Agriculture Professors and Supervisors in New Zealand

A fully funded PhD opportunity is available in conservation ecology at the University of Waikato, New Zealand . The thesis, titled “Fuel for Recovery: Using food-web science to improve translocation success of threatened birds,” will investigate how food-web science can support the conservation and successful translocation of threatened bird species. The project is associated with the Invertebrate Behavioural Ecology and EcoDiv Labs and will be supervised by Dr. Chrissie Painting . Research inte...

The University of Otago’s Department of Zoology invites applications for a fixed-term, part-time Postdoctoral Research Fellow position in parasitology, marine pollution ecology, wildlife health and conservation biology. Funded by a Royal Society Te Apārangi Marsden Fast-Start grant titled “The gift of infection: using parasites to tackle marine pollution,” the project will investigate whether gastrointestinal parasites act as biofilters of environmental contaminants in marine ecosystems. The res...

PhD opportunity at The University of Auckland in Civil Engineering , with a focus on natural hazards , risk assessment , resilience , geospatial analysis , and vulnerability modelling. The project will develop vulnerability models for primary production land and assets , addressing how natural hazards can damage buildings, infrastructure, and productive land. The post notes that the supervisor’s main interests include water-related hazards such as flooding and tsunamis , while the wider supervis...