Dr Christopher Goulding

Principal Scientist

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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.