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Dr. Michael Kearney 

About Me

Michael or Mick Kearney has been with Awanuiārangi for four years and is based in Auckland as the course co-ordinator for the Bachelor of Environmental Studies. Mick's thesis for his Phd is a topic that gets the interest of many Māori as it looks at the aquacultural potential of New Zealand short finned and long finned eels. His presentations on the topic of tuna (eels) also get a good response from Māori as they are still a valued taonga for Māori. Along with aquaculture Mick is involved with iwi/community based fisheries management. In this respect and along with Associate Professor Paul Kayes, Mick has assisted Te Runanga o Ngati Awa with their discussions with Ministry of Fisheries which resulted in the iwi being awarded a research project looking at customary fishing and fisheries management. Mick is not only interested in the academic side of aquaculture and fisheries management, quite often he can be found indulging in his other favourite past-time - on the Waitemata kayak fishing.

Teaching Responsibilities

• Tai 141 Animal Diversity - To introduce classification and organisation, form and function in the animal kingdom.
• Tai 142 Multi - Cellular Protists, Fungi and Plants - To introduce classification and organisation, form and function in the protist, fungi and plant kingdoms.
• Tai Kaitiakitanga and Resource Management - To explore and understand fundamental issues of resource management in the New Zealand context recognising its dual cultural perspectives and aspirations.
• Tai 144 Earth Science - To examine major processes and outcomes in earth’s geology and physical geography and introduce the New Zealand setting.
• Tai 145 New Zealand Environments and Ecology - To introduce students to the basic concepts and terms used in ecology. Students will develop an understanding of New Zealand's terrestrial and aquatic environments and explore the reasons behind the unique and vulnerable nature of our biodiversity. Māori cultural identity and these relationships to the natural environment will be examined.

Current Research Projects

• Post Doctoral Fellowship on Eels

Publications

• Kearney, M.B., Jeffs, A.G. & Lee, P. (2008). The effects of salinity and temperature on growth and survival of New Zealand shortfin, Anguilla australis, and longfin A. dieffenbachii, glass eels. Aquaculture Research 39: 1769-1777.