Australian Tropical Herbarium Herbarium Staff Gerry Turpin
Gerry Turpin
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Ethnobotanist BSc (Botany) |
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Research
Ethnobotany
The Australian Tropical Herbarium houses the recently established Tropical Indigenous Ethnobotany Centre, in partnership with ·¬ÇÑÉçÇø, the Queensland Department of Environment and Science (DES), CSIRO and other government agencies and organizations. Functions of the centre include:
Supporting Indigenous decision-making about plants and plant knowledge
Protection of Indigenous intellectual and cultural property rights over plants
Keeping traditional and cultural knowledge alive
Focusing on building up trust with Traditional Owners before involving other agencies
Passing cultural knowledge on to the younger generation
Getting information back into the community
Current Projects
Researching history of ethnobotany in North Queensland from literature such as explorer's, early science and aboriginal protector journals/diaries from DES, university and state libraries.
Recording and documenting traditional plant use with various Indigenous communities in North Queensland, particularly on Cape York Peninsula. Plant collections are incorporated into the Australian Tropical Herbarium.
The Miromaa Database system is used so that it is easily accessible by the members of the community.
Medicinal plants of the Mbabaram peoples – pilot project
Selected Publications
Maclean K, Woodward E, Jarvis D, Martin P, Rist P, Rowland D, Turpin G, Bara S, Beames L, Channing P, Clarke C, Eather N, Hartley F, Muriata A, O’Meara L, Robinson D, Sands N, Sellars M, Shovellor J, Sibosado D, Thompson S, Williams L, Wells R, Yelland, S (2019) Building the Traditional Owner-led Bush Products Sector: Workshop report, CSIRO Australia.
Lyons I, Hill R, Deshong S, Mooney G, Turpin G (2019) Putting uncertainty under the cultural lens of Traditional Owners from the Great Barrier Reef Catchments. Regional Environmental Change 19, 1597–1610.
Pert PL, Ens EJ, Locke J, Clarke PA, Packer JM, Turpin G (2015) An online spatial database of Australian Indigenous Biocultural Knowledge for contemporary natural and cultural resource management. Science of the Total Environment 534, 110-121.
Ens EJ, Pert P, Clarke PA, Budden M, Clubb L, Doran B, Douras C, Gaikwad J, Gott B, Leonard S, Locke J, Packer J, Turpin G, Wason S (2015) Indigenous biocultural knowledge in ecosystem science and management: Review and insight from Australia. Biological Conservation 181, 133-149.
Hill R, Turpin G, Canendo W, Standley P, Crayn DM, Warne E, Keith K, Addicott E, Zich F (2011) Indigenous-driven tropical ethnobotany. Australian Plant Conservation 19(4): 24-25.
Turpin G, Bannink P, Richter, D (2011) Vegetation Communities and Regional Ecosystem 1:100,000 Survey and Mapping of the Channel Country Bioregion: Betoota 1:250,000 map sheet.
Turpin, G.P., Thomas, M.B. (2009). A vegetation communities and regional ecosystem survey and mapping of Cravens Peak. Cravens Peak Scientific Study Report 311-328
Thomas, M.B. and Turpin, G.P. (2009). Vascular plants collected during the Cravens Peak Scientific Study 2nd – 7th April 2007. Cravens Peak Scientific Study Report 301-310