Curriculum Vitae, Dr Christopher Dean, Scientist, Australian
GPO Box 178, Peterborough, SA 5422, Australia
Tel: +61(0)408-975-633
Career goal:service to people and nature; using my analysis, cognition, technical, physical and people skills, in environmentally and ethically sound work
Major projects:
· natural vs. industrial carbon dynamics of forest & rangeland, linked to climate change
. providing emergency medicine and transport
. teaching scientific English in China
· forest & rangeland measurement and condition assessment
· urban growth forecasting with interactive computer animation
· commercial software: 3D computer aided design, relational databases, automated cartography, customer support
· crystal structures & transformations, 3D graphics
Skills:
analysis, pattern identification, conceptualisation, innovation, trend forecasting, 3D-modelling,
formulae, statistics, planning, customer service, teamwork, outdoor team leader
customer service, training/tutoring, higher degree supervision, staff management
computer programming, IT-support, C/C++, Javascript, VRML, FORTRAN, SQL, scripts; on Unix/Linux, MS-Windows
GIS/remote sensing, scientific instruments, optical & SEM microscopy, x-ray diffraction, synthesis
publications, editing (ESL), referee/examiner, conference presentation
fieldwork (including remote area), photography, GPS, basic carpentry, landscaping, heavy plant, builders labourer, first aid, film extra
Qualifications
Degrees/Certificates Courses (examples)
PhD 2017 (Uni. Tasmania) Environmental Studies Cert IV Health Care/Ambulance 2018 (SAAS)
PhD 1986 (Adelaide Uni.) Crystallography Grad. Cert. Research 2017 (UTAS)
BSc (Hons) 1981, Physical Chemistry, 1st class/1st Front-end Loader (2017), Forklift (2011)
BSc(Ord) 1980, Chemistry & Physics Defensive/Advanced driving/4WD
Counselling, OH&S, Admin, Acting, Food & Beverage Service
Current Memberships:
Institute of Foresters of Australia, Adelaide University Alumni, University of Tasmania Alumni,
Employment:
Mar-2017-to-present University of Tasmania, Adjunct Senior Researcher/Lecturer
2018-to-present various clients, Gardener, part-time
Sep-2019-to-2023 Northeast Normal University, China (on-site & internet) Lecturer in scientific English/ manuscript moderator, part-time
March-2022-to-June-2022 Australian Electoral Commission, Service Officer
May-2021-to-Sept-2021 Australian Bureau of Statistics, Census Field Manager, part-time
Sep-2017-to-Sep-2020 Southern Flinders Tourism ‘n’ Tastes, Secretary
May-2016-to-2019 DEWNR, SA Government; Nature Glenelg Trust; Murdoch University; GIS & science consultancy contracts
Feb-2016-to-Nov-2019 SA Ambulance Service, volunteer ambulance officer
2012–Dec 2016 University of Tasmania; PhD student, carbon dynamics in forests and rangelands (with industry), design and perform fieldwork , GIS, photography/LiDAR, remote-sensing/photogrammetry, soil and tree sampling, ecology, scientific/statistical software, review & re-analysis, referee, conference, reports & publications
2011-May-2016 Curtin University; contract author; forest carbon dynamics
2012 Office of Environment & Heritage, NSW government;
contract scientist; forecast carbon sequestration, NSW rangelands, GIS, radar, enviro. & financial data, develop formulae, report
2010 Dept Environment & Heritage, SA government;
contract scientist; validation of SA wetland maps, GIS, LANDSAT band indices & LiDAR data, report
2009-2010 REDD Forests Pty Ltd,
Sydney; contract scientist; co-develop/perform/instruct team fieldwork, develop and perform analysis including, remote-sensing, forecast sequestration, report. Accredited in voluntary carbon market
2009-2010 Curtin University,
Perth; scientist; modelling carbon forecasts with logging, GIS, allometrics, programming C++, FullCAM, overseas conference, publications
May–July-2009 World Wildlife Fund,
Brisbane; contract scientist; QLD, carbon forecast for regrowth, GIS, enviro. data, report
2006-2008 Forest Products Commission, WA government;
Perth; contract scientist; Australian rangeland, carbon accounts and forecast, student supervision, fieldwork, team leading, lit. review, GIS, enviro. data, formulae development, report
2004-2006 DNRETA, NT Government,
