Associate Professor David Campbell

Associate Professor
Qualifications: BSc(Hons), PhD Otago
Personal Website: http://waiber.com
Research Interests
My research contributes to the understanding of how ecosystems function, especially the way they exchange water, energy, carbon, and greenhouse gases with their atmospheric environment. I have predominantly worked within two groups of ecosystems: N.Z.’s globally distinctive peat wetlands; and our intensively managed agricultural systems. In the 1990’s I was an early adopter of micrometeorological methods for investigating the water and energy balances, then CO2 and CH4 exchanges, of wetlands. With colleagues, I then applied these methodologies to investigate whole-farm carbon balances as a way of understanding the impact of the intensive management of grazed farming systems on soil carbon stocks. We now use these approaches to study ecosystem-scale greenhouse gas exchanges while still focussing on the sensitivity of ecosystems (whether natural or managed) to disturbance regimes, climate extremes (e.g. drought), and environmental change.
Research Supervised
PhD
- Ratcliffe, Joshua (2020). Carbon sequestration and biogeochemical cycling in damaged and pristine peatlands.
- Goodrich, Jordan (2015). Magnitude and controls on the net carbon balance of a New Zealand bog.
- Kalaugher, Electra (2015). Adaptation of New Zealand dairy farms to climate change: An integrated, farm-level analysis.
- Rutledge-Jonker, Susanna (2010). Carbon dioxide losses from terrestrial organic matter resulting from photodegradation and microbial respiration.
MSc(Research)
- Glover-Clark, Georgia (2020). Spatiotemporal variability of hydrology in Moanatuatua drained peatland, and its influence on CO2 emissions and surface oscillations.
- Douglas, Callum (2019). Ecohydrological characterisation of Otakairangi Wetland, Northland.
MSc
- Keyte Beattie, Alexandra (2014). The role of Empodisma robustum litter in CO2 exchange at Kopuatai bog.
- Sturgeon, Catherine (2013). Assessing dissolved organic carbon export from Kopuatai bog, New Zealand.
- Blyth, James (2011). Ecohydrological characterisation of Whangamarino wetland.
MEnvSc
- Hamill, Jacob (2020). Methane Emission hotspots from a drained peat soil dairy grazing.
- Daws, Constance (2019). Factors contributing to the unnaturally low water table of Moanatuatua Scientific Reserve, Waikato, New Zealand.
BSc(Hons)
- Elliott, Sarah (2018). The impact of drainage design on the water table regime and soil moisture content in Waikato agricultural peat soil.
Teaching Commitments
Recent Publications
Goodrich, J. P., Wall, A. M., Campbell, D. I., Fletcher, D., Wecking, A. R., & Schipper, L. A. (2021). Improved gap filling approach and uncertainty estimation for eddy covariance N<inf>2</inf>O fluxes. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 297. doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2020.108280
Wall, A. M., Campbell, D. I., Mudge, P. L., & Schipper, L. A. (2020). Temperate grazed grassland carbon balances for two adjacent paddocks determined separately from one eddy covariance system. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 287. doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2020.107942
Wecking, A. R., Cave, V. M., Liáng, L. Y. L., Wall, A. M., Luo, J., Campbell, D. I., & Schipper, L. A. (2020). A novel injection technique: Using a field-based quantum cascade laser for the analysis of gas samples derived from static chambers. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 13(11), 5763-5777. doi:10.5194/amt-13-5763-2020
Campbell, D. I., Glover-Clark, G. L., Goodrich, J. P., Morcom, C. P., Schipper, L. A., & Wall, A. M. (2020). Large differences in CO<inf>2</inf> emissions from two dairy farms on a drained peatland driven by contrasting respiration rates during seasonal dry conditions. Science of the Total Environment. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.143410