Contact Details

Katherine Slade
Natural Sciences
National Museum Cardiff

Cathays Park
Cardiff
CF10 3NP

Phone: +44 (0)29 2057 3242

Staff Name

Katherine Slade

Job Title

Curator: Botany (Bryophytes, Algae)

Areas of Responsibility:

Management of and access to the mosses, liverworts, algae, fungi and lichen collections, including the British Bryological Society herbarium. Managing collection enquiries, visitors, loans and acquisitions for this collection area. Leading on digitisation of the botany collections. Research and interpretation of the collection through display, exhibition, social media, outreach and publication.

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, mapping

Links

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.