Gabriel Hemery

Dr Gabriel Hemery (born 13 December 1968) is an English forest scientist and silvologist. He co-founded the Sylva Foundation with Sir Martin Wood, a tree and forestry charity established in 2009.

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Career

He began his career at the Northmoor Trust[1] in Oxfordshire. He later became Director of Development for the Botanical Society of the British Isles, returning to forestry to establish the Forestry Horizons think-tank in 2006. He is currently Chief Executive of the Sylva Foundation. He has played an active role in the Institute of Chartered Foresters and is a Fellow of the ICF [2].

Forestry Research

He designed and established a new woodland and centre for hardwood forestry research; Paradise Wood.[3] He was a founding member of the British and Irish Hardwoods Improvement Programme establishing a number of forestry field trials across the UK and Ireland (e.g.[4]). He gained a DPhil degree at the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of Oxford on the genetic improvement of walnut.[5] His research took him to the walnut fruit forests of Kyrgyzstan where he collected thousands of Juglans regia seeds for field trials back in the UK.[6] He then researched and published numerous articles pertaining to the silviculture (e.g.[7][8]) and genetic[9] improvement of walnut. He initiated an agroforestry research project in the mid 1990s, combining free-range broiler chicken with newly established woodland.[10][11]

References

  1. ^ "Hemery's Biography". Gabriel Hemery blog. http://gabrielhemery.com/biography/. Retrieved 20 October 2010. 
  2. ^ "ICF Member's Register". ICF Member's Register. http://www.charteredforesters.org/default.asp?page=73&initial=H&mt=. Retrieved 09 January 2011. 
  3. ^ Clark, J. and Hemery, G. (2009) Outcomes from 15 years of hardwoods research at the Northmoor Trust. Quarterly Journal of Forestry. 103, 212-219.
  4. ^ Burley, J., Savill, P.S., Hemery, G.E. and Davis, J. (2004) The British and Irish Hardwoods Improvement Programme (BIHIP). In: International Oak Society meeting. Winchester, UK. pp. 148-154.
  5. ^ Hemery, G.E. (2000) Juglans regia L: genetic variation and provenance performance. In: Department of Plant Sciences. University of Oxford.
  6. ^ Hemery, G.E. (1998) Walnut (Juglans regia) seed-collecting expedition to Kyrgyzstan in Central Asia. Quarterly Journal of Forestry. 92, 153-157.
  7. ^ Hemery, G.E. and Savill, P.S. (2001) The use of treeshelters and application of stumping in the establishment of walnut Juglans regia. Forestry. 74, 479-489.
  8. ^ Clark, J., Hemery, G. and Savill, P. (2008) Early growth and form of common walnut (Juglans regia L.) in mixture with tree and shrub nurse species in southern England. Forestry. 81, 631-644.
  9. ^ Hemery, G.E., Savill, P. and Thakur, A. (2005) Height growth and flushing in common walnut (Juglans regia L.): 5-year results from provenance trials in Great Britain. Forestry. 78, 121-133.
  10. ^ Jones, T., Feber, R., Hemery, G., Cook, P., James, K., Lamberth, C. and Dawkins, M. (2007) Welfare and environmental benefits of integrating commercially viable free-range broiler chickens into newly planted woodland: a UK case study. Agricultural Systems. 94, 177-188.
  11. ^ Yates, C., Dorwood, P., Hemery, G. and Cook, P. (2007) The economic viability and potential of a novel poultry agroforestry system. Agroforestry Systems. 69, 13-28.

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