trust

LEE, Bill
Royal Society Committee for awarding of James Cook Fellowships

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

LYVER, Phil
National Animal Ethics Advisory Committee

MCGLONE, Matt
NZ representative, Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group, Subsidiary Body on Scientific & Technical Advice of the Conference of Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity

MCGLONE, Matt
Member of reference group for the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment investigation ※The role of indigenous flora on non-public land§

MCGLONE, Matt
Science Advisory Group to advise the CEO FRST  on portfolio strategies

MCKENZIE, Eric
MAF Dutch Elm Disease Technical Advisory Group

McLENNAN, John
Scientific advisor, Kuaotunu Kiwi Sanctuary

MCLENNAN, John
Kiwi scientific and technical advisory committee, Dept of Conservation

MEURK, Colin
President, Travis Wetland Trust

MEURK, Colin
Honorary Botanist, Canterbury Horticultural Society

MEURK, Colin
Advisory Committee, Quail Island Restoration Trust

MEURK, Colin
Advisory Scientist, NZ Ecological Restoration Network

MEURK, Colin
Advisory botanist, Trees for Canterbury

MEURK, Colin
Ecological advisor to Christchurch City Council

MEURK, Colin
Science Advisory Panel of NZ Ecological Restoration Network

MOORE, Stephen
Auckland Regional Council working committee for urban development impacts on streams

MOORE, Stephen
Royal Society of NZ Waterways

MORGAN, David
MAF Animal Welfare  "accredited reviewer" under the Animal Welfare Act for review of Codes of Ethical Conduct

NORBURY, Grant
Department of Conservation Grand and Otago Skink Recovery Group

NUGENT, Graham
Advisor on Ngai Tahu kaupapa kereru project

O´CONNOR Cheryl
Technology Advisory Group, AHB

O'CONNOR, Cheryl
National Animal Welfare Advisory Committee

PAGE, Mike
NZ Landslide Guidelines Steering Group

PANDEY, Surya
Science Advisory Committee, WINTEC (Waikato Institute of Technology), Hamilton

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

PARKES, John
Technical Advisory Group for goat eradication from Guadaloupe Island

PARKES, John
Invasive species group, IUCN

PENNYCOOK, Shaun
Nomenclature Committee for fungi, International Association of Plant Taxonomy

PHILLIPS, Chris
Ecological Engineering Programme, Isaac Centre for Nature Conservation

RAMSEY, Dave
AHB Technical Advisory Committee

SAGGAR Surinder
Palmerston North Environmental Trust Board Member

SAGGAR, Surinder
IANZ technical expert to assess soil and plant testing services

SAGGAR, Surinder
Expert Reviewer, IPCC Guidelines for national greenhouse gas inventories

SCHIPPER, Louis
Technical Advisory Committee of the NZ Land Treatment Collective

SCHIPPER, Louis
Steering panel to develop a Research Coordination Network for denitrification science

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

TATE, Kevin
NZ contact for US/NZ Climate Change Partnership (invited by MAF)

TATE, Kevin
Advisory Board of GNS National Isotope Centre

TATE, Kevin
RSNZ Marsden Fund,  Earth Science and Astronomy Advisory Panel

TOFT, Richard
MAF High Risk Surveillance Committee

TREMBLAY Louis
Member of the expert committee on drinking-water quality that will guide the Ministry of Health in developing drinking-water standards

TROTTER, Craig
Australian Research Council, Expert Assessor of International Standing

TROTTER, Craig
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.

TROTTER, Craig
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) international roster of experts to assess Kyoto Protocol Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects

TROTTER, Craig
Expert Reviewer, IPCC Guidelines for national greenhouse gas inventories

VALE, Robert
Auckland City Mayoral Taskforce for urban Design

WARBURTON, Bruce
Technical Advisory Group for the National Possum Control Agencies

WARBUTON, Bruce
National Animal Welfare Advisory Council

WARDLE, David
Member of expert international advisory panel of BioMedNet, a web-based service run by Elsevier to provide commentaries on recently published hot papers in the general area of biology.

