Staff Publications Fuller, I.C., Mellor, A. & Entwistle, J. (2014). Combining research-based student fieldwork with staff research to reinforce

teaching and learning. Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 38, 383-400.

Fuller, I.C., Basher, L.R. & Hicks, D.M. (2014). Towards understanding river sediment dynamics as a basis for improved catch-

ment, channel, and coastal management: the case of the Motueka catchment, Nelson, New Zealand. International Journal of

River Basin Management, DOI: 10.1080/15715124.2014.885437.

Death, R.G., Fuller, I.C., Neverman, A. & Death, A. Bringing hydrology, geomorphology and ecology together in the age of

climate uncertainty. Paper presented at the British Hydrological Society Symposium, Birmingham, 1-3 September 2014.

Fuller, I.C. & Death, R.G. Monitoring change in river condition in response to river engineering: developing an index of natu-

ral character to maintain river habitat. Paper presented at the 7th Australian Stream Management Conference, Townsville, Aus-tralia, 27-30 July 2014.

Fuller, I.C., Macklin, M.G. & Richardson, J.R. The geography of the Anthropocene in New Zealand: Differential catchment response to human impact. Paper presented at the Institute of Australian Geographers/NZ Geographical Society Conference,

Melbourne, Australia, 30 June – 2 July 2014.

Gallagher A (2014), The caring entrepreneur? Childcare policy and private provision in an enterprising age, Environment and

Planning A. 46(5), 1108-1123

Gallagher A, (2014) Book review of 'A Policy Travelogue; Tracing Welfare Reform in Aotearoa/New Zealand and Alberta

Canada', Kingfisher C. for Area 46(3), 337-338

Rees, A., Holt, K. A., Eaves, S., Vandergoes, M., Newnham, R., & Wilmshurst, J. (2014). A chironomid temperature recon-

struction characterising change through the Antarctic Cold Reversal from Lake Rangatauanui, North Island, New Zealand.. Poster session presented at the meeting of Australasian Quaternary Association Biennial Meeting.

Mansvelt, J. (2014). Feature Article ’Geographies of Interconnections – why consumption matters’ Interaction, 42 (2): 9-15.

Holt, K. A., & Bennett, K. D. (2014). Principles and methods for automated palynology. NEW PHYTOLOGIST, 203(3), 735-

742. doi:10.1111/nph.12848

Holt, K. A., & Bebbington, M. S. (2014). Separating morphologically similar pollen types using basic shape features from digi-

tal images: a preliminary study. Applications in Plant Sciences. doi:10.3732/apps.1400032

Birley, C. & Holt, K.A. (2014). Taking a closer look at pollen. New Zealand Kiwifruit Journal, (223), 38-39.

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We are delighted to welcome Dr Junjia Ye as a new Lecturer in Human Geography based at the Massey Albany campus. Jia received her PhD in geography at the University of British Columbia in 2011. Her research interests lie at the intersections of cultural diversity, critical cosmopolitanism, class, gender studies and the political-economic development of urban Southeast Asia. Alongside extensive ethnographic research methods, she also uses tech-niques of film and photography to create visual narratives through her work. She is currently finishing her first book, entitled Inequality in the Global City: The Division of Labour and the Politics of Cosmopolitanism in Singapore. With Jia’s arrival, students will now be able to take a range of geography papers internally at Albany; 145.111 (Society, Environment and Place), 145.216, (Urban Environments), 145.311 (Geographies of Globalisation) and 145.318 (Geopolitics).

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Welcome Jia! P.1

Honour for Prof Patrick Hesp P.2

Applied Geomorphology FieldtripP.3

Maatangi Whenua competition P.3

Publications and Seminars P.4

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A new book entitled Engaging

Geographies, edited by M,

Roche, J, Mansvelt, R, Prince

and A Gallagher.

Cambridge Scholars Press,

2014

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New Lecturer in Geography at Massey, Albany!

Prince, R., 2014. Calculative Cultural Expertise? Consultants and Politics in the UK Cultural Sector. Sociology, 48(4): 747-762.

Lovell, S., Kearns, R and Prince, R. 2014. Neoliberalism and the Contract State: Innovation and Resistance in the Health Promotion Sector. Critical Public Health, 24 (3):308

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Roche, M, Prince, R, Mansvelt, J and Gallagher A (2014) ‘Connecting Landscape, Lifecourse and Mobilities’, in Roche, M, Mansvelt, J. Prince R and Gallagher A (eds)

Engaging Geographies: Landscapes, Lifecourses and Mobilities. Landscapes, Lifecourses and Mobilities. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, pg 101-116, 1-10.

