Final Year Honours Projects
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Student Final Year Projects
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2024
- Evaluation of Subgrade Stabilisation Methods (Cass Hetherington)
- Treatment of Loess Soil Sediment-Laden Stormwater Runoff (Charlie Hall)
- Effectiveness of Mental Wellbeing Interventions in the NZ Forestry Work Environment (Tim Ovtcharenko)
- Investigation of Methods to Measure Residual slash volume in New Zealand’s erodible cutovers (Heather Harper & Caylee-G Brown)
- Estimating individual tree variables using UAV LiDAR (Zhaoying Pan)
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2023
- Uptake of Geospatial Technologies (Anna Manning)
- Opportunities for Biochar in NZ Forestry (Cam Jones)
- Predicting Harvest Residue Moisture Content Using Fire Indices (Courtney Amberger）
- Improving Export Supply Chains of Debarked Logs (James Power)
- Roller vs Track Compaction (Luke Veltman)
- Benefits and Productivity of Fixed Felling Heads (Stanley Archibald)
- Grapple Feeding in Mechanised Cable Yarding Systems (Angus Howden)
- Battery-powered Chainsaw in Thin to Waste (Lewis McDonald)
- Efficacy of RoadEng based Landing Design (Tom Brown)
- Steep Slope Risk Management Case Study (Mitchell Jones)
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2022
- A Study of Chain Throwing on Logging Trucks (Johny Rhoyds & Max Gomez)
- Alternative Anchors for Cable logging: Grouted Rock Anchors (Patrick Humphrey)
- Automating Log Identification with Grapple Carriage with Computer Vision (Frazer French)
- Describing Small-Scale Forests Using Publicly Available LiDAR (Milan Clarke)
- Slash Ignition Capabilities of Plastic Ignition balls (Liam MacKay)
- Forest Road Pavement Stabilisation: Results of a BOP Trial (Tane Purcell)
- Understanding the Emissions of New Zealand’s Logging Operations (Simon Smith & Dougal Shepherd)
- What is a Harvest Plan? (Pat Goeysinsup)
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2021
- Fish Passage in Forestry Environment (Drew Wood)
- GIS Based Culvert Design (Luke Wilson)
- Both projects published on LoggerNZ November 2021
- Automated Sweep Measurement (Perry Han)
- FlamMap Fire Simulation Project (Zihan Jin)
- Forestry 4.0 for Valentini Yarder Case Study (Dylan Matthews)
- Harvest-Line Yarder Study (Hus Abeyratne)
- Landing Designs in RoadEng (Zack Chen)
- Turbidity Monitoring of Satellite Imagery (Liam Gilroy)
- Viability of Production Thinning (Sam Taylor)
- Modelling Stream Topography using UAV Motion Photogrammetry (Eric Ye)
- Check out Presentation Videos here
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2020
- Culvert Sizing Review Project
- Using SfM Photogrammetry to predicting Slash Pile Volume (Luke Riedinger)
- Identifying Bare Soil from Satellite Imagery (Jim Walsh)
- NZ Wildfire and Rural-Urban Interface Risk Comparison (Nathan Luff)
- Woodlot Infrastructure (Jacob Allum)
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2019
- Forest Machine Depreciation Study (Connor Fahey)
- Log Residues Effect on Air Quality at the Port of Tauranga (Georgia Craig)
- Factors Influencing Processor Productivity Presentation (Nick Berry)
- Two-Staging Benefits (Tom Rendell)
- Winch-Assist Skidder Operations Gisborne (Matthew Pedofsky)
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2018
- Opportunities for Bio-oil utilisation within the NZ Forest Industry (Millan Visser)
- Culvert Design (Ben Costley)
- Culvert Erosion and Loss of Fish Passage (Georgie Holdaway)
- Estimating Winch-assist Utilisation (Ben Reriti)
- Financial Impacts of ETS (Abby Ayson)
- Investigation Forwarder Speed variation throughout a Harvest Area (Toby Bell)
- Genetic Variation Eucalypt Testing (Harry Ferguson)
- Maramarua Value Recovery Complete (Seamus Bardoul)
- Review of Forest Practice Guide (Taekyoung (Ed) Kwon)
- Soil Erosion Nelson (Nathan Sturrock)
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2017
- Rayonier Yarder Productivity (Luke Holmes)
- Review on north Otago saw milling (Caleb Bergstrom)
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2016
- Cable-Assist Tension Monitoring (Russel Schaare)
- Cable-Assist Wire Ropes (James Byron)
- Coefficient of Friction Investigation (Jack Palmer)
- System Production Balance (Kurt Malietoa)
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2015
- Influence on Stem Breakage (Andrews Shaun)
- NZ Timber use in China Construction Industry (Weiyi ‘Tony’ Li)
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2014
- Assessing the Level of Unproductive Area (Kurt Petherick)
- Mechanised Cable Harvesting Systems (S. R. Nuske)
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2013
- Cable Yarding Mechanics (Campbell Harvey)
- Different Log Storage Practices (Jordan Kirk)
- Shovel Yarding (Matthew Deans)
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2012
- Depth Falcon Study (Stuart Milne)
- Log Delivery (Josiah Tamati Simmonds)
- Motorised Hydraulic Grapple Carriage (Sebastian McFadzean)
- Road Construction (Pete. Rutland)
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2011
- Spatial Variability in Subgrade Properties (Aaron Bashnick)