Program governance and engagement

NSW Forest Monitoring Steering Committee


We have established, and independently chair a cross-agency NSW Forest Monitoring Steering Committee to oversee the design, implementation, review and continuous improvement of the program.

We have appointed the following independent experts to the Steering Committee:

  • Associate Professor Tina Louise Bell, Associate Professor in Fire Ecology, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney
  • Professor Patrick Baker, Charles Bullard Fellow, Harvard Forest, former Australian Research Council Future Fellow and School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences, University of Melbourne
  • Professor Philip Gibbons, Professor and Associate Director of Higher-degree Research, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
  • Dr Peter Hairsine, Centre for Water and Landscape Dynamics at the Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University.