Roche, M. 2014 ‘Changes, Challenges and Responsibility’: A Virtual Issue of New Zealand Geographer for the Kraków IGU Regional Conference, 2014. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1745-7939a/homepage/new_virtual_issue__changes__challenges_and_responsibility.htm

Roche, M. 2014 ‘Alternative Pathways to Sustainability? Comparative forest governance Models – New Zealand Forest Futures Project’, Stockholm 16-17 June 2014

Roche, M. 2014 'The Tung Oil Boom - Business History and Environmental Histories in Collision' Invited Seminar History Programme University of Waikato, Hamilton 24

July.

Roche, M. 2014 ‘An historical view of George Jobberns, geopolitics, and his War-time visioning for a peaceful post-1945 world’. Paper presented to the International Geo-

graphical Union conference, Krakow 18-22 August, 2014.

Roche, M. 2014. ‘Changes and Challenges Facing the Export Meat Industry in New Zealand’ Paper to Session C12.08 Dynamics of Economic Spaces; Emerging Economic

Spaces I International Geographical Union Regional Conference, Krakow 18-22 August 2014.

Roche, M. 2014 ‘Frances B. Lysnar FRGS – Doing Popular Geography from New Zealand in the 1910s and 1920s’. Paper presented to the 2014 International Conference of

the Royal Geographical Society and Institute of British Geographers, RGS, London 26-29 August 2014.

Vale, S., Fuller, I.C. & Procter, J. Anthropocene Sediment flux in the Manawatu River Catchment, New Zealand. Paper presented at the Institute of Australian Geographers/NZ Geographical Society Conference, Melbourne, Australia, 30 June – 2 July 2014

Venkateswar, S. and Roche, M. 2014. ‘Neither Natural Born British subjects nor Aliens: Indians in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force 1914 to 1918’. The Experience of a Lifetime: People Personalities and Leaders in the First World War Conference, 22-24 August 2014. Massey University, Wellington.

Hot off the Press!

Professor Patrick Hesp awarded a

D.Sci

Professor Roche writes… The November 2013 gradua-tion ceremony featured the rare award of a D.Sci to Pro-fessor Patrick Hesp for his research contributions to coastal geomorphology. Higher doctorates are rarely awarded and it signals Pat-rick’s research contribution over nearly four decades. Professor Hesp is currently the Strategic Professor in Coastal Studies at Flinders University. Professor Hesp, who still proudly labels himself as born in Taranaki completed his undergraduate degree and an MA in geography at Massey University before taking his PhD at Sydney University. He spent seven years in the Department of Geography and later School of Global Studies at Massey University at the end of the 20th century. At the time of his departure from Massey I was charged with making a short speech to mark the occasion. I have managed to retrieve it and it can stand alongside the offi-cial oration read out at the graduation ceremony.

DID YOU KNOW

WE HAVE A PRO-

GRAMME OF GE-

OGRAPHY SEMI-

NARS?

Each year we have a series

of speakers at our geogra-

phy seminars. These are

held on the Massey Cam-

pus (but soon will be broad-

cast to Albany) and we

normally have a range of

speakers including post-

graduate students, geogra-

phy staff, colleagues, and

visitors to the University.

Seminars are advertised on

Massey News email, the

postgraduate Stream site,

and via posters in the

School of People, Environ-

ment and Planning and the

Institute of Agriculture and

Environment.

Look out for the notices,

and please come along.

Everyone is welcome!!

A Tale of (another) Two Cit-ies In the second half of August I was able to escape the late winter chill for the North Hem-isphere to attend conferences in Krakow and London. Away from the usual academic business I was struck by age of Krakow city. The old city wall, with the exception of a small section and one of the gates, was pulled down in 1897 and the area replanted as a green belt (called the Planty). In terms of the city’s much more recent history, I also ventured across to the Oskar Schindler's ‘Factory of Enamelled Vessels’ made famous by the film Schindler’s List.

