Palmer, Joanne (Jo)   (1960 - )

Jo was born in 1960 and grew up near Gosford, north of Sydney, on the NSW Central Coast.

She moved to Canberra in 1979 to study Applied Science at the then Canberra College of Advanced Education, now Canberra University.

In 1982 Jo started work at the Australian National Herbarium (ANH), CSIRO, Black Mountain, Canberra, as an herbarium technician.

Her technical duties included specimen curation, collection management and research assistance.

Working at the herbarium piqued her interest in plant collecting which began in earnest on her parents' small bush property in the Hunter Valley.

From the mid-1990s Jo held the position of Collections Coordinator for the vascular collections.

She also took on taxonomic work started by the late Andrew Kanis, on select genera in the family Amaranthaceae for the Flora of Australia project.

Jo retired from CSIRO at the end of 2020 and became an Affiliate with the herbarium. In this role she continues her research in the family Amaranthaceae and contributing curatorial assistance for specimen processing.

Source: Pers. Comm. Jo Palmer (2024)
Portrait Photo: 2017, M.Fagg

Collecting localities for 'Palmer, J.' from AVH (2024)

Data from 3,138 specimens