Weekly Creswick Seminar Series
Fridays at 9:30am in the Stage 2 Lecture Theatre (Building 744) at the Creswick Campus.
Please contact Antanas Spokevicius (03) 5321 4279 or avjs@unimelb.edu.au for Creswick Friday Seminar enquiries.
Upcoming Seminars 2009
| Date | Presenter | Title |
| Friday 13th November 2009, 9.30am | Andrew Wong | An illustration of some wood durability and wood protection studies with tropical (Malaysian) species |
| Friday 20th November 2009, 9.30am | Leon Bren and Lacey Sever | Growth and Yield and Melbourne’s Water Catchments (Leon Bren) Quantifying Recovery of Burnt Forest Using LandSat Imagery (Lacey Sever) |
| Friday 27th November 2009, 9.30am | Luit De Kok | Whole plant regulations of sulfate uptake and distribution in plants |
Previous Seminars 2009
| Date | Presenter | Title |
| Friday 20th February 2009, 9:30am | Peter Attiwill, Principal Fellow, School of Botany, and Senior Fellow, The Australian Centre, The University of Melbourne | From Creswick to Cornell and back: forty years of forests, carbon, fire and students |
| Friday 27th February 2009, 9:30am | Dr David Lamb, Mined Land Rehabilitation (Institute Centre,)The University of Queensland | Reforestation of degraded lands in the Asia-Pacific region |
| Friday 6th March 2009, 9:30am | Professor Brad Potts, Professor, Forest Genetics School of Plant Science and Cooperative Research Centre for Forestry, University of Tasmania |
Exploration of the Eucalyptus globulus gene pool |
| Friday 13th March 2009, 9:30am | Fabrizio D'Aprile | Radial growth of silver fir (Abies alba Mill.) in Tuscany and climate influence |
| Friday 20th March 2009, 9:30am | Dr Julian Fox, Research Fellow, Department of Forest and Ecosystem Science | Carbon dynamics in Papua New Guinea |
| Friday 3rd April 2009, 10:00am | Dr Farkhanda Dugal, Lahore College for Women, University of Lahore, Pakistan | Pakistan fauna and flora and the challenges of termite management |
| Friday 17th April 2009, 9:30am | Geoff Park, Knowledge Broker, North Central Catchment Management Authority | INFFER - a new approach to investment in natural resource management |
| Friday 24th April 2009, 9:30am | Luke Wilson, Executive Director, Agriculture & Natural Resources Policy, Department of Primary Industries | Timber Industry Strategy: public consultation draft |
| Friday 1st May 2009, 9:30am | Dr Peter Hopmans, Timberlands Research Pty Ltd | Long-term Changes in Carbon and Nutrients in Soil and Accumulation in Biomass after a Second Rotation of Radiata Pine on Podzolized Sands and Impacts of Intensive Harvesting |
| Friday 15th May 2009, 9:30am | Assoc Prof Leon Bren, DFES and Mark Brown, Program Leader, Harvesting and Operations, CRC for Forestry | Seminar 1 - Leon Bren -
Virtual Water Content of Wood Seminar 2 - Mark Brown - Forestry Transportation: Size Matters |
| Friday 22nd May 2009, 9:30am | Dr Luke McManus, DFES | Association mapping in forest tree species |
| Friday 29th May 2009, 9:30am | Andrew Callister, Treehouse Consulting | Genetic evaluation of carbon isotope discrimination in Eucalyptus globulus |
| Friday 5th June 2009, 10:00am | Gordon Friend, Principal Fire Ecologist, Land & Fire Management Division, Dept of Sustainability & Environment | Fire as a management tool in Victoria: balancing both ecological and fuel reduction outcomes |
| Friday 12th June 2009, 10:00am | Dr Michael McCarthy, Principal Research Fellow,
School of Botany, The University of Melbourne |
Managing variability in disturbance regimes |
| Friday 19th June 2009, 9:30am | Braden Jenkin, Managing Director, Sylva Systems Pty Ltd | Some observations through new eyes: Recent experiences in 2 projects in PNG |
| Friday 26th June 2009, 9:30am | Professor Loren Kellogg and Dr Glen Murphy, Oregon State University | Seminar 1. Loren Kellogg: Forest Biomass Harvesting and Economic Development: Finding the Oregon, USA, Niche in an Emerging Green Economy Seminar 2: Glen Murphy: Mechanized harvesting in plantation forests: challenges and opportunities |
| Friday 3rd July 2009, 9:30am | Hari Ram Shrestha, DFES, The University of Melbourne | Post-fire Recovery of Carbon and Nitrogen in Sub-alpine Soils of South-eastern Australia |
| Friday 3rd July 2009, 9:30am | Hari Ram Shrestha, DFES, The University of Melbourne | Post-fire Recovery of Carbon and Nitrogen in Sub-alpine Soils of South-eastern Australia |
| Friday 10th July 2009, 9:30am | Professor Nigel Stork, Head of Department of Resource Management and Geography | Tropical forests and global biodiversity extinction rates |
| Friday 17th July 2009, 9:30am | Dr Julian Di Stefano and Ms Amanda Ashton | Seminar 1: Testing the suitability of simple habitat models: Is forest age class a good predictor of habitat selection, abundance and occupancy? Seminar 2:The effect of time since fire and season on small mammal diet. |
| Friday 24th July 2009, 9:30am | Dave Kendal, Department of Resource Management and Geography | Patterns of diversity and distribution in the urban forest at global and local scales |
| Friday 31st July 2009, 9:30am | Tom Wright, Department of Forest and Ecosystem Science | Comparative influence of agricultural land and plantations on temperate woodland flora |
| Friday 7th August 2009, 9:30am | Dr Josquin Tibbits and Saravanan Thavamanikumar | Using association genetics to dissect quantitative wood property traits in Eucalyptus globulus |
| Friday 14th August 2009, 9:30am | Anne Miehs, Department of Forest and Ecosystem Science | The role of coarse woody debris in fire-prone forests: Achieving both fire management and conservation objectives |
| Friday 28th August 2009, 9.30am | Jami Nettle | Evaluating the Environmental Effects of Biofuel Growth and Harvest in Pine Plantations |
| Friday 11th September 2009, 9.30am | Rowan Reid | Growing Your Own Furniture – Silviculture of Eucalypts to grow high quality timber before you die! |
| Friday 18th September 2009, 9.30am | Luibov Volkova | Ecophysiology of the tree ferns Dicksonia antarctica and Cyathea australis |
| Friday 25th September 2009, 9.30am | Malory Weston | Future Farming Landscapes: Ecosystem services and landscape-scale restoration in northern Victoria |
| Friday 9th October 2009, 9.30am | Kevin Tolthurst, Senior Lecturer, Fire Ecology and Management, Department of Forest and Ecosystem Science | Assessing the Bushfire Risk of Creswick’s Melbourne University Campus – a demonstration of PHOENIX RapidFire | Friday 16th October 2009, 9.30am | Klaudia Borowiak - Research Fellow, Department Ecology and Environmental Protection, Poznan University of Life Sciences Visiting Fellow – University of Melbourne, Department of Forest and Ecosystem Sciences |
A Two Part presentation… |
| Friday 23rd October 2009, 9.30am | Steve Reed | Science to land management: outcomes from native forest research at the Warra LTER site in southern Tasmania |
| Friday 30th October 2009, 9.30am | Lynette Taylor | Eucalypt Tubulin Gene Family |
Seminar Archive (2007, 2008)