Person

Briggs, Barbara Gillian (1934 - )

Born
22 November 1934
Chatswood, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation
Botanist and Phylogenetic systematist

Summary

Barbara Briggs joined the National Herbarium of New South Wales in November 1969 as a Botanist and later became a Research Scientist, Assistant Director (Herbarium) and then Senior Assistant Director (Scientific). She is a member of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, the Systematic Botany Society and the Ecological Society of Australia. Her special interests include plant evolution and southern hemisphere biogeography. She has published key papers on the phylogeny and classification of the flowering plant families Restionaceae, Proteaceae, Myrtaceae and Scrophulariaceae.

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Chronology

1956
Education - Bachelor of Science Honours, First Class, University of Sydney
1961
Education - PhD, University of Sydney
1962 - 1963
Career event - Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley
1967
Career event - Botanist Grade III, National Herbarium of New South Wales
1969 - 1997
Career event - Research Scientist, National Herbarium of New South Wales
1972
Career event - Deputy Chief Botanist, National Herbarium of New South Wales
1973 - 2011
Career position - Member, Australian Systematic Botany Society
1976 - 1977
Career position - President, Linnean Society of New South Wales
1980
Career event - Senior Assistant Director (Scientific), National Herbarium of New South Wales
1983 - 1986
Career position - Vice-President, Australian Systematic Botany Society
1986 - 1989
Career position - President, Australian Systematic Botany Society
1994
Award - Clarke Medal, Royal Society of New South Wales
1997
Career event - Honorary Research Associate, The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust (and National Herbarium of New South Wales), Sydney
2002 -
Award - Life Member, Australasian Systematic Botany Society
2005
Award - Nancy T. Burbidge Medal, Australian Systematic Botany Society
2011 - 2022
Career position - Membr, Australasian Systematic Botany Society

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Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

  • McCarthy, Gavan; Morgan, Helen; Smith, Ailie; van den Bosch, Alan, Where are the Women in Australian Science?, Exhibition of the Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, First published 2003 with lists updated regulary edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, 2003, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/wisa/wisa.html. Details
  • McCarthy, Gavan; Smith, Ailie; Moje, Christine; Rigby, Rebecca, The Study of Australian Eucalypts, eScholarship Research Centre, 2013, http://www.eoas.info/eucalypts/index.html. Details

Book Sections

  • Briggs, B.G.; and Johnson, L.A.S., 'A guide to a new classification of Restionaceae and allied families.' in Australian Rushes: Biology, Identification and Conservation of Restionaceae and allied families, Meney, K.A. & Pate, J.S, ed. (Nedlands, W.A.: University of Western Australia Press, 1999), pp. 25-56. Details
  • Johnson, L.A.S; Briggs, B.G., 'Three old southern families: Myrtaceae, Proteaceae and Restionaceae' in Ecological biogeography on Australia, vol. 1, Keast, Allen, ed., vol. 1 (The Hague: W. Junk, 1981), pp. 427-469. Details
  • Linder, H.P.; Briggs, B.G.; and Johnson, L.A.S, 'Anarthriaceae' in The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants. Vol. 4: Flowering Plants, K. Kubitzki, ed., vol. 4 (Berlin: Springer, 1998), pp. 19-21. Details
  • Linder, H.P.; Briggs, B.G.; and Johnson, L.A.S, 'Ecdeiocoleaceae' in The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants. Vol. 4: Flowering Plants, K. Kubitzki, ed., vol. 4 (Berlin: Springer, 1998), pp. 195-197. Details
  • Linder, H.P.; Briggs, B.G.; and Johnson, L.A.S, 'Restionaceae' in The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants. Vol. 4: Flowering Plants, K. Kubitzki, ed., vol. 4 (Berlin: Springer, 1998), pp. 425-445. Details

Conference Papers

  • Briggs, B.G.; Marchant, A.D.; Gilmore, S.; and Porter, C.L, 'A molecular phylogeny of Restionaceae and allies.', in Monocots: Systematics and Evolution. [Proceedings of papers presented at the Second International Conference on the Comparative Biology of the Monocotyledons, Monocots II, 1998] (Melbourne: CSIRO, 2000).. Details

Journal Articles

  • Bayly, Michael, 'New Life Member of ASBS: Barbara Briggs', Australasian Systematic Botany Society newsletter, 192 (2022), 3. Details
  • Briggs, B.G., 'One hundred years of plant taxonomy, 1889-1989.', Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, 78 (1991), 19-32. Details
  • Briggs, Barbara, 'Alma Theodora Lee (1912-1990)', Telopea, 4 (2) (1991), 141-3. Details
  • Briggs, Barbara, 'The National Herbarium of New South Wales: One Hundred Years', Telopea, 9 (2) (2001), 223-226. Details
  • Briggs, Barbara, 'Vale Dr Lionel Gilbert OAM 2 December 1924 - 28 January 2015', Australasian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter, 161 (2015), 51-2. Details
  • Briggs, Barbara, 'Vale Alison McCusker OAM 13 September 1933 - 18 December 2015', Australasian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter, 165 (2015), 60-2. Details
  • Briggs, Barbara G., 'L. A. S. Johnson - a botanical career', Telopea, 6 (4) (1996), 511-20. Details
  • Briggs, Barbara G., 'Lawrence Alexander Sidney Johnson 26 June 1925 - 1 August 1997', Telopea, 7 (3) (1997), 177-180. Details
  • Briggs, Barbara G., 'Lawrence Alexander Sidney Johnson 1926-1997', Historical Records of Australian Science, 13 (4) (2001), 475-494. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR0011340475. Details
  • Briggs, Barbara Gillian; Johnson, Lawrie Alexander Sidney, 'Evolution in the Myrtaceae - evidence from inflorescence structure', Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 102 (4) (1979), 157-256. Details
  • Johnson, L.A.S.; and Briggs, B.G., 'Myrtales and Myrtaceae - a phylogenetic analysis.', Annal of the Missouri Botanical Garden, 71 (1984), 700-756. Details
  • King, Robert J.; and Briggs, Barbara G., 'Valerie May - fifty years of phycology', Telopea, 3 (2) (1988), 273-9. Details
  • Wilson, Karen; and Briggs, Barbara, 'Vale Joy Thompson 3 October 1923 - 15 August 2018', Australasian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter, 176 (2018), 23-8. http://www.asbs.org.au/newsletter/pdf/18-sep-176.pdf. Details

Newspaper Articles

  • Briggs, Barbara, 'Botanist Alison McCusker's Flora of Australia remains a formidable legacy', Sydney Morning Herald (2015). Details

Resources

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