Dr Christopher Goulding
Dr Christopher J. Goulding
Contact
| Phone | +64 7 343 5641 |
|---|---|
| Chris.Goulding@scionresearch.com | |
| Group | Forest Management Sciences |
| Role | Principal Scientist |
| Category | Key People |
About
Dr Chris Goulding specialises in forest management systems for intensively managed forests. His current research is on inventory systems for operational management and large-scale forest inventory to estimate carbon stocks in New Zealand forests. He also contributes to work on improving indicators of forest sustainability and is a lead auditor in New Zealand for Forest Stewardship Certification.Qualifications
FNZIF (Fellow, New Zealand Institute of Forestry)
PhD (Forestry), University of British Columbia, Canada -1972
BSc Forestry (Hons), University of Aberdeen, Scotland -1968
Research capabilities
- Forest management and mensuration;
- Forest resource monitoring;
- Management science;
- Auditing forest management and wood supply systems;
- Forest certification.
Career highlights
- Coordinator, IUFRO Unit 4.04.02. “Planning and Economics of Fast-growing Plantation Forests”
- Design of a system to monitor carbon in New Zealand’s forests and shrubland, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry and Ministry for Environment
- FSC (Forestry Stewardship Council) Forest Management and Chain of Custody certification;
- Design of the pre-harvest inventory methods in operational use in New Zealand and Australia;
- Development of growth prediction, forest inventory, yield regulation and stand record systems for intensively managed production forests, operational throughout New Zealand
Selected papers
Goulding, C.J. 1998: The forest as a warehouse. Pp 276-282 in Hansen, M and Burk, T (Eds) “Integrated tools for natural resources inventories in the 21st century". SAF / IUFRO S4.02 conference. August 1998. Boise, Idaho. USDA General Technical Report NC-212.
Goulding, C.J. 2001: Technology and the forest landscape - rapid change and their real impacts. Trends opportunities and dangers. Invited keynote speaker, 16th Commonwealth Forestry Conference. "Forests in a Changing Landscape", Fremantle, Western Australia. 18-25th April 2001.
Coomes, D.A.; Allen, R.B.; Beets, P.; Scott, N.; Goulding C.J. 2002: Designing systems to monitor carbon stocks in forests and shrublands. Forest Ecology and Management 164:89 - 108.
Goulding, C.J. Grace, J.C. Hethrington, J.J., and Pont, D. 2003: Understand the development of wood fibre: constructing a bio-mechanical model of tree growth. Paper presented at the workshop, “Modelling forests from leaves to landscape”, University of Melbourne, 1-3 December 2003.
Goulding, C.J. 2006: Forest Stewardship Council Certification of Industrial Plantation Forests. Paper presented at IUFRO World Congress, Division 4, "Integrating approaches to achieve multiple goals", Brisbane, Australia, 8-13 August 2005. Allgemeine Forst-Und Jagdzeitung 177 (3/4): 42-47.
Moore, J., Payton, I., Burrows, L., Goulding, C., Beets, P., Lane, P., and Stephens, P. 2007. Development of a National Forest Inventory for Carbon Accounting Purposes in New Zealand’s Planted Kyoto Forests. Paper presented at 7th FIA conference, Portland, Maine, USA. 3-6 October 2005. USDA Forest Service Technical Report.
Beets, P N; Brandon, A; Fraser, B V; Goulding, C J; Lane, P M; Stephens, P R; 2009 National Forest Inventory Country Report: New Zealand. In “National Forest Inventories: Pathways for Common Reporting”.Eds Tomppo, E., Gschwantner, T., Lawrence, M., and McRoberts, R.E. Springer. 672pp.