FERG People
Academic Staff
Professor Angus R. McIntosh
Mackenzie Foundation Chair in Freshwater Ecology
School of Biological Sciences,
University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch
Phone: +64 3 364 2061
Fax: +64 3 364 2590
angus.mcintosh@canterbury.ac.nz
Research interests: Aquatic ecosystem size; effects of flooding and low flows; urban stream ecosystems; agricultural waterways; population and community ecology; native New Zealand fish
Associate Professor Jon S. Harding
School of Biological Sciences,
University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch
Phone: +64 3 364 2987 extn 4988
Fax: +64 3 364 2590
jon.harding@canterbury.ac.nz
Research interests: Effects of riparian management, forest fragmentation, mining and urbanisation on stream communities
Emeritus Professor Michael J. Winterbourn
School of Biological Sciences,
University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch
Phone: +64 3 364 2026, extn 6026
Fax: +64 3 364 2590
michael.winterbourn@canterbury.ac.nz
Research interests: Ecology and life histories of stream
invertebrates
Technical Support
Linda Morris
Technical support
School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Private
Bag 4800, Christchurch
Phone: +64 3 364 2987
Fax: +64 3 364 2590
linda.morris@canterbury.ac.nz
Research Associates and Visitors
Dr Tanya Blakely
Postdoctoral research fellow
School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury,
PrivateBag 4800, Christchurch
Phone: +64 3 364 2987, extn 6026
tanya.blakely@canterbury.ac.nz
Research interests: Urban stream ecosystems; restoration ecology;forest canopy insects; macroinvertebrate community ecology; tropical stream ecology.
Dr Hamish Greig
Postdoctoral research fellow
School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch
Phone: +64 3 364 2987, extn 6026
Fax: +64 3 364 2590
hamish.greig@canterbury.ac.nz
Research interests: effects of disturbance on food webs and communities; interactive effects of global changes; temperature dependence of species interactions; top-down control; environmental gradients, macroinvertebrates in lakes and wetlands.
Dr Phillip Jellyman
Postdoctoral research fellow
School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch
Phone: +64 3 364 2987
Fax: +64 3 364 2590
phillip.jellyman@pg.canterbury.ac.nz
Research interests: Food web ecology; population dynamics; native fisheries; invasive species impacts.
Dr Dev Niyogi
Visiting academic
Department of Biological Sciences, Missouri University of Science & Technology, Rolla, MO 65409-1120, USA
niyogid@mst.edu
Research interests: Ecosystem processes in streams and their response to human activities
Dr Jon O'Brien
Postdoctoral research fellow
School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch
Phone: +64 3 364 2987, extn 6026
Fax: +64 3 364 2590
jon.obrien@canterbury.ac.nz
Research interests: Nutrient cycling in streams and wetlands; effects of riparian management; ecosystem ecology; biogeochemistry; agricultural stream ecology; urban stream ecology; wetland restoration
Professor Scott Wissinger
Adjunct Professor
Biology Department, Allegheny College, Meadwille, PA, USA & Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory Crested Butte, CO, USA
swissing@allegheny.edu
Research interests: Invertebrate communities in ponds and wetlands; effects of trout introductions on lake communitities
PhD Students
Jon Bray
School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch
Phone: +64 3 364 2987
Fax: +64 3 364 2590
jonathan.bray@pg.canterbury.ac.nz
Research interests: Didymosphenia geminata; algal ecology; ecosystem processes; acid mine drainage ecology; native fish biology/ecology; aquatic/terrestrial linkages.
Frank Burdon
School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch
Phone: +64 3 364 2987
Fax: +64 3 364 2590
francis.burdon@pg.canterbury.ac.nz
Research interests: Ecosystem processes; aquatic-terrestrial linkages; resource management; urban ecology; restoration; bio-monitoring; freshwater invertebrates; the ecology of kakahi (freshwater mussel)
Mark Galatowitsch
School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch
Phone: +64 3 364 2987
Fax: +64 3 364 2590
mark.galatowitsch@pg.canterbury.ac.nz
Research interests: Aquatic invertebrate dispersal; population dynamics; temporary
wetlands and ponds; evolutionary ecology
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Elizabeth Graham
School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch
Phone: +64 3 364 2987
Fax: +64 3 364 2590
seg61@student.canterbury.ac.nz
Research interests: Stream biogeochemistry / nutrient cycling; influence of nutrient enrichment and water chemistry on stream food webs
Kristy Hogsden
School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch
Phone: +64 3 364 2987
Fax: +64 3 364 2590
kristy.hogsden@pg.canterbury.ac.nz
Research interests: Structure and function of food webs in acid mine drainage streams
Simon Howard
School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch
Phone: +64 3 364 2987
Fax: +64 3 364 2590
simon.howard@pg.canterbury.ac.nz
Research interests: Native freshwater fish ecology; invasive freshwater fish impacts; fish behaviour
Amanda Klemmer
School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch
Phone: +64 3 364 2987
Fax: +64 3 364 2590
klemmer.amanda@gmail.com
Research interests: Subsidies, trophic cascades, landscape ecology, food webs
Danlandi Umar
School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch
Phone: +64 3 364 2987
Fax: +64 3 364 2590
danladi.umar@canterbury.ac.nz
Research interests: Tropical highland stream ecology; land use change; macroinvertebrate
community response to deforestation and water pollution
Helen Warburton
School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch
Phone: +64 3 364 2987
Fax: +64 3 364 2590
helen.warburton@pg.canterbury.ac.nz
Research interests: Food web ecology, predator-prey relationships, allometric scaling, stream communities, environmental gradients, ecosystem size
MSc Students
Karen Renouf
School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch
Phone: +64 3 364 2987
Fax: +64 3 364 2590
KAR77@uclive.ac.nz
Research interests:
Kim Roberts
School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch
Phone: +64 3 364 2987
Fax: +64 3 364 2590
kjr69@uclive.ac.nz
Research interests: Factors limiting colonisation in sensitive stream invertebrates; aquatic insect dispersal; effects of land use change on invertebrate comminities.
Kate Showe
School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch
Phone: +64 3 364 2987
Fax: +64 3 364 2590
Kas158@uclive.ac.nz
Research interests: Biotic indicies, using diatoms as an indicator of streams impacted by acid mine drainage.
Simon Stewart
Department of Geological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch
Phone: +64 21 047 2860
Fax: +64 3 364 2590
sds43@student.canterbury.ac.nz
Research interests: Anthropogenic nitrogen pollution; stable isotopic analysis; biogeochemical cycles; ecological stoichiometry; landscape scale cross ecosystem connectivity
Richard White
School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch
Phone: +64 3 364 2987
Fax: +64 3 364 2590
rsw23@uclive.ac.nz
Research interests: Population and community ecology of fish in floodplain and wetland ecosystems, the controls on species distributions therein, and the physiological traits (metabolism) mediating this.