WATT, Jim
MFE Advisory Committee to Ministry for Conservation on development of an energy efficiency and conservation strategy

WILLIAMS, Peter
Technical Work Group for National Pest Plant Accord (Biosecurity NZ)

YEATES, Gregor
Expert assessor in the joint FRST/Health Research Council International Investment Opportunities Fund

YOUNG, John
Member, Judicial Commission International Committee of the Systematics of Prokaryotes (Member, Sub-committee on the taxonomy of Pseudomonas)

Staff holding positions in professional societies

BEEVER, Ross
Vice-President, Auckland Botanical Society

BRAISHER, Tamsin
National Executive Committee Member, Association for Women in Sciences

BUCHANAN, Peter
Office holder, Fungal Network of New Zealand

BUCHANAN, Peter
Councillor, NZ Plant Conservation Network

BUCKLEY, Thomas
Secretary of the Systematics Association of New Zealand

BURNS, Bruce
Councillor, New Zealand Ecological Society

BYROM, Andrea
Chair, Australasian Wildlife Management Society

CLARKSON, Bev
Trustee, National Wetlands Trust

COMFORT, Greg
Vice-President and Senior Member of Society for Technical Communication

COOPER, Jerry
Secretary of the Australasian Mycological Society

COOPER, Jerry
Office holder, Fungal Network of New Zealand

DALY, Brian
Secretary Australasian Soil and Plant Analysis Council (ASPAC)

DAWSON, Murray
National Executive and Webmaster, Royal New Zealand Institute of Horticulture (RNZIH)

DAWSON, Murray
Webmaster, NZ Gardens Trust

GIANOTTI, Alison
National Secretary of the New Zealand Biosecurity Institute

GLEESON, Dianne
Treasurer, Systematics Association of New Zealand

GOBULESKI, Nancy
Secretary, Ecological Society America Ecology Section

GOURLAY, Hugh
Re-elected Chairperson of the Canterbury branch of the Biosecurity Institute.

HAYES, Lynley
President of the NZ Biosecurity Institute

HOARE, Robert
President, Entomological Society of New Zealand (Auckland Branch)

JOHNSTON, Peter
Executive Committee Member, International Mycological Association

JOLLANDS, Nigel
NZAssociation of Agricultural and Resource Economists

LESCHEN, Richard
President NZ Entomological Society

LESCHEN, Richard
Research Associate, Natural History Museums, University of Kansas

McKENZIE, Eric
Vice President, International Mycological Association

O'CONNOR, Cheryl
Vice president Australasian Wildlife Management Society

PAIRMAN, David
Member of Technical Program Committee for IGARSS´04

PANDEY, Surya
Executive Member, Waikato Environmental Business Network

PHILLIPS, Chris
President of the New Zealand Association of Resource Management

PHILLIPS, Chris
Steering Group Member of the Ecological Engineering Programme within Isaac Centre for Nature Conservation

PRICE, Sally
Council of Royal Society (Canterbury Branch)

PYE, Pam
Treasurer, Canterbury Women's Association

PYE, Pam
Library Committee, Canterbury District Law Society

REDDIEX, Ben
Newsletter Editor, Australasian Wildlife Management Society (AWMS)

ROSS Craig
Science sector delegate, Environment Committee of the Public Service Association

ROSS, Craig
Companion of the Royal Society of NZ

SAGGAR, Surrinder
Executive Council of the Manawatu Branch of the Australian Institute of Agricultural Science and Technology and the NZ Institute of Agricultural Science NZIAS/NZSHS

SCHIPPER, Louis
Committee member representing Division S-10 (Wetlands) on the "Glossary of Soil Science Terms" committee of Soil Science Society of America 2004-

SORRELL, Brian
Office holder, Fungal Network of New Zealand (FUNNZ)

SORRELL, Brian
Executive Member, International Society for Plant Anaerobiosis

STANLEY, Margaret
Organising Committee and Programme Convenor, 2005 Entomological Society Conference

TREMBLAY, Louis
NZ representative on the Australasian Society for Ecotoxicology

WARBURTON, Bruce
National Animal Welfare Advisory Committee (retired April 05)

WARDLE, Peter (Research Associate)
President of the Canterbury Botanical Society

WILKIE, Paula
Office holder, Fungal Network of New Zealand (FUNNZ)

WILMSHURST, Janet
President, NZ Ecological Society

WILSON-DAVEY, Julia
National Executive Member, Association of Women in Sciences

WILTON, Aaron
Secretary/Treasurer, NZ Botanical Society

WISER, Susan
Council of the New Zealand Ecological Society

YEATES, Gregor
Secretary , Royal Society of NZ, Manawatu Branch (from Nov 01)