Alice Springs; pastoral lease inspector, land condition assessment; fieldwork, remote-sensing, GIS, innovation, conference, budgeting, source funding, reports
Employment history 1970–2003 (details available on request)
Private Industry:
The Cadds Man Australia Ltd (SA), Qikdraw Pty Ltd (SA), OnlineEnglish (ACT), Salem Press (USA), Spatial Concepts (SA), MSS Security (Adelaide), Foodland (Mitcham, SA), Austrafab (Adelaide)
Universities:
Australian National University, Adelaide University, West Virginia University (USA), Cambridge University (UK), Australian Maritime College, University of South Australia
Government:
Ministry of Defence (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia), CSIRO (TAS, SA), Dept. Env. (NSW, SA, NT)
Technical Publications
Journal Papers (peer reviewed):
Dean, C., Kirkpatrick, J.B., Doyle, R.B., Osborn, J., Fitzgerald, N.B., Roxburgh, S.H. (2020)
‘The overlooked soil carbon under large, old trees’, Geoderma, 376, 1-18, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2020.114541
Dean, C., Horn, E. (2019)
‘A hard, high-carbon, lignomor with conchoidal fracture: Cunnite, from mature myrtle beech (Nothofagus cunninghamii (Hook. f.) Oerst.)’,
Geoderma, 333, 178-187, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2018.07.006
Dean, C., Kirkpatrick, J.B., Osborn, J., Doyle, R.B., Fitzgerald, N.B., Roxburgh, S.H. (2018)
‘Novel 3D-geometry and models of the lower regions of large trees for use in carbon accounting of primary forests’,
AoB Plants, 10, ply015, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/aobpla/ply015
Dean, C., Kirkpatrick, J.B., Friedland, A.J. (2016)
‘Conventional intensive logging promotes loss of organic carbon from the mineral soil’,
Global Change Biology, 23(1), 1-11, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb.13387
Dean, C., Kirkpatrick, J.B., Harper, R.J., Eldridge, D.J. (2014).
‘Optimising carbon sequestration in arid and semiarid rangelands’,
Ecological Engineering, 74, 148-163.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoleng.2014.09.125
Dean C. (2012) ‘Creative Carbon Accounting: A Reply to "The Wood, the Trees, or the Forest? Carbon in Trees in Tasmanian State Forest: A Repsonse to Comments"'.
International Journal of Forestry Research, 2012, 1-3. Article ID 762080. doi:10.1155/2012/762080, http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijfr/2012/762080// .
Dean C, Wardell-Johnson GW & Kirkpatrick JB (2012) ‘Are there any circumstances in which logging primary wet-eucalypt forest will not add to the global carbon burden', Agricultural and Forest Meteorology', 161, 156-169. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2012.03.021.
Harper RJ, Stilwell AT, Okom AEA, Tibbett M, Dean C, George SJ, Mann SS & Dods K. ‘Reforesting degraded agricultural landscapes with Eucalypts: effects on soil carbon and fertility after 26 years', Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 166, 3-13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2012.03.013 .
Dean C, Wardell-Johnson GW & Harper RJ (2012) 'Carbon management of commercial rangelands in Australia: major pools and fluxes’, Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 148(1), 44-64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2011.11.011.
Dean C, Roxburgh SH, Harper RJ, Eldridge DJ, Watson IW & Wardell-Johnson GW (2012) ‘Accounting for space and time in soil carbon dynamics in timbered rangelands’. Ecological Engineering, 38(1), 51-64.http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoleng.2011.10.008.
Dean C, Fitzgerald NB & Wardell-Johnson GW (2012) ‘Pre-logging carbon accounts in old-growth forests, via allometry: an example of mixed-forests in Tasmania, Australia’. Plant Biosystems, 146(1), 223-236. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/11263504.2011.638332.
Townsend PV, Harper RJ, Brennan PD, Dean C, Wu S, Smettem KRJ & Cook SE (2011) ‘Multiple environmental services as an opportunity for watershed restoration’, Forest Policy and Economics, 17, 45-58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2011.06.008.
Dean C (2011) ‘Comment on “Carbon in trees in Tasmanian State forest”’, International Journal of Forestry Research, 2011, 1-10. http://downloads.hindawi.com/journals/ijfr/2011/212361.pdf , http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/212361.
