About Roderick W Rogers BSc(Hons) PhD DSc

Awarded the degrees

• Doctor of Philosophy in Botany for a thesis Cryptogamic Crusts on arid soils in southern Australia,  University of Adelaide (1971)
• Doctor of Science for a thesis The Biology of Lichens, University of Adelaide (2001)

Taught and conducted research in University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia 1971 - 2002

Research experience in:

• University of New England, Armidale, Australia;
• Melbourne Herbarium, Australia;
• British Museum (Natural History), London, England;
• Conservatoire Botanique du Geneve, Geneve, Switzerland;
• Fachbereich Biologie, Phillips Universitat, Marburg, Germany;
• Unit for Comparative Plant Ecology, University of Sheffield, England; 
• School of Plant Biology, UCNW, Bangor, Wales;
• Herbarium, Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh, Scotland; and
• Herbarium, Franz Josef Universitat, Graz, Austria..

Major research topics:

• Lichen systematics & floristics
• Lichen ecology
• Soil surface lichens
• Nutrients in coastal woodlands
• Impact of stock on arid grasslands
• Botany of Heron Island, a the coral cay

Publications:
Author of 95 research publications, including two books on lichen systematics (see Bibliography).

Currently environmental consultant and research associate in lichenology at Queensland Herbarium.