[Sres-postdocs] Seminar notices just arrived

[Zosha Smith]

23 August 2006 at 11.00am
Land Surface Evaporation: Measurements and Modelling
Helen Cleugh - CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research
CSIRO Land and Water in Canberra.
Venue: Christian Lab, Clunies Ross St, Canberra City. 
<http://www.clw.csiro.au/division/canberra/location.html>MAP.


August 24, 12.30-1.30pm
David Bush (SRES MPhil Scholar and from Ensis Genetics)
Breeding for naturally durable wood products - project idea and feedback.
This will be a project planning type session for a recently commenced 
project.  Lots of discussion will be encouraged.
ATSC lab, Yarralumla
BYO lunch


RMAP SEMINAR
August 25, 12.30pm
Towards improved forest inventory and forest planning in PNG
  Rod Keenan
Professor and Head of School of Forest and Ecosystem Science, the 
University of Melbourne
Seminar Room A, Coombs Building, ANU
The tropical forests of Papua New Guinea (PNG) are a complex natural 
resource management challenge. Forests are important for local 
livelihoods and an important source of income for the national 
government. They also have significant value for global conservation 
of tropical forest biodiversity. Development and use of forest 
resources is seen by most sectors of the community as an integral 
component of future national development. This seminar presents the 
results of a project completed in 2005 with funding from ACIAR that 
aimed to increase capacity and knowledge within the PNG government 
for forest planning and inventory and improved systems to analyse 
alternative timber harvesting options. Causes of over-harvesting of 
forest resources are considered and the implications of alternative 
management approaches are discussed.

Bio: Rod Keenan is Professor and Head of School of Forest and 
Ecosystem Science, the University of Melbourne. He has a B. Sc. 
(Forestry) from the ANU, a PhD in forest ecology from University of 
British Columbia and 25 years experience in forest research and 
forest management in Canada, Japan and Australia. He has particular 
interests in forest resource assessment and planning, indicators of 
sustainable forest management, tropical and temperate forest ecology 
and silviculture and forest policy. He is currently a member of the 
UN-FAO Advisory Group for the Global Forest Resource Assessment. He 
has worked on collaborative projects with the PNG Forest Research 
Institute since 1996.
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