Author Archives: waiber

Femke won an award for best presentation by a junior professional at the New Zealand Land Treatment Collective Annual Conference, Wanaka, March 2015. For her PhD, Femke is investigating whether denitrifying bioreactors can also remove pathogens from wastewater streams.

Our latest EC tower has just become operational! We have returned to Moanatuatua bog, 16 years after our first CO2 flux measurements took place there. Measurements from the new tower will support research on the sustainability of this precious peatland … Continue reading →

Great work Sam! First paper from his ongoing PhD accepted by ‘Plant and Soil’. The paper reports root biomass and turnover in pastures of differing diversity and potential implications for soil carbon inputs. He also made us a great cake … Continue reading →

Great news Olivia and Emma both submitted their MSc thesis and as importantly brought us new research cakes. https://waiber.com/research-cake/

A postdoctoral position (2.5 years) responsible for measuring nitrous oxide fluxes from grazed pastures systems. We will be purchasing equipment that allows eddy covariance measurements of nitrous oxide and the successful candidate will help install and maintain the equipment, collect … Continue reading →

Congrats to Jordan Goodrich who handed in his PhD thesis today and we bid him and Jess farewell as they travel back to the US to take up a postdoc position in San Diego. Safe travels!

The Waiber team had a number of papers accepted over the Christmas break – journal editors must have been catching up on work. Didham, R.K.; Barker, G.M.; Bartlam, S.; Deakin, E.L.; Denmead, L.H.; Fisk, L.M.: Peters, J.M.R.; Tylianakis, J.M.; Wright, … Continue reading →

Olivia Jordan was awarded the TW Walker award for best student oral presentation at the annual conference of the NZ Society of Soil Science.

Alice Barnett won Sir Theodore Rigg award for best MSc Thesis of 2013 from the New Zealand Society of Soil Science. Awarded at the conference dinner.