Associate Professor Louis Schipper
Associate Professor
Qualifications: BSc, MSc, PhD University of Waikato
Contact Details
| Name | Extn. | Username | Room | Department | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Schipper, Prof Louis | 4468 | schipper | DE.1.01 | Earth and Ocean Sciences |
You can contact staff by:
- Calling +64 7 838 4466 then enter the extension
- Direct dialling +64 7 838 then extension (for extensions starting with 4)
- Direct dialling +64 7 858 then extension (for extensions starting with 5)
- Emailing username@waikato.ac.nz
- Using the campus map to locate their room
Research Interests
- Nitrogen cycling particularly denitrification and it might be manipulated in agricultural environments
- Long term changes in soil organic matter in pastures and nitrogen saturation of organic matter,
- Factors controlling organic matter decomposition including photodegradation
- Utility of Eddy covariance for determining C exchange in different ecosystems
- Soil quality
Documents
Managing Denitrification
We have recently completed a special issue of the journal "Ecological Engineering" focusing on managing denitrification in human dominated ecosystems. The National Science Foundation in the United States put out a press release describing the issue.
Soil Carbon and Nitrogen
If you are interested in learning about soil carbon or soil nitrogen, two non-technical articles published in the New Zealand Science Teacher can be found here - Soil carbon, Soil nitrogen.
Students Supervised
12 PhDs and 13 MScs supervised as either chief supervisor or committee member.
PhD:
P. Mudge (2009 - present) Chair - 15N as an indicator of land development stage
B. Welten (2009 - present) Chair - Effects of dicyandiamide on urinary nitrogen leaching losses in grazed pastures.
S. Lambie (2006 - present) Chair - Soil organic matter loss under pasture and pine: Responses to urine addition
S. McNally (2011 - present) Chair - The contribution of roots of different pastures to soil carbon.
MSc:
A. Barnett (2010 - present) Chair - Do declines in soil carbon and nitrogen content depend on the intensity of pasture grazing?
A. Taylor (2011- present) committee member - The effects of land use intensity on root mass – a comparison between dairying and drystock.
E. Chibnall (2011 - present) The contribution of dissolved organic carbon leaching to a carbon budget of a grazed dairy pasture.
Teaching Commitments
Expertise
Soil organic matter cycling; nitrogen dynamics; land treatment of effluent; greenhouse gas production from soil; soil quality.
Recent Publications
- Blyth, J., Campbell, D., Schipper, L. (2012) Utilizing soil indicators to explain historical vegetation changes of a peatland subjected to flood inundation
Refereed Journal Articles - Ecohydrology - Rutledge, S., Mudge, P., Campbell, D., Wallace, D., Schipper, L. (2011) Effects of climate variation and management practises on the carbon balance of a Waikato dairy farm
Conference - Oral Presentation - Ecology in the Heartland - Schipper, L., Sparling, G., Fisk, L., Dodd, M., Power, I., Littler, R. (2011) Rates of accumulation of cadmium and uranium in a New Zealand hill farm soil as a result of long-term use of phosphate fertilizer
Refereed Journal Articles - Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment - Long, L., Schipper, L., Bruesewitz, D. (2011) Long-term nitrate removal in a denitrification wall
Refereed Journal Articles - Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment
