Department of Forest and Ecosystem Science Seminar Series Archive
2008Creswick Campus SeminarsDSE - DFES Seminars Postgraduate Seminars |
2007Creswick Campus SeminarsParkville Open Lecture Series Postgraduate Seminars |
DFES Seminars 2008 |
Creswick Campus Seminars 2008
| 15th February - Dr Peter Attiwill, Editor-in-Chief, Forest Ecology and Management: Scientific publishing: a view from Forest Ecology and Management. |
| 22nd February - Mr Mark Brown - Programme Leader, Harvesting and Operations, CRC for Forestry: Research in forest harvesting and operations: a Canadian perspective going forward in Australia |
| 29th February - Dr Josquin Tibbits - Postdoctoral Fellow, DFES: GUSA expression alters secondary cell wall lignin and carbohydrate composition in Populus |
| 7th March - Dr Antanas Spokevicius, Postdoctoral Fellow, DFES: Induced Somatic Sector Analysis: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Cambium and Wood Formation |
| 14th March - Fabrizio D'Aprile: Approaching the Effects of Climate Alterations on Silver Fir (Abies alba Mill.) Growth in Middle Italy (Tuscany) |
| 28th March - Dr Glen Kile, Managing Director, Forest and Wood Products Australia: The life and times of a research investor |
| Thursday 17th April - Dr Simon Southerton, CSIRO Forest Biosciences: Some unusual suspects - genes associated with pulpwood traits in eucalypts |
| 23rd April - Sharon Regan, Queens University, Canada: From Genes to the Grid: Functional genomics in poplar and Arabidopsis reveals new genes important for bioenergy |
| 2nd May - Professor Wolfgang Osswald, Technical University of Munich: Physiological, histological and molecular investigations of Alnus glutinosa and F agus sylvatica infected with different Phytophthora species |
| 7th May - Dr Russell Haines, ACIAR: ACIAR’s Forestry Program: Current status and future directions |
| 16thMay - Krisdianto Sugiyanto, PhD student, DFES: Microwave surface treatment and its application for wood preservation |
| 23rd May - Dr Fiona Miller, Department of Natural Resources and Geography, University of Melbourne: Bringing the ecological and the social together? - Exploring the synergies and disconnections in vulnerability and resilience science |
| 30th May - Professor Roger Sands: The relationship between forestry and agriculture: an historical and international perspective |
| 6th June - Professor Loren Kellogg, Visiting Senior Research Fellow, DFES, Lematta Professor of Forest Engineering, Oregon State University: Oregon Forestry Overview and Examples of Similar Forest/Plantation Resource Management Issues with Australia |
| 13th June - Professor Ian Ferguson, Department of Forest & Ecosystem Science - 'Moons' Crossing: An Economic and Institutional Framework for Improving Sustainable Forest Management' |
| 27th June - Dr David Butt, and CRC Wood Innovations colleagues - Showcase of CRC Wood Innovation Achievements and the establishment of the Australasian Centre for Advanced Wood Processing |
| 4th July - Mr Nick Collett, Research Fellow, DFES: Reflections on the Development of Forestry Education |
| 11th July - Dr Gordon Friend, Department of Sustainability and Environment: Fire as a management tool in Victoria: balancing both ecological and fuel reduction outcomes |
| 1st August - Mr Braden Jenkin, Managing Director, Sylva Systems Pty Ltd: Planted forests and the search for a social licence to operate |
| 8th August - Professor Rod Keenan, Head of Department Forest and Ecosystem Science: Green building, the carbon cycle and sustainable forest management: wood for thought |
| 15th August - Mauricio Acuna, Research Fellow, CRC Forestry, Harvesting and Operations: Wood properties and near infrared technology to improve optimal bucking and value recovery |
| 29th August - Professor Ian Woodrow, School of Botany, The University of Melbourne: Improving the yield of essential oil from Blue Mallee plantations |
| 5th September - Prof Roger Cousens, Department of Resource Mgt and Geography: Dispersal: A Tail of Two Kernels |
