Tautuku Peninsula, South Island, New Zealand

 

I am a human geographer whose primary research interests include Transportation Geography and Interurban Geography.  Within these fields I have particular interests in three areas:

1. Air Transportation

  • The role of low cost carriers; such as Ryanair and Southwest, in changing air service patterns around the world and the role global air alliances, such as the Star Alliance, play in service and pricing patterns around the world.
  • The spatial impacts of air service in smaller communities as it pertains to alliance agreements on both a national and international scale.
  • The role of airports as gateways to metropolitan areas and regions and the emergence and classification of secondary and niche airports within an air transport system.

2. Intermodal Transportation

  • The role of passenger intermodal systems in addressing urban and regional development, sustainability and environmental issues.
  • Airport-intermodal systems, concentrating on the connectivity to surrounding area and the seamlessness of the service provided.

Wellington, New Zealand:  New Zealand's Capital, Windy Welly, Wellywood, Home of the Hurricanes, One of the greatest places to live in the world

 

3. Interurban Geography:

  • World Cities, especially the shifts occurring between emerging secondary world cities and modifications to World Cities hierarchies based upon specialty and methodology.
  • Urban Hierarchies and Linkages, especially the linkages of cities in close geographic proximity to each other.

I teach a wide variety of classes including urban geography, a range transport geography courses, economic geography, GIS, and a variety of regional geography courses.  Outside of the university I enjoy snowboarding, basketball, the Denver Nuggets, the All Blacks, Super 14 rugby, Chipotle, and trying to find my favorite beer Tui.

Enjoying a cold one in Copenhagen (sadly not a Tui though)