After working in a variety of technical jobs, including with the
Forests Commission of Victoria and the Botany Department of The
University of Melbourne, Ian Clarke was for many years employed in
the plant identification service of the National Herbarium of
Victoria. He transferred to a position as honorary associate there
in 2003. He is the author and illustrator of a companion text, Name
those Grasses- Identifying Grasses, Sedges and Rushes, published by
the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria in 2015. Between 1975 and 1990
he was associated with the Council of Adult Education in Melbourne
as a tutor in flowering plant identification.
Helen Lee holds a Master of Science degree from the University of
Melbourne. After lecturing in botany for two years at Queen's
University, Belfast, she was for many years a part-time tutor in
the botany departments of Melbourne and LaTrobe Universities, and a
tutor with the Melbourne Council of Adult Education. Upon
retirement, she took up a position as Honorary Research Fellow in
the Botany Department, LaTrobe University. Her research interests
included the morphological characteristics of plants that resprout
after fire, and arid zone ecology. She has been a member of the
Royal Society of Victoria and the Australian Systematic Botany
Society.
Their collaboration on this book brings together over thirty years
of involvement in tertiary and adult education.
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