Associate Professor Mark Hunt
BAppSc Tas., PhD Tas., MBA (Tech Mgt) Latrobe, GAICD.
Position: Associate Professor in Forest Ecology
Office: I1.11B
Tel: +61 7 5456 5760
Fax: +61 7 5430 2881
Email: mhunt@usc.edu.au
Teaching areas
- Forests, Carbon and Climate
Research areas
- forest ecology and management
- forest carbon and water
- tree physiology
- nursery physiology
Current projects
- Growth modelling and risk assessment for subtropical hardwood species – CRC Forestry
- Estimating the contribution of below ground carbon to plantation forest carbon pools – DPI&F, QLD
- Forest Systems Modelling – DPI&F, QLD
Profile
Associate Professor Mark Hunt leads the Forest Management Focus Team within the Horticulture and Forestry Science group in the Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries, Queensland. He is also Manager of Programme 1 – Managing and Monitoring for Growth and Health – in the Cooperative Research Centre for Forestry. Mark’s position is co-funded by DPI&F; and his time is split between responsibilities on campus at USC and those as Team leader at the DPI&F Gympie research station. Mark has interests in forests and forestry at both industrial and community scales and is experienced working in temperate, subtropical and tropical systems in places as varied as the southern USA, Vietnam and the South Pacific, as well as Australia.
Publications
Many of Associate Professor Mark Hunt's publications are available from the Coast Research Database.
Conference Papers
- Bristow, M., Vanclay, J., Hunt, M.A. and Nichols, J.D. (2008) Effects of mixed species designs on soils and tree productivity. Paper presented at EucProd – Productivity of tropical plantations. Porto Seguro, Brazil, November 2008.
- Rasmussen, A., Smith, T. and Hunt, M.A. (2008) Cold Feet; Warm Flushes: Temperature and root formation in hybrid pine. Clonal variation in rooting performance of Pinus elliottii x P. caribaea hybrid cuttings. Paper presented to the IUFRO Division 1 Conference '5th International Symposium on Adventitious Root Formation', Madrid, Spain, June 2008.
- Prasolova, N.V., Xu, Z., Beadle, C.L. and Hunt, M.A. (2005) Canopy distribution of physiological traits in 4 to 8-year-old hoop pine (Araucaria cunninghamii) trees in relation to season, fertiliser application and growth. Paper presented at the XVII International Botanical Congress, Vienna, Austria, July 2005.
- Hunt, M.A., Osborne, D.O., Bubb, K. and Nester, M. (2005) Taxon-specific responses of subtropical Pinus to site preparation technique on very wet sites in the south-east Queensland coastal lowlands. Paper presented to the IUFRO Division 1 Conference 'Silvicultural Research in a Changing World', Montpellier, France, June 2004.
- Prasolova, N.V., Beadle, C.L., Xu, Z.H. and Hunt M.A. (2004) Hoop pine (Araucaria cunninghamii) nitrogen and water-use efficiency: an examination with stable isotopes and physiological techniques. A paper presented at the 14th FESPB Congress, 23-27 August 2004, Cracow, Poland.
- Hunt, M.A. and Cook, J. (2004) Clonal variation in rooting performance of Pinus elliottii x P. caribaea hybrid cuttings. Paper presented to the IUFRO Division 1 Conference '4th International Symposium on Adventitious Root Formation', Savannah, USA, May 2004.
- Hunt, M.A. (2004) Production versus biodiversity tradeoffs in mixed species forests – a production perspective. In: Erskine and Catterall (eds.) 'Production versus rainforest biodiversity trade-offs or synergies in farm forestry systems'. Workshop Proceedings of the Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical Rainforest Ecology and Management, Cairns, Qld, November 2003.
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