| 26th September - Professor Peter Gell, Professor of Environmental Science, Director of the Centre for Environmental Management, The University of Ballarat: The Wetlands of the Murray Darling Basin: Past, present and future |
| 3rd October - Dr Peter Vesk, School of Botany, The University of Melbourne: Revegetation and tree recruitment in temperate woodlands; means and ends |
| 10th October - Dr Ute Szukics, Department of Bioresources, Austrian Research Centers GmbH, Seibersdorf, Austria: Hot N Wet: Rapid and distinct responses of microbes performing nitrogen cycling in forest soils |
| 17th October - Dr Lauren Bennett, Research Fellow, DFES: Molecular ‘fingerprints’ of soil microbial diversity |
| 31st October - Dr Brendan Wintle, School of Botany, The University of Melbourne: Certifiably mad? Why current forest certification schemes are unlikely to deliver sustainable forest management. |
| 19th November - Joseph C. von Fischer, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Colorado State University: Methane uptake by upland soils: peeling away physics to see the ecology |
| 21st November - Dr Tina Bell, Senior Research Fellow, DFES: No smoke, no fire – N and P uptake of Australian heathland and woodland plants |
| 28th November - Associate Professor Leon Bren, DFES: Longer-Term Water Use of Mountain Ash and Mixed Species Forest After Logging: An Analysis of the Coranderrk Project Data up to 2007 |
| 5th December - Associate Professor Luit J. De Kok, University of Groningen. The impact of supra-optimal levels of Cu on plant functioning |
DSE - DFES Seminars 2008
| 29th April - Dr Alan York, Senior Research Fellow, DFES: What can ants tell us about fire management biodiversity outcomes? A case study from the heathy woodlands of south-western Victoria |
| 24th June - Dr Rebecca Ford, Research Fellow, Department of Resource Mgt and Geography: The role of social research in forest management |
| 29th July - Dr Gary Sheridan, Research Fellow, DFES: Wildfire and water quality: making the connection from hillslopes to end-of-catchment |
| 26th August - A/Prof Michael Tausz, DFES: Markers of oxidative stress as potential indicators for climate change effects? |
| 30th September - Dr David Forrester, Research Fellow, DFES: How does forest and plantation management influence tree water use efficiency? |
| 28th October - Dr Stefan Arndt, Senior Research Fellow, DFES: More than just carbon: forests in Australia provide multiple greenhouse benefits |
| 25th November - Dr Paul Feikema, Research Fellow, DFES: Catchment water balance modelling using process-based models: limitations and opportunities |
| 16th December - Dr Peter Ades, Senior Lecturer, DFES: Genetic variation in Ash eucalypts and its implications for forest management |
DFES Postgraduate Seminar Series 2008
| 19th March - Nahida Bhuiyan: Identification of genes influencing wood fibre properties in Eucalyptus nitens |
| 19th March - Hans van Veen: Antioxidant response to drought stress in two contrasting Eucalypt species |
| 16th April - Ami Bennett: The impacts of sambar (Cervus unicolor) on forested catchments in the Yarra Ranges National Park, Victoria |
| 21st May - Paul Nevill: Comparative phylogeography of three south-east Australian eucalypt species: patterns of hybridisation and introgression revealed in chloroplast DNA |
| 18th June - Tom Wright: Comparative influence of agricultural and Blue Gum Plantations on the health of remnant woodlands |
| 18th June - Luba Volkova: Effects of drought stress on tree ferns Dicksonia antarctica Labill and Cyathea australis R. Br. Domin grown under different light regimes |
| 14th July - Sandra Hawthorne: Prediction of the Long Term Impact of Thinning on Water Yield |
| 20th August - Lynette Taylor: Progress in the functional analysis of genes associated with wood formation |
| 20th August - Kate Lancaster: International Forestry Students Symposium, Bulgaria: "Forests for the Future" |
| 17th September - Alastair Reed: A polymorphism in the CBF1a transcription factor links 50 years of research and provides a point of reflection on the fate of subalpine eucalypts in a changing climate |
