Annual Science Meeting 2010
The CRC for Forestry's 2010 Annual Science Meeting was held in
Fremantle, Western Australia from 18 to 20 May 2010.
CSIRO Agroforestry Seminars
Enquiries: Philip.Smethurst@csiro.au or 03 6237
5653
Venue: CSIRO Conference Room, College Road, Sandy
Bay, TAS
Date: Thursday 1st October 2009, 10:30 am –
12:30 pm
10:30: Peter Taylor, Private Forests Tasmania
Selective Review of Agroforestry Systems Used in
Australia and the Use of a Process-Based Model to Aid Strategic
Planning
A number of agroforestry systems have been employed in
Australia, in response to the demand for wood and to address a
range of environmental issues. An overview of the systems used will
be presented. In the second half of the seminar, the findings of
two strategic planning studies, prepared using process based
models, will be reviewed.
11:20 João Palma, Technical University of
Lisbon, Instituto Superior de Agronomy, Portugal
Silvoarable Agroforestry in Europe, and a Comparison of
Process-Based Models with Contrasting Parameter
Requirements
The first part of this seminar will focus on silvoarable
agroforestry in Europe, which combines new land use requirements
with good practice and resource-efficiency. The second part will be
a comparison of the CABALA and YieldSAFE models that have
contrasting requirements for the number and types of parameters.
João has been visiting CSIRO for a couple of months to
collaborate on this topic.
Forestry Tasmania 'Forestry Talks' seminar: Gottstein Award
Winners
Topic: Researching internationally to benefit
Tasmania's forests
Presenters: Dr Paul Adams, Dr Sue Baker, Dr
Sandra Roberts
Venue: Forestry Tasmania, 79 Melville St,
Hobart (for info and bookings call 1800 FOREST)
Date: 16 September, 2009, 1 pm
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Forestry Tasmania 'Forestry Talks' series: national science
week seminar
Topic: The science of surveillance: exotic
forest pests in Tasmania [view
flyer]
Presenter: Dr Tim Wardlaw, Principal Research
Scientist, Biology and Conservation, Forestry Tasmania
Date: Wed 19 August, 1.00pm
Venue: Forestry Tasmania, 79 Melville St,
Hobart
Bookings ph: 1800-FOREST
CRC for Forestry PhD student: final seminar
Topic: Ectomycorrhizal community ecology of
declining E. delegatensis forest
Presenter: Bryony Horton
Date: Friday 7 August, 4.00pm
Venue: Life Science Lecture Theatre 2,
University of Tasmania, Hobart
Socioeconomic impacts of plantations: industry workshops and
public seminars in Tasmania
Public seminars will be held in Hobart (20 July), Launceston (21
July), Burnie (22 July) and Scottsdale (23 July) to present results
of recent research undertaken in the 'Communities' project of the
CRC on the socioeconomic impacts of the plantation industry.
For full details of times and venues download the public
seminar invitation.
CRC for Forestry PhD student: final seminar
Topic: Coarse woody debris, macrofungal
assemblages, and sustainable forest management in a Eucalyptus
obliqua forest of southern Tasmania
Presenter: Genevieve Gates
Date: Friday 17 July, 4.00pm
Integrating forestry and biodiversity: the current application
of variable retention in coastal British Columbia (special seminar
presentation hosted by Forestry Tasmania)
Date: Friday 22 May 2009,
9.30–10.15 a.m. (there will be time for questions, and
morning tea will be provided after the presentation)
Presenter: Bill Beese, forest ecologist from
British Columbia
Venue: Forestry Tasmania, 79 Melville St,
Hobart
RSVP: by 18 May, ph 6233 8219
Mr Bill Beese is forest ecologist for Western Forest Products in
Campbell River, British Columbia (BC), Canada. Mr Beese was a key
part of the team that developed and implemented the Coast Forest
Strategy - the company’s forest ecosystem stewardship program
that developed variable retention harvesting. The program received
the Ecological Society of America’s Corporate Award for 2001.
Mr Beese has been a member of Forestry Tasmania’s scientific
panel of internationally recognised experts in forest and
conservation science that provided advice on practical
implementation of silvicultural alternatives to clearfelling.
