Professor Mark Adams
Dean, Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources at the University of Sydney
Mark was a speaker at the Soil Carbon Sequestration Summit co-hosted by the US Studies Centre and the Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Sydney in February 2011.
Mark is currently Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Sydney. He has held Professorial appointments at the University of Western Australia, the University of Melbourne, and most recently at UNSW. Mark publishes widely with a focus on sustainability and biogeochemistry of natural and managed ecosystems. His published work includes more than 150 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, major texts, and many commissioned reports for governments and industries.
Mark has been the recipient of a range of fellowships and awards in Australia (QEII Fellowship), France (Bede Morris Fellowship), NZ (Erskine Fellowship) and Germany (Alexander Von Humboldt Fellowship, Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award). A passionate believer in "conservation through use", Mark enjoys working with postgraduate students and with people who live on and work the land. In addition to tropical and temperate Australia, Mark has conducted research in Pakistan, Papua New Guinea and Kenya as well as in Europe, the UK and the USA.
In 2006 he finished a six-year term as a member of the Board of Trustees for the International Centre for Research in Agroforestry (ICRAF) at Nairobi, Kenya and as the ICRAF trustee on the board of the Centre for International Forestry Research, Bogor, Indonesia. He works closely with the International Atomic Energy Agency on developing stable isotope techniques suitable for assessing the sustainability of land management in developing countries.
Some of Mark's recent invited lectures (including invited research publications) are: the Stockholm Environment Institute, York, UK (2001), INRA, France (2006), Woods Hole Ecosystem Research Centre (2007), North American Forest Ecology Workshop (2007), University of California, Berkeley (2008). This year he will give lectures at Cambridge University and at Stanford University.