Dean C & Wardell-Johnson GW (2010) ‘Old-growth forests, carbon and climate change: functions and management for tall open-forests in two hotspots of temperate Australia’. Plant Biosystems, 144(1), 180-193.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/11263500903560751
Dean C & Roxburgh SH (2006) ‘Improving visualisation of mature, high-carbon-sequestering forests’ Forest Biometry, Modelling and Information Sciences, 2006(1), 48-69.
http://cms1.gre.ac.uk/conferences/iufro/fbmis/A/6_1_DeanC_1.pdf
http://sites.google.com/site/cdeanpages/home/graphics/computer-graphics/animations
Roxburgh SH, Mackey BG, Dean C, Randall L, Lee A & Austin J (2006) ‘Organic carbon partitioning in soil and litter in subtropical woodlands and open forests: a case study from the Brigalow Belt, Queensland’, The Rangeland Journal, 28(2), 115-125.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/RJ05015
Dean C, Roxburgh SH & Mackey BG (2004) ‘Forecasting landscape-level carbon sequestration using gridded, spatially adjusted tree growth’, Forest Ecology and Management, 194(1), 109-129.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2004.02.013
Dean C (2003) ‘Calculation of wood volume and stem taper using terrestrial single-image close-range photogrammetry and contemporary software tools’, Silva Fennica, 37(3), 359-380.
http://www.metla.fi/silvafennica/full/sf37/sf373359.pdf
Bell M, Dean C & Blake M (2000) ‘Forecasting the pattern of urban growth with PUP: a web-based model interfaced with GIS and 3D animation’, Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 24(6), 559-581.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0198-9715(00)00017-X
Dean C, Warner, T.A. & McGraw, J.B. (2000) ‘Suitability of the DCS460c colour digital camera for quantitative remote sensing analysis of vegetation’, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 55(2), 105-118.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0924-2716(00)00011-3
Anderson PA, Creaser II, Dean C, Harrowfield JM, Horn E, Martin LL, Sargeson AM, Snow MR & Tiekink ERT. (1993) ‘Synthesis, resolution and kinetics of electron self-exchange of high spin manganese (II)/(III) cage complexes’, Australian Journal of Chemistry, 46, 449-463.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/CH9930449
Slade PG, Dean C, Schultz PK & Self PG (1987) ‘The crystal structure of a vermiculite-anilinium intercalate’, Clays and Clay Minerals, 35(3), 177-188.
http://www.clays.org/journal/archive/volume%2035/35-3-177.pdf
Slade PG, Schultz PK & Dean C (1987) ‘Refinement of the ephesite structure in C1 symmetry’, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Monatshefte, 6, 275-287.
http://www.crystallography.net/information_card.php?cif=9009338
Bruce MI, Dean C, Duffy DN, Humphrey MG, & Koutsantonis GA (1985) ‘Reactions of transition metal σ-acetylide complexes: III. Synthesis of some aryldiazovinylidene and cycloheptatrienylvinylidene complexes. X-ray structures of [Ru(C=CPhN=NC6H3Me2-3,4)(PPh3)2(h-C5H5)][BF4] • 0.67CH2Cl2 and
[Ru(C=CPhC7H7)(dppe)(h-C5H5)][PF6] • 0.63 CH2Cl2’, Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, 295, C40-C44.
doi:10.1016/0022-328X(85)80329-6
Dean C (1985) ‘An interactive program for crystal orientation and martensitic transformation investigations: COATI’, Journal of Applied Crystallography, 18(3), 159-164.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1107/S0021889885010032
Dean C, Hambley TW & Snow MR (1984) ‘Structures of Phase-IV Rubidium Nitrate, RbNO3, and Phase-II Caesium Nitrate, CsNO3’, Acta Crystallographica, C40(9), 1512-1515.
http://scripts.iucr.org/cgi-bin/paper?S0108270184008556
Book Chapters:
Eldridge DJ, Greene RSB & Dean C (2011) ‘Climate Change Impacts on Soil Processes in Rangelands’, in: Soil Health and Climate Change, Singh B, Cowie AL, Yin Chan K (eds), Soil Biology 29. Springer-Verlag Heidelberg. pp 237-255. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-20256-8_11.
