New Zealand forestry student Pauline Edge has won the Mary Sutherland scholarship at the New Zealand Institute of Forestry Foundation awards. Source: The New Zealand Herald
The awards were held at the New Zealand Institute of Forestry conference dinner in Rotorua recently.
The scholarship, worth NZ$1000, went to Ms Edge who is a second year Diploma of Forest Management student at Toi-Ohomai Institute of Technology in Rotorua.
William Hollis, also a Diploma in Forest Management student at Toi-Ohomai, won NZ$800 in the student poster competition for his work on the classification of native forest using remote sensing imagery.
The New Zealand Institute of Forestry Foundation is a registered charity and was established by the New Zealand Institute of Forestry in 2011.
Its function is to raise funding which can be used to encourage and support forestry-related education, training and research through the provision of grants, scholarships and prizes.
A Future Forest Scholarship of NZ$10,000 was awarded to Fei Guo, a PhD student at the University of Canterbury looking at the use of spectroscopy of cellulose and wood to predict growth-stress levels in standing trees and logs.
The Otago/Southland Award of NZ$1500 went to Luke Holmes, a Bachelor of Forest Engineering Honours student at University of Canterbury whose research topic is the productivity of fully mechanised cable logging operations.
Michael Pay, a second year Master of Forestry Science student at University of Canterbury received the Frank Hutchinson Scholarship of NZ$1000 for a postgraduate student.
A University undergraduate scholarship of NZ$1000 was received by Morgan Scragg, a first year Bachelor of Forestry Science student at the University of Canterbury.
The Mary Sutherland scholarship of NZ$1000 went Pauline Edge, a second year Diploma of Forest Management student at Toi-Ohomai Institute of Technology in Rotorua.
Winners of the student poster competition held at the NZIF conference were:
– William Hollis, a Diploma in Forest Management student at Toi-Ohomai Institute of Technology, Rotorua, for a poster on the classification of native forest using remote sensing imagery (first prize of NZ$800)
– Okey Francis Obi, a PhD student at University of Canterbury, for a poster on the efficiency of logging crews (second prize of NZ$500)
– Michael Pay, a Master of Forestry Science student at University of Canterbury for a poster on outcomes from management of a marginal hill country forest property (third prize of NZ$200).
