Doctor Craig Barton
TECHNICAL MANAGER - FIELD BASED RESEARCH FACILITIES,
Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment
Personal
Qualifications
- PhD University of Edinburgh
UWS Organisational Unit (School / Division)
- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment
Contact
| Email: | C.Barton@uws.edu.au |
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| Extension: | 1404 |
| Mobile: | 0417461698 |
| Location: | L9.1.26 Hawkesbury |
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Biography
Dr Craig Barton is the Technical Manager - Field Based Research Facilities and leads a team of specialised technical staff and has responsibility for the smooth operation of the Institute’s field-based climate change facilities located on the Hawkesbury campus of UWS. These facilities include CO2 /climate controlled whole tree chambers (WTC) and associated eucalypt plantation (Hawkesbury Forest Experiment, HFE), a Free Air CO2 Enrichment (FACE) experiment in native woodland, Rain-out Shelters and an Eddy Covariance Flux site.
Craig took up this position in UWS in 2012 but has been working collaboratively with staff at the Hawkesbury campus since 2005. He formerly held a role as Senior research Scientist with NSW DPI (State Forests) and was instrumental in the establishment and running of the Whole Tree Chamber facility at UWS. He obtained his PhD from Edinburgh University in 1997 where he studied the Effects of elevated CO2 on growth and physiology of Sitka spruce using a range of facilities including controlled glasshouses, open top chambers and branch bags. He held a NERC Research Fellowship at the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology in Edinburgh where he worked as a modeller investigating the ability of remote sensing to detect pollution stress in vegetation. He moved to Australia to take up a position with State Forests NSW in 2000 where he carried out research into carbon sequestration and carbon accounting for forests, tree water use and dryland salinity, and climate change impacts on eucalypts.
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Publications
Journal Articles
- Barton, C., Parsby, J., Linder, S., Ellsworth, D., Medlyn, B., Duursma, R., Tissue, D., Adams, M., Eamus, D., Conroy, J. and McMurtri, R. (2010), 'Whole-tree chambers for elevated atmospheric CO2 experimentation and tree scale flux measurements in south-eastern Australia: The Hawkesbury Forest Experiment', Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 11.
- Barton, C. and Montagu, K. (2006), 'Effect of spacing and water availability on root:shoot ratio in Eucalyptus camaldulensis.', Forest Ecology & Management, 11.
Research
Craig has worked and published across a range of fields including Tree ecophysiology, remote sensing, tree water use, ground penetrating radar, allometrics, elevated CO2
Extensive experience with a range of instrumentation used in ecophysiological studies including data loggers, portable gas exchange systems, spectral radiometers, LAI measurement.Designed and built controlled growth facilities and gas exchange systems and written control software for complex systems such as branch bags, open top chambers and whole tree chambers.
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