Craig Nitschke
Adjunct Researcher
Craig’s main research area is forest ecosystem response and vulnerability to climate change. Craig was born in Canada and he obtained his BSF (Hons) in forest resources management and Ph.D. in forest vulnerability and sustainable forest management under climate change and at the University of British Columbia. Craig is currently involved in several research projects that relate to assessing the vulnerability of local species and ecosystems to climate change.
Over the past 3 years, Craig has worked with various aspects of species and ecosystem responses to climate change, including working with the TACA and SORIE-ND model, to investigate the role of disturbance and stand dynamics in mixed-species temperate, boreal and sub-boreal ecosystems of B.C. and the Yukon with the University of British Columbia. He currently is working as a Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne focussing on ecological model development and assessment of Victorian species and ecosystem vulnerability to climate variation and change. The results of his work are published in several international journals and have been presented at several conferences including the IUFRO 2005 IUFRO World Forestry Congress and 2008 Sir Mark Oliphant Conference: Old Forests New Management.