Sue Baker Australia sbaker@worldforestry.org Dr. Sue Baker works for Forestry Tasmania as a researcher investigating biodiversity and variable retention silviculture. She is on a 12-month Fellowship offered jointly by the J.W. Gottstein Memorial Trust Fund and Forest & Wood Products Australia. She has a forestry degree from the University of Melbourne, and Honours and Ph.D. degree from the School of Zoology, University of Tasmania. Her research project at WFI will be on the topic: Variable Retention Silviculture: A comparison of biodiversity research and management practices between Tasmania, Australia, and the Pacific Northwest. Variable retention is a relatively new harvesting system that aims to retain biodiversity and structural elements from the mature unharvested forest for at least one rotation, in order to preserve environmental values associated with mature and structurally complex forests.