Nicholson, Charles James (Charlie or Chas)   (1946 - )

Born 1946, claims to be "still partly alive in 2021 . . ."

Amateur naturalist Nicholson enjoyed a term in PNG from 1970 as a patrol officer up to Independence in 1976. Birdwatching was his hobby there.

Nicholson was appointed as the EPA's field environmental officer in the Pilbara in the late 1970s. After the birds of paradise in PNG the Pilbara birds, "apart from migratory waders, were crows and galahs" so Nicholson took to studying the relatively unknown flora and was involved in establishing the Karratha Regional Herbarium that housed mining company and other local collections.

On retirement in 2007 he spent time in Queensland collecting weeds for BRI. Between 2010 and 2021 he accompanied ecological expeditions with pack camels in the Simpson Desert with Australian Desert Expeditions, interspersed with visits to the rangeland regions in WA that resulted in the collection of a new-to-botany species Goodenia quartzitica.

Source: Charlie Nicholson pers. com. via R.Purdie (2021)
Portrait Photo: 2016 Cath Brennan.

Collecting localities for 'Nicholson, C.J.' from AVH (2021)

Data from 296 specimens