Buckley, Ralf Christopher   ( - )

Scientist, natural and social sciences and management.

Dr. Buckley has worked on environmental aspects of the arid central Australian dunefields since 1975, and prior to that in similar arid environments in East and South Africa and North America. He has a B.A. and M.A. in Natural Sciences from Cambridge, a Ph.D. on 'Soils and vegetation of central Australian sand• ridge' from the Department of Biogeography and Geomorphology, A.N.U., and has written 28 papers on the central Australian dunefields and a range of consultant reports. Currently Environmental Consultant at The Australian Mineral Development Laboratories, he maintains a close interest in all aspects of development in the Australian arid zone, particularly the central dunefields such as those overlying much of the western Eromanga Basin.

He made botanical collections in the southern Simpson Desert in the 1970s.

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https://archives.datapages.com/data/petroleum-exploration-society-of-australia/conferences/005/005001/pdfs/378.htm
Portrait Photo: Extracted from: https://loop.frontiersin.org/people/130968/bio

Plant collecting localities for 'Buckley, R.C.' from AVH (2021)

Data from 88 specimens