Ian Simpson
Technical Officer (Vegetation Management), Faculty of Arts and Sciences, School of Environmental and Rural Sciences
Contact
| Email: | isimpso4@une.edu.au |
| Room: | Building W55, Room 322 |
| Phone: | 02 6773 2466 (or +61 2 6773 2466 overseas) |
| Fax: | 02 6773 2769 |
Qualifications:
Bachelor of Science (Botany) - University of New England
Certificate of Completion of Apprenticeship – Cooking (QLD)
Certificate of Commercial Cookery - Trade (Nth Coast Institute of TAFE)
Introduction:
After 14 years working in the Hospitality and Wholesale Nursery industries I found my way to UNE as both a student and an employee. I commenced employment at UNE in 2003 as a Laboratory Assistant in the Botany Department. My main duties involved providing technical support for undergraduate teaching units in Biology, Botany, and Ecology. I also aided postgraduate students and academics with their research and enjoyed my travels across the Northern Tablelands, and to areas such as the Pilliga, Mt Kaputar, Solitary Islands and the Hawkesbury River. In 2008 I gained secondment to the Ecosystem Management Department to work on a UNE research project, “Restoration Research for the Warkworth Sands Woodland”, an endangered ecological community in the Hunter Valley, NSW. Other areas of the School in which I have been active include maintenance of the glasshouses, administrative support in the NCW Beadle Herbarium (NE), and promotional activities for the school and university.
Publications:
Vaughton G, Ramsey M and Simpson I (2008) Does selfing provide reproductive assurance in the perennial herb Bulbine vagans (Asphodelaceae)? Oikos 117: 390-398.