People

Saltmarsh, Anna

Job Title Project Co-ordinator, African Plants Initiative
Department Herbarium
Section Regional Teams
Science Teams Large-Scale Syntheses
Joined Kew 2005
Foreign Language(s) French.

Qualifications & Appointments

BA (Hons), Human Sciences, Oxford Univ., 1997

MSc, Conservation, Univ. College London, 2000

DEA (Master), Biologie de l’Evolution et Ecologie, Univ. Montpellier II, 2004.

Role

Digital Collections Manager

Leadership of the digitisation programme of the herbarium including responsibility for strategic development, and development and documentation of policy. Fundraising for the purpose of  developing the digitisation of Kew's collections.

Projects

African Plants Initiative

Selected Publications 2001-2005

Crane, P.R. & Saltmarsh, A. (2002). Lasting connections: native plants of Japan and the gardens of Europe. Proceedings of the Japan Society 139: 5-21.

Saltmarsh, A.C. (2003). Francis Masson: Collecting plants for king and country. Curtis’s Botanical Magazine 20(4):225-244

Crane, P. & Saltmarsh A. (2004). Kew Gardens, treasure house of botany. World Heritage Review 34: 54-65

Debout, G., Saltmarsh A., McKey, D. & Risterucci, A.-M. (2005). Characterization of polymorphic microsatellite loci in the tropical ant-plant Leonardoxa africana (Fabaceae: Caesalpinioidae). Molecular Ecology Notes 5(1): 35-38.