Staff Profile Katherine Slade
Curator: Botany (Bryophytes, Algae)
Contact Details
Cathays Park
Cardiff
CF10 3NP
Phone: +44 (0)29 2057 3242
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Qualifications, memberships and relevant positions
BSc Hons Plant Biology (Bangor), MSc Biodiversity & Taxonomy of Plants (Edinburgh). Member of the Natural Sciences Collections Association (NatSCA), the British Bryological Society (BBS) and the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland (BSBI).
Research Interests
Primary interests are in making the botany collections digitally available to feed into wider conservation work and environmental projects in the UK.
Research for Natural Sciences exhibitions and events, looking at how the botany collections can be displayed. This includes researching novel methods of display of seaweeds.
Keywords
Botany, herbarium, bryophytes, moss, seaweed, algae, collections management, collections, historic collections, curation, archives, imaging, digitisation, distributions, mappingLinks
Selected Publications
Greiff, G.R.L., Cuyler Bleecker, W., Haldeman, M., Slade, K., Smith, N. and Ickert-Bond, S. (2024). Utilising bryophyte herbarium material as a source of fungal novelty: a case study presenting new records of Bryobroma gymnomitrii (Döbbeler) Döbbeler on Gymnomitrion Corda in Britain and North America. Journal of Bryology 46(3) 215–222 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03736687.2024.2375407
Cleal, C.J., Pardoe, H.S., Slade, K., Whyman, S., Tangney, R. and Jüttner, I. (2022). The Welsh National Herbarium. Botany Letters. 169(1): 3–17. DOI: doi.org/10.1080/23818107.2021.1977178
Slade, K. 2015. The 3D slide collection at Amgueddfa Cymru/National Museum Wales. Natur Cymru. Spring 2015, p44
Slade, K. 2015. Poster Presentation at Porcupine Marine Natural History Society AGM 2015: ‘Evidence for Non-native Seaweeds in Wales’
Slade K. 2014. Alive or Dead: Resurrection Plants. Friends of the National Museum of Wales Newsletter and Magazine, September 2014 issue. 13–14.
Slade K. & Whyman, S. 2014. Report on the Guernsey seaweed fieldwork [PDF]. Porcupine Marine Natural History Society’s Newsletter, Spring 2014.
Slade K. 2014. Historical recording of seaweeds in Guernsey [PDF]. Porcupine Marine Natural History Society’s Newsletter, Spring 2014.
Lughadha, E.N., Slade, K., Jennings, L., Boudet-Fernandes, H. & Lucas, E. 2010. Three new species of Myrcia section Gomidesia (Myrtaceae) – from Espírito Santo, Brazil. Kew Bulletin, 65, 21-28.
Slade, K. & Rich, T.C.G. 2007. Pollen studies in British Hieracium sect. Alpina (Asteraceae) [PDF]. Watsonia, 26, 443-444.
Slade, K. & Rich, T.C.G. 2006. Pollen studies in British Hieracium section Alpina [PDF]. In: Vreš, B. & Babij, V. (eds), 9th International Hieracium Workshop, Trenta (Julian Alps), Slovenia, 6–11 September, 2006. Jovan Hadži Institute of Biology, Scientific Research Centre SASA, Ljubljana, p. 27.