Inga Smith

Teaching Fellow (Physics)

Inga graduated with an Honours degree in Physics from the University of Otago in 1995. She then spent two years working in tourism-related industries in her hometown of Queenstown. She returned to Otago to undertake a PhD in sea ice research with Dr Pat Langhorne, graduating in 2002. In 2003, Inga took up a 2 year research position in physical oceanography in the UK. She returned to New Zealand in 2005, and was spurred to apply for and accept the job Teaching Fellow in Energy Management by the critical environmental situation that New Zealand and the world faces over issues of climate change and energy supplies.

Inga lectures EMAN 405 Energy Practice, and PHSI 243 Environmental Physics, and is also involved with lecturing and running the labs for EMAN 204 Energy Resources and EMAN 306 Building Physics, as well as coordinating the energy management laboratory space. Her current research interests are carbon emissions and aviation, and mechanical ventilation in houses. She also co-supervised a research project looking at attitudes to wind farms in New Zealand in 2007.

Contact details

Tel +64 3 479 7755
Email inga@physics.otago.ac.nz
Room 512, Department of Physics

Selected publications

• Lloyd, C.R., Callau, M. F., Bishop, T. and Smith, I.J. (2008) “The efficacy of an energy efficient upgrade program in New Zealand. ”Energy and Buildings, 40(7), 1228-1239.
• Langhorne, P.J., Purdie, C.R., Smith, I.J., Leonard, G.H., Kempema, E.W., Petrich, C., Gribble, M.A., Bond, P.E., and Haskell, T.G. (2006) “Antarctic landfast sea ice: the role of platelet ice. ”Proceedings of the 18th IAHR International Symposium on Ice, 1, 285-292.
• Smith, I.J., Gow, A.J., and Langhorne, P.J. (2002) “Laboratory investigations into platelet ice crystal formation. ”Ice in the Environment: Proceedings of the 16th IAHR International Symposium on Ice, 3, 171-177.
• Smith, I.J., Langhorne, P.J., Haskell, T.G., Trodahl, H.J., Frew, R, and Vennell, R. (2001) “Platelet ice and the land-fast sea ice of McMurdo Sound, Antarctica”. Annals of Glaciology, 33, 21-27.
• Trodahl, H. J., McGuinness, M., Langhorne, P.J., Collins, K., Pantoja, A.E., Smith, I.J. and Haskell, T.G. (2000) “Heat transport in McMurdo Sound first year fast ice”. J. Geophys. Res, 105(C5):11,347-11,358 .

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