CRC for Forestry students

For information on all available scholarships for 2008 and 2009 see the scholarships list.

From this webpage you can meet some of our students, learn ab­out their research projects, and discover what life as a CRC for Forestry student is like!

	Phillip Alcorn is studying crown and canopy dynamics in subtropical eucalypt plantations.­
	Tanya Bailey is looking at how to help eucalypts regenerate in degraded remnants within production landscapes by studying natural regenerative processes in healthy forests.
	Jie-Lian Beh is studying classification of forest soils by remote sensing.
	Kasia Bialkowski is investigating microbial biodiversity and forest soils.
	David Blackburn is studying improvement of eucalypt solid wood products.
	Belinda Browning studies moss and liverwort succession and how this relates to forest age and log decay in Tasmanian lowland wet eucalypt forest.
	Christina Borzak is studying the genetic and environmental variation in phytochemistry and browsing susceptibility in Eucalyptus globulus
	Lisa Cawthen examined common brushtail possum den use in logged and unlogged forest in south east Tasmania. Lisa graduated in 2007 with first class honours and now works for the Forest Practices Authority.
	Lain Dare is studying community engagement in the Australian forest industry.
	Leith Davis is comparing native forest remnant condition on agricultural land, eucalypt plantations and pine plantations.
	Caroline Dunn is studying "community attitudes research" and how it is applied to the issue of plantation forestry.
	Genevieve Gates is studying macrofungal biodiversity as a tool for the sustainable management of coarse woody debris.
	Naomi Glancy is studying the genetic and chemical basis of browsing resistance in Eucalyptus nitens.
	Erin Flynn is assessing the effect of environmental disturbance on milk composition and physiological parameters in the common brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula).
	Darren Grant is studying the use of soil measurements to predict plantation productivity.
	Maryam Habibi is going to model and assess trucking operations associated with forestry plantation expansion in Australia and to optimize the transport and handling system in terms of both operating and environmental cost.
	Sandra Hawthorne is working on a model that will predict the long-term impact of thinning on water yield.
	Chris Howe is assessing vertebrate diversity in remnant vegetation patches within bluegum plantations.
	Bryony Horton is studying plant root fungus (mycorrhiza) as an indicator of declining forest health in high altitude wet and dry eucalypt forest in Tasmania.
	Jonathan Humphreys is examining the use of near-infrared reflectance spectroscopy (NIRS) to predict chemistry and other attributes of eucalypt foliage.
	Rebecca Jones is assessing the risk of genetic contamination from blue gum (Eucalyptus globulus) plantations in Australia.
	Mayumi Knight of the University of Melbourne will investigate birds' and bats' use of remnants within different matrix types. Read a report on Mayumi's trip to the Green Triangle in the newsletter of the Biodiversity Project, BioBuzz 6.
	Amelia Koch studied native animals' use of tree hollows in Eucalyptus obliqua forest and graduated in 2007. Dr Koch now works for the Forest Practices Authority.
	Andrea Leys studies the effectiveness of using participatory modelling techniques to address and resolve natural resource issues in rural communites with a developing plantation forestry industry.
	Peter Lezaich is investigating landscape modelling of social and economic change in rural communities experiencing plantation expansion.
	Paul Nevill studies gene pool management strategies for Eucalyptus regnans.
	Mark Neyland studies regeneration and growth of Eucalyptus obliqua and major rainforest species after silvicultural treatments.
	Dinesh Babu Madhavan is studying the measurement and use of edaphic variables to predict plantation growth and sustainability.
	Leanne Morgan is determining the best way to lay out road location, plantation rows and other attributes on a block for most efficient harvesting.
	Chela Powell is studying the possible effects of plantation establishment on invertebrate biodiversity.
	Audrey Quentin is studying whole tree physiological responses to stress events, such as insect attack.
	Alastair Reed studies ash species genetics, Eucalyptus delegatensis, focusing on genes that affect its frost resistance.
	Karen Richards studies systematics and habitat preferences of endemic hydrobiid snails (Hydrobiidae: Beddomeia) in Tasmania.
	Petra Strich assessed adaptive differentiation in Eucalyptus obliqua and has now finished. Congratulations Petra!
	Robyn Scott studies the effects of variable retention harvesting on productivity and growth in wet eucalypt forests.
	Tim Sexton is looking into the application of molecular genetics to improve wood quality in Blackbutt (Eucalyptus pilularis SMITH).
	Des Stackpole is unravelling the genetic and environmental relationships between growth rate and wood properties in temperate plantation eucalypts.
	Helen Stephens is investigating aggregated retention as a management strategy for conservation of small to medium-sized native mammals in old growth forestry.
	Sarah Tassell is studying the impact of the superb lyrebird (Menura novaehollandiae) on Tasmanian forest ecosystems.
	Katherine Taylor is doing a a detailed study of Mycosphaerella cryptica and Mycosphaerella nubilosa in eastern and Western Australia.
	Tendai Mapondera is determining the diversity and origin of Gonipterus scutellatus in Western Australia.
	Saravanan Thavamanikumar is studying how genetic association can be used to improve wood and fibre properties in blue gum (Eucalyptus globulus)
	Michael Todd is looking at the ecological requirements of the Tasmanian masked owl Tyto novaehollandiae castanops.
	Juan Carlos Valencia studied non-destructive evaluation techniques in the prediction of solid-wood suitability of Eucalyptus nitens plantation, grown under a range of thinning strategies, and is now finished. Congratulations Juan Carlos!
	Sam Welch is studying focus on optimising methods for measurement of forest canopy metrics using airborne remote sensing.
	Sascha Wise is developing DNA markers to distinguish Eucalyptus nitens from native Tasmanian Symphyomyrtus species.
	Thomas Wright is studying the impacts on biodiversity from plantation expansion into agricultural and native forest landscapes.
	Belinda Yaxley is studying the biology and conservation ecology of selected log-dwelling beetle species (in Tasmania's southern forests).

The Education Chair is Peter Kanowski
Professor of Forestry
The Australian National University
Phone: +61 (0)2 6125 2667
E-mail: Peter.Kanowski­@anu.edu.au