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Clive Howard-Williams

Clive Howard-Williams

Position: Chief Scientist, Freshwater & Coasts

Clive is an aquatic ecologist with a PhD from the University of London. He was a research scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Limnology, has specialised in research on water quality, water plants, and wetlands, and has a wide interest in freshwater degradation and change and in Antarctica. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand, an Adjunct Professor at the University of Canterbury, and holder of the New Zealand Antarctic Medal.

ph: + 64 3 343 7857

Terry Hume

Dr Terry Hume

Position: Principal Scientist - Coastal Geomorphology

Terry is a marine geologist/coastal oceanographer with 30 years experience in environmental research and consulting. His research interests focus on large-scale coastal process, including sand storage in dune-beach-inner continental Holocene sequences, the generation of sorted bedforms on the inner continental shelf, coastal hazards and beach erosion, and developing and applying beach classifications and estuary classification for research and management purposes. He holds an Honorary Associate Professorship at the University of Auckland and an Honorary Lectureship at the University of Waikato.

ph: + 64 7 856 1729

Judi Hewitt

Dr Judi Hewitt

Position: Group Manager Marine Ecology, Hamilton

Judi is a marine benthic ecologist, with a PhD from Abo Akademi University. Her special interests include coastal and estuarine marine ecology; scale dependent processes in heterogeneous environments; biological and ecological mapping; biodiversity; and ecological impact assessment.

ph: + 64 7 8561751

John Zeldis

Dr John Zeldis

Position: Marine Group Manager, Christchurch

John is a marine scientist with a PhD from Otago University and presently is a project leader and Marine Group Manager at NIWA, Christchurch. He has worked across disciplines: plankton ecology, fisheries science, and biological, chemical and physical oceanography. His current research includes process studies on continental shelves,coasts and estuaries, including recent studies of climatic effects on productivity and nutrient cycling in Hauraki Gulf and Nelson Bays regions of New Zealand, and effects of anthropogenic nutrient loading on coastal embayments and smaller estuaries. The time-series aspects of this work are underpinned by biophysical moorings in continental shelf and coastal waters. John has considerable experience in commercial consultancies for coastal environmental impacts assessement, including aquaculture and eutrophication issues.

ph: + 64 3 343 7813

Phil Gillibrand

Dr Phil Gillibrand

Position: Senior Hydrodynamic Modeller

Philip is a physical oceanographer with a PhD from the University of Wales, Bangor. He has worked previously in the U.K. at the Fisheries Research Services in Aberdeen and the Scottish Association for Marine Sciences in Oban. His research interests are in coastal physical oceanography, in particular numerical modelling of: coastal circulation, exchange and transport; storm surge and sea level; and long wave (tsunami) propagation and inundation.

ph: + 64 3 348 8987

Rob Bell

Dr Rob Bell

Position: Principal Scientist - Coastal Hazards & Water Quality

Rob is a coastal oceanographer with 29 years experience with a PhD from the University of Canterbury in Civil Engineering. He consults extensively on coastal & estuarine environmental projects particularly the effects of coastal wastewater discharges, dredging, water quality modelling, coastal hazards and the impacts of coastal climate change. He is on the Advisory Board for the Civil & Natural Resources Engineering Department at Canterbury University. Rob is also a certified Hearings Commissioner under the Making Good Decisions programme, member of the Institution of Professional Engineers NZ (IPENZ) and a Chartered Professional Engineer CPEng (Environmental Engineering).

ph: + 64 7 856 1742

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