Seed for the future (in Forestry Tasmania's 'Forestry Talks'
seminar series)
To book or for further information please call 1800-Forest.
Date: 15 April 2009 1.00 pm (approx 30 mins
presentation)
Presenter: Dr Dean Williams (Research Officer,
Tree Improvement, Forestry Tasmania)
Venue: Exhibition Hall, 79 Melville St,
Hobart (FT Head Office)
Why things go wrong without fire (in Forestry Tasmania's
'Forestry Talks' seminar series)
To book or for further information please call 1800-Forest.
Date: 11 March 2009 1.00 pm
Presenters: Dr Tim Wardlaw (Principal Research
Officer, Biology and Conservation, Forestry Tasmania) and Dr
Dugald Close (School of Plant Science, University of Tasmania)
Venue: Exhibition Hall, 79 Melville St, Hobart
(FT Head Office)
Forests, carbon, and climate change
Martin's seminar will give an overview of the global carbon
cycle, focussing on increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide and the
associated increases in atmospheric temperature. It will discuss
the impact of climate change on forestry, and describe the
potential contribution of the forest sector to climate
mitigation activities.
Date: 14 January 2009 12.30 pm to 1.30 pm
Presenters: Dr Martin Moroni
Venue: CRC Seminar Room, CSIRO Building,
College Road, Hobart, Tasmania
'How flora and fauna survive fire' (in Forestry Tasmania's
'Forestry Talks' seminar series)
Date: 10 December 2008, 1 pm
Presenters: Dr Simon Grove and Dr Marie Yee
(Forestry Tasmania)
Venue: Exhibition Hall, Forestry Tasmania, 79
Melville St, Hobart, Tasmania
Forests Forum: Managing forest carbon
Presented by CRC for Forestry and the Fenner School of
Environment & Society, Australian National
University
Date: Monday 27 October 2008, 4:30 – 6:30
pm
Panellists:
- Professor Mark Adams, Dean, Faculty of Agriculture, Food and
Natural Resources,University of Sydney
- Associate Professor Cris Brack, Fenner School of Environment
and Society, ANU
- Professor Rod Keenan, Head of School, Department of Forest and
Ecosystem Science, University of Melbourne
- Professor Brendan Mackey, Director, ANU WildCountry Research
and Policy Hub, Fenner School of Environment and Society, ANU
Venue: The Australian National University,
Canberra, Sparke Helmore Law Theatre 2 (building 6a), Fellows Rd,
ANU campus, Acton, Canberra (view the
campus map here)
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flyer
Centre for Plant Conservation Genetics seminar (work on
CRC for Forestry Project 2.1): Genetic structuring of
Eucalyptus pilularis
Date: 29 October, 10
am
Presenter: Dr Mervyn
Shepherd, Research Fellow, Centre for Plant Conservation Genetics,
Southern Cross University
Venue: Southern Cross University, Room number
S3.03
Foresty Talks: Living in a flammable landscape - why
Tasmania is the origin of a global theory of fire
Date: 12 November, 1
pm
Presenter: Professor David
Bowman, School of Plant Science, University of Tasmania
Venue: Exhibition Hall, Forestry Tasmania, 79 Melville St,
Hobart, TAS
Seminar: Forest industry - jobs and expenditure
Reporting on the jobs, employment and socio-economic impacts of
the forest industry in WA
Date: Monday 17th November, 1.30-3.00pm
Presenter: Dr Jacki Schirmer, Research Fellow,
Australian National University
Venue: Dept of Agriculture, Albany Highway
Date: Tuesday 18th November, 2.00-3.30pm
Presenter: Dr Jacki Schirmer, Research Fellow,
Australian National University
Venue: Forest Products Commission, Robertson
Drive, Bunbury (just south of Picton lights)
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download flyer
CRC for Forestry PhD student: final seminar
Life Science Lecture Theatre 2, level 2, Life Sciences building,
University of Tasmania, Hobart
10 October, 1600-1700
Des Stackpole - "Improved genetic parameters for breeding kraft
pulp traits of Eucalyptus globulus"
CRC for Forestry PhD student: introductory
seminar
Life Science Lecture Theatre 2, level 2, Life
Sciences building, University of Tasmania, Hobart
19 September, 1600-1700
Helen
Stephens - "Does aggregated retention provide suitable habitat
for mammal conservation in old growth forests?"