DFES Seminars 2007 |
2007 Creswick Campus Seminars
| 9th February - Fabrizio D'Aprile - Assessment of the environmental damage caused by the 'High Speed' train line in Tuscany, Italy |
| 16th February - Prof Andreas Richter - Global change in arctic and alpine ecosystems - Interaction of ecosystem productivity and carbon and nitrogen cycling |
| 23rd February - Dr Klaus Butterbach-Bahl - Using GIS coupled ecosystem models for scaling up N trace gas fluxes from site to regional and global scales |
| 2nd March - Ron Hateley - Forests Primeval: the Victorian forests and woodlands that Europeans found |
| 9th March – Dr John Petheram - Social research in NRM - Department of Forest and Ecosystem Science postgraduate ventures 2000-06 |
| 16th March – Dr Lyndall Bull - Research needs for future plantation development |
| 30th March – Dr Alf Leslie - The irrelevance of forest economics |
| 13th April - Gary McIntosh - Ecological thinning: A long-term strategy for forested water catchments and managed reserves |
| 20th April – Dr Marie Keatley - Shifts in flowering dates of Australian plants related to climate |
| 27th April - Dr Alan York - Fire, Cockatoos and Rats: look at biodiversity in the stringyback woodlands of South-western Victoria |
| 4th May - Vicky Aerts - Effects of fire on nutrient loss from different fuel types in Eucalyptus baxteri healthy woodlands |
| 11th May – Dr Charlie Hawkins -Ensis/DAFF Commercial Environmental Forestry Program and the Scenario Planning and Investment Framework (SPIF) |
| 18th May - Sebastian Pfautsch - Plant solutions - Ecophysiological relevance of amino acids |
| 25th May – Dr Gerd Bossinger - Sector analysis in developing wood: New insights into cambuim cell fate and sylogeneisi gene function |
| 1st June – Dr Charlie Warren - Are leaf traits related to stress tolerance and/or growth rate of Eucalyptus spp.? |
| 8th June - Richard Loyn - How can eucalypt plantations help to fill our future landscapes with native fauna? |
| 15th June - Richard Benyon - Policy implications of 8 years of research into plantation water use in the Green Triangle |
| 22nd June - Greg McCarthy - Aerial and Ground Suppression research, Bushfire CRC - how aircraft assist fire suppression |
| 29th June - Dr Trevor Meers - Challenges of rehabilitation after bauxite mining on the Gove Peninsula, NT |
| 6th July - Camila Doubek Lopes - Importance of wood properties in the studies of furniture design |
| 13th July - Dr Peter van der Meer - The Victorian Silvicultural Systems Project (Central Highlands part): results, implications, and the future |
| 20th July – Dr Chris Weston - Nitrogen transformations in effluent-irrigated clay soil under Eucalyptus globulus plantation in south-eastern Australia |
| 27th July – Dr Bi Hui-quanx - Additive Prediction of Aboveground Biomass of Pinus radiata plantations |
| 3rd August - Prof David Bowman - Is global environmental change end game for prehistoric vegetation legacies? The parallel cases of fire maintained vegetation mosaics in South Western Tasmania central Australia. |
| 10th August - Braden Jenkin - Business science: the Frankenstein between the scientific and investment worlds |
| 17th August - Dr Jerry Leech - Valuing Australian Commercial Forests |
| 24th August - Dr David Butt - Where there's smoke there's..... |
| 30th August - Rosemary Angus and Mark Stewart - Waste Wise: saving the environment as well as researching it! |
| 31st August - Jessica Blade, Basil Lyon, Carolyn Marlow, Jacob Robinson-Marks, Reece Sanwith - The Litster Project - Stormwater Management and Rehabilitating a Wetland System: A vision for sustainable water management and biodiversity conservation for the Department of Forest and Ecosystem Science. |
| 7th September – Dr Peter Hopmans - Nutrient Management of Plantations: Conventional Diagnostic Testing and Potential Use of Remote Sensing |
| 21st September - Michael Ryan - Does early Colonial Art provide an accurate guide to the nature and structure of the pre-European forests of South Eastern Australia? |
