Honours Theses
The Holmes Miller Prize valued at $250 is awarded to the candidate presenting the best dissertation in the year. See here for prize winners. See here for more information on prizes and scholarships.
2010
| Marcus Brown | A stake in the shifting sands. Towards a unified approach to surveying areas experiencing gradual land movement. |
| Laura Burrow | Fraser underground control network: does it need gyroscopic baselines? |
| Mark Myall | Practical methods to aid the planning of hydrographic surveying and the coordination of nautical charting in the Antarctic region. |
| Julia Nicolson | Landonline 12 years on: the impact landonline has had on New Zealand survey process. |
| Fiona Robertson | Changes to boundary monumentation in the 2010 rules for cadastral survey. |
| Derek Shanks | Public access and paper roads. |
| Oliver Sullivan | The subsistence of Haven St, Moeraki and the use of reflector-less total stations in road deformation modeling. |
| Sharleen Swami | Surveying: the profession and education. |
2009
| Matthew Ackroyd | Student Residential Accommodation in North Dunedin: Assessment of demand and constraints for development. |
| Theresa Cole | Comparative Study of Tide Gauge Data between Dunedin and Port Chalmers. |
| Taryn Murray | New Zealand Aquaculture Reform: An evaluation of the 2005 legislative Aquaculture Reforms. |
| Timothy O'Dowd | Reserve Sensitivity: Insufficient legislative guidance for local authorities. |
| Hamish Ruddenklau | Private Land Protection: The success and effectiveness of the QE11 Trust in achieving protection on private land with open space covenants. |
| David Shearer | Sustainable Urban Design and Waterfront Revitalisation. |
| Nicholas Stillwell | A derived baseline approach to Network RTK and its use for the observation of geodetic networks. |
| Matthew Stevenson | The compilation of a preliminary vertical deformation map of New Zealand from GPS time series data. |
| Joseph Wright | D8 and Rho8: A comparative study of flow direction algorithms for urbanised catchment mapping. |
| Bridget Wright | The recognition of native title in Australian Courts. |
2008
| Andrew Barbour | An evaluation of the positional accuracy of the OmniSTAR differential HP system. |
| Laura Coll | Systematic land titling in post-tsunami Aceh: The effects on women, the poor and other vulnerable groups. |
| Rita Homes | TThe effect of localised deformation models on cadastral coordinates. |
| Elizabeth Jeffery | Landlocked Maori land: An analysis of current Maori land laws to assess if they are effective keys to unlocking access to landlocked Maori land. |
| Samuel Lynds | The application of terrestrial laser scanners for the monitoring and recording of the historic huts in Antarctica. |
| Grant McDonald | An evaluation of network RTK for cadastral surveys. |
2007
| Garth Archibald | Earth Deformation at Moeraki. |
| William Bole | Securing a public right to access to private land: without undermining private property rights. |
| Katherine McNeill | The Ecological Sustainability of Peri-Urban Developments: An Analysis of Queenstown Peri-Urban Developments and Their Effect on the Natural Environment of the Wakatipu Basin. |
| Andrew Marshall | Water Level Measurement and Tidal Datum Transfer Using High Rate GPS Buoys. |
| Jackie van den Berg | The New Zealand Subdivision Process: A Guide for the General Public. |
2006
| Carl Bailey | Planning for new energy: The planning process for renewable embedded generation system in New Zealand. |
| Samuel Fowler | Design and Preanalysis of underground control networks for tunnel construction. |
| Kathryn Henderson | Land tenure and land registration system issues of Pitcairn island. |
| Emily Todd | Marine protection areas. |
| Carolyn Watson | Are community gardens a good use of land in New Zealand. |
| Rachel Winefield | Fiordland dislocation model. |