Associate Professor Brendan Hicks
Chairperson
Qualifications: MSc Auck PhD Oregon State
Contact Details
| Name | Extn. | Username | Room | Department | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hicks, AProf Brendan | 4661 | hicksbj | E.2.19 | Biological Sciences |
You can contact staff by:
- Calling +64 7 838 4466 then enter the extension
- Extensions starting with 4 or 5 can also be direct dialed:
- For extensions starting with 4: dial +64 7 838 extension
- For extensions starting with 5: dial +64 7 858 extension
- Emailing username@waikato.ac.nz
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Research Interests
Ecology of freshwater fish; effects of land use on freshwater fish; functional stream ecology; use of stable isotopes in elucidating stream food webs.
Students Supervised
PhD
- Allan, Mathew (in progress). Near real-time water quality monitoring of large lakes using ocean colour satellites
- Blair, Jennifer (in progress) Factors controlling common smelt abundance and trout production in the Rotorua Lakes, New Zealand.
- Tana, Raymond (in progress) Assessing the population structure of Antarctic toothfish (Dissostichus mawsoni) in the Southern Ocean using otolith chemistry and genetics.
- Ashraf, Salman (2011). Evaluating sub-pixel classification techniques for riparian vegetation mapping of selected lakes and rivers of the Waikato region.
- Baillie, Brenda (submitted). Catchment scale woody debris dynamics in forested streams.
- Daniel, Adam (2009). Detection probability, habitat use, and movements of course fish in the lower Waikato River and its lakes.
- West, David (2006). Ecotoxicology of fish in the Waikato River.
- Parkyn, Stephanie (2000). Effects of land use on freshwater crayfish.
MPhil
- Young, Kim (2002). Ecology of koaro in lakes
MSc
- Ellery, Peter (in progress). Restoration of inanga rearing habitat on the Kaituna river floodplain.
- Law, Duncan (in progress). Restoration of urban stream habitat for migratory native fish in the Mangakotukutuku Stream.
- Mahoney, Brennan (in progress). Developing an audio lure for free-ranging koi carp (Cyprinus carpio).
- De Villiers, Josh (in progress). An assessment of injury and survival of New Zealand fish species shortfin eel (Anguilla australis), grey mullet (Mugil cephalus) and smelt (Retropinna retropinna) captured by boat electrofishing in comparison with alternate capture methods.
- Blair, Jennifer (2009). Dispersal and habitat use of larval and juvenile koi karp.
- Tana, Raymond (2009). The migration history and population dynamics of torrentfish in two Waikato streams, North Island, New Zealand
- Aldridge, Brenda (2008). Restoring habitat for native fish in New Zealand's urban streams
- Allan, Mathew (2008). Remote sensing of the Rotorua Lakes for water quality using Imagery.
- Riceman, Matthew (2008). Determining the natal streams of rainbow trout, smelt and koaro in Lake Rotorua and Lake Rotoiti.
- Klee, David (2006). Trophic status and ecological processes in three Rotorua Lakes.
- Willougby, Mark (2006). Extraction,analysis, and use of 5α-cyprinol sulfate to improve capture.
- McBride, Christopher (2005). Food webs in the Rotorua Lakes: a stable isotopes study.
- August, Stella (2004). Upstream migration of glass eels. n lakes.
Expertise
Aquatic ecology of freshwaters; ecology and habitat requirements of freshwater fish; stream ecosystem structure and function; impacts of pest fish; fish populations in lakes; electrofishing.
Recent Publications
- Ashraf, S., Brabyn, L., Hicks, B. (2011) Image data fusion for the remote sensing of freshwater environments
Refereed Journal Articles - Applied Geography - Daniel, A., Hicks, B., Ling, N., David, B. (2011) Movements of radio- and acoustic-tagged adult koi carp in the Waikato River, New Zealand
Refereed Journal Articles - North American Journal of Fisheries Management - Allan, M., Hamilton, D., Hicks, B., Brabyn, L. (2011) Landsat remote sensing of chlorophyll a concentrations in central North Island lakes of New Zealand
Refereed Journal Articles - International Journal of Remote Sensing - Ashraf, S., Brabyn, L., Hicks, B. (2011) Alternative solutions for determining the spectral band weights for the subtractive resolution merge technique
Refereed Journal Articles - International Journal of Image and Data Fusion
