Staff Profile Katherine Slade
Curator: Botany (Lower Plants)
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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, MSc Biodiversity & Taxonomy of Plants. Co-editor of the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland Welsh Bulletin since 2010.
Research Interests
Research for Natural Science exhibitions and outreach events – and how the botany collections can be best displayed and used for these. This includes researching novel methods of display of seaweeds.
Research into existing and potential type specimens within lower plants for example in the Lewis Weston Dillwyn bound algal herbarium.
Links
Selected Publications
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.
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.