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Personal Information
	Name	Parnell, John Adrian
	College Address	Botany, Botany School
	Main Department	Botany
	College Title	Professor of Systematic Botany
	E-mail	john.parnell@tcd.ie
	College Tel	+353 1 896 1269
	Web	http://tcdlocalportal.tcd.ie/pls/public/staff.detail?p_unit=botany&p_name=jparnell
	Fax	+353 1 896 1147


Teaching interests and responsibilities
Plant evolution, systematics and conservation.


Professional Qualifications

Qualification	Institution	Class of Degree	Title of Dissertation	Date Conferred
F.L.S.	Linnean Society of London			1985
Ph.D.	Aberdeen University		The experimental taxonomy of Jasione montana L.	1980
B.Sc.	Aberdeen University	Honours		1976

Representations

Details	Date
Subject Editor Nordic Journal of Botany	2011
Organiser (with T. Hodkinson, S. Waldren & M. Jones) of Systematics and Climate Change meeting	2008
Organiser of 13th International Flora of Thailand meeting	2005
Organiser (with T. Hodkinson & S. Waldren) of Fourth Biennial meeting of the Systematics Association	2003
Editor Thai Forest Bulletin	2002-
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Administrative Functions

Details	Level	Date From	Date To
Head of the School of Natural Sciences incorporating the former Departments of Botany, Geography, Geology & Zoology and the Centres for the Environment and Biodiversity and Sustainable Development and the Trinity College Botanic Garden	Head of School	12/6/2008	12/6/2011
Board of Trinity College Dublin. Elected as one of the representatives of the Fellows of Trinity College Dublin.	Board member	2005	2008
Head of Botany Department	Head of the Botany Department	2002	2005
Dean of Graduate Studies. As Dean I had administrative responsibility for all 3,700 postgraduate students in the University for a period of four years.	Dean of Graduate Studies	1997	2001
Herbarium Curator. As Herbarium Curator I am in charge of the internationally important College Herbarium of ca. 300,000 specimens	Herbarium Curator	1984
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Membership of Professional Institutions, Associations, Societies

Details	Date From	Date To
International Association of Plant Taxonomists	2001
Linnean Society of London	1985
Botanical Society of the British Isles	1978


Awards and Honours

Award	Date
Visiting Professor Khon Khan University	2008
Fellow of Trinity College Dublin (F.T.C.D.)	1993 -
Visiting Research Scientist, Khon Kaen University, Thailand	1990
Royal Irish Academy/Royal Society Visiting Fellowship to the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew	1988
Royal Irish Academy/Royal Society Visiting Fellowship to the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew and the British Museum (Nat. Hist.)	1987
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Education Details

School/College	Date From	Date To
Ph.D. (University of Aberdeen).	1976	1980
B.Sc. Botany II1, Honours. (University of Aberdeen).	1972	1976
George Watson's College, Edinburgh.	1959	1972

Languages

Language	Skill Reading	Skill Writing	Skill Speaking
English	Fluent	Fluent	Fluent
French	Basic	Basic	Basic


Research Institutes / Centres / Groups

Research Institutes / Centres / Groups	Description of Role	Date From	Date To
TIDI

Description of Research Interests

Higher plant taxonomy and floristics; biodiversity and conservation. My base of botanical experience is European but since coming to TCD I have focussed my research interests on the palaeotropics. I have co-authored/edited a number of books: these include, a revised version of the standard Irish Flora 'An Irish Flora' with David Webb; a new account of the Flora of County Dublin - a project run by the Dublin Naturalists Field Club; a third, with Trevor Hodkinson, is published by the Systematics Association and deals with the problem of Species-rich groups and the Tree of Life; the penultimate, also published by the Systematics Association and with a number of authors from TCD, is on Climate Change and Systematics; finally, the newest edition of the Irish Flora 'Webb's An Irish Flora' is expected to be in bookshops this November. Most of my paleotropical work has concentrated on revisions for the Flora of Thailand; recently published work covers the Lentibulariaceae and Orobanchaceae of that country. I am an editor of the Flora of Thailand and various journals including Nordic Journal of Botany and Thai Forest Bulletin, have brought in ca. €1,650,000 in research funding and published over 150 peer reviewed papers.


