Biological Sciences

Biological Sciences

Assoc Prof Jon Harding

Position

Stream Ecology

Justice of the Peace for New Zealand

Qualifications

B.Sc.(Canterbury)
M.Sc.(Hons) (Canterbury)
Ph.D. (Canterbury)
Dip. Tchng

Room

Biology 333

Contact Details

Phone: International +64 +3 Local 364 2987 x 4988
Fax: +64 3 364 2590
Email: jon.harding@canterbury.ac.nz
Postal address: School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch, New Zealand

Service:

  • Deputy Chair, Biological Sciences Postgraduate Studies
  • Board of Inquiry, National Policy Statement on Freshwater Management
  • Ex-President, New Zealand Freshwater Sciences Society

Major Grants:

  • Ecological impacts of gold and coal mining on stream communities  (FRST)
  • Enhance riparian management in agricultural and urban streams in Canterbury (MacKenzie Charitable Trust)
  • Develop measures of assessing stream health in Singapore streams and rivers (Singapore Government, PUB)
  • Developing Stream Habitat Assessment protocols for wadeable streams (FRST Envirolink Tools)

Research

Jon's UC Research Profile

Applied stream ecology with emphasis on the impacts of human land-use activities (e.g. mining, urbanisation, agriculture, forestry and hydro-electric power development) and forest fragmentation.

Details here

Freshwater Ecology Research Group website

Photo gallery

Publications

Details here