Australian National Herbarium (Program HC)
Atherton Herbarium Annex (QRS)
Team Leader: Frank Zich
The Atherton Annexe to the Australian National Herbarium was originally part of the Commonwealth's Forestry and Timber Bureau, and was opened in its present site in Atherton in 1971. It was known as the Commonwealth Forest Research Institute from 1971-1975, CSIRO Division of Forest Research 1975-1985, Australian National Herbarium CSIRO Plant Industry 1985-1993, and became part of the Australian National Herbarium within the Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research from 1993. (more history)
Australian Tropical Herbarium
The Australian Tropical Herbarium (ATH) is a new herbarium to be located in Cairns that will bring together herbarium specimens from the Australian National Herbarium currently housed in Atherton, Queensland Herbarium specimens housed in Mareeba and the James Cook University Herbarium collection from Townsville.
The Australian Tropical Herbarium (ATH) is a new national herbarium for Australia, comprising a joint venture between James Cook University (JCU), the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), the Director of National Parks (DNP), the Queensland Department of State Development, Trade and Innovation and Queensland's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
It is located in the Australian Tropical Forest Institute building at James Cook University's Cairns campus, hosting a research team to manage a scientific herbarium collection, undertake taxonomic and systematic research and provide botanical information from the collection to partners, stakeholders and clients, as well as to visiting international researchers.
The Australian Tropical Herbarium's collection comprises more than 160,000 plant specimens, bringing together collections from the Australian National Herbarium (Atherton), the Queensland Herbarium (Mareeba) and the JCU Herbarium collection. |
