Tree Crop Technology

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Tree Crop’s Principal Consultant has undertaken a wide range of projects as either principal, on a sub-contract basis, or as an employee for clients and companies in Australia and internationally.

Location	Client/Company and Project
2008/11 - Australia	Confidential client – Operational delivery of irrigated plantation re-use project: Irrigation water quantity and quality specification, plantation establishment and management, plant and soil heath monitoring.
2008 - Australia	Confidential client – Technical and economic feasibility of timber and carbon plantations for treated effluent irrigation and environmental benefits.
2007/08 - Australia	Confidential client – Coal seam gas water feasibility study for irrigated plantation re-use.
2008- Australia	Confidential client – Native forest evaluation to support urban rezoning application.
2008 - Australia	Confidential Client – Collaboration on Assessment of greenhouse gas emissions associated with harvesting and regeneration of managed native forests. Sub-contract to MBAC Consulting.
2007/11 - Australia	ARC Linkage Grant Project, University of Queensland – Site factors and genotype-site interaction affecting growth of eucalypt hybrids bred for commercial agro-forestry as a salinity management tool.
2007 – Australia	Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) – Guest speaker presentation to CEDA Trustee Luncheon: How do you see tomorrow? Sustainable Solutions for the Power Industry.
2007 - Australia	Jagen Nominees – Site assessment, species options and feasibility for 400 ha commercial plantation development.
2007 - Australia	Confidential Client – Review of drought effects on E. globulus plantation yields, and review of CABALA in Greenfield plantation yield modelling. Sub-contract to MBAC Consulting.
2007 - Australia	Confidential Client – Second rotation E. globulus seedling and coppice yield review. Sub-contract to MBAC Consulting.
2007 - Australia	Confidential Client – Radiata pine planting stock availability and genetic quality.
2007 - Australia	Confidential Client – Collaboration on silviculture, yield potential, and relative economics modelling for a softwood sawlog project. Sub-contract to MBAC Consulting.
2007 - Australia	Confidential Client – Review of report on E. globulus genetics trials. Sub-contract to MBAC Consulting.
2007 - Australia	Confidential Client – Establishment review of oil mallee carbon sequestration plantation project. Sub-contract to MBAC Consulting.
2007 - Australia	Confidential Client – Evaluation of yield potential, silviculture and germplasm options for a greenfield softwood sawlog project investigation. Sub-contract to MBAC Consulting.
2007 - Australia	Confidential Client –Biomass energy planting configuration and silviculture discussion paper. Sub-contract to MBAC Consulting.
2007 - Australia	Confidential Client – Hardwood plantation pre-purchase assessment and inventory. Sub-contract to MBAC Consulting.
2007 – Australia	Confidential Client – Collaboration on audit of Forest estate carbon sequestration position. Sub-contract to MBAC Consulting.
2007 – Australia	Bureau of Sugar experiment Stations – Condition and functionality of nursery and tissue culture facilities in consideration of site purchase.
2007/09 - Australia	Forest Plantations Queensland – Rapid stem form improvement in Western white gum though phenotypic mass selection and vegetative propagation.
2000/06 - Australia	Saltgrow Pty Ltd – Business planning and development, contract and licence drafting and negotiation, advertising and marketing, and ongoing technical development of improved clonal eucalypt hybrids.
2006 - Australia	Murgon Leather - Tree establishment for saline effluent irrigation.
2006 - Australia	Dawson Agroforestry - Identification and treatment of saline exposures in the Dawson Valley.
2006 - Australia	Confidential client - Theoretical comparison of effective water availability between rainfed and irrigated plantations.
2005/06 - Australia	Saltgrow Pty Ltd – Sawmilling and kiln drying study of small diameter, young age eucalypt thinnings. (In collaboration with Tumba Pine and Timber Training Creswick).
2005/06 - Australia	Saltgrow Pty Ltd – Preservation studies of small diameter, young age eucalypt thinnings. (In collaboration with Humula Timbers).
2002/06 - Australia	Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation - Modelling for sustainable production of salt-tolerant eucalypt hybrids on saline discharge sites. (In collaboration with CSIRO Land and Water and Victorian Forest Science Centre).
2005 - Australia	Saltgrow Pty Ltd – Development of a large scale commercial-environmental plantation proposal (including preparation of investor information memorandum), employing a market based instrument approach (leverage fund) for co-delivery of timber production and environmental benefits.
2004 - China	Saltgrow Pty Ltd – Investigation of market potential of Saltgrow’s technology, intellectual property, and products such as salt-tolerant eucalypts for landscape rehabilitation and commercial forestry. Twelve business meetings with private companies and provincial forestry and agricultural organisations, five scientific presentations and eight field inspections across Guangxi, Guandong and Fujian provinces and Beijing.
2003 - Australia	Resource NSW - Development of a theoretical framework for design of roadside plantings necessary to sufficiently lower watertables beneath the road surface to provide pavement protection, and design of trials to test hypothesis.
