DoctorTimothy Wardlaw

Project Total: $88,105; This project aims to use pre and post fire high resolution three-dimensional remote sensing data (LiDAR) to understand the geographic variation of the environmental impacts of bushfire in unlogged and logged forested landscapes in southern Tasmania and develop new tools for post fire fuel hazard score assessment. Funded by: Bushfire and Natural Hazard CRC - Grant; University of Tasmania.

Project Total: $96,870; Manage and maintain infrastructure at the Warra Flux Site. Manage datastreams from the Warra Flux Sites and lodge quality- controlled (to PyFluxQC level 6) datasets onto the TERN OzFlux Data Portal. Funded by: CSIRO-Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organisation ($96,870); University of Tasmania.

Project Total: $441,741; Service agreement between UTAS and JCU for maintenance of the TERN facility. Nevertheless, the work meets the definition of 'research' as new knowledge is being created by the work. Ultimate funding is provided by the Cth govt as part of NCRIS. UQ has head agreement with Cth, UQ subcontracts to JCU, and JCU subcontracts to UTAS. Funded by: James Cook University ($590,650); University of Tasmania.

Project Total: $650,933; Funded by: Australian Research Council - Grant-Linkage Projects Round 1 ($410,933); Forestry Tasmania ($120,000); VicForests ($120,000); University of Tasmania.

Project Total: $490,168; This project will critically appraise and test 'forest influence', a poorly understood ecological concept that is pivotal to the sustainable management of forestry. It will determine whether a new and increasingly common approach, variable retention (VR) harvesting, will attain its objective of sustaining natural diversity in a managed forest landscape. It will do this by collecting and analysing data from two major and disparate forestry regions - Tasmania and the Pacific North-West of USA - and use these to assess how VR affects the colonisation of vascular plants, birds and beetles after forest harvesting. Knowledge gained will identify where and how VR silviculture provides greatest ecological benefits for practical forest management. Funded by: Australian Research Council - Grant-Linkage Projects Round 1 ($355,000); Forestry Tasmania ($120,168); Forests and Forest Industry Council of Tasmania ($15,000); University of Tasmania.

Project Total: $95,040; Funded by: Forest & Wood Products Australia Limited ($95,040); University of Tasmania.

Project Total: $389,000; Managing sufficient sustainable habitat at appropriate spatial scales to support dependent biota is the ecological basis of sustainable forest management. The forest industry has to operate within increasing constraints which include the retention of coarse woody debris resulting in tensions with residue management particularly with variable retention silviculture. In Tasmania significant areas of forest have been reserved but the production forest matrix remains essential to saproxylic biota conservation because of their likely small range size. Using a landscape genetics approach and saproxylic beetles as a reference study we will provide the knowledge and tools to ensure the persistence of saproxylic biota. Funded by: Australian Research Council - Grant-Linkage Projects Round 1 ($270,000); Forestry Tasmania ($110,000); Ta Ann Tasmania ($9,000); University of Tasmania.

Project Total: $331,826; Funded by: Australian Research Council - Grant-Linkage Projects Round 2 ($227,820); Taswood Growers ($39,498); Forestry Tasmania ($34,508); Hosking Forestry Ltd ($30,000); University of Tasmania.

Project Total: $260,500; Funded by: Australian Research Council - Grant-Linkage Projects ($190,000); Timbercorp Limited ($22,500); Forestry Tasmania ($15,000); Gunns Limited ($15,000); Forest Enterprises Australia Ltd ($6,000); WA Plantation Resources ($6,000); Hancock Victorian Plantations Pty Ltd ($6,000); University of Tasmania.