Areas of interest:

• Interrelationships between forage management and nutrition on dairy cow performance and end-product characteristics
• Agronomy of alternative forages in dairy systems
• Management strategies to reduce the environmental footprint in pastoral systems
• Impact of climate variability on farm system performance
• Organic dairy systems
• Biophysical modelling of farm systems

Key accomplishments:

• Invited contributor to “Ecology and Biomechanics - A mechanical approach to the Ecology of Animals and Plants” CRC Press.
• 2000-2003 FRST Post-Doctoral Fellowship (Macaulay Land Use Research Institute, Aberdeen, Scotland
• 1994 Vice-Chancellor Pukehou Pouto and Country Calendar Scholarships
• 1994 Massey Scholar (awarded to the top 5% of university graduates)
• 1993 Wrightson Scholarship
• 1991 Sally Newton Memorial award (awarded to most proficient student in year 1 of the B.Agr degree)

Career output summary:

Other roles

Member of the New Zealand Grassland Association