Lambert, Marcia Joan (1942 - )

Summary

Marcia Lambert has worked in forest research for about 54 years. She is an expert in plant nutrition and has undertaken research on the nutrition of forest species (including Eucalyptus grandis, E. globulus and E. pilularis) defining requirements for nutrients and identifying relationships between nutritional status and pathogen susceptibility.

Details

Marcia Lambert was employed by the Forestry Commission of NSW (later Forests NSW). In the latter years, she was a Senior Research Scientist and an Assistant Director of Research, followed by a position as Director of Forsci Pty Ltd. Her expertise covers plant nutrition and nutritional management of natural forests and plantations (both hardwood and softwood, including several eucalyptus species) and salinity. She has continued studies on plantation nutrition and also on the health of coastal Norfolk Island Pines. In 1986, she was elected to represent Australia and later the Pacific Region for the Board of IUFRO (International Union of Forest Research Organisations). She was the first woman elected to the Board of IUFRO since its inception in 1892.

Chronology

1965

Education - Bachelor of Science (Hons) in Applied Chemistry, University of New South Wales

1980

Education - Master of Science (Hons) Environmental Science, Maquarie University

1986

Career event - Elected to the Board of IUFRO (International Union of Forest Research Organisations)

1990

Career event - Promoted to a Fellow, Royal Australian Institute

2003

Career event - Admitted as Registered Professional Forester of the Institute of Foresters of Australia

Related entries

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

• McCarthy, Gavan; Smith, Ailie; Moje, Christine; Rigby, Rebecca, The Study of Australian Eucalypts, eScholarship Research Centre, 2013, http://www.eoas.info/eucalypts/index.html. Details

Books

• Lambert, M. J., Inorganic constituents in wood and bark of New South Wales forest tree species. Research Note No. 45 (Sydney: Forestry Commission of NSW, 1981), 43 pp. http://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0017/390014/Inorganic-Constituents-in-Wood-and-Bark-of-NSW-Forest-Tree-Species.pdf. Details
• Lambert, M.; and Turner, J., Commercial Forest Plantations on Saline Lands (Collingwood, Vic.: CSIRO Publishing, 2000), 216 pp. Details

Book Sections

• Lambert, M.J.; and Turner, J., 'Sulfur nutrition and cycling in southern hemisphere temperate and sub-tropical forest ecosystems.' in Sulfur in the Environment, Marnard, D., ed. (New York: Marcel Dekker Inc., 1996). Details

Journal Articles

• Lambert, M.J.; and Turner, J., 'Soil nutrient-vegetation relationships in the Eden area, N.S.W. III. Foliage nutrient relationships with particular reference to Eucalyptus subgenera.', Australian Forestry, 46 (1983), 200-209. Details
• Turner J.; and Lambert, M.J., 'Nutrient cycling in age sequences of two Eucalyptus plantation species', Forest Ecology and Management, 255 (2008), 1701-1712. Details
• Turner, J.; and Lambert, M. J., 'Effects of forest harvesting nutrient removals on soil nutrient reserves in the Eden area, New South Wales.', Oecologia, 70 (1) (1986), 140-148. Details
• Turner, J.; and Lambert, M.J., 'Nutrient cycling within a 27-year-old Eucalyptus grandis plantation in New South Wales.', Forest Ecology and Management, 6 (1983), 156-168. Details
• Turner, J.; Lambert, M.J.; Jurskis, V.; and Bi, H., 'Long term accumulation of nitrogen in soils of dry mixed eucalypt forest in the absence of fire.', Forest Ecology and Management, 256 (2008), 1133-1142. Details

Reports

• Turner, J.; Flinn, D.W.; Lambert, M.J.; Wareing, K.; and Murphy, S., Management of Victoria's publicly-owned native forests for wood production. A review of the science of public native forest management for sustainable timber production in Victoria (2010), http://www.fwpa.com.au/sites/default/files/PRC174-0910_Research_Report_Native_forest_project.pdf. Details

Resources

• 'Lambert, Marcia Joan, by Marcia Lambert and Peter Fagg', The Study of Australian Eucalypts: Forestry, with Fagg, P.C. et al., eScholarship Research Centre, 16 December 2013, http://www.eoas.info/eucalypts/forestry.html. Details
• 'Lambert, Marcia Joan (1942-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1540483. Details