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UniSC team wins the Smart Biosphere Award at the 2025 Noosa Biosphere Awards
18 Dec 2025Congratulations to our University of the Sunshine Coast team who have won the Smart Biosphere Award at the 2025 Noosa Biosphere Awards. The work was led by former UniSC Forest Research Institute PhD candidate and soon-to-be Dr, Rodrigo Minici de Oliveira, under Professor Andy Marshall's long term research project, 'Selecting Indicators of Conservation Success.'
We're recruiting four new AFWI-funded senior roles to join our AFWI Centre for Sustainable Futures at UniSC
3 Dec 2025We are recruiting four new senior roles to join our Australian Forest and Wood Innovations (AFWI) Centre for Sustainable Futures team at the University of the Sunshine Coast.
Dr Ghaffariyan Appointed Managing Editor of Australian Forestry Journal
25 Nov 2025In 2003, a young Master’s student at the University of Tehran celebrated the acceptance of his first-ever journal article, a moment of joy that would shape his entire career.
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Turning wood residue into low-carbon fuel with AFWI-backed fibre-to-fuels project
25 Nov 2025AFWI Centre for Sustainable Futures is proud to support HAMR Energy’s new $1.1 million Fibre to Fuels project, a national proof-of-concept turning forestry residues into cleaner, renewable methanol for aviation, shipping and chemicals.
Forestry in a nature-positive economy: Meet the panel, Associate Professor David Lee
18 Sep 2025At the upcoming UniSC Forest Research Institute public lecture — Forestry in a Nature-Positive Economy — Associate Professor David Lee joins the panel to bring a future-focused perspective from forest genetics and plantation innovation.
Forestry in a nature-positive economy: Meet the panel, Dr Alexandra Catling
18 Sep 2025Fresh voices matter! At the upcoming UniSC Forest Research Institute public lecture — Forestry in a Nature-Positive Economy — Dr Alexandra “Alex" Catling steps into that spotlight as an early-career researcher in the Tropical Forests and People team, bringing her deep experience in field ecology, plant interactions and the effects of environmental change
Forestry in a nature-positive economy: Meet the panel, Professor John Herbohn
18 Sep 2025At the upcoming UniSC Forest Research Institute Public Lecture — Forestry in a Nature-Positive Economy — Professor John Herbohn will bring his 20-plus years of hands-on forestry experience to the stage as part of the expert panel, speaking from his perspective in working across tropical smallholder and community forestry
Forestry in a nature-positive economy: Meet the panel, Steve Walker
18 Sep 2025At UniSC’s Forest Research Institute Public Lecture on October 15 — Forestry in a Nature-Positive Economy — thought leaders will come together to explore how investing in nature can be more than just an ethical choice: it can be smart business.
Turning data into insights to cut costs and boost quality
18 Sep 2025The timber industry generates mountains of data every day.
