Timothy John Entwisle
Timothy John Entwisle, is an Australian botanist, much of whose research work is in phycology. See for example the articles. He was awarded a Ph.D. from La Trobe University in 1986 for work on the taxonomy of Vaucheria.
He was New South Wales’ Government Botanist in 2007 and 2008, and for eight years was the executive director of the Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. Subsequently, he was director of Conservation, Living Collections and Estates, Kew, London from 2011, and since 2013 he has been director of the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. He is an honorary professorial fellow at the University of Melbourne and is currently president of the International Association of Botanic Gardens.
As director of the Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney, Entwisle managed Sydney's Royal Botanic Gardens, the Mount Tomah Botanic Garden, in the Blue Mountains and the Mount Annan Botanic Garden, near Camden, and at Kew, he was responsible for Kew Gardens, Wakehurst Place, and the Millennium Seed Bank. A major project on taking up the Victorian appointment has been succession planning for the gardens under climate change.
He values communicating with the general public as well as the scientific community. He is interviewed on radio frequently and had a program, Talking Plants, on ABC radio,, which ran from December 2014 to January 2016. He is a regular contributor to the ABC radio program, Blueprint for living. He also writes blogs on plants, and articles for Gardening Australia.
He continues to publish in phycology.Honours
The algal genus, Entwisleia F.J.Scott, G.W.Saunders & Kraft, 2013, was named for him.Some published names
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Books
- Entwistle, T.J. CSIRO publishing
Articles
- Entwisle, T.J. 1992. Muelleria 7: 425–445.
- Entwisle, T.J. 1995. Muelleria 8: 291–298.
- Entwisle, T.J. & Foard, H.J. 1998.
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