The following staff are available to supervise honours and masters research in the Forest Hydrology research group.
Dr Nina Hinko-Najera
Nina's research focuses on forest carbon dynamics from monitoring ecosystem-scale carbon and water flux processes to tree growth and quantifying carbon stocks. She is interested in how climate change and variability, disturbances and Traditional Owner-led forest management influence these processes and dynamics. Her research includes field-based data from automated high-resolution to plot-based measurements including ground-based laser scanning and forest growth modelling.
Project topics:
- Quantifying and interpreting tree growth patterns in response to changing climates, disturbance and competition.
- Understanding patterns of forest windthrow after extreme storms.
- Biocultural monitoring of Traditional Owner managed forests.
- Where does the carbon go? Forest carbon dynamics from uptake to sequestration and release.
- Forest and ecosystem resilience to climate variability, stress and disturbances.