Australian Botanical Liaison Officer was a secondment position, held for up to twelve months by an Australian botanist (or expert in Australian botany) at the Royal Botanic Gardens in

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. The position was created in 1937, and the first ABLO was Charles Gardner. Travel and living costs for the position were funded by the

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, with the appointee's salary continuing to be paid by their current employing institution. The position was advertised by the Australian Biological Resources Study (ABRS), part of the Australian government's Department of the Environment and Heritage. Assessment and selection of candidates is undertaken by the Council of Heads of Australian Herbaria (CHAH), who advised the Australian Biological Resources Study Advisory Committee (ABRSAC) to recommend the Minister approve the appointment. In 2009, a review was conducted by ABRS, CHAH and the Advisory Committee which determined that there was no strong need for the ABLO position due to advances in digital technology which gave detailed access to herbarium specimen data over the internet, and the position was discontinued. A research grants system replaced the program, which aimed to fund overseas placements at botanical institutions other than Kew Gardens.Australian Botanical Liaison Officer (ABLO)
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List of Australian Botanical Liaison Officers

* Charles Gardner (1937–1939) *

Cyril Tenison White Cyril Tenison ("C.T.") White (17 August 1890 – 15 August 1950) was an Australian botanist. Early life White was born in Brisbane to Henry White, a trade broker, and Louisa ''nee'' Bailey. He attended school at South Brisbane State School, a ...

(1939) * Mary Tindale (1949–1951) * Nancy Burbidge (1952–1954) * Patrick Morris (1956–1957) * James Willis (1958–1959) *

Hansjörg Eichler Hansjörg Eichler (1 April 1916 – 22 June 1992) was a German-born botanist, educated in Europe, who worked in Europe and Australia, and whose greatest contribution was to Australian botany. Life Hansjörg Eichler, the son of architect, Gusta ...

(1961–1962) *

Lawrence Alexander Sidney Johnson Lawrence Alexander Sidney Johnson FAA, (26 June 1925 – 1 August 1997) known as Lawrie Johnson, was an Australian taxonomic botanist. He worked at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney, for the whole of his professional career, as a botanist (19 ...

(1962–1963) * Stanley Blake (1964–1965) *

Michael Lazarides Michael may refer to: People * Michael (given name), a given name * Michael (surname), including a list of people with the surname Michael Given name "Michael" * Michael (archangel), ''first'' of God's archangels in the Jewish, Christian and ...

(1965–1966) * Arthur Bertram Court (1966–1967) * Alex George (1967–1968) * Donald McGillivray (1969–1970) * John Carrick (1970–1971) *

Leslie Pedley Leslie Pedley (19 May 1930 – 27 November 2018)IPNILeslie Pedley/ref> was an Australian botanist who specialised in the genus ''Acacia''. He is notable for bringing into use the generic name ''Racosperma'', creating a split in the genus, which r ...

(1971–1972) *

George Chippendale George Chippendale (18 April 1921 – 16 February 2010) was an Australian botanist and a strong proponent of growing Australian Native plants. As well as a career in botany, he also taught his love of botany to all who would listen through talks ...

(1972–1973) * Helen Aston (1973–1974) *

Donald Frederick Blaxell Donald Frederick Blaxell (born 1 February 1934, Sydney, New South Wales), is an Australian botanist, botanical collector and taxonomist. Blaxell worked at the University of New South Wales for 11 years and joined the New south Wales Herbarium i ...

(1974–1975) * Andrias Kanis (1975–1976) * John Maconochie (1976–1977) *

Bruce Maslin Bruce Roger Maslin (born 3 May 1946) is an Australian botanist, known for his work on ''Acacia'' taxonomy. Born in Bridgetown, Western Australia, he obtained an honours degree in botany from the University of Western Australia in 1967, then to ...

(1977–1978) * Rodney Henderson (1978–1979) * Ahmad Munir (1979–1980) *

Ian Brooker Murray Ian Hill Brooker AM (2 June 1934 – 25 June 2016), better known as Ian Brooker, was an Australian botanist. He was widely recognised as the leading authority on the genus ''Eucalyptus''. Ian Brooker was born in Adelaide, South Australi ...