YOUNG, John
Chair, Committee on Taxonomy of Plant Pathogenic Bacteria, International Society of Plant Pathology

Staff holding honorary positions in professional societies

BEEVER, Ross

Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand

BEEVER, Ross

Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Agriculutral Science

TATE, Kevin

Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand

YEATES, Gregor

Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand

YEATES, Gregor

Fellow of the New Zealand Soil Science Society

YEATES, Gregor

Honorary Member, Royal Society of New Zealand (Manawatu Branch)

THENG, Benny

Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand

WARDLE, David

Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand

ZHANG, Zhi-Qiang

Honorary Research Fellow, Natural History Museum, London FRSNZ

Staff holding university positions 2004/2005

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

BAISDEN, Troy
Visiting Scholar, Princeton Environmental Institute, Princeton University

BECKEN, Suzanne
Guest Lecturer, Lincoln University

BREITWIESER, Ilse
Research Associate, Department of Plant and Microbial Sciences, University of Canterbury

BREITWIESER, Ilse
Honorary Research Associate, School of Biological Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington

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

CASSIE-COOPER, Vivienne (Research Associate)
Honorary Research Associate, CBER Freshwater Ecology Section of the Department of Biological Sciences, University of Waikato

CLARKSON, Bev
Honorary Lecturer, Dept Biological Sciences, University of Waikato

CLEAVER, Mark
Honorary lecturer, Massey University

CLEAVER, Mark
Chair, Manawatu Bio Commerce Trust.

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

CUI, Xianian
Visiting Professor, Faculty of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Sciences, Henan Agricultural University, China

DAVIE, Tim
Senior Fellow, Department of Geography, University of Canterbury, NZ

DAVIE, Tim
Honorary Research Associate, Queen Mary College, University of London, UK.

DUCKWORTH, Janine
Honorary lecturer, Lincoln University.

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

FAHEY, Barry
Senior Fellow, Department of Geography at the University of Canterbury

FAHEY, Barry
Adjunct Lecturer, School of Forestry, University of Canterbury

GALLOWAY, David
Honorary Fellow, Department of Botany, University of Otago

GALLOWAY, David
Member of Hocken Library Committee, University of Otago

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

GLEESON, Dianne
Honorary staff member, University of Auckland

GLEESON, Dianne
Lecturer in Biogeography, Auckland University

HEENAN, Peter
Research Associate, University of Canterbury

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

JOLLANDS, Nigel
Senior Lecturer, Resource and Environmental Planning, Massey University.

KELLIHER, Frank
Lecturer, Environmental Physics, Lincoln University

LEE, Bill
Honorary Research Fellow, Botany Department, University of Otago

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

MCLENNAN, John
Honorary Research Associate, Massey University

MCLENNAN, John
Honorary Research Associate, University of Canterbury

MEURK, Colin
Lecturer in restoration and landscape ecology, Lincoln University

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

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

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

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

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

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

STANLEY, Margaret
Honorary staff member, School of Biological Sciences at Auckland University (Coordinate and 15 lectures 3rd year Population and Community Ecology.

TREMBLAY, Louis
Senior Fellow, School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury

TREMBLAY, Louis
Associate of the Faculty of Science, Sydney University of Technology

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

WARDLE, David
Adjunct Professorship, School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Christchurch

WARDLE, David
Professor of Ecology (50% time), Department of Forest Vegetation Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umea, Sweden

WHITEHEAD, David
Research Associate with University of Canterbury's Department of Biological Sciences

WHITEHEAD, David
Honorary Lecturer, Lincoln University Soil, Plant and Ecological Sciences Division

YEATES, Gregor
Nematology consultant to the Centre for Advanced Plant Biosecurity Studies (Institute of Natural Resources, Massey University)

YEATES, Gregor
Honorary Research Associate, Institute of Natural Resources, Massey University

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

ZHANG, Zhi-Qiang
Honorary Professor, Fujian Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Fuzhou, China



Staff awards

2007 - 2008 2006 - 2007 2005 - 2006 2004 - 2005 2003 - 2004 2002 - 2003 2001 - 2002 2000 - 2001 1999 - 2000