Adam Hartland
PhD, BSc Hons (1)
Adam is a Senior Scientist at Lincoln Agritech’s Hamilton office, joining in late 2022 after ten years at the University of Waikato where he founded and led the Waikato Environmental Geochemistry group. His research, building on a Rutherford Discovery Fellowship (2017–2022), focuses on the effects of climate change on freshwater systems.
His interest in subsurface environments began with undergraduate studies of groundwater food webs beneath the Canterbury Plains, followed by a PhD in aqueous geochemistry at the University of Birmingham and postdoctoral research in groundwater geochemistry at UNSW.
With more than 60 publications and an extensive collaborative network, Adam is advancing soil, water, and climate science in Aotearoa New Zealand. Current highlights include leading a five‑year, $10m MBIE programme on rising CO₂ and its impact on Waikato River water quality and algal dynamics, as well as frontline research on the invasive gold clam (Corbicula fluminea), which poses significant risks to freshwater ecosystems and drinking‑water supplies.
Focus areas:
- Biogeochemical and hydrological processes across surface and groundwater systems
- Soil and water pollution, using sensors and isotopic tracers
- New environmental monitoring technologies
- Quantitative climate reconstruction and proxy development
- Organo‑mineral interactions and environmental nanoparticles
- Engineered media for nutrient attenuation and denitrifying bioreactors
Publications
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Mines to moana: hydrochemical legacies in a historically mined watershed. Applied Geochemistry, September 2024
Hartland A, Farrant M, Höpker S N, Rojas D T, Saeed H, Rivas A, La Croix A, Grainger M, O’Neill T
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeochem.2024.106104
Iron-based composites for in-field phosphorus removal from agricultural drainage, Surfaces and Interfaces, July 2024
Perera G N, Rojas D T, Hopker S N, Olsen G, Craggs R, Hartland A
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.surfin.2024.104566
Characterising the decay of organic metal complexes in speleothem-forming cave waters, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, May 2024
Höpker SN, Breitenbach SFM, Grainger M, Stirling CH, Hartland A
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2024.03.024
Warming drives dissolved organic carbon export from pristine alpine soils, Nature Communications, April 2024
Pearson AR, Fox BRS, Hellstrom JC, Vandergoes MJ, Breitenbach SFM, Drysdale RN, Höpker SN, Wood CT, Schiller M, Hartland A
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-47706-6
Elucidating phosphorus removal dynamics in a denitrifying woodchip bioreactor, Science of the Total Environment, March 2024
Perera GN, Rojas DT, Rivas A, Barkle G, Moorhead B, Schipper LA, Craggs R, Hartland A
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.170478
Mid-Holocene rainfall seasonality and ENSO dynamics over the south-western Pacific, Depositional Record, January 2024
Nava-Fernandez C, Braun T, Pederson CL, Fox B, Hartland A et al.
https://doi.org/10.1002/dep2.268
Groundwater is a hidden global keystone ecosystem, Global Change Biology, January 2024
Saccò M, Mammola S, Altermatt F,... Hartland A et al.
https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.17066
Recurring summer and winter droughts from 4.2-3.97 thousand years ago in north India, “Communications Earth & Environment”
Giesche A, Hodell DA, Petrie CA, Haug GH, Adkins JF, Plessen B, Marwan N, Bradbury HJ, Hartland A, French AD, Breitenbach SFM
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-00763-z
High-resolution reconstruction of infiltration in the Southern Cook Islands based on trace elements in speleothems, Quaternary Research, March 2023
Faraji M, Borsato A, Frisia S, Hartland A, Hellstrom JC, Greig A
https://doi.org/10.1017/qua.2023.51
Biogeochemical pathways for phosphorus removal in woodchip bioreactors, 35th Annual FLRC Workshop
Perrera, G, Torres-Rojas, D, Rivas, A, Barkle, G, Moorhead, B, Schipper, L, Craggs, R, Hartland, A
https://www.massey.ac.nz/~flrc/workshops/23/paperlist23.html
Simultaneous phosphorus removal and redox buffering of denitrifying bioreactors using organo-mineral composites, 35th Annual FLRC Workshop
Torres-Rojas, D, Rivas, A, Barkle, G, Hartland, A
https://www.massey.ac.nz/~flrc/workshops/23/paperlist23.html
Methanol dosing of a pilot-scale denitrifying bioreactor to enhance nitrate removal from tile drainage water, New Zealand Land Treatment Collective Annual Conference: Improving outcomes for land treatment
Moghaddam, R., Torres-Rojas, D., Barkle, G., Rivas, A., Hartland, A., & Schipper, L.
