NAME

Frank Zich

Curator – Australian Tropical Herbarium, Cairns*

B.App.Science

(* Note: the specimens, staff and functions of the Australian Tropical Herbarium was moved from Atherton to the Cairns campus of the James Cook University in late 2007)


Frank Zich

CONTACT

Phone (+61) 07 4059 5014  or  4042 1818

Fax: (+61) 07 40918888

E-mail: frank.zich@csiro.au

Australian Tropical Herbarium
E2 building, J.C.U. Cairns Campus
P.O. Box 6811
Cairns QLD 4870
AUSTRALIA

 
AREA OF EXPERTISE

Herbarium curation and management

Tropical Botany

Taxonomy, nomenclature, floristics

Botanical information management

Other languages – Indonesian


SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Zich, F.A. & J. Compton. 2001. The Final Frontier: Towards Sustainable Management of Papua New Guinea's Agarwood Resource. TRAFFIC Oceania/WWF South Pacific Program.


CURRENT PROJECTS

Curation and specimen management of the Australian Tropical Herbarium

Documentation of the collections and procedures

Plant collecting in far north Queensland

Interactive key to rainforest herbs, etc.



Updated 30 March, 2011 , webmaster, CANBR (canbr-info@anbg.gov.au)