CRC for Forestry PhD student: introductory
seminar
Life Science Lecture Theatre 2, level 2, Life
Sciences building, University of Tasmania, Hobart
19 September, 1600-1700
Robyn
Scott - "Effects of variable retention harvesting on
productivity and growth in wet eucalypt forests"
CRC for Forestry researcher with Programme 2 "High-Value
Wood Resources" and Senior Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO:
seminar
Life Science Lecture Theatre 2, level 2, Life Sciences building,
University of Tasmania, Hobart
5 September, 1600-1700
Dr Chris Beadle - "Plantation forestry: learning to live with
constraints on yield"
CRC for Forestry PhD student: final
seminar
Life Science Lecture Theatre 2, level 2, Life
Sciences building, University of Tasmania, Hobart
29 August, 1600-1700
Mark
Neyland - "Responses of the vegetation to alternatives to
clearfelling at the Warra silvicultural systems trial"
CRC for Forestry researcher with Programme 1 "Managing
and Monitoring for Growth and Health": seminar
Building 19 (Room 19.143) Joondalup Campus, Edith Cowan University,
WA
22 August, 1500-1600
Dr Paul Drake - "Traits of the coppice growth form in
Eucalyptus globulus"
"Forestry: adaptation to unavoidable climate change"
talk by Dr Michael
Battaglia, former programme manager of CRC Programme One
("Managing and Monitoring for Growth and Health") and Senior
Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems
Exhibition Hall, Forestry Tasmania, 79 Melville St, Hobart
20 August, 1300-1330
CRC for Forestry PhD student: introductory
seminar
School of Plant Science, Hobart, 25 July,
1600-1700
Leith
Davis - "Plantations in the Matrix: The effect of surrounding
land use on remnant paddock trees in the Green Triangle"
Royal Society of Tasmania and The University of Tasmania
winter lecture series
Stanley Burbury Theatre, University of Tasmania, Hobart, 15 July,
2000-2100
"Food, forests and fortunes"
Prof Brad
Potts - "Genetics and our forests"
A/Prof Anthony Koutoulis - "Biotechnology: future
possibilities"
Prof David McNeil - "Genetic modification of food plants: where are
we at?"
CRC for Forestry PhD student: introductory
seminar
School of Plant Science, Hobart, 30 May,
1600-1700
David
Blackburn - Breeding for high-value solid wood products
Lunchtime
seminars from Research Programme Two: High Value Wood
Resources
CRC for Forestry
conference room, Sandy Bay, 20 May, 12:30-13:30
Programme Manager Dr
Chris Harwood and Project 2.4 (Wood Quality and Management) Leader
Dr Geoff Downes will give two short seminars.
Each seminar will run for
30 minutes and you are welcome to bring your lunch. These seminars
will be recorded and made available to those who are unable to
attend.
Seminar one, by
Chris
Harwood - "Effects of site and silvicultural treatments on
pulpwood and solid-wood quality of Eucalyptus globulus in
Western Australian plantations".
Seminar two, by
Geoff
Downes - "Measuring and modelling stem growth and
wood".
CRC for Forestry PhD student: introductory
seminar
School of Plant Science, Hobart, 23 May,
1600-1700
Christina
Borzak - genetic-based resistance and tolerance to mammalian
herbivory in Eucalyptus globulus
School of Plant Science seminar
School of Plant Science, Hobart, 16 May, 1600-1700
Mark
Hovenden - seven years at Pontville: results of a long term
climate change impacts experiment in native grassland
CRC for Forestry PhD student: introductory
seminar
School of Plant Science, Hobart, 11 April, 1600-1700
Sam Wood - the landscape ecology of south-west Tasmania
CRC for
Forestry Honours students: introductory seminars
Life Sciences Building, University of Tasmania, Hobart, 14 March,
1530-1700
