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Forests & fire

Forests provide ecosystem services that are critical to humans and the sustainability of our environment. Our research focuses on management of critically important native forests and woodlands, including forest ecology, landscape restoration, wildlife conservation, ecologically sustainable forestry, and the effects of fire and climate.

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Forests provide ecosystem services that are critical to humans and the sustainability of our environment. Our research focuses on management of critically important native forests and woodlands, including forest ecology, landscape restoration, wildlife conservation, ecologically sustainable forestry, and the effects of fire and climate.

Projects

Widespread death of eucalypts has been observed in forested landscapes across Australia, including the alpine regions of Victoria, NSW and the ACT.

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Open for Bachelor, Honours, Masters, PhD students

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Developing machine learning algorithms to identify forest structural characteristics from earth observation data on a regional scale, Australia

Student intake

Open for Honours students

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The Fenner School has a number of projects that examine bushfires – how it behaves, its effects on the landscape and ecosystems, and how we can monitor and manage it in natural and built environments.

Student intake

Open for Bachelor, Honours, Masters, PhD students

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A variety of projects that can explore the genetics; growth and survival; or management of a wide range of rare and endangered tree species (including Wollemi Pine).

Student intake

Open for Honours, Masters, PhD students

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Informing the re-emergence of First Nations burning in contemporary endangered woodlands in south-eastern Australia

Student intake

Open for PhD students

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The main aim of this project is to examine the flammability of eucalypt tress from three different perspectives: their biochemical composition, their spectral response, and their combustion behaviour.

Student intake

Open for PhD students

Members

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Honorary Senior Lecturer

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Honorary Associate Professor

Emeritus Professor

Honorary Senior Lecturer

Honorary Senior Lecturer

Academic staff

Senior Lecturer

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Research Fellow

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Professor

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Professor

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News

ANU scientists say there’s growing concern over a mysterious, possibly drought-related phenomenon that’s killing off substantial numbers of snow gums in the Australian Alps, and they’re calling on citizen scientists to help solve the puzzle.

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ANU environmental researcher Matthew Brookhouse.

A native longicorn beetle is ringbarking the trees all across Kosciuszko National Park, creating a mass die-off of native snow gums throughout the Australian alps.

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Dr Joëlle Gergis gives her thoughts to The Guardian following the September bushfires in Queensland and Northern New South Wales.

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A fire burning near Yamba, in northern New South Wales, Australia.

Dr Joëlle Gergis speaks to the New York Times about the September bushfires in Queensland and Northern New South Wales.

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Master of Environment student Yulia Cuthbertson writes about her experience at the Asia-Pacific Regional Meeting for International Forestry Student Association in South Korea .

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Fenner School professor Dr Peter Kanowski is one of the most renowned researchers worldwide in the field of international forest governance - and just recently was awarded an honorary doctorate from University of Freiburg Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources.

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