New Zealand School of Forestry
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The School of Forestry at Canterbury is the only university department in New Zealand to offer professional forestry degree programmes.
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NZ School of Forestry, College of Engineering, University of Canterbury
Private Bag 4800, Christchurch 8140, New Zealand
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Cameron Eyre, Bachelor of Forestry Science; Planner and Forest Engineer, Matariki Forests. |
News and Features
Nick Ledgard, Adjunct Senior Fellow at the School of Forestry and Manager of the South Island Wilding Conifer Management Group with Scion (NZ Forest Research Institute Ltd) was awarded the QSO in recognition of his service to forestry in the New Years' Honours released in 2010.For more information, see the attached extract from The Chronicle (.pdf, 151KB).
Forester Vacancies (2) (New)
Matariki Forests have two vacancies - one for a Forester based in Invercargill and the second for an Inventory Forester based in Auckland. Applications have been extended to 12 February 2010. For further information please refer to the vacancy advertisement (.doc
, 49KB).
PhD Scholarship (New)
A PhD scholarship for work
in the areas of forest inventory and statistics is available. The project will look at the relationship between the quality and precision of data with the robustness of management planning solutions will be determined to enable trade offs to be made between increased resource assessment costs and improved management. For further information, see the attached description (pdf, 51KB).
IUFRO XXIII World Congress "Forests for the Future: Sustaining Society and the Environment". This Congress will take place in Seoul, Republic of Korea over the period 23-28 August 2010. For further information please go to the Congress weblink http://www.iufro2010.com.
WTRC Workshop Publications
The Hemicelluloses Workshop 2005,
The Compromised Wood Workshop 2007,
Revisiting Eucalypts Workshop 2009.
All available from the School of
Forestry.
Price: $80 New Zealand (including p&p within NZ); $80 Australian
(including p&p to Australia);
$60 US (including p&p elsewhere).
Opportunities for Bushfire Research in New Zealand
The Bushfire CRC is offering two postgraduate
scholarships (PDF, 210KB) at the
University of Canterbury, in collaboration with the Ensis Bushfire
Research Group. Applications are invited from students interested
in undertaking Masters studies with backgrounds in environmental
and natural resource science, geography, social science, economics
or engineering.
Postgraduate Scholarships for Turkish Graduates
The Ministry of Education in Turkey has announced 27 postgraduate
scholarships in Forest Engineering and Forest Industrial Engineering
all of which are directed towards New Zealand and some exclusively
so. Details of
the scholarships and the regulations relating
to the award of these scholarships are available in Turkish. Yüksek
Lisans ve Doktora dereceleri (PDF, 352KB).
Bu sayfa Orman Mühendisleri’ne yönelik olarak hazırlanmıştır. Orman
Mühendisliği sayfası (Forest
Engineering ) ise Orman Endüstri Mühendisleri’ne yöneliktir. Her
halukarda, Ormancılık Okulu’nun sunduğu olanakların tümü hakkında eksiksiz
bilgi edinebilmek için her iki sayfayı da ziyaret etmeniz tavsiye edilir.
The Graham Whyte Fund
A fund being established in memory of the late Dr
Graham Whyte (pdf, 254KB)