(1980–1981) *

Michael Crisp Michael Douglas Crisp (born 1950) is an emeritus professor in the Research School of Biology at the Australian National University located in Canberra. In 1976 he gained a PhD from the University of Adelaide, studying long-term vegetation chan ...

(1981–1982) *

Rex Filson Rex Bertram Filson (born 1930) is an Australian lichenologist who made major contributions to knowledge of lichens in Australia and Antarctica. Early in his career Filson worked as a carpenter in various places around Australia, and from 1961 to ...

(1982–1983) * Surrey Jacobs (1983–1984) *

Nicholas Lander Nicholas Lander (born April 8, 1952 in Manchester, England) is a consultant to and writer on the restaurant industry. He studied at Manchester Grammar School, Jesus College, Cambridge, and Manchester Business SchoolClyde Dunlop (1985–1986) * Gordon Guymer (1986–1987) * Judith G. West (1987–1988) *

Karen Louise Wilson Karen Louise Wilson (born 1950) is an Australian botanist. Some of her research interests are: systematics, phylogenetic and biogeographic studies on Cyperaceae, Casuarinaceae, Juncaceae and Polygonaceae. Other professional interests inclu ...

(1988–1989) * Terry Desmond Macfarlane (1989–1990) * Gregory Leach (1990–1991) *

Philip Short Philip Short (born 17 April 1945) is a British journalist and author. He was born in Bristol. He studied at Queens' College, Cambridge. After graduation, he spent from 1967 to 1973 as a freelance journalist, first in Malawi, then in Uganda. He ...

(1991–1992) *

Peter Weston Peter Weston (19 October 1943 – 5 January 2017) was a British science fiction fan from Birmingham, UK. Weston made many contributions in fan writing, fanzine editing, convention-running and in local science fiction clubs. His 1960s pseudonym ...

(1992–1993) *

L.W. Jessup LW may refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''Life's Work'', a 1990s American situation comedy * ''Lethal Weapon'', a 1987 film * ''Love Wrecked'', a 2005 romantic comedy film * ''L.W.'' (album), the seventeenth studio album by King Gizzard & the L ...

(1993–1994) *

Barry Conn Barry John Conn (Barry Conn, born 1948), is an Australian botanist. He was awarded a Ph.D. from Adelaide University in 1982 for work on ''Prostanthera''. Career Conn's first appointment as a botanist was with the Lae Herbarium in 1974. H ...

(1994–1995) * Robert Owen Makinson (1995–1996) *

Donald Bruce Foreman Don Foreman was an Australian botanist who worked on the Monimiaceae and Proteaceae of Australia. He also helped with the editing of selected Flora of Victoria and Flora of Australia Volumes. Career After Foreman graduated from the Univers ...

(1996–1997) * Kenneth Hill (1997–1998) * Alex Chapman (1998–1999) * Robert Chinnock (1999–2000) * Rodney Seppelt (2000–2001) *

Neville Marchant Neville Graeme Marchant (born 1939) is a retired Western Australian botanist. He was formerly the Director of the Western Australian Herbarium. Marchant began working for the Western Australian Herbarium at the age of 15, as a laboratory assist ...

(2001–2002) * Peter D. Bostock (2002) * Roberta Cowan (2002–2003) * Annette Wilson (2003–2004) * Alex George (2004–2005) *

Juliet Wege Juliet Ann Wege (born 1971 in Western Australia) is an Australian botanist. She graduated in 1992 and gained a PhD at The University of Western Australia in 1999 with a thesis titled "Morphological and anatomical variation within Stylidium (Stylid ...

(2005–2006) * Jenny Tonkin (2006–2007) * Jeremy Bruhl (2007–2008) *

Anthony Orchard Anthony Orchard (born 22 May 1946) is a retired botanist who worked at the State Herbarium of South Australia. His main interests were the study of the genera Rosaceae, Haloragaceae, Asteraceae and Rubiaceae. Anthony (Tony) Orchard is a syste ...

(2008–2009)

References

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External links

Australian Biological Resources Study: ABLO page
Australian Botanical Liaison Officers Science and technology in Australia 1937 establishments in Australia 2009 disestablishments in Australia