UNEAC Affiliated Fellow
| Associate Professor Brian Mark Sindel Agronomy and Soil Science Building School of Rural Science and Agriculture Cooperative Research Centres for Australian Weed Management and Australian Cotton University of New England Armidale NSW 2351 Australia. Phone: (02) 6773 3747 Fax: (02) 6773 3238 Email: bsindel@metz.une.edu.au Web site: http://www.une.edu.au/agronomy/weeds/ |
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Brian Sindel is Associate Professor of Weed Science at the University of New England (UNE) and an active member of two national Cooperative Research Centres – Australian Weed Management and Australian Cotton. Originally graduating in 1981 with a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture (Hons), and in 1982 with a Diploma in Education, Brian taught Agriculture for several years at high school level before obtaining his PhD in 1989 from Sydney University in the ecology and control of fireweed (Senecio madagascariensis). After appointments with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) as a Research Scientist in Canberra working on revegetation ecology of native grasses, he joined UNE in 1994 to teach and carry out research in weed science. He has had several key research leadership roles in the grains, pastoral and cotton industries and obtained competitive research funding totalling over $A2 million. He is editor of the recent book ‘Australian Weed Management Systems’ and has co-authored another on pasture weed management. He has served on the Executive of the Weed Society of New South Wales (the largest professional body of its kind in Australia) for the last 12 years, and from 1995-1999 as Editor of the Society’s quarterly newsletter. He is a reviewer for the United States Department of Agriculture’s National Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program, various journals and examined postgraduate theses for eight Australian and overseas universities. He is author of over 50 research publications and has supervised 10 PhD projects. He recently obtained industry backing to develop a national training program for agronomists and advisers in the Australian grains industry.
Research interests and current research projects related to Asia:
Weed ecology, competition, population dynamics and management; revegetation of native grasses.
Recent publications:
Sindel, B.M., Davidson, S.J., Kilby, M.J. and Groves, R.H. (1993) Germination and establishment of Themeda triandra (kangaroo grass) as affected by soil and seed characteristics. Australian Journal of Botany, 41, 105-117.
Sindel, B.M. and Michael, P.W. (1996) Seedling emergence and longevity of Senecio madagascariensis Poir. (fireweed) in coastal south-eastern Australia. Plant Protection Quarterly, 11, 14-19.
Sindel, B.M. (1997) Outcrossing of transgenes to weedy relatives. In Commercialisation of Transgenic Crops: Risk, Benefit and Trade Considerations, pp. 43-81. CRC for Plant Science and Bureau of Resource Sciences, Canberra.
Johnson, S.B., Sindel, B.M. and Jessop, R.S. (1999). The ecology of Polymeria longifolia in cotton. Proceedings of the 12th Australian Weeds Conference (eds A.C. Bishop, M. Boersma and C.D. Barnes) Hobart, pp. 196-197.
Jones, E., Jessop, R.S., Sindel, B.M. and Hoult, A. (1999) Utilising crop residues to control weeds. Proceedings of the 12th Australian Weeds Conference, Hobart, pp. 373-376.
Sindel, B.M. (2000) Australian Weed Management Systems. RG and FJ Richardson, Melbourne.
Grace, B.S, Sheppard, A.W., Whalley, R.D.B. and Sindel, B.M. (2002) Seedbanks and seedling emergence of saffron thistle (Carthamus lanatus) in eastern Australian pastures. Australian Journal of Agricultural Research, 53, 1327-1334.
Whish, J.P.M., Sindel, B.M., Jessop, R.S. and Felton, W.L. (2002). The effect of row spacing and weed density on yield loss of chickpea. Australian Journal of Agricultural Research, 53m 1335-1340.