CRC for Forestry students

For information on all available scholarships for 2010 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!

	Myralyn Abasolo is exploring ways to assess and manage the risk of gene flow from Corymbia plantations.
	Muhammad Alam is selecting suitable harvesting systems using LiDAR technology.
	Nerida Anderson is examining the connection between the visual aesthetics of rural landscapes and the social acceptability of timber plantations for members of the public.
	Tanya Bailey is looking at how to help eucalypts regenerate in degraded remnants within production landscapes by studying natural regenerative processes in healthy forests.
	Himlal Baral is exploring trade-offs between timber and other ecosystem services from planted 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.
	Christina Borzak is studying the genetic and environmental variation in phytochemistry and browsing susceptibility in Eucalyptus globulus.
	Ryan Burrows is assessing the effects of forest management on biogeochemical cycling and ecosystem processes in small headwater streams.
	Lisa Cawthen is exploring the value of forest remnants to Microchiropteron bats.
	Lain Dare is studying community engagement in the Australian forest industry.
	Caroline Dunn is studying 'community attitudes research' and how it is applied to the issue of plantation forestry.
	Erin Flynn is assessing the effect of environmental disturbance on milk composition and physiological parameters in the common brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula).
	Naomi Glancy is studying the genetic and chemical basis of browsing resistance in Eucalyptus nitens.
	Melissa Gordon is investigating the role of community engagement and corporate social responsibility in resolving conflict over plantations.
	Darren Grant is studying the use of soil measurements to predict plantation productivity.
	Sara Hadjigol is studying the genetic control of frost resistance at the molecular level in Eucalyptus globulus ssp. globulus
	Sandra Hawthorne is working on a model that will predict the long-term impact of thinning on water yield.
	Tracey Hollings is assessing the ecosystem consequences of the decline of the Tasmanian devil population.
	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.
	Corey Hudson is applying diversity array technology (DArT) to eucalypt genomics.
	Steve Husband is exploring the application of GPS guidance technology and methods to plantation site preparation machinery and operations.
	Paul Killey is studying the physiological response and growth of subtropical eucalypts following repeated pruning.
	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.
	Steve Lane is exploring how to improve efficiency of prediction of tree size-class distributions using nonparametric estimation.
	Matthew Larcombe is assessing the risk of gene flow from eucalypt plantations into native eucalypt forests
	David Lazaridis is using shrinkage regression to help predict tree mortality.
	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.
	Nathalie Long is studying water-use efficiency in Eucalyptus globulus plantations; particularly looking at genetic variability using carbon isotope discrimination.
	Edwina Loxton is exploring the socio-economic impacts of closing native forests on forest workers and their families.
	Dinesh Babu Madhavan is studying the measurement and use of edaphic variables to predict plantation growth and sustainability.
	Alex Matthews is investigating the genetic and morphological diversity within Eucalyptus urnigera
	Melinda Mylek is surveying community attitudes and perceptions about fuel-modification strategies.
	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.
	Cheryl O'Dwyer is investigating insect ecology in fragmented grey box grassy woodlands in north-central Victoria.
	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.
	Karen Richards studies systematics and habitat preferences of endemic hydrobiid snails (Hydrobiidae: Beddomeia) in Tasmania.
	Ian Riley is investigating temporal and spatial variation of organic carbon in smallhead water steams
	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).
	Adam Smith is exploring carbon fluxes and pools in plantation-grown spotted gum (Corymbia citriodora subsp. variegata).
	Mia Spain is investigating the effects of spacing and thinning on crown development and wood quality in subtropical eucalypt plantations.
	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.
	Michael Todd is looking at the ecological requirements of the Tasmanian masked owl Tyto novaehollandiae castanops.
	Shannon Troy is investigating the ecology of the spotted-tailed quoll in Tasmania, focussing on their ecology and habitat use in production forest landscapes.
	Suzanne Witteveen is characterising flow regimes of forested catchments under drought.
	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 (from within Australia): (02) 6125 2667
Phone (from outside Australia): +61 2 6125 2667
E-mail: Peter.Kanowski­@anu.edu.au