| 28th September - Dr Barry Tomkins - The use of chemical pesticides by the Australian plantation forest industry |
| 5th October – Dr Kevin Tolhurst -Bushfire in a Heating World – Learning from the Ecological Evidence and Projecting into the Future |
| 12th October – Prof John Innes - Global Trends in Forest Management |
| 19th October – Dr Berhan Ahmed - Biomimicry of termite engineering for water and soil conservation |
| 26th October - Carly Green - Estimating Carbon Stock Changes in Irelands 'Kyoto' Forests |
| 2nd November – Dr Craig Nitschke - Assessing the Vulnerability of Victoria’s Mountain Ash Forests to Climatic Change |
| 6th November – Dr Erwin Dreyer - Tolerance to shade in seedlings from tropical rainforest species (French Guyana) : plasticity and inter-specific diversity of leaf traits |
| 9th November - Shaun Cunningham - Assessing the Current Condition of River Red Gum Along the Victorian Murray |
| 15th November – Dr Nick Brueggemann - C- and O-isotope-specific CO2 measurements with a tuneable diode laser instrument |
| 23rd November – Dr Luit De Kok - Interaction between atmospheric and pedospheric sulfur nutrition in plants |
| 30th November - Aidyn Mouradov - Designer Pasture Plants: from Single Cells to the Field |
| 5th December – Dr Ineke Stulen - Plant responses to elevated CO2 |
| 7th December - Dr Trent Penman - Ecological impacts of prescribed burning and timber harvesting: Results of a long-term study in south-eastern Australia |
| 14th December - Dr Steve Read - Paradigms for native forest management, paradigms for native forest research |
Australia's Forests in a changing world - Open Lecture Series 2007
| 26th April - Dr Gerd Bossinger - The taming of the wild woods - molecular tree improvement |
| 23rd May - Dr Kevin Tolhurst - Backburing: Do we just make the wildfire situation worse? (pdf) |
| 27th June - Prof Peter Vinden - The role of Forest Industries in global warming |
| 8th August - Dr Steve Livesley - The greenhouse gas benefit of planting trees doesn't stop at carbon (pdf 2MB) |
| 22nd August - Dr Pat Lane - Forests and Water - burning issues |
| 26th September - Dr Tom Baker - More wood from less land: How intensive should planation management get? |
| 24th October -Dr Lauren Bennett & Assoc Prof Michael Tausz - Diagnosing environmental change effects in ecosystems using novel indicators |
| 21st November - Dr Kathryn Williams & Dr Rebecca Ford - Is there a socially acceptable forestry: harvest methods and changing social values |
| 19th December - Professor Rod Keenan - Prospects for Victorian forests: new directions in forest management |
Postgraduate Student Seminars
| 21st February - Kerryn McTaggart - The effects of soil moisture and temperature on microbial populations of Australian alpine ecosystems |
| 21st February - Anne Miehs - The role of coarse woody debris in the fire-prone stringy-bark wood-lands of south-west Victoria: Achieving both fire management and biodiversity conservation objectives |
| 21st February - Tom Wright - The influence of adjacent land-use type on the ecology of remnant woodlands and western philosophy |
| 18th April - Alastair Reed - Unravelling the genetic mechanisms maintaining clinal variation in frost tolerance |
| 2nd May - Oka Karyanto - Completion Seminar |
| 16th May - Ken James - Modelling wind forces on trees in storms |
| 20th June - Paul Nevill - Chloroplast DNA variation and post glacial recolonisation of Eucalyptus regnans |
| 18 th July - Natalie Kelly - Quantitative analysis of Eucalyptus regnans seedling branch development |
| 12th September - Haruni Krisnawati - Modelling stand growth and yield for optimising management of Acacia mangium Willd. plantations in Indonesia |
| 12th September - Sabine Posch - The fate of light - photoprotection and photosynthesis in Pinus radiata |
| 10th December - Lynette Taylor - The functional analysis of genes associated with wood formation |
| 10th December - Tom Duff - The use of advanced modelling techniques for the assessment of the drivers of vegetation distribution and the affects of environmental change on vegetation communities in Western Victoria |