People
Frisby, Susan M. [Brodie]
| Job Title | Herbarium Assistant |
|---|---|
| Department | Herbarium |
| Section | Regional Teams |
| Science Teams |
Drylands: Tropical America |
| Joined Kew | 1986 |
| Foreign Language(s) |
Qualifications & Appointments
BSc, Victoria Univ. (Wellington, NZ), 1981.
Role
Herbarium curation, naming, databasing and research, including Neotropical Malvaceae and Compositae.
Curatorial activities include laying out material for mounting, incorporating specimens into the herbarium, rearranging collections according to new revisions, selecting material for loans, digitizing and databasing specimens and entering their data on CRIS and HerbCat databases, reincorporating returned loans and maintaining the collections; offering assistance to visitors to the Herbarium as required. Research interests include assisting in systematic and regionally based research, such as the naming of Neotropical Malvaceae. Also, the naming of material from Tropical South America and plant identification in the field in association with the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, in Belize. Currently working on a paper on Dicentra scandens (Papaveraceae) in association with Dr Nicholas Hind, for Curtis’s Botanical Magazine. Formerly involved with the cataloguing of Kew’s Economic Botany Collections, research into plant regeneration on the lava flows of Mount Cameroon (both in the field and Herbarium), and naming of material for the Mount Cameroon Project.
Projects
Interactive Key to Neotropical Flowering Plant Families
Selected Publications 2001-2005
On career break 2000 – 2005.
Selected Publications pre-2001
Brodie, S. (1998). Huernia macrocarpa and Huernia kennedyana. Curtis’s Botanical Magazine 15 (1): 2-10.
Brodie, S., Cheek, M., & Staniforth, M. (1998). Trochetiopsis ebenus. Curtis’s Botanical Magazine 15 (1): 27-36.