Linington, Simon H.

Job Title

Head of Management Support (2010 – present), Head of Curation (to 2009)

Department

Seed Conservation

Section

Management Support (2010 – present), Curation (to 2009)

Science Teams:

Joined Kew: 1981

Qualifications & Appointments

BSc (Hons), Botany, Univ. Exeter, 1976

MSc, Plant Breeding, Univ. College Wales (Aberystwyth), 1978.

Member of UK Plant Genetic Resources Group

 

Role

Management of SCD financial planning, reporting & administration, procurement, health & safety, sustainability, building / laboratory operations, links to rest of Wakehurst Place site, non-scientific data.

Provision of seed bank design advice.

Secondment (40% time since April 2010) to Finance on Kew’s financial planning.

 

Projects

Selected Recent Publications

  • Linington, S.H. (2010). Conserving wild plants in seed banks. Proceedings of the UK Controlled Environment Users' Group (2010 Scientific Meeting, ‘Controlled environments for conservation – from genotype to ecosystem’) 2-5.

  • Linington, S. (2009). The future of seed banking. Ensconews: The European Native Seed Conservation Newsletter 5: 3-4.

  • Aplin, D.M., Linington, S., & Rammeloo, J. (2007). Are indcies seminum really worth the effort? Sibbaldia, The Journal of Botanic Garden Horticulture. Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh 5: 93 – 107.

  • Linington, S.H. (2001). Kew’s Millennium Seed Bank: A vital resource for an uncertain world. Science in Parliament 66-4: 10-11.

Selected Earlier Publications

  • Hong, T.D., Linington, S.H. & Ellis, R.H. (1998). Compendium of Information on Seed Storage Behaviour. Kew: Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. 901 pp. (Two volumes, families A-H and I-Z).
  • Linington, S.H. & Pritchard, H.W. (2000). Genebanks. In Levin, S (ed) Encyclopedia of Biodiversity. Volume 3. Academic Press. 165-181.

  • Alton, S. & Linington, S. (2002). The UK Flora Programme of the Millennium Seed Bank Project: the outcome of a collaboration between volunteers and professionals. Plant Genetic Resources Newsletter 128: 1-10.

  • Linington, S.H. (2003). The design of seed banks. In Smith, R.D., Dickie, J.D.,Linington, S.H., Pritchard, H.W., & Probert, R.J. (eds) Seed Conservation; turning science into practice. Kew: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

  • Linington, S.H., Tenner, C. & Smith, R.D. (2003). Seed banks: ex situ is not out of place. Biologist 50(5): 202-207.

Scientific Research & Data

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