Ph.D. (Environmental
Biology), Dept. Environmental Biology, Research
B.Sc. (Agricultural
Science) 1st class Hons, Univ. Western
His specialist area is
the development of computer models to investigate the likely growth response of
forests and grasslands to climate change and possible implications for soil organic carbon
storage, and he has contributed to the study and advancement of policy options to
use biospheric carbon storage to mitigate against climate change.
He was a major contributor to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’s 1995
climate change impact assessment report by acting as Convening Lead Author of
two chapters which dealt with climate change impacts on forests, and on
terrestrial ecosystem in general, and contributed in 2000 as Lead Author to two
chapters for the special IPCC report on Land use, land-use change and forestry.
He is now working for Landcare Research in Palmerston North, New Zealand
1986-1987: Botany Department.,
1988-1989: CSIRO Forestry and
1989-1991: Bureau of Rural Resources,
1991-2005: CSIRO Forestry and
2005-2006: CRC for Greenhouse
Accounting,
2007 -
now: Landcare Research, Palmerston North,
Gas exchange studies
Lightfleck studies
Miscellaneous studies
Growth modelling
Studies of soil organic matter dynamics
Climate change: Original research studies
Climate change: Reviews
Climate change: Policy and others