The Vegetation Manager
Introducing Dr Sheldon Navie
20 December 2009
The Vegetation Manager is proud to be partnering with Dr Sheldon Navie in presenting Weed Watch. With the assistance of Dr Navie, Weed Watch will focus on a weed that is a new or emerging threat and provide you with details on its appearance and distinguishing features to assist in ID, as well as outlining best practice control methods.
Dr Navie has a significant amount of scientific knowledge in the fields of plant ecology, weed biology, grass taxonomy and identification.
Dr Navie is based at 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. He has since undertaken various roles at the University in collaboration with numerous internal and external organisations. This has included teaching plant and weed identification to undergraduate students, the supervision of higher degree students researching the biology and management of weed species and the development of interactive teaching tools for undergraduate students and the wider community.
Significant outputs of his work to date are a range of interactive weed identification CD's and DVD's using the Lucid software system. These products, including Environmental Weeds of Australia and Declared Plants of Australia, were developed in conjunction with the Centre for Biological Information Technology (CBIT) and other organisations (e.g. the CRC for Australian Weed Management). In recent years, Dr Navie's expertise has also been utilised by Biosecurity Queensland, Brisbane City Council and the Queensland Herbarium on projects involving the profiling and risk assessment of weed species.
Dr Navie also lends his expertise as a research scientist to the Integrated Vegetation Management Project www.ivmp.com.au
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