Commonwealth and Australian Capital Territory
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Tom North – Australian National Botanic Gardens and Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities (SEWPAC)
Tom is Seed Bank Manager at the Australian National Botanic Gardens.
Tom has been involved in seed banking with both the horticultural and native revegetation industries for the past 15 years. His particular interests include the use of seed banks as a tool for better ex situ conservation of native species and to facilitate restoration and recovery programs across broad landscapes.
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 Tom North
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New South Wales
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Dr Peter Cuneo – The Australian Botanic Garden Mount Annan
Peter Cuneo is Manager – Natural Heritage at The Australian Botanic Garden Mount Annan, where he is responsible for conservation planning and natural area management. He is also the project leader of the NSW Seedbank program, including the partnership with Kew’s Millennium Seed Bank.
Peter has been closely involved in the horticultural development of The Australian Botanic Garden Mount Annan (formerly known as Mount Annan Botanic Garden) since it opened in 1988. His research interest is the weed ecology of invasive African olive, which is a problem weed at the Garden. He has written several research papers on this species as part of his PhD (by publication) with Macquarie University.
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Peter Cuneo
Photo: Simone Cotterell
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Northern Territory
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Coordinator To be advised – Northern Territory Seed Bank
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Queensland
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Philip Cameron – Brisbane Botanic Gardens
Philip Cameron is the Senior Botanic Officer and Seed Bank Manager at the Brisbane Botanic Gardens, Mt Coot-tha.
His background is in botany and plant biology, and he has been involved in seed banking and genebank management for almost 30 years. In 1983 he established the seed bank at the Brisbane Botanic Gardens in conjunction with the Botanic Gardens International Seed Exchange Program. In 1998 he was appointed an Honorary Research Associate with the Queensland Herbarium.
Since 2004, under the auspices, and with the financial support of the Millennium Seed Bank, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, he has established the conservation seed bank at the Brisbane Botanic Gardens within the Queensland Seeds for Life partnership.
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Philip Cameron
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South Australia
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Dr Phil Ainsley – South Australian Seed Conservation Centre, Adelaide Botanic Gardens
Phil is Manager at the South Australian Seed Conservation Centre, and has been at the Adelaide Botanic Gardens since 2002.
Phil also lectures at the University of Adelaide, where he supervises research officers and postgraduate students. His primary research interest is in seed ecology, and he has a strong background in plant tissue culture.
Phil has researched and developed germination procedures for a wide range of nationally threatened native plant species, including:
- Monarto mintbush (Prostanthera eurybioides)
- slender bell fruit (Codonocarpus pyramidalis)
- Rutaceae species.
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Phil Ainsley |
Tasmania
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James Wood – Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens
James Wood is the seed bank manager of the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens and has worked in and around seed banking for over 20 years. He took on his current post in December 2005 after working at RBG, Kew's Seed Conservation Department for 7 years. Prior to that, he held a horticultural support post for the Kew seed bank for 6 years. His first experience of seed science was as a student when he spent his industrial placement year working in research at the Kew seed bank.
Running and overseeing seed bank germination tests for over 14 years, James has a broad background and interest in the difficulties of wild species germination. He also has an interest in the effective recording and analysis of this data.
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James Wood
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Victoria
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Neville Walsh – Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Neville is the Senior Conservation Botanist at the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne, and manages the Victorian Conservation Seedbank program.
Neville’s background is in botanical survey, particularly of alpine and subalpine vegetation. He surveys and develops recovery strategies for threatened Victorian plants and conducts taxonomic research in several plant groups, including:
- the genus Pomaderris in the family Rhamnaceae
- Melicytus (Violaceae)
- genera of Australian Asteraceae, Poaceae and Lobeliaceae (Campanulaceae subfamily Lobeloideae).
Neville is a member of the Australian Plant Census working group, the Mountain Invasions Research Network (MIREN), and recovery teams for threatened plants and animals in Victoria. He is co-editor of Flora of Victoria, and has submitted accounts of various plant groups for publication in the Flora of Australia.
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Western Australia
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Dr David Merritt – Kings Park and Botanic Garden
David Merritt is a research scientist at the Botanic Gardens and Parks Authority. He manages the Authority’s seed science programs, which focus on improving the effectiveness and efficiency of native seed use in conservation and restoration.
David’s research interests include seed cryostorage, seed storage physiology and behaviour, seed germination biology and ecology, and seed longevity for improving conservation seed banking of Australian species. He also researches seedling establishment in restoration programs, such as studying the action of karrikinolide – the major germination-active chemical in smoke – in seed germination and its application as a restoration tool.
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David Merritt |
United Kingdom
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Dr Paul P. Smith – Kew Millennium Seed Bank
Paul is head of Kew’s Millennium Seed Bank, and the leader of the Millennium Seed Bank Partnership.
Paul is a specialist in ecology and plant diversity in southern, central and eastern Africa. He has extensive experience in seed conservation, ecological survey, botanical inventory, vegetation mapping, and environmental monitoring. He has also worked in land planning and ecotourism in Zambia’s Luangwa Valley.
Paul has published numerous papers in the field of ecology and plant diversity, and is the author of two field guides to the plants of south-central Africa. He edited the Ecological Survey of Zambia (2001) and the Vegetation Atlas of Madagascar (2007), both published by Kew.
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Non-Government Organisations (NGO's)
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Anne Cochrane – Australian Network for Plant Conservation
Anne is a Committee Member of the Australian Network for Plant Conservation (ANPC). The ANPC's activities are overseen by this committee which represents a range of stakeholders in plant conservation. Anne has been a long term member of the ANPC and she has contributed over many years through publications in the ANPC quarterly bulletin, participation in national conferences and writing a chapter for ANPC's book entitled Plant Germplasm Conservation in Australia: strategies and guidelines for developing, managing and utilising ex situ collections.
Anne is a senior research scientist with the Western Australian Department of Environment and Conservation, where she manages the WA government’s seed bank for conservation-significant flora. Anne collects and conserves seeds from a large range of native species. She also screens seeds for their response to temperature thresholds. Anne is currently undertaking PhD research into the impact of climatic factors on seed germination and early seedling growth. She has published several scientific papers in the areas of off-site plant conservation, seed conservation for threatened plant reintroduction, and seed-based approaches for identifying flora at risk from climate change.
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Anne Cochrane
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Greening Australia
Representative to be advised
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