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 lectures in the Forestry
School of Southern Cross University, teaching ‘Measuring
Forests’, ‘Sustainable Forests−Plantations’ and
‘Plant Physiology and Ecology’. 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