Student Poster Competition

Student Poster Competition at NZIF Conference

NZIF Annual Conference Poster Session: 5th September 2024 - Nelson

Purpose:	The NZIF Foundation offers prizes for the best student posters submitted to the NZ Institute of Forestry annual conference. The first time the prizes were offered by the Foundation was at the NZIF Conference in Wellington in 2015.
Funding:	The prizes are funded from the Foundation’s general funding.
Size and term of Award:	The following prizes are offered in 2024 at the conference of the New Zealand Institute of Forestry in Nelson, 4th - 6th September 2024 First prize $800 Second prize $500 (only awarded if there are at least four entries) Third prize $200 (only awarded if there are at least six entries)
Conditions of Entry:	Entrants must be students enrolled at a New Zealand tertiary institute; Entries to be on a theme associated with some aspect of forestry in New Zealand, where forestry is interpreted very broadly to cover all forests, from native to plantation, all aspects of forests (recreation & biodiversity to intensive production) and to include related aspects such as processing, marketing and use of forest products (including non-wood products); Prizes will be based on votes cast by conference attendees, with the winners announced before the end of the conference; While attendance at the conference is desirable, so you can discuss your poster with conference attendees, it is not mandatory. You may have someone else be available for discussion if desired.
Timetable for 2024:	The NZIF conference is in Nelson from 4th - 6th September 2024 Intention to submit a poster is to be advised to the Foundation by email foundation@nzif.org.nz no later than the Closed for 2024 so they can be included on the voting forms. Posters to be bought with Students attending the conference for display boards on closed for 2024. If not attending the conference, contact the Foundation regarding the address the poster should be sent to or make arrangements for another person attending to bring along.

RECORD OF AWARDS

Year	First Prize $800	Second Prize $500	Third Prize: $200
2024	1st Place: Caylee Broan and Heather Harper (joint poster), Investigation of methods to measure residual slash in New Zealand's Erodible Cutovers. 2nd Place Equal: Chloe Small and Jack Munro ($350 each) Chole, Sustainable Farmings: How forestry can play a role in reducing the impacts of an agricultural emission pricing scheme. Jack, Key observations & trends in the Canterbury/West Coast wood processing workforce.
2021	1st Place: Dallas Collier ($800) for 'Money lost through production breakage' 2nd Place: Kajal Chaudhary ($500) for 'Comparison and valuation of pigeon Valley Standard regime vs the fire affect regime'. 3rd Place: Michael Walmsley ($200) for 'Hovermap consistency analysis' All three winners were 2^nd year Diploma of Forest Management students at Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology in Rotorua.
2020	No awards as conference was cancelled because of Covid-19 pandemic
2019	Four prizes ($800, $600, $400 and $200) were offered at the ANZIF Conference in Christchurch. 1st Place Reihana Fisher, To prune or not to prune 2nd Place Georgia Craig, Impact of log storage on air quality 3rd Place Nick Berry, Factors affecting processor productivity 4th Place Shaun Coles, Capturing asset value through forest inventory
2018	1st Place: Ben Reriti, Machine utilisation using GPS tracking. 2nd Place: Millan Visser, Exploring opportunities for bio-fuels. 3rd Place: Lauckie Western, Implications of log taper on accuracy of JAS scaling
2017	1st Place: William Hollis, Supervised classification of native forest through the use of remote sensing imagery and ArcGIS 2nd Place: Okey Francis Obi, Measuring harvesting efficiency of logging crews and the effect of external factors. 3rd Place: Michael Pay, What can be achieved from 121 ha of marginal hill country.
2016	1st Place: Alfred Duval, What affects load rates at different ports. 2nd Place: Grace Jones, Factors which influence stiffness in ten-year old radiata pine. 3rd Place: James Govina, Resin & resin canals in clones and families of P. radiata.
2015	1st Place: Adrian Loo, Working hours in the NZ forestry sector. 2nd, 3rd Place: No award

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