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Honorary Senior Lecturer, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau

Tom is a wave scientist and coastal engineer.

He has a PhD in wave breaking mechanics and is a specialist in surf zone processes and wave-structure interaction.

He is based between Raglan, NZ and Sydney Australia. He is a Technical of Coastal Engineering at the engineering consultancy Tonkin + Taylor and an honorary lecturer at the University of Auckland.

He hates long walks on the beach, but enjoys long point breaks, modelling and understanding surf breaks and a good overtopping event.

Experience

  • –present
    Honorary Senior Lecturer , University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
  • –present
    Technical Director - Coastal Engineering, Tonkin + Taylor Ltd.

Education

  • 2010 
    University of New South Wales, PhD in Coastal Engineering
  • 2004 
    University of Canterbury, Bachelor of Civil Engineering (Hons)

Professional Memberships

  • Chartered Professional Engineer (CPEng), Engineering New Zealand