Darin Sutherland Email & Phone Number

Invercargill, Southland, New Zealand

I provide advice and expertise in wetlands science relevant to the needs of Environment Southland.I develop, implement and manage wetlands and terrestrial habitats science monitoring programmes and investigations.I lead and/or participate in the development, implementation, advocacy and monitoring of wetland science management strategies and programmes.

Stratford, New Zealand

I provide the Taranaki Regional Council with input, from a freshwater biology perspective, into water quality management functions including resource consent investigation, compliance and state of environment monitoring, and regional plan implementation and research, with a specialist focus on macroinvertebrate analysis.Duties:Design and implement.

Warrington, United Kingdom

I support environmental monitoring programmes by interpreting and reporting on data and monitoring activity. I play a lead role in analysis and non routine survey work, including when necessary incident response. I provide advice and good quality data and information to customers to support environmental planning and decision making while ensuring work.

Hamilton

Conducted research to develop a process whereby a stream invertebrate sample containing multiple taxa could be processed, sequenced, and taxonomic IDs produced down to species level for all the taxa present. Currently, samples need to have taxa separated and samples sequenced individually.

Phd, Freshwater Ecology, Molecular Ecology

Phylogeography and Ecology of New Zealand freshwater Amphipoda, Paracalliope, Paraleptamphopus and Phreatogammarus

Bsc (Hons), Zoology

Dissertation on diel drift in the lower Taieri River system looking at both larval fish and macroinvertebrates.