All Stories

  1. From Miserable Pedagogies to Anthropocene Intelligence for Universities in the Meta-Crisis

    Article • Australian Journal of Environmental Education, November 2025, Cambridge University Press

    Mike Joy

  2. Nitrate contamination in New Zealand's domestic drinking water with a focus on rural groundwater-sourced self-supplies

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, November 2025, Elsevier

    Mike Joy

  3. A New Zealand freshwater nitrate data quality validation study using commercial laboratories and portable testing instruments

    Article • Chemosphere, July 2025, Elsevier

    Mike Joy

  4. Silencing Universities by Stealth: An Invisible Consequence of our University Crisis

    Article • New Zealand Science Review, December 2024, Victoria University of Wellington Library

    Mike Joy

  5. Too Many Cows? An exploration of relationships between livestock density and river water quality in Aotearoa New Zealand

    Article • Policy Quarterly, November 2024, Victoria University of Wellington Library

    Mike Joy

  6. Aotearoa New Zealand’s new Government proposal to remove hard-won protection for waterways will worsen the country's freshwater crisis

    Article • Inland Waters, April 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Mike Joy

  7. Composite environmental indices—a case of rickety rankings

    Article • PeerJ, December 2023, PeerJ

    Mike Joy

  8. World scientists’ warning: The behavioural crisis driving ecological overshoot

    Article • Science Progress, July 2023, SAGE Publications

    Mike Joy

  9. Levelling the Grazing Paddock

    Article • Policy Quarterly, November 2022, Victoria University of Wellington Library

    Mike Joy

  10. The grey water footprint of milk due to nitrate leaching from dairy farms in Canterbury, New Zealand

    Article • Australasian Journal of Environmental Management, April 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Mike Joy

  11. The Use and Misuse of Composite Environmental Indices

    Article • March 2022, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Mike Joy

  12. Nitrate contamination in drinking water and colorectal cancer: Exposure assessment and estimated health burden in New Zealand

    Article • Environmental Research, March 2022, Elsevier

    Mike Joy

  13. Nitrate levels in bottled water

    Article • Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, December 2021, Wiley

    Mike Joy

  14. Nutrient criteria to achieve New Zealand’s riverine macroinvertebrate targets

    Article • June 2021, Victoria University of Wellington Library

    Mike Joy

  15. Nutrient criteria to achieve New Zealand’s riverine macroinvertebrate targets

    Article • PeerJ, May 2021, PeerJ

    Mike Joy

  16. Food for Health

    Article • March 2021, Victoria University of Wellington Library

    Mike Joy

  17. Decline in New Zealand's freshwater fish fauna: Effect of land use

    Article • February 2021, Victoria University of Wellington Library

    Dr Marina Piria, Mike Joy

  18. Shifting baselines and political expediency in New Zealand

    Article • February 2021, Victoria University of Wellington Library

    Mike Joy

  19. Shifting baselines and political expediency in New Zealand

    Article • Marine & Freshwater Research, January 2021, CSIRO Publishing

    Mike Joy

  20. Pissing it away

    Article • January 2021, Water Science Policy gUG

    Mike Joy

  21. Pissing it away

    Article • January 2021, Water Science Policy gUG

    Mike Joy

  22. Shifting baselines and political expediency in New Zealand

    Article • October 2020, Victoria University of Wellington Library

    Mike Joy

  23. Decline in New Zealand's freshwater fish fauna: Effect of land use

    Article • June 2020, Victoria University of Wellington Library

    Dr Marina Piria, Mike Joy

  24. Natural and anthropogenic driving forces as key elements in the Lower Danube Basin–South-Eastern Carpathians–North-Western Black Sea coast area lakes: a broken stepping stones for fish in a climatic change scenario?

    Article • June 2020, Victoria University of Wellington Library

    Mike Joy

  25. The environmental and human health impacts of dairy intensification; a Canterbury case study

    Article • June 2020, Victoria University of Wellington Library

    Mike Joy

  26. Natural and anthropogenic driving forces as key elements in the Lower Danube Basin–South-Eastern Carpathians–North-Western Black Sea coast area lakes: a broken stepping stones for fish in a climatic change scenario?

    Article • Environmental Sciences Europe, May 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mike Joy

  27. Drinking water study raises health concerns for New Zealanders

    Article • November 2019, JSTOR

    Mike Joy

  28. Decline in New Zealand's freshwater fish fauna: effect of land use

    Article • Marine & Freshwater Research, January 2019, CSIRO Publishing

    Dr Marina Piria, Mike Joy

  29. Alien fish species in the Balkans

    Article • Fish and Fisheries, August 2017, Wiley

    Dr Marina Piria, Milica Ristovska, Mike Joy

  30. Conservation Science Statement. The demise of New Zealand's freshwater flora and fauna: a forgotten treasure

    Article • Pacific Conservation Biology, January 2016, CSIRO Publishing

    Mike Joy

  31. How good are Bayesian belief networks for environmental management? A test with data from an agricultural river catchment

