Rate My Professor Adam Hartland

Adam Hartland is an Adjunct Associate Professor at Lincoln University. He serves as Senior Scientist at Lincoln Agritech Ltd in its Hamilton office, a position he has held since late 2022. Prior to this, he spent ten years at the University of Waikato, where he founded and led the Waikato Environmental Geochemistry group and held positions including Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor.

Hartland holds a PhD and a first-class BSc (Hons) from the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom. His postdoctoral research focused on groundwater geochemistry at the University of New South Wales. He received a Rutherford Discovery Fellowship for the period 2017–2022 to support research on quantitative proxies of past climates from speleothems. His work centres on biogeochemical and hydrological processes in surface and groundwater systems, the effects of climate change on freshwater environments, soil and water pollution monitoring using sensors and isotopic tracers, and the development of new environmental monitoring technologies. He has authored or co-authored more than 60 publications and leads a five-year MBIE-funded programme examining rising CO₂ impacts on Waikato River water quality and algal dynamics. Additional research addresses the invasive gold clam and its effects on freshwater ecosystems and drinking-water supplies. Hartland completed undergraduate studies on groundwater food webs beneath New Zealand’s Canterbury Plains.