2002 - Australia	Lachlan Shire Council - Establishment of woodlots aimed at: (a) assisting in the reclamation of saline affected areas of the landscape; (b) providing a productive option for disposal of treated sewage effluent; (c) delivering a commercial return from future timber harvest, and (d) providing information on the variation in clone suitability for the sites tested.
2002 - Australia	Confidential client - Expert witness report on the adequacy of vegetative rehabilitation measures proposed in connection with a proposed quarry extension.
2001 - Australia	Attendance at Bio-energy Australia Conference, Broadbeach, Queensland.
2001 - Australia	Grains Research and Development Corporation - Intellectual property review of the National Wheat Molecular Marker Program.
2000 - China (HK)	Confidential corporation - Opportunities for maximising returns from forest plantations using biotechnology.
2000 - Australia	Wildman Cashew Farm - Technical and commercial evaluation of timber plantation species options.
2000 - Australia	Zyrex – Desktop review of yield and wood quality of tropical Acacias, plus sourcing of improved germplasm for Sri Lankan client.
2000 - Australia	Confidential client - Securing intellectual property for Australian client.
2000 - Australia	Confidential client - Securing intellectual property for Indonesian client.
1999/2000 - Australia	Jackstown Pty Ltd - Commercialisation and ongoing technical development of improved clonal eucalypt hybrids.
1999 - Australia	Sylvatech Ltd - Acacia and eucalypt trial design, establishment, measurement and evaluation. Sourcing of improved forestry germplasm. Development of ongoing species trial program. Management of commercial Acacia tissue culture deflasking program.
1996/99 - Australia	ForBio Limited – Management of the $7.5 million XylonovA Research and Development Program involving six research sub-contractors across four Australian states, to develop salt tolerant eucalypt hybrids and forest management practices for commercial timber production on saline irrigated lands.
1997/99 - Australia	ForBio Limited - Management of the Australian component of an R&D program to genetically improve tropical Acacia and co-ordination of the work program with research partners in Malaysia and Indonesia.
1998 - Australia	ForBio Limited – Preparation of a business plan for marketing of improved tropical Acacia germplasm in Australia and South-east Asia.
1997 - Columbia, Brazil	ForBio Limited – Review of coffee research programs and investigation of commercial opportunities for coffee research using ForBio’s technologies.
1997 - Brazil	ForBio Limited - Review of Brazilian Eucalypt plantation industry and nursery practice with particular reference to micro-cuttings, and investigation of commercial opportunities using ForBio’s technologies. Incorporated visits to Copener, Champion, Suzano, Klabin, Embrapa and Riocell.
1997 - China	ForBio Limited – Assessment of established field trials, identification and collection of material for genetic mapping, and delivery of tissue culture eucalypt material to China for establishment of field trials.
1997/1998 - New Zealand	ForBio Limited – Business plan development and negotiation of potential service providers for joint venture clonal propagation of Pinus radiata by fascicle cuttings.
1996 - Australia	ForBio Limited – Negotiation of research contracts and technology licences required to establish the $7.5 million XylonovA Research and Development Program involving six research sub-contractors and six technology licensors across four Australian states.
1996 - Malaysia	ForBio Limited – Laboratory design and sourcing of equipment and consumable suppliers for start-up laboratory facility.
1995 - Malaysia	ForBio Systems Pty Ltd - Review of forestry and rubber research programs and identification of commercial opportunities for use of ForBio’s technologies.
1995 - England, Portugal, Spain	ForBio Systems Pty Ltd – Review of selected UK and Iberian forest plantation and research groups to determine direction, needs and possible opportunities for integration of technologies marketed by ForBio Systems into clients' existing tree improvement programs. Incorporated visits to Shell Forestry (England), Stora (Portugal) and Ceasa (Spain).
1994/95 - United States	North Carolina State University - Map based cloning and genetic mapping in peach using AFLP markers and RFLP subtraction. (Postdoctoral project).
1991/94 - Australia, New Zealand	Queensland University - Genetic mapping and quantitative trait analysis in the Pinus elliottii x Pinus caribaea hybrid and in Pinus radiata. (PhD project).
1986/91 - Australia	Queensland Department of Forestry – Management of rainforest inventory program for yield regulation; scheduling of harvesting operations; development of inventory techniques for timber assessment and correlation with remote sensing data; timber assessment for native forest valuation; site appraisal for Caribbean pine plantation establishment; contributing toward the establishment of the Wet Tropics Geographic Information System (GIS); development of zoning and management plans based on the Biosphere Reserve concept for the Wet Tropics region.
1985 – Australia	Australian National University – Investigation of the biochemical and physiological basis of kino (gum) vein formation in Eucalypts (Honours project).

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