Charles Merfield
Charles (Merf) is head of the BHU Future Farming Centre, hosted by Lincoln Uni, joined the project in 2014. He is the Industry leader for the Organic Case studies. Sonja Olykan
Sonja is an Organic College Tutor and Technician at BHU and she joined the project to help Merf coordinating the organic case studies and workshops. |
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Alex Hatzipanis
Alex is a website developer that has been working in the Maori Case Study to build a sustainability assessment and reporting tool. For more info on Alex click here. |
Kevin Collins.
Kevin has joined the team in 2015 to do a study on potential linkages with Regional Councils. Kevin is a private consultant who worked for Waikato Regional Council and chaired the Regional Council Biodiversity Working Group until Dec 2014. He now chairs the EMaR (Environmental Monitoring and Reporting) group and is in charge of scoping future EMaR development. He is specialised in advocacy, strategic analysis and project facilitation. He has a strong public policy and communications background, with particular interest in connecting people with the environment.
Kevin has joined the team in 2015 to do a study on potential linkages with Regional Councils. Kevin is a private consultant who worked for Waikato Regional Council and chaired the Regional Council Biodiversity Working Group until Dec 2014. He now chairs the EMaR (Environmental Monitoring and Reporting) group and is in charge of scoping future EMaR development. He is specialised in advocacy, strategic analysis and project facilitation. He has a strong public policy and communications background, with particular interest in connecting people with the environment.
Peter Carey, Lincoln University
Peter is a soil scientist with over 30 years' experience in analytical and applied research. He began his own company in 2004 (LRS -Land Research Services Ltd.) managing research programmes in soils and water for a range of clients including CRI’s, Universities, regional councils and private companies.
Current themes include sustainability of NZ farming systems, farm runoff and water quality, improving water quality of dairy effluent, nitrification inhibitor field trials and development of new soil test procedures. He has written and presented a number of papers on the above subjects in conference proceedings and has published on a number of topics in international and national journals. Peter is based at Lincoln University and is currently studying for his PhD with the Centre for Soil and Environmental Research based in the Soil and Physical Sciences Group, LU.
Peter is a soil scientist with over 30 years' experience in analytical and applied research. He began his own company in 2004 (LRS -Land Research Services Ltd.) managing research programmes in soils and water for a range of clients including CRI’s, Universities, regional councils and private companies.
Current themes include sustainability of NZ farming systems, farm runoff and water quality, improving water quality of dairy effluent, nitrification inhibitor field trials and development of new soil test procedures. He has written and presented a number of papers on the above subjects in conference proceedings and has published on a number of topics in international and national journals. Peter is based at Lincoln University and is currently studying for his PhD with the Centre for Soil and Environmental Research based in the Soil and Physical Sciences Group, LU.