About AWATEA

New Executive

At the 2010  Annual General Meeting in Wellington the following Executive was elected:

Re-Elected:

Mr Nick Eldred	Water Infrastructure Development Manager, Meridian Energy Christchurch
Mr Nick Inskip	Industry Development Manager, NZ Heavy Engineering Research Association, HERA Manukau City
Dr Alex Malahoff	Chief Executive, GNS Science Lower Hutt
Dr Murray Poulter	Chief Scientist, NIWA, Wellington
Dr Peter McCafferty	Manager, Beca Power NZ, Beca Carter Hollings & Ferner Wellington
Mr Cliff Turner	Independent Wellington

New Members:

Mr Garry Venus	Director, Argo Environmental Auckland
Dr John Huckerby	Executive Officer, AWATEA

Appointed:

Dr John Huckerby

Executive Officer, AWATEA

At the first Executive Meeting, Nick Eldred was re-elected Chairman.

 

Annual General Meetings

AWATEA’s Annual General Meeting is usually held in central Wellington in August/September and is open to members and non-members.  Apart from conducting the Association’s business, such as elections to the Executive, the meetings are usually held with a presentation or mini-conference.

Special General Meetings are generally only held when issues requiring a vote are called for.

 

Annual Conference

AWATEA holds an Annual Conference sometime between March and May.  To date the conferences have been held in central Wellington and are open to members and non-members alike.  The Executive selects a theme relevant to present or future development of marine energy in New Zealand.  Each conference consists of a selection of presentations on relevant themes, which are available to members and conference registrants on the website.

More details of past and future conferences can be found under the AWATEA events page.

 

Meetings and Workshops

The Executive arranges occasional meetings or workshops additional to the AGM and Annual Conference meetings.  These additional meetings are usually on a specific theme, relevant to current developments in marine energy.

Meeting	Date	Subject
Mini-conference:	September 2006	General
Mini-conference:	August 2007	Developers' Day
Workshop:	December 2008	Resource Consenting

 

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.

The full newsletter is available to paid members only and archived newsletters can be found on the Members’ Page.