People

Pearce, Laura

Job Title Herbarium Assistant
Department Herbarium
Section Regional Teams
Science Teams Wet Tropics: Africa
Joined Kew 2005
Foreign Language(s) Intermediate French and basic Spanish

Qualifications & Appointments

HND, Horticulture with Plantsmanship, RBG Edinburgh & Scottish Agricultural College, 2000

MSc, Plant Diversity (Taxonomy and Evolution Stream) Univ. Reading, 2003

Role

Curation of families assigned to Wet Tropics Africa team, IUCN Conservation Assessments, and Checklist production.

Herbarium curation duties. Producing conservation posters on endangered Cameroonian plants, presented to NGOs, government officials and educational bodies. Aid in the production of IUCN Red Data assessments for taxa occurring in Cameroon checklists.

Projects

Guinea-Conakry: Developing a National Herbarium and Survey of the Simandou Range

Mefou Proposed National Park, Cameroon: A Conservation Checklist