Rate My Professor Teresa Konlechner

In her teaching role, Konlechner delivers courses such as ENVI 311 Understanding Environmental Issues, ENVI 312 Interdisciplinary Aspects of Climate Change, GEOG 201 Field Research Methods, GEOG 301 Field Research Studies, and GEOG 397 Environmental Management: Policy and Practice. She supervises postgraduate students, serving as primary supervisor for MSc theses by Rose Somerville on the decline of pīkao/pīngao in coastal Otago and Jimmy Daamen on foredune response to wave erosion, and co-supervisor for PhD research by Ralph Roob (University of Melbourne) on artificial shellfish reefs for coastal hazards. Completed supervisions include theses by Niall Quinn (2023, PGDipSc), Jinjuan Gao (2022, PhD, Melbourne), Marita McGuirk (2022, PhD, Melbourne), Zhenni Jiang (2018, MSc, Melbourne), and Jack Solomon (2017, BScHons). Key publications encompass 'From grey to green: Efficacy of eco-engineering solutions for nature-based coastal defence' (Morris et al., Global Change Biology, 2018), 'Coastal dune mobility over the past century: A global review' (Gao, Kennedy & Konlechner, Progress in Physical Geography, 2020), 'Mapping spatial variability in shoreline change hotspots from satellite data' (Konlechner et al., Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 2020), 'A national scale coastal change dataset for Aotearoa New Zealand' (Tuck et al., Data in Brief, 2024), and 'Current extent and future opportunities for living shorelines in Australia' (Morris et al., Science of the Total Environment, 2024).