Waterways Centre for Freshwater Management

Research Group Summary

The Waterways Centre for Freshwater Management was established as a joint partnership between Canterbury and Lincoln Universities. It is the first such centre to be established in any New Zealand university. It was the outcome of consultation with the Department of Labour, Environment Canterbury and other major stakeholders and agencies involved in water resource management and research in the Canterbury region. In a rapidly changing landscape of regional and national policy and decisions relating to water management, the need for coordination of research and teaching effort was clear.

The Centre offers qualifications in water resource issues and their management, with Masters and PhD research feeding into priority themes highlighted by water organisations and stakeholders.

The Waterways Centre is made up a small group of core staff who run the Centre, supported by a multi-disciplinary group of approx. 50 academic researchers with expertise in freshwater issues, drawn from both Universities. Postgraduate students of the Waterways Centre members make up a large freshwater research group. More information is available on the Waterways website: www.waterways.ac.nz

Key Contact

• Jenny Webster-Brown: Director; School of Earth and Environment

Members - UC Staff

• Paul Adrian Broady: Researcher; School of Biological Sciences
• Jennifer Brown: Researcher; Mathematics and Statistics
• XiaoQi Chen: Researcher; Mechanical Engineering
• Thomas Cochrane: Researcher; Civil and Natural Resources Engineering
• Mark Davidson: Researcher; Civil and Natural Resources Engineering
• Tim Davies: Researcher; School of Earth and Environment
• Tonny Tessa de Vries: Researcher; Civil and Natural Resources Engineering
• Sally Gaw: Researcher; School of Physical & Chemical Sciences
• Peter Alan Gostomski: Researcher; Chemical and Process Engineering
• Jon Harding: Researcher
• Deirdre Hart: Researcher; School of Earth and Environment
• Ian Hawes: Researcher; School of Earth and Environment
• Travis Whittier Horton: Researcher; School of Earth and Environment
• Suellen Tippett Knopick: Administrator; School of Earth and Environment
• Pedro Lee: Researcher; Civil and Natural Resources Engineering
• Shelley Macdonell: Senior Lecturer in Hydrology; School of Earth and Environment
• Angus McIntosh: Researcher; School of Biological Sciences
• Mark Milke: Researcher; Civil and Natural Resources Engineering
• Aisling O'Sullivan: Researcher; Civil and Natural Resources Engineering
• John Frederick Raffensperger: Researcher; Management, Marketing and Entrepreneurship
• David Wareham: Researcher; Civil and Natural Resources Engineering
• Jenny Webster-Brown: Director; School of Earth and Environment

• Chemistry: Environmental Chemistry
• Earth Sciences: Geochemistry; Geological Sciences; Hydrogeology; Physical Geography
• Biology: Ecology, Evolution and Behaviour: Biodiversity/Conservation; Biology; Ecology; Freshwater Ecology; Marine Ecology; Microbiology; Soil Science
• Engineering and Technology: Civil; Hydrological and Ecological Engineering
• Environmental Studies: Environmental Science; Environmental Studies
• Law: Environmental and Planning Law
• Māori Knowledge and Development: Treaty of Waitangi
• Resilience: Physical: Environmental; Forestry and Soil

• Waterways Centre website