Forestry

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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Carbon Forestry Financial Modelling
A 3-day Carbon Forestry Financial Modeling Workshop will be run at the NZ School of Forestry, University of Canterbury from 25-27 August 2010 inclusive. Further information on this workshop (pdf 113KB). To register, download this form (doc, 68KB) and mail or e-mail it to the School of Forestry.

Carbon Forestry Workshops
Powerpoint presentation documents from the recent Carbon Trading Workshops presented by UC staff and MAF, can now be downloaded:
ETS Introduction (pdf, 8390KB )
Carbon Markets (pdf, 646KB)
Species Choice (pdf, 1.9MB)
Scenarios (pdf, 1.99MB)
Managing Risk (pdf, 1MB)

Workshop: Expanding the Market for Sustainably Managed Indigenous (Southern) Beech Forests and Industry
The School of Forestry is hosting an one-day workshop drawing and elaborating on research recently completed by Dr Robert Donnelly "Expanding the Economic Viability for Sustainably Managed Indigenous Beech Forests and Industry" on Wednesday 3 November at the Commodore Airport Hotel. Further information on the workshop (doc, 31KB), and registration form (pdf, 250KB)

Job Vacancy - Forester
For information on the above role with Northern Forest Products Limite, download Forester (doc, 14KB). Enquiries should be directed to gary@nfp.co.nz

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 Scion 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)