Miles M, Dean C, Bachmann M & Cameron J (2010) ‘Validation Of Wetland Mapping in the South East Region of South Australia. A LANDSAT-based Investigation’, in South East Water Science Review, Brookes J (ed). Lower Limestone Coast Water Allocation Plan Taskforce, Department for Water, Government of South Australia. Adelaide. pp 8-1–8-34 + D-1–L-1.
http://www.waterforgood.sa.gov.au/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/sewsr-chapter-8.pdf
Billows C, Dean C, Bachmann M, Herpich D, Herpich M, Miles M & Farrington L (2010) ‘Testing the Accuracy of SAWID Wetland Mapping Within Forest Plantations’, in South East Water Science Review, Brookes J (ed). Lower Limestone Coast Water Allocation Plan Taskforce, Department for Water, Government of South Australia. Adelaide. pp 9-1–9-30 + N-1–N-13.
http://www.waterforgood.sa.gov.au/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/sewsr-chapter-9.pdf
Dean C, Roxburgh SH & Mackey BG (2003) ‘Growth Modelling of Eucalyptus regnans for Carbon Accounting at the Landscape Scale’, in: Amaro A, Reed D, Soares P (eds.), Modelling Forest Systems. CAB International, Wallingford, UK. pp 27-39 + plates.
Conference Papers & Presentations (examples):
Dean C & Wardell-Johnson GW (2009) ‘Effective carbon management of forests requires recognition of major pools and timelines’, presentation at Adapting Forest management to Maintain the Environmental Services: Carbon Sequestration, Biodiversity and Water, Koli National Park, Finland, 22-24 Sep 2009. http://www.metla.fi/tapahtumat/2009/koli/index.htm
http://www.metla.fi/tapahtumat/2009/koli/Dean.pdf
Dean C (2005) ‘Monitoring of Pastoral Rangeland Condition in the Southern Northern Territory (Australia) by Remote Sensing—Status and Prospects’, in: Achim, R. and Hill, J. (Eds.) ‘Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Remote Sensing and Geoinformation Processing in the Assessment and Monitoring of Land Degradation and Desertification’, 7–9 September 2005, pp151-158, Trier, Germany.
http://ubt.opus.hbz-nrw.de/volltexte/2006/362/pdf/03-rgldd-session2.pdf
Dean C. & Roxburgh SH (2005) ‘Improving Visualisation of Mature, High-Carbon-Sequestering Forests’. invited presentation at IUFRO 4.03. ‘Complex forest Ecosystems—Measurement Models and Analysis’, 15-16 August 2005, Cairns, Australia.
Dean C (2004) ‘Routine ‘Pastoral Land Monitoring’ by Remote Sensing’, presentation at Central Australia Ecological Projects Information Day, 15th December 2004, Alice Springs.
Dean C & Roxburgh SH (2004) ‘Modelling trunks in 3D for within-forest visualisation and forecasts of carbon sequestration’, in C. Godin, C.Hanan, J.Kurth, W.Lacointe, A.Takenaka, A.Prusinkiewicz, P.DeJong, T. M.Beveridge, C.Andrieu, B. (eds). Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Functional-Structural Plant Models. pp351-354. 7-11 June 2004, UMR AMAP, Montpellier, France.
http://amap.cirad.fr/workshop/FSPM04/proceedings/4thFSPM04_S6Dean.pdf
Dean C, Roxburgh SH & Mackey BG (2003) ‘Theoretical developments, visualisation and scenario tests using CAR4D for carbon sequestration forecasts’, presentation at Modelling Forests from Leaves to Landscape, Research Working Group 2, 1-3 December 2003, Melbourne University.
Dean C, Roxburgh SH & Mackey BG (2003) ‘Novel details of landscape-level carbon sequestration forecasting for high carbon-sequestering forests’, presentation at Annual Science Meeting, CRC for Greenhouse Accounting, 30 April 2003, South Durras, NSW.
Dean C, Roxburgh, SH & Mackey BG (2002) ‘Growth Modelling of Eucalyptus regnans for Carbon Accounting at the Landscape Scale’, presentation at Reality, Models and Parameter Estimation - the Forestry Scenario, 2-5 June 2002, Sesimbra, Portugal.
