Professor Ian Hawes

Professor
Qualifications: PhD
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
Biessy, L., Pearman, J. K., Smith, K. F., Hawes, I., & Wood, S. A. (2020). Seasonal and Spatial Variations in Bacterial Communities From Tetrodotoxin-Bearing and Non-tetrodotoxin-Bearing Clams. Frontiers in Microbiology, 11. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2020.01860
Dillon, M. L., Hawes, I., Jungblut, A. D., Mackey, T. J., Eisen, J. A., Doran, P. T., & Sumner, D. Y. (2020). Energetic and Environmental Constraints on the Community Structure of Benthic Microbial Mats in Lake Fryxell, Antarctica. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 96(2). doi:10.1093/femsec/fiz207
Waters, S., Webster-Brown, J. G., & Hawes, I. (2020). The release of legacy phosphorus from deforestation-derived sediments in shallow, coastal lake Forsyth/Te Roto o Wairewa. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research. doi:10.1080/00288330.2020.1804408
Zabarte-Maeztu, I., Matheson, F. E., Manley-Harris, M., Davies-Colley, R. J., Oliver, M., & Hawes, I. (2020). Effects of fine sediment on seagrass meadows: A case study of Zostera muelleri in pāuatahanui inlet, New Zealand. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 8(9), 20 pages. doi:10.3390/JMSE8090645
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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