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Greg Leonard

BSc, MSc, PhD (Clarkson) CPEng, MIPENZ

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Tel 64 3 479 5075
Email greg.leonard@otago.ac.nz

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As part of his post graduate work at Clarkson University in Potsdam, NY, USA, Greg travelled to New Zealand, Germany and Japan, and spent eight months working at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD, USA. After completing his PhD in 2001, Greg returned to New Zealand and took up a post-doctoral fellowship in the Department of Physics at the University of Otago, where he investigated the growth of Antarctic landfast sea ice. He made three separate trips to Antarctica during this time, including participating in a scientific cruise from Lyttelton Harbour to McMurdo Sound, Antarctic, and "wintering over" at New Zealand's Scott Base from February – October 2003.

Greg next worked for 3+ years as an environmental engineer for the Duffill Watts Group, an engineering consultancy company based in Dunedin. While there he specialised in the design of water, wastewater and stormwater infrastructure, including taking on the role as the company's primary hydraulic modeller. Some of the larger projects that he was involved in include "Project Pure" in Wanaka (upgrade of Wanaka's wastewater system), the upgrade of Dunedin's Tahuna Wastewater Treatment Plant, and the strategic review of the Nelson Regional Sewerage Business Unit wastewater network.

Greg returned to the University of Otago in July 2008 as a lecturer in the School of Surveying. His primary roles in the School involve delivering the civil engineering portion of the curriculum and establishing and maintaining links with the civil engineering industry. He is also continuing his work in Antarctic research and developing a programme of research in the area of the management of water, wastewater and stormwater networks.

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Research

Research Interests
  • Dynamics of Antarctic landfast sea ice
  • Near-surface polar oceanography
  • Hydraulic and hydrologic network modeling
  • Sustainability of infrastructural networks
  • Engineering solutions utilising Geographical Information Systems
    • Current Research Projects
  • Sea ice formation in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica, and its correlation with near-surface oceanographic conditions
  • Urban surface water hydrology investigations using GIS
    • Research Collaborations
  • University of Otago Polar Environments Research Theme
  • University of Otago Sea Ice Group
  • NIWA
  • Industrial Research Limited
    • Research Grants
  • University of Otago Research Grant 2010 – supporting Antarctic sea ice research
    • Research Students
  • Joseph Wright, PhD, Flow Direction Algorithms for Urbanised Catchment Mapping, 2010 – (secondary supervisor)

    • Responsibilities


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