Associate Professor Carolyn Raymond BRuralSC(UNE), MARuralSC(NE), PhD(UTAS). Carolyn is a quantitative geneticist who joined CPCG as an Associate Professor in February 2007. She has a long history of research having spent 21 years working for CSIRO Forestry, mainly in Tasmania, followed by 4 years working on pine silviculture with Forests NSW in Tumut, NSW. Within both these organisations she was a Principal Research Scientist leading projects determining effects of genetics, site and silviculture on growth and wood quality of plantation trees. She is a graduate of the University of New England (B. Rur. Sc. (Hons) and M. Rur Sc., both majoring in beef cattle breeding, and also holds a PhD from the University of Tasmania in quantitative genetics of temperate eucalypts. Her research has covered a wide range of topics including natural population variation and estimation of genetic parameters for growth, tree form, insect resistance and wood quality in temperate eucalypts and pines plus determining the relationship between wood properties and end product properties. During the last 10 years with CSIRO she was involved in the CRCs in Hobart and led a project which developed non-destructive and cost-effective methods for assessing wood quality of temperate eucalypts. These techniques were subsequently adopted by the national breeding program for Eucalyptus globulus and allowed for the incorporation of wood quality into the breeding program. Whilst with CPCG Carolyn is doing contract research on breeding Pinus radiata for both Forests NSW and the Radiata Pine Breeding Company in New Zealand as well as having input to student projects within CPCG.
Journal articles
Effects of moisture content and temperature on acoustic velocity and dynamic MOE of radiata pine sapwood boards (with Julian Moreno Chan and John C. Walker), Wood Science and Technology (2010)
Non-destructive assessment of green density and moisture condition in plantation-grown radiata pine (Pinus radiata D. Don.) by increment core measurements (with Julian Moreno Chan and John C. Walker), Holzforschung (2010)
A novel protocol for non-destructive assessment of green density and moisture content via increment cores...
Predicting pulp yield and pulp productivity of Eucalyptus dunnii using acoustic techniques (with Dane Thomas and Michael Henson), Australian Forestry (2010)
The economics of kraft pulping are influenced by variation in wood density and chemistry, or...
Species differentiation and gene flow in the Blackbutts (genus Eucalyptus subgenus Eucalyptus section Pseudophloius) (with Mervyn Shepherd), Conservation Genetics (2010)
Effect of green density values on Pinus radiata stiffness estimation using a stress-wave technique (with Benjamin Wielinga, Ryde James, and A Colin Matheson), New Zealand Journal of Forestry Science (2009)
Use of acoustic tools for assessing stiffness of green wood in standing trees relies on...
Books
Sampling plantation eucalypts for wood and fibre properties (with Geoff M. Downes, Irene Hudson, Geoff H. Dean, Anthony J. Michell, Laurence R. Schimleck, Rob Evans, and Allie Muneri), Centre for Plant Conservation Genetics Papers (1997)
Eucalypt plantations: improving fibre yield and quality: proceedings of the CRCTHF-IUFRO conference (with Brad M. Potts, Nuno MG Borralho, James B. Reid, R N. Cromer, and Wayne N. Tibbits), Centre for Plant Conservation Genetics Papers (1995)
Books chapter
Incorporating wood quality and deployment traits in Eucalyptus globulus and Eucalyptus nitens (with Luis A. Apiolaza), Plantation Forest Biotechnology for the 21st Century (2004)
Conference publications
Quantitative and molecular genetic control of weed properties and chemistry in Eucalyptus pilularis (with Michael Henson, Mervyn Shepherd, and Timothy R. Sexton), Proceedings of University of Canterbury, Wood Technology Research Centre Workshop: Revisiting Euncalypts 2009 (2009)
The effect of a single amino acid substitution in a lignin biosynthesis enzyme of wood properties in Eucalyptus globulus (with Fiona S. Poke, James B. Reid, and Rene E. Vaillancourt), Eucalyptus in a changing world: Proceedings of the International IUFRO Conference (2004)
Genetics of Eucalyptus wood properties (Presentation), International Conference on Wood, Breeding and Biotechnology and Industrial Expectations (2001)
Traditional methods of assessing wood properties are both destructive and expensive, limiting the numbers of...