Visiting Fellow
Native forest management, remote sensing
Phone: +61 (0)2 6125 3548
Fax: + 61 (0)2 6125 0746
E-mail: Brian.Turner@anu.edu.au

Brian's career in forestry started with the NSW Forestry Commission on the North Coast and in Sydney. During that period, he went to Yale University in the USA to gain Master and Doctor of Forestry degrees. In 1969, he started teaching and research at the Pennsylvania State University, and returned to Australia in 1984 to take up the position of Reader in Forest Management at ANU. He retired at the end of 2002 but remains an active member of the staff, supervising honours and graduate students, and conducting research and consultancies.

Professional Activities

My interests range over the broad field of forest management planning, including models for prediction of future production of goods and services from managed native forests to techniques for collecting and analysing GIS and remotely sensed data.

I am currently involved in a RIRDC-funded project to determine the extent and condition of privately-owned dry sclerophyll forests on the tablelands of eastern Australia and develop a decision support system to .3help owners enhance their value.

Selected Publications

Mahiny, A.S. and Turner, B.J. 2005. Cumulative effects assessment as a framework for prioritizing mitigation measures in remnants of vegetation. Environmental Informatics Archives 3:418-426.

Huang, Z., Turner, B.J., Dury, S.J., Wallis, I.R. and Foley, W.J. 2004. Estimating foliage nitrogen concentration from HYMAP data using continuum removal analysis. Remote Sensing of Environment 93:18-29.

Turner, B.J. 2003. Why sustainable yield can be anything you want it to be (almost): good practice in its calculation. In: Mason, E.G. and Perley, C.J. (Eds.) Joint Australia and New Zealand Institute of Forestry Conference Proceedings April-May 2003, Queenstown, NZ. Ministry of Agriculture & Forestry, Wellington, NZ: 157-165.

Turner, B.J., Chikumbo, O., and Davey, S.M. 2002. Optimization modeling of sustainable forest management at the regional level: an Australian example. Ecological Modelling 153(1-2): 157-179.

Dury, S J, Turner, B. and Foley, W J. 2002. The use of high spectral resolution remote sensing to determine leaf palatability of eucalypt trees for arboreal marsupials. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. Vol 3 (4) 327-335.

Chikumbo, O., Spencer, R.D., Turner, B.J. and Davey, S. 2001. Planning and monitoring of forest sustainability: an Australian perspective. Australian Forestry 64(1): 1-7.

Chikumbo, O., Mareels, I. M. Y. and Turner, B.J. 2000. A stand optimization model developed from dynamical models for determining thinning strategies. In: Vasievich,, J.M., Fried, J.S., Leefers, L.A. (eds.) Seventh Symposium on Systems Analysis in Forest Resources; 1997; Traverse City, MI. USDA For. Serv. Gen. Tech. Rep. NC-205. Pp. 355-360.