Professor David Hamilton: Graduate Students
Professor David Hamilton has supervised the following students in graduate study.
PhD Students
Abel, Jonathan (in progress) A study of the options to achieve water quality restoration goals in the Rotorua lakes.
Eivers, Rebecca (in progress) Remediation measures to mitigate sediment and nutrient inputs from agricultural catchments to Waikato lakes
Pingram, Michael (in progress) Food webs in the lower Waikato River and the role of hydrogeomorphic complexity.
Kusabs, Ian (in progress) An Ecological Study of Koura in Te Arawa
Lakes.
von Westernhagen, Nina (submitted) Modelling water
quality of Lake Rotoiti.
Oezkundakci, Deniz (2010) Management of internal nutrient loads
for restoration of eutrophic lakes.
Trolle, Dennis (2009) Lake restoration from a climate change
perspective.
Burger, David (2006) Benthic-pelagic
coupling in Lake Rotorua. [pictured
below]
Ryan, Eloise (2006) Dynamics of
phytoplankton communities in North Island lakes, New Zealand. 
MPhil Students
Baldwin, Amanda (2009) Dynamics of negatively
and positively buoyant phytoplankton in deep lakes.
MSc Students
Dennis, Marie (in progress) The role of viral systems in nutrient cycling.
Kelly, Chrystal (in progress) Charophyte response to herbicide and mycoherbicide technologies.
Sharma, Abhilasha (in progress)
Zhang, Chenguang Austin (submitted) High frequency monitoring and three-dimensional modelling of temporal variations in water quality of Lake Rotorua, New Zealand.
Butterworth, Joseph (2008) Lake Rotokakahi: The kakahi (Hyridella menziesi) in a general framework of lake health.
Prentice, Matthew (2008) Temporal and spatial variations of
cyanobacteria in Karori Reservoir, Wellington.
Paul, Wendy (2006) The effect
of environmental factors on nitrogen cycling in Lake Okaro.
Postgraduate Students (University of Western Australia)
Louise Bruce
(PhD) Prediction of
zooplankton population dynamics in natural water bodies and aquaculture
operations.
Terence Chan
(PhD) Phytoplankton dynamics in the Swan River estuary.
Antwanet Kostoglidis, (PhD) Light attenuation and primary production in the
Swan River, Western Australia.
Joanne O’Callaghan, (PhD) Physical processes at the
estuarine turbidity maximum for two
south-west West Australian estuaries with a diurnal tidal regime.
Kathy Prescott (PhD) Interactions between temperature, mixing, light, and
phytoplankton dynamics in two Wisconsin Lakes.
Richard Segal
(PhD) Algal polysaccharide production, primary production and nutrient limitation
in solar salt ponds.
Clare Spillman, (PhD) A modelling assessment of clam and
mussel dynamics in Barbamarco Lagoon, Italy.
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