CRC for Forestry - Events

Events

Past workshops and field days

"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
Dr Michael Battaglia - "Forestry: adaptation to unavoidable climate change", Forestry Tasmania, Forestry Talks series

Forest Health Workshop
Thursday 24 July
Burnley Campus, University of Melbourne
Convenors: Neil Sims and Caroline Mohammed

Programme One ("Managing and Monitoring for Growth and Health") Project Coordination Committee Meeting
Friday 25 July
Burnley Campus, University of Melbourne
Convenors: Justine Edwards and Mark Hunt

"Machine evaluation on the front line"
Commodore on the Park, Mount Gambier, SA, 1 May 2008
Motel le Grande, Albany, WA, 8 May 2008
The Grange, Campbell Town, Tasmania, 15 May

This half day workshop will help frontline managers make the most of their valuable time when determining machine productivity and cost. One of the keys to ensuring that you are on the profitable side of that line is to know how to identify issues quickly, accurately assess them and act on the knowledge gained. This workshop will be co-presented by a leading international visiting expert at Mt Gambier, Albany and Campbell Town.

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"How does insect damage affect long term plantation growth?"
DAFWA, Albany, Western Australia, 9 April 2008, 0900 - 1700

The Industry Pest Management Group (IPMG) is presenting a workshop on a key question to the bluegum industry:

The IPMG has compiled some very relevant results, and there are also recent results from CSIRO and the CRC.

We are packaging key results in a clear and concise presentation format, to arm foresters / field supervisors / forest managers with the most up-to-date results on how insect damage affects growth and yield.

· How much is harvest yield reduced by repeated summer grazing of crown tops?
· Does damage during the establishment phase impact long term growth?
· Are losses from one-off defoliation events regained in following years?
· How do the economics of control pan out at harvest time?

On the day we would like to combine experience from foresters, to paint a complete picture of the effect of insect damage on plantation yield.

For further details please contact Mamoru Matsuki Ph (08) 9892 8437 Mob 0427 998529

"Research Programme One: Sustaining plantation production workshop"
Perth, 5 December 2007

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"Research Programme Three: Harvest planning workshop"
Tasmania, 5-6 December 2007
Western Australia, 10-11 December 2007
South Australia, 13-14 December 2007

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"Research Programme Three: Cable logging workshop"
Tasmania, 7 December 2007

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"IFA field trip to Maggs Mountain - The ecology and role of fire in high altitude Eucalyptus delegatensis forests"
Maggs Mountain, Mersey, Tasmania, 17 November 2007

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"Old trees and the development of coarse woody debris in cool temperate eucalypt forests: a synthesis of recent research in a conservation management context"
CRC for Forestry, Hobart, Tasmania, 8 August 2007.
Proceedings can be viewed at the CRC for Forestry members' website here (members only)

Past seminars and meetings

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

Past conferences

"Cooperative Research Association. Cooperative research: the engine of innovation"
Australian Technology Park, Sydney, Australia, 21-23 May 2008

"Old Forests, New Management conference"
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, 17 - 21 February 2008

"Australasian Forest Genetics Conference: breeding for wood quality"
The Old Woolstore, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, 11 - 14 April 2007

"Australian Forest Growers Biennial Conference: sustainable forestry, everybody benefits"
Inveresk Tram Shed Conference Centre, Launceston, Tasmania, 22-25 October 2006

"CRC for Forestry Annual Science Meeting for CRC staff and students"
Novotel Barossa Valley, Barossa Valley, South Australia, 9-11 July 2007
All presentation slides can be viewed by scrolling through the CRC for Forestry members' website document archives, found here (members only)

"EucProd 2002: international conference on the determinants of eucalypt productivity"
CRC-SPF/IUFRO/CSIRO Forestry Conference, Hobart, Tasmania, 10-15 November 2002
Proceedings were published in Forest Ecology and Management 193, pp. 1-196

"Hybrid breeding and genetics of forest trees"
QFRI-CRCSPF Symposium, Noosa, Australia, 9-14 April 2000

"Eucalypt plantations: improving fibre yield and quality"
CRC-THF/IUFRO Conference, Hobart, Australia, 19-24 February 1995