Professor Phil West B.Sc. (Forestry)
Hons, PhD (ANU)
Prof West was a scientist with the Division of Forestry and forest
Products of the CSIRO for 20 years. His research speciality was the growth
behaviour of trees in forests and modelling their growth for the prediction of
wood yields. He has an extensive publication list on
these topics.
He is one of
In his later years with CSIRO, Prof West was the Director of the Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical
Savanna Management in
He left CSIRO in 1997 to become a forestry consultant. Major consultancy
tasks he has done include
l Development
of yield management systems for the large eucalypt plantation estate of Forests
NSW in the north of the state,
l Determination of the
sustainable yield of firewood supply from the
l Estimation
of carbon sequestration by forest plantations and other vegetation types.
l Validation
and development of forest growth and yield modelling systems for various
Australian forest owners.
He is an Adjunct Professor of Southern Cross University and lectures in
their Forestry
School in Plantation Silviculture and Mensuration & Inventory. He is
the author of Tree and Forest Measurement, a text book
on forest measurement, and Growing Plantation Forests,
a text on the science of plantation forestry, both written for students,
professional foresters, scientists and laypersons.
A complete curriculum
vitae for Prof West is available here.
Email: pwest@nor.com.au