About AWATEA

Executive

At its inception AWATEA elected an Executive, which serves to manage the affairs of AWATEA and deliver its work programme. The Executive is elected by the membership and elections are conducted at Annual General Meetings.

The Executive employs an Executive Officer to administer the affairs of the organization and deliver the components of the work programme.

The membership of the current Executive is:

Anthony Bellve	Energy Pacifica
Frank Lewis	Sinclair Knight Merz
Buddy Mikaere	Mana Taiao
Andrew Laing	National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
Peter Apperley	Meridian Energy Limited
Reece McVinnie	Genesis Energy Limited
Tara Ross Watt	Marine Ecologist & Environmental Analyst (Chairman)
John Huckerby	Power Projects Limited (Executive Officer)

Meetings and Annual General Meetings

The Executive organizes a number of meetings each year. The first Annual General Meeting will be scheduled for the latter half of 2007.

Annual Conference

The first Annual Conference was held on 15 March 2007. Further details are available on the AWATEA events page.

Newsletter

AWATEA also publishes a newsletter, distributed by e-mail, which is sent out to members on an approximately monthly basis. The newsletter provides an update to AWATEA's current activities and marine energy developments in New Zealand and around the world. AWATEA will consider any material submitted for publication in the context of its own objectives and operations.

If you wish to receive the newsletter, send an email with the word 'Subscribe' in the subject line to mail@awatea.org.nz