Meet The SFFA Team

MARTIN NOVAK

President, Farm Forestry Consultant (Australia/Asia), Farmer

Martin has had 35 years of experience in farming and farm forestry. For the past 25 years he has also worked as an educator and consultant in these fields, in Australia and Asia. In this role, he has been instrumental in managing and administrating a number of farm forestry projects funded by the Federal Government. He also owns and manages a macadamia and timber plantation family property.

See Martin's full CV here.

GRAEME PALMER

Vice President, Lecturer Southern Cross University, Qualifications: BSc Forestry, BSc Computer Science (Aus. Nat. Uni), PhD (Southern Cross University)

Graeme began his professional career with Qld Forestry Department in 1989, working in the Timber Research Branch. In 2000, established BIL Technologies which is a forestry and wood science consulting agency, before undertaking a PhD project with SCU. Currently Graeme lectures in forest science teaching silviculture, forest operations and wood science.

Research interests include biomass to energy, agroforestry in the tropics and utilising plantation grown hardwoods.

Awards and Distinctions

• Chair NSW Branch Forestry Australia

DR KEVIN GLENCROSS

Southern Cross University Forest Research Centre

Kevin has been actively involved in farm forestry and the replanting of forest ecosystems for over 20 years, with particular interest in high value timber plantations. Kevin has planted about 5000 cabinet timber trees on his own farm near Kyogle since 1994. He has worked as a carpenter prior to entering PhD research in 2002 on high value timber production.

Kevin is currently involved in Southern Cross University based research programs in Australia, China and the Pacific region specialising in forestry, agroforestry, sustainable agriculture, natural resource management, carbon sequestration and restoration of complex ecosystems on degraded land.

Kevin is actively involved in managing, designing and supervising research activities in a range of farms in the subtropics, as well as, ecosystem restoration projects for community based groups and Government agencies.

See Kevin's research and publications here.

DR JOE HARVEY-JONES

PHD in Subtropical Forestry, SFFA Board Member, Sector Representative in Zero Emissions Byron (ZEB), Chartered Accountant (UK), Farmer

Joe lives on 90 acres in Eureka in northern NSW in the region formerly known as the Big Scrub. He has macadamias, and several plantings of Cabinet Timbers on his property, which were derived from seeds he collected, raised in a nursery, and planted in the 1990s. He completed a doctorate at Southern Cross University in 2006 based on his plantings, relating to water relations of transplanted seedlings.