Dean C, Warner TA, McGraw JB & Landenberger R (2000) ‘Interpretation, processing and object detection in aerial imagery of a forest canopy using a colour digital camera with a view to determining species distribution’, presentation/paper at Remote Sensing in Agriculture, 26-28 June 2000, Association of Applied Biologists, Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, UK. Aspects of Applied Biology, 60, 29-36.
http://www.cabdirect.org/abstracts/20000615667.html
Bell M, Dean C & Blake M (1999) ‘A Model for Forecasting the Location of Fringe Urbanisation, with GIS and 3D Animated Visualisation’, presentation at Sixth International Conference on Computers in Urban Planning and Urban Management, CUPUM'99. IUAV, 8-11 September 1999, Venice, Italy.
http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/eserv.php?pid=UQ:7922&dsID=cupum9948.pdf
Bell M, Dean C & Blake M (1998) ‘Forecasting the pattern of suburban growth. Decision support in a GIS framework’, presentation at Ninth National Conference of the Australian Population Association "Population Matters", 29 September-2 October 1998, University of Queensland, Brisbane.
Kennedy SW & Dean C (1985) ‘Transformation Mechanisms in UO2(OH)2, MnS and AgI’, poster at Society of Crystallographers in Australia, Crystal XV Conference 1, Glenelg, Adelaide.
Reports (examples):
Dean C & Kirkpatrick JB (2012) "Brief appraisal of carbon stock and trajectory modelling in 'Tasmanian Forest Carbon Study' from CO2 Australia Limited (May, Bulinski, Goodwin & Mcleod, 2012)". Report to Climate Change Office, TAS Government. 10 pp.
Dean C (2011) 'Potential for Carbon Sequestration in NSW Rangelands'. Report to Office of Environment & Heritage, NSW Government. 82 pp.
Dean C (2011) ‘Carbon, its change and management in the biomes of Oceania: a GIS and literature analysis’. Report to Curtin University. Used in Wardell-Johnson GW, Keppel G, & Sander J. (2011) ‘Climate change impacts on the terrestrial biodiversity and carbon stocks of Oceania’, Pacific Conservation Biology, 17(3), 220-240.
Dean C (2011) ‘Remote Sensing’ & ‘Forestry’, in: Salem Science: Applied Science. (Salem Press, online encyclopaedia.) In Press.
Dean C (2010) ‘Remote Sensing of Connorvillle Property for Biomass Stratification and Sample Plot Positioning’, ditto for Ellendale & ‘Unsupervised Classification, Site Stratification, Plot Delineation, Maps and Carbon Scenarios for Downie land’; reports to Redd Forests Pty Ltd.
E.g. in: http://www.reddforests.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Project-3-Design-Document.pdf
Taylor MFJ & Dean C (2009) ‘Bringing back the bush. Regrowing bushland that should be protected in Queensland’, Unpublished report by World Wildlife Fund for Nature. 36 pp.
Dean C (2009) ‘Methodology for Baseline Carbon Assessment and Carbon Stock Forecast for Woodside Park, Poatina, Tasmania’, Abridged version in MGM International: http://www.climate-standards.org/projects/files/tasmania/REDD_Forests_CCB_PDD_FINAL_071609.pdf
Validation: http://www.climate-standards.org/projects/files/tasmania/CCB_REDDForests_RPT_ValidationReport_071709.pdf
Dean C, Eldridge DJ & Harper RJ (2009) ‘Prognosis for Carbon Sequestration in Rangelands upon Destocking. A Case Study of the vast Australian Rangelands with Reference to Biogeochemistry, Ecology, Fire, Biodiversity and Climate Change’. Unpublished report to Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation (RIRDC), Canberra. 240 pp.
Dean C (2006) ‘Loves Creek Pastoral Lease, Land condition of the Eastern Portion. 2006’, & ‘Remote-Sensing-Based Property Report, 2006. Manners Creek Pastoral Lease PPL 1102’, Reports to Pastoral Board & Central Land Council, NT.
Dean C (1998) ‘PUP, Projecting Urban Population. A Small Area Population Distribution Forecasting Model. User and Reference Manual. Version 2.05, 22 November 1998’, The National Key Centre for Teaching and Research in Social Applications of Geographical Information Systems. Adelaide University.
Cook B, Ralph G, Massey J, Dean C, Mace O & Kennedy J. (1998) ‘Spatial Information Integration Services, High Level Functional Design’, Fujitsu, Dept of Information Technology Services, Spatial Information Integration Services
Dean C (1994) ‘Gooseberries in Tasmania’, The Ribes Reporter 6(1), 4-5.
Dean C, Sutton K & Chan P (1989) ‘Qikdraw 3D User & Reference Manuals’, Qikdraw Systems Pty. Ltd., Adelaide.