New Zealand tertiary GIS papers, programmes and contacts

Find New Zealand tertiary GIS papers, programmes and contacts.

Summary table showing NZ university GIS qualifications

UniversityGIS MinorGIS MajorPost Grad GIS programme
University of AucklandNoYesYes
Auckland University of TechnologyYesNoYes
University of WaikatoYesNoYes
Massey UniversityNoNoYes
Victoria UniversityYesNoNo
University of CanterburyYesYesYes
Lincoln UniversityNoNoNo
University of OtagoYesYesYes

GIS papers, programmes and contact information

InstituteGIS papers / programmesInstitution GIS contact
University of Auckland

Geographic Information Science - Introductory material

Links to undergraduate GIS papers below:

Katarzyna Sila-Nowicka
+64 9 9235930
katarzyna.sila-nowicka@auckland.ac.nz
Auckland University of Technology

Geospatial programmes/courses

Undergraduate:

Geospatial Science can be taken as a Minor and is generally combined with a Major in Environmental Science or Marine Science.

Level 5 courses (First Year)

  • GESC500 Mapping Our Environment

Level 6 courses (Second Year)

  • GESC600 Geospatial Analysis
  • GESC601 Geospatial Field Skills

Level 7 courses (Third Year)

  • GESC700 Advanced Geospatial Analysis

Postgraduate and Research:

Geospatial Science courses are available as part of a Postgraduate Diploma in Science, Master of Science or Master of Science (Research) and the following courses can be taken together as a 'specialisation in Geospatial Science'.

Dr Bradley Case - bradley.case@aut.ac.nz 

Graham Hinchliffe - graham.hinchliffe@aut.ac.nz
 

University of Waikato

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) - links to undergraduate and postgraduate options, including the GIS Specialisation for the Master of Social Science and the Master of Information Technology

Dr Lars Brabyn
+64 7 856 2889
larsb@waikato.ac.nz
Massey University

Postgraduate Diploma Arts (Geospatial Science)

Undergraduate courses:

Postgraduate courses:

Dr Kristin Stock (for Geoinformatics paper)
+64 9 414 0800 ext: 43719
k.stock@massey.ac.nz

Assoc Prof Jonathan Procter (for Remote Sensing papers)
+64 6 3569099 ext: 84857
j.n.procter@massey.ac.nz

Dr Russell Prince (for info on PGDip)
+64 6 951 6655
r.j.prince@massey.ac.nz

Victoria University of Wellington

Mairead de Roiste
+64 4 463 643
mairead.deroiste@vuw.ac.nz

Ocean Mercier
Te Kawa a Māui/School of Māori Studies
Ocean.mercier@vuw.ac.nz

University of Canterbury

At the undergraduate level, students studying Geography, Data Science, and related fields take courses in GIS which may include:

GIS courses are part of many qualifications:

  • GISC422 Foundations of Geographic Information Systems is required or an elective for many disciplines.
  • GISC489 Geospatial Cognition.
  • Forestry offers FORE342 Geospatial Science in Forest Monitoring and Management, FORE448 Advanced Remote Sensing in Forestry and Natural Resource Management, and FORE642 Advanced Geospatial Science in Forest Monitoring and Management

A basic micro-credential is available through UC Online from Health: GIS for Mapping

The Postgraduate Geospatial Data Science programmes offer a Certificate, Diploma, taught-Master, or research-based MSc in Geospatial Data Science involving the following courses. Students in the Masters in Data Science can also take geospatial courses as part of their programme.

  • GISC401 Foundations of Geospatial Data Science
  • GISC402 Geospatial Data Science Research
  • GISC403 Geovisual Analytics
  • GISC404 Spatial Analysis
  • GISC405 Environmental and Climate Data Analytics
  • GISC406 Remote Sensing for Earth Observation
  • GISC412 Advanced Methods in Geospatial Data Science
  • GISC415 Geospatial Data Science Internship

Ioannis Delikostidis
+64 3 369 4387
Ioannis.delikostidis@canterbury.ac.nz 

Carolynne Hultquist
carolynne.hultquist@canterbury.ac.nz

 

Lincoln University

Undergraduate GIS papers :

Postgraduate GIS papers:

Crile Doscher
+64 3 4230426
crile.doscher@lincoln.ac.nz
University of OtagoDr Antoni Moore
+64 3 479 7589
tony.moore@otago.ac.nz
NorthTec, WhangareiChifuyu Horikoshi
chorikoshi@northtec.ac.nz 
Unitec, Auckland

These courses are taken in the Bachelor of Applied Science (Biodiversity Management) and also by students of other programmes, including the National Diploma in Surveying and the Bachelor of Applied Science (Animal Welfare)

Postgraduate Course in Remote Sensing and GIS

Dr Glenn Aguilar
+64 9 815-4321 Ext 7019
gaguilar@unitec.ac.nz
Eastern Institute of Technology, Napier

Course coordinator: Lisa Turnbull LMTurnbull@eit.ac.nz

Lecturer: Dinusha Jayathilake Djayathilake@eit.ac.nz

Southern Institute of Technology, InvercargillPhil Lockett
phil.lockett@sit.ac.nz 
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