Professor Gary Bacon - Griffith University

Site Degrees

Professor Gary Bacon

BSc (Hons), PhD

Adjunct Professor, Environmental Futures Centre

Email: g.bacon@griffith.edu.au

Research Expertise

Consultant and JAS-ANZ accredited auditor to natural resource management agencies, forest processing industry and private forest growers on resource, silviculture, research, collaboration, certification and legislative issues
Executive Director DPI Forestry Business Group during the initial three-year commercialisation phase; concurrently established an integrated Forestry Research Institute to drive local innovation and forge collaborative partnerships on the national (eg with CSIRO) and international (eg with ACIAR) level.
Manager of large multi-disciplinary teams of policy specialists, scientists and operatives at Queensland Forestry, NSW Forestry Commission and Queensland DPI.
Inaugural Deputy Chair of the national Forestry and Wood Products Research and Development Corporation.
Inaugural Member of the CSIRO Wood and Paper Industries Sector Advisory Committee.

Leader ACIAR Project FST/2007/020 ` Improving silvicultural and economic outcomes for community timber plantations in the Solomon Islands by interplanting with Flueggea flexuosa and other Pacific agroforestry species?, now extended to the HopeVale N Qld community.
Associate QWI Wyaralong Dam carbon offset planning and monitoring.
Associate ARC Future Fellowship - Forest ecosystem diversity, function and service in response to perturbations: the key regulatory role of biogeochemical cycling.
Associate Griffith Encouragement Grant - The central role of organic phosphorus in regulating ecological stoichiometry in response to global changes and forest fires.
Associate ARC Discovery - The nature and ecological functions of soil soluble organic nitrogen in contrasting forest ecosystems.
Associate ARC Discovery - Fingerprints of global climate change and forest management on rhizosphere carbon and nutrient cycling.

Bacon G J (2007) Growing the Forestry Enterprise in Australia Proceedings ANZIF Conference `Growing Forest Values?, Coffs Harbour. p36-40.
Bacon G J (1997) Entropy and the renewal of Australian Forestry. The Max Jacobs Oration: ANZIF Conference `Preparing for the 21st Century?. Australian Forestry 60:207-212.
Bacon G J (1987) Presidential address. The challenge of change. Australian Forestry 50: 200-203.
Bacon G J and Hawkins P J (1977) Studies on the establishment of open root Caribbean pine planting stock in Southern Queensland. Australian Forestry 40: 173-191.