Dr Barry Fahey (Landcare Research)

Position

Adjunct lecturer and Senior Fellow with treaching and research interests in periglacial geomorphology and landuse hydrology.

Qualifications

M.A. (Otago), Ph.D. (Colorado)

Contact Details

Room:308
Phone: +64 3 364 2987 ext. 6932, +64 3 325 6700 (Landcare Research)
Fax: +64 3 364 2907
faheyb@landcareresearch.co.nz

Postal address:
Department of Geography
University of Canterbury
Private Bag 4800
Christchurch
New Zealand

or

Landcare Research
PO Box 69
Lincoln
New Zealand
8152

Research

My past research interests were in Quaternary environments, with an emphasis on periglacial landforms and processes, in Central Otago, Colorado and Canada.

My Current research interests are in land-use impacts, especially the effects of forestry on water yield and sediment generation, tussock grassland hydrology, and runoff processes and mechanisms.

Teaching

• GEOG 214: Applications in Physical Geography
• GEOG 340: Field-based Geomorphic applications

Selected Publications

• Fahey B, Duncan M and Quinn J, 2004, Impacts of forestry, in Mosley P and Harding J (eds), Freshwaters of New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand Hydrological Society, pp 33.1-33.16
• Fahey B D, Marden M and Phillips C J, 2003, Sediment yields from plantation forestry and pastoral farming, coastal Hawke's Bay, North Island, New Zealand, Journal of Hydrology (N.Z.), Vol 42, No 1, pp 27-38.
• Fahey B D, Watson A J and Payne J, 2001, Water loss from plantations of Douglas-fir and radiata pine on the Canterbury Plains, South Island, New Zealand, Journal of Hydrology (N.Z.), Vol 40, No 1, pp 77-96.
• Fahey B, Bowden W B, Smith J and Murray D L, 1998, Hillslope-wetland hydrological linkages in the headwaters of a tussock grassland catchment at Glendhu, South Island, New Zealand, in Hydrology, water resources and ecology in headwaters, International Association of Hydrological Sciences Publication No 248, pp 157-164.
• Fahey B D and Jackson R J, 1997, Hydrological impacts of converting native forests and grasslands to pine plantations, South Island, New Zealand, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Vol 84, pp 69-82.
• Fahey B D and Coker R J, 1993, Sediment production from forest roads in Queen Charlotte Forest, and potential impact on marine water quality, Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand, New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, Vol 26, pp 187-195.
• Fahey B D and Lefebure T H, 1988, The freeze-thaw weathering regime at a section of the Niagara Escarpment on the Bruce Peninsula, Southern Ontario, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, Vol 13, pp 293-304.
• Fahey B D, 1986, Weathering pit development in the Central Otago mountains of southern New Zealand, Arctic and Alpine Research, Vol 18, pp 337-348.
• Fahey B D, 1983, Frost action and hydration shattering as rock weathering mechanisms on schist: a laboratory study, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, Vol 8, pp 535-545
• Fahey B D, 1981, The origin and age of upland schist tors in Central Otago, New Zealand, New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, Vol 24, pp 399-413.