Dr Hamish Cochrane

Senior lecturer

Publications

Summary curriculum vitae

Hamish Cochrane is an environmental scientist who has specialised in biosecurity issues associated with land-based production systems.  He has worked at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand School of Forestry since 1999.

His research aims to elucidate landscape level patterns of land-use by vertebrate animals so as foresters and farmers can incorporate knowledge of introduced vertebrate pests into forest and farm management planning. 

He has experience looking at introduced vertebrate diet as well as habitat use.  In recent years he has been utilising technological tools such as GPS-collars and GIS to better understand habitat use.  He also has an interest in planning for deliberate release of pest organisms in production systems.

His current research interests are:

• sheep habitat use in spatially heterogeneous agricultural systems;
• Lagomorph diet and habitat use in production systems

More broadly his research interests are:

• Biosecurity;
• pest management in production systems;
• use of geospatial technologies for pest management
• vertebrate habitat use.

Hamish teaches a range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses at the New Zealand School of Forestry.  His primary teaching is in two areas – forest health and biosecurity (FORE218 and FORE443, as well as a summer school paper BIOS101/201) and GIS and GPS (FORE216 and FORE442).  He is the undergraduate Chair of Studies for the Bachelor of Forestry Science.