Timber QLD Growth Scholarship recipients announced
Friday 9 Aug 2024
Timber Queensland is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2024-25
Growth Scholarship Awards Program. Timber Queensland’s Strategic
Relations Manager, Clarissa Brandt, said the judging
committees were impressed by the range of applications received
from every part of the industry supply chain.
“Given we receive applications from people in academia to those
working on the tools, our judges have to carefully choose recipients
that demonstrate a strong sense of purpose, are focused on their career
development and have designed a learning activity that will be
beneficial individually and for Queensland’s forest and timber
industry,” said Clarissa Brandt.
The recipients of the 2024–2025 Awards are:
- $10,000 Kennedy’s Timber Award - Trinh
Huynh - Learning Activity “Silvopasture study tour
in the Southeast Climate Hub in the US”
- $5000 AKD Award - Matt Kavanagh - Learning
Activity “Growing Mechanisation Planting Study Tour”
- $5000 HQPlantations Award - Bianca Andreis Da
Cunha - Learning Activity “Forestry’s Future:
Women’s Protagonism in leading Sustainable change – Yale
School of Management Executive Education's online Women's Leadership
Program”
- $2500 DTM Timber Award - Kristiina
Marquardt - Learning Activity “Training to obtain a
Remote Pilot Licence (RePL) - Multirotor 25kg”
Recipient of the Kennedy’s Timber Award, Trinh Huynh, Postdoctoral
Research Fellow Forest Research Institute, University of the Sunshine
Coast has planned a learning activity that will create strong bonds
between Queensland and United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
– Southeast Climate Hub forestry researchers facilitating
knowledge exchange and collaboration.
Trinh has a busy program of webinar presentations, field visits and
knowledge acquisition that will assist both her career trajectory and
make a significant contribution to the development of silvopastoral
practices in Queensland.
“Silvopastoral systems integrate trees, pasture and livestock,
providing environmental and economic benefits,” said
Trinh Huynh.
“The aim of my learning activity is to acquire practical knowledge
and first-hand experience to enhance the development of silvopasture in
Queensland, drawing on practices from the South East Climate Hub in the
United States,” she said.
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