Dr Mark Hovenden

Mark is the chief investigator and was responsible for the establishment of the TasFACE experiment. He is also responsible for all repairs, so if it isn’t working it is entirely his fault. Mark is also in charge of all ecophysiological measurements and the integration of the efforts of staff.

Dr Karen Wills

Karen is in charge of the population and community level investigations and also does a lot of other ecological bits and pieces.

Jackie Vander Schoor

Jackie is the backbone of the TasFACE project and is responsible for day to day running and maintenance as well as for working closely with Karen on the community and population level measurements. At the moment Jackie is spending a lot of time monitoring seedling fate.

Dr Paul Newton
Paul is the director of the Grazed FACE experiment in New Zealand and is the main partner investigator on the TasFACE experiment. Paul provides advice on pasture population dynamics and pasture quality assessment. Paul also provides advice on all aspects of climate change science.

Dr Franco Miglietta
TasFACE was established through a collaboration between the University of Tasmania and Dr Franco Miglietta of Ibimet, the Italian Institute for Biometeorology in Florence. Dr Miglietta and Alessandro Zaldei designed the TasFACE CO2 control system. TasFACE would not exist without their generous assistance and ingenuity in design.

Past involvement

Jasmine Janes

spent a year getting to grips with seedling fate in the grassland and discovered startling results. Jasmine took many of the outstanding photos on this web site (Mark took the poor ones). Jasmine is now working on population dynamics of orchids, her true love.

Becky Chaplin spent two summers measuring flowering and seed production in TasFACE. Becky is now at Princeton University (a little place in the USA).