London was the next stop over – reached by Ryanair and Stansted Airport. I was a little trepidatious about travel-ling on this budget airline, but my worst fears were not real-ised. The Royal Geographical Society – Institute of British Geographers’ conference was in Kensington. There was goodly number of New Zealand geographers partici-pating. The low point of the conference would have to have been the 6.00am fire alarm at the hall – someone had not closed the door when having a shower. The confer-ence itself was their largest ever, with over 2000 dele-gates. I managed to visit the nearby Chelsea Physic Garden founded in 1673 and Lon-don’s oldest Botanical Gar-den. To my surprise it includ-ed quite a number of New Zealand species adding to the complexity of mapping networks of botanical ex-change (a topic that Canter-bury geography Prof Eric Pawson has written about for it disrupts the flows posited in Crosby’s Ecological Imperial-ism). MMR

It would be fair to say that Patrick, for some reason has often had the tag ‘larrikin ‘applied to him. I knew he had been in Aussie for so long that he had taken on some of their traits (such as subtly, modesty, restraint, etc.). I knew also that he had not bowed to the pres-sure to cut his extravagant ponytail during his time in Singapore. He arrived in NZ without it ,only shedding it once he had accepted the job . We should have taken this as a sign. Patrick made his mark imme-diately on arrival – in at least two ways. First in taking over the office next to mine I quickly realised I had one of these compulsively tidy neighbours (not of course that my own office is espe-cially untidy). It has meant of course that on occasions when I have lost things – like the lecture timetable for a course that I’m in charge of - I could always borrow his copy. Patrick, along with Professor Flenley, also made a major contribution to the research profile of the Programme. My personal regret is that we never actually got around to an often talked about piece of joint research on historical land use changes on the Manawatu dunes.

Congratulations Patrick. MMR

Ian has been doing a little globetrotting this winter. Fol-lowing involvement in the IAG/NZGS Conference in Mel-bourne at the end of June, a week later he took on the man-tle of Visiting Lecturer to deliv-er a course on New Zealand catchments to undergraduates at the University of Tsukuba, Japan. The course was fol-lowed by fieldwork in the Japa-nese Alps with A/Prof Thomas Parkner and Prof Ken-ichiro Hisada scoping out potential future catchment research sites.

After a brief return to NZ to teach 1

st year practicals in

145.121, Ian was off to Aus-tralia again to give a paper at the 7

th Australian Stream Man-

agement Conference in Townsville. This was followed closely by a visit to the Univer-sity of Padua, Italy (est. 1222), presenting a seminar on Catchment research in New Zealand: from the mountains to the sea.

The symposium was followed by a fieldtrip to the Italian pre-alps. On a lighter note, a visit to the Rio Cordon experi-mental catchment in the Dolo-mites (see photo above) was arranged, providing an oppor-tunity to visit a site which has yielded much fundamental in-formation about fluvial sedi-ment transport, as well as an opportunity to take in a third alpine range this year. Such are the lengths that some peo-ple go to in order to avoid win-ter and bag mountain rang-es…

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Nicola Kaatz received the New Zealand Geo-graphical Society Prize, awarded to the top 200 level Massey student in geography for 2013, at the Manawatu Branch meeting on May 21st 2014. Well done Nicola!

At the end of August, 16 students were joined by a further 4 students and 2 staff from Tsuku-ba University, Japan, for the annual grand tour of North Island geomorphology. Ian, Alastair and Sam, ably assisted by David Feek, en-dured some of the coldest dampest conditions experienced on the East Coast to date on this trip to visit a range of sites covering rivers, slopes, coasts and volcanoes to discuss geo-morphic processes and management. Spirits were not dampened, with Tarndale Slip providing an impressive scene as it emerged through the mist and the sunshine was glori-ous once we rounded the East Cape. The stu-dent experience is summarised in the Wordle below…

Congratulations Nicola!

Maatangi Whenua Competi-tion 2014

145.304 Applied Field Ge-omorphology Fieldtrip

On Wednesday 18th June, eight teams of

Year 10 secondary school students from around the Manawatu/Wanganui region gath-ered for the annual Maatangi Whenua Com-petition hosted by the Geography Progamme and the Manawatu Branch of the New Zea-land Geographical Society. After completing a series of rounds of activities (as diverse as making playdough landforms, and answering questions about ‘Geography in the News’), the team from Palmerston North Boys High School was declared the winner, with St Pe-ter’s College, a close second. We look for-ward to hosting another fun event in 2015!