Dr Sheldon Navie
As a highly trained botanist, Dr. Sheldon Navie has a significant amount of scientific knowledge, particularly in the fields of plant ecology, weed biology, and plant taxonomy and identification.
Until recently, Sheldon was based in the School of Land, Crop and Food Sciences at the St Lucia campus of the University of Queensland, where he completed his PhD on the biology of parthenium weed. One of the most significant outputs of his work to date is a series of interactive weed identification CD's and DVD's In recent years, Sheldon's expertise has also been utilised by Biosecurity Queensland and the Queensland Herbarium on projects involving the profiling and risk assessment of weed species. Currently, Sheldon is employed as a consulting scientist with Technigro.
Sheldon has worked on various projects consulting to a number of organisations including Gold Coast City Council, Brisbane City Council, Veolia Water and Powerlink. This has included several plant and weed surveys in the field in south-eastern Queensland.
Sheldon is also responsable for the development of Technigro's Weed Watch. Each month, Weed Watch identifies a new and emerging weed threat. The publication provides information on ID, distribution, habitat and look-alikes. Weed Watch also offers best practice control methods to ensure you have the ammunition you need to win the war on weeds.
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