Research Interests

Biodiversity	Botany	Conservation Biology	Flora of Thailand
Plant Sciences	Plant Taxonomy	Plant systematics


Research Projects

Project title	Digitisation of Latin American type specimens and selected historical specimens in the herbarium of Trinity College Dublin (TCD)
Summary	The project aims to digitise and make available through the web all 'Latin american' types of higher plants and algae, as well as selected historical specimens lodged in the TCD herbarium. Many of these materials are unique, and some are not easily available to researchers. This project forms a separate component of the larger Latin American Plants Initiative, co-ordinated by the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew and the Missouri Botanical Gardens.
Funding Agency	Mellon
Programme
Type of Project
Date from	1/1/2007
Date to	31/3/2009
Person Months	48

Project title	Digitisation of African type specimens and selected historical specimens in the herbarium of Trinity College Dublin (TCD)
Summary	The project aims to digitise and make available through the web all African types of higher plants and algae, as well as selected historical specimens lodged in the TCD herbarium. Many of these materials are unique, and some are not easily available to researchers. This project forms a separate component of the larger African Plants Initiative, co-ordinated by the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew.
Funding Agency	Mellon
Programme
Type of Project	Research
Date from	2006
Date to	2006
Person Months	9

Project title	An expandable web-enabled organism inventory and keys to the macrophytes and higher plants of Co. Clare and the Aran Islands
Summary	inventory and keys to the flowering plants and marine macroalgae of the Burren and the Aran Islands using the Linnaeus II web-enabled programme (http://www.eti.uva.nl/products/linnaeus.php) which ultimately will be expandable to cover the entire Irish macrophyte flora and fauna. This project froms a part of a larger project entitled Biodiversity and environmental change: an intergrated study encompassing a range of scales, taxa and habitats.
Funding Agency	EPA
Programme
Type of Project	research
Date from	2006
Date to	2009
Person Months	30

Project title	The genetic relationships, phylogeny and conspecificity of Irish E. aquaticum populations with those from Scotland and North America.
Summary	This project aims to determine whether Irish, British and American material of Eriocaulon aquaticum (Hill) Druce (Pipewort) are con-specific, to compare the genetic structure of Irish, British and American populations and to detail the reproductive biology of Irish material. Based on previous work undertaken by the proposer’s research group on the Eriocaulaceae, molecular, morphological, cytological and anatomical techniques will be used to gather data which will then be analysed using phenetic (ordination, discriminant and possibly co-inertia analyses) and phylogenetic (maximum parsimony and likelihood) techniques and population genetic (diversity and differentiation) to determine the answers to the above questions.
Funding Agency	EPA
Programme
Type of Project	Ph.D. research project
Date from	2007
Date to	2010
Person Months	36

Project title	The genetic relationships, phylogeny and conspecificity of Irish Daboecia cantabrica populations with those from Europe..
Summary	This proposal aims to determine whether Irish material is most closely related to material in France or Northern Spain or Portugal. It also aims to compare the genetic structure of Irish, Spanish and Portugese populations and to detail the reproductive biology, population size and reproductive biology of Irish material.
Funding Agency	IRCSET
Programme
Type of Project	Ph.D. research project
Date from	31/9/2008
Date to	31/9/2011
Person Months	36

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Publications and Other Research Outputs

Peer Reviewed

T. Santisuk, K. Larsen, M. Newman, K. Chayamarit, H. Balslev, C. Phengkhlai, H. Pedersen, J. Parnell, D. Middleton, M. Newman, D.A. Simpson, P.C. van Welzen, H-J. Esser, S. Hul & M. Kato, Flora of Thailand, 10(4), Bangkok, The Forest Herbarium, Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation, 2011, 469 - 474+LXXVI pp
T. Santisuk, K. Larsen, M. Newman, K. Chayamarit, H. Balslev, C. Phengkhlai, H. Pedersen, J. Parnell, D. Middleton, M. Newman, D.A. Simpson, P.C. van Welzen, H-J. Esser, S. Hul & M. Kato,, Flora of Thailand 11(1), Bangkok, The Forest Herbarium, Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation, 2011, 1 - 99 + VIIpp
The current and future status of Floristic Provinces in Thailand. Pp in, editor(s)Y. Trisurat, R.P. Shrestha, & R. Alkemade , Land use, climate change and Biodiversity Modeling. Perspectives and applications, Hershey, Information Science Reference, 2011, pp219 - 247, [Van Welzen, P.F., Madern, A., Raes, N., Parnell, J.A.N., Simpson, D.A., Byrne, C., Curtis, T., Macklin, J., Trias-Blasi, A., Prajaksood, A., Bygrave, P., Dransfield, S., Kirkup, D.W., Moat, J., Wilkin, P., Couch, C., Boyce. P.C., Chayamarit, K., Chantaranothai, P., Esser, H-J., Jebb, M.H.P., Larsen, K., Larsen, S.S., Nielsen, I., Meade, C., Middleton, D.J., Pendry, C.A., Musaya, A.M., Pattharahirantricin, N., Pooma, R., Suddee, S., Staples, G., Sungkaew, S. & Teerawatananon, A. ]
Lentibulariaceae in, editor(s)T. Santisuk, K. Larsen, M. Newman, K. Chayamarit, H. Balslev, C. Phengkhlai, H. Pedersen, J. Parnell, D. Middleton, M. Newman, D.A. Simpson, P.C. van Welzen, H-J. Esser, S. Hul & M. Kato, , Flora of Thailand 11 (1), Bangkok, The Forest Herbarium, Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation, 2011, pp16 - 45, [J. Parnell]
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