Qualifications
Ph.D. Hydro-ecology of groundwater-fed streams
MSc Modelling & management of surface freshwater systems
BSc (Hons.) Geography
Location
Hamilton
Science Centre
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Biography
I joined NIWA in 2008 and am a member of the freshwater ecology team based in Hamilton. I work primarily across the Rehabilitation and Protection and Sustainable Water Allocation programmes in the Freshwater and Estuaries Centre. My main areas of expertise are the ecology of native fish, fish passage, flow-biota interactions and environmental flows. I am particularly interested in the interplay between freshwater biodiversity and human uses of river environments including flow regime change, habitat modification and the impacts of instream infrastructure.
Recently Featured Work
Observations on the spawning habitat of giant kokopu
Publication article
24 February 2015
Fish Passage Assessment Tool
The Fish Passage Assessment Tool has been developed to provide an easy to use, practical tool for recording instream structures and assessing their likely impact on fish movements and river connectivity.