    Article • Freshwater Biology, August 2015, Wiley

    Mike Joy

  32. New Zealand Dairy Farming: Milking Our Environment for All Its Worth

    Article • Environmental Management, April 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mike Joy

  33. Diel habitat use of two sympatric galaxiid fishes (Galaxias brevipinnis and G. postvectis) at two spatial scales in a small upland stream in Manawatu, New Zealand

    Article • Environmental Biology of Fishes, October 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mike Joy

  34. Responses of three PIT-tagged native fish species to floods in a small, upland stream in New Zealand

    Article • New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, June 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Mike Joy

  35. Habitat use of redfin bullies (Gobiomorphus huttoni) in a small upland stream in Manawatu, New Zealand

    Article • Environmental Biology of Fishes, March 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mike Joy

  36. Linking disturbance and stream invertebrate communities: how best to measure bed stability

    Article • Journal of the North American Benthological Society, March 2011, University of Chicago Press

    Mike Joy

  37. Monitoring a New Zealand freshwater fish community using passive integrated transponder (PIT) technology; lessons learned and recommendations for future use

    Article • New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, March 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Mike Joy

  38. Afterword

    Article • Environmental Hazards, March 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Mike Joy

  39. A macroinvertebrate index to assess stream-bed stability

    Article • Marine & Freshwater Research, January 2011, CSIRO Publishing

    Mike Joy

  40. Invertebrate drift patterns in a regulated river: dams, periphyton biomass or longitudinal patterns?

    Article • River Research and Applications, December 2009, Wiley

    Dr Jonathan D Tonkin, Mike Joy

  41. Differences in the distributions of freshwater fishes and decapod crustaceans in urban and forested streams in Auckland, New Zealand

    Article • New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, December 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Mike Joy

  42. Longitudinal size distributions of bluegill bullies(Gobiomorphus hubbsi)and torrentfish(Cheimarrichthys fosteri)in two large New Zealand rivers

    Article • New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, June 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Mike Joy

  43. A Rapid Method to Score Stream Reaches Based on the Overall Performance of Their Main Ecological Functions

    Article • Environmental Management, May 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mike Joy

  44. Response ofGobiomorphus hubbsi(bluegill bully) to odours of conspecific fish in the presence of natural stream odours: Does habitat have an influence?

    Article • New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, June 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Mike Joy

  45. REDISCOVERING THE SPECIES IN COMMUNITY-WIDE PREDICTIVE MODELING

    Article • Ecological Applications, August 2006, Wiley

    Mike Joy

  46. Using regression trees to predict patterns of male provisioning in the stitchbird (hihi)

    Article • Animal Behaviour, May 2006, Elsevier

    Mike Joy

  47. An accurate comparison of methods for quantifying variable importance in artificial neural networks using simulated data

    Article • Ecological Modelling, November 2004, Elsevier

    Mike Joy

  48. Application of the Index of Biotic Integrity Methodology to New Zealand Freshwater Fish Communities

    Article • Environmental Management, August 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mike Joy

  49. Invertebrate community structure in streams of the Manawatu-Wanganui region, New Zealand: the roles of catchment versus reach scale influences

    Article • Freshwater Biology, August 2004, Wiley

    Mike Joy

  50. Predictive modelling and spatial mapping of freshwater fish and decapod assemblages using GIS and neural networks

    Article • Freshwater Biology, August 2004, Wiley

    Mike Joy

  51. X-ray testing Constellation-X optics at MSFC's 100-m facility

    Article • January 2004, SPIE

    Mike Joy

  52. Assessing Biological Integrity Using Freshwater Fish and Decapod Habitat Selection Functions

    Article • Environmental Management, December 2003, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mike Joy

  53. Biological assessment of rivers in the Manawatu‐Wanganui region of New Zealand using a predictive macroinvertebrate model

    Article • New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, June 2003, Taylor & Francis

    Mike Joy

  54. Predictive modelling of freshwater fish as a biomonitoring tool in New Zealand

    Article • Freshwater Biology, October 2002, Wiley

    Mike Joy

  55. A discriminant analysis investigation of reference site fish assemblages in the Manawatu—Wanganui region, North Island, New Zealand

    Article • SIL Proceedings 1922-2010, February 2002, Taylor & Francis

    Mike Joy

  56. Control of freshwater fish and crayfish community structure in Taranaki, New Zealand: dams, diadromy or habitat structure?

    Article • Freshwater Biology, March 2001, Wiley

    Mike Joy

  57. Letters to the Editor

    Article • New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, December 2000, Taylor & Francis

    Mike Joy

  58. Diadromy and longitudinal patterns of upstream penetration of freshwater fish in Taranaki, New Zealand

    Article • New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, September 2000, Taylor & Francis

    Mike Joy

  59. Development and application of a predictive model of riverine fish community assemblages in the Taranaki region of the North Island, New Zealand

    Article • New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, June 2000, Taylor & Francis

    Mike Joy

  60. Article • Hydrobiologia, January 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mike Joy

  61. Freshwaters in New Zealand

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Mike Joy

  62. Modelling of freshwater fish and macro-crustacean assemblages for biological assessment in New Zealand

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Mike Joy