Thomas Mesaglio Kuraattori

Liittynyt: elo 13, 2018 Viimeksi aktiivinen: maalis 16, 2024 iNaturalist Australia Kuukausittainen tukija elokuu 2022 lähtien

I AM CURRENTLY IN FAR WESTERN NSW ON FIELDWORK WITH NO INTERNET. I'LL BE BACK IN SYDNEY ON MARCH 27TH

Avid beachcomber and naturalist. Most of my observations are made in Sydney, but I also frequent the Port Macquarie Hastings region on the NSW mid-north coast. I'm currently a PhD candidate at the University of New South Wales, working on knowledge of Australian plants + how to improve this knowledge. I'm also currently working for the Atlas of Living Australia as an IT Advisor/Engagement Officer.

Check out my seashell field guide I published after four years of collecting and writing. I've also written a short e-book about scientific etymology entitled 'It's Helico-pter, not Heli-copter: A Beginner's Guide to Deconstructing Scientific Words and Names', which is available here for the US, and here for Australian users.

I recently finished working on a comprehensive survey of Wategora Reserve in southwestern Sydney. The reserve contains the critically endangered Cooks River Clay Plain Scrub Forest community, of which less than 1% of its original extent remains, and is threatened on all sides by urban expansion. You can read about the survey, and download my final ~500 page report and annotated/illustrated checklist, at my website Duck River Biodiversity Survey.

I created the First Known Photographs of Living Specimens project, check it out for some amazing observations from all around the world. I also recently made a project for tracking undescribed Australian plant species.

I organised the City Nature Challenge and the Great Southern BioBlitz for Sydney from 2020-2022.

If you ever find yourself in Sydney, shoot me a message and I'd be more than happy to show you all the best spots :)

I have a license to collect plants in NSW, and regularly collect specimens to deposit at the NSW herbarium.

You can contact me at thomasmesaglio@gmail.com

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