Professor Ian Hawes

Professor
Qualifications: PhD
About Ian
Papers Taught
Research Supervised
PhD
- Biessy, Laura (in progress). Elucidating the source and transmission of tetrodotoxin in New Zealand bivalves.
- Picard, Mailys (in progress). Assessing the impact of invasive fish species on lake communities using sedimentary environmental DNA.
- Skovsholt, Louis (in progress). Eutrophication effects on stream macrophytes.
- Thang, Ha Nam (in progress). Remote Sensing of Dynamics and Blue Carbon Storage of Seagrass in Tauranga Harbour (Bay of Plenty), New Zealand.
- Maeztu, Inigo Zabarte (in progress). Sediment-effect Thresholds for the Seagrass Zostera Muelleri in New Zealand
MSc(Research)
- McKenzie, Kyle (in progress). Macroinvertebate communities in coastal habitats in the Ross Sea , Antarctica.
- Mills, Francesca (in progress). Resilience of microbial communities in Antarctic coastal ponds.
- Reed, Lisa (in progress). Relationships between optical properities of lakes and their cyanobacterial populations.
- Wilson, Nicholas (in progress). Dynamics of nitrate and sediment in lowland Bay of PLenty rivers.
MSc
- Samra, Aliesha (in progress). Comparing light harvesting efficiency at high and low light in seagrasses in Tauranga Harbour.
Research Interests
Antarctic Aquatic Ecosystems
NZ Lakes
Recent Publications
Lizieri, C., Schaefer, C. E. G. R., & Hawes, I. A. N. (2022). Morphological diversity of benthic cyanobacterial assemblages in meltwater ponds along environmental gradients in the McMurdo Sound region, Antarctica. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 94(suppl 1). doi:10.1590/0001-3765202220210814
Picard, M., Wood, S. A., Pochon, X., Vandergoes, M. J., Reyes, L., Howarth, J. D., . . . Puddick, J. (2022). Molecular and pigment analyses provide comparative results when reconstructing historic cyanobacterial abundances from lake sediment cores. Microorganisms, 10(2). doi:10.3390/microorganisms10020279
Monteiro, M. R., Marshall, A. J., Hawes, I., Lee, C. K., McDonald, I. R., & Cary, S. C. (2022). Geochemically defined space-for-time transects successfully capture microbial dynamics along Lacustrine chronosequences in a Polar desert. Frontiers in Microbiology, 12. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2021.783767 Open Access version: https://hdl.handle.net/10289/14766
Zabarte-Maeztu, I., D’Archino, R., Matheson, F. E., Manley-Harris, M., & Hawes, I. (2021). First record of Chaetomorpha ligustica (Cladophoraceae, Cladophorales) smothering the seagrass Zostera muelleri in a New Zealand estuary. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research. doi:10.1080/00288330.2021.2013261
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Keywords
Biology; Oceanography
Geobiology, microbial ecology, plant physiology, limnology.
Contact Details
Email: [email protected]Phone: +64 7 5785927
Cellphone: +64 21 02281494