Whalen, Anthony J.   (1968 - )

Born 1968;

Employed by, and collected for, the National Herbarium of NSW over the period 1991 - 1996.

He then moved from the National Herbarium NSW in Sydney to the Australian National Botanic Gardens in Canberra.

Employed by, and actively collected for, the Australian National Herbarium, Canberra, from 1997 - 2004.

After 2005, his work focused on developing and managing Australian Government policies, programs and data systems relating to Landcare, taxonomy, conservation, and policies relating to wildlife trade and heritage.

He has also managed the Australian Biological Resources Study and was Acting Executive Director of the Australian National Botanic Gardens in 2022-23.

In late 2023, Anthony became the Director of the National Research Collections Australia (NRCA) within CSIRO, which is made up of more than 15 million specimens of plants, algae, insects and wildlife from Australia and the Indo-pacific region.

In this role, Anthony is also Director of the Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research, which is a joint partnership between Parks Australia and CSIRO, centred around the Australian National Herbarium.

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9469-9953

Source: Extracted from:
https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Anthony_J._Whalen
https://people.csiro.au/w/a/anthony-whalen
Portrait Photo: 1999, M.Fagg

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

Data from 2,114 specimens