BOOBOOK ECOLOGICAL CONSULTING

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Rosamund Aisthorpe

Botanist

Rose is our resident botanist and self-confessed plant nerd.

She graduated from James Cook University in 2009 with a Bachelor of Science (Botany) and has extensive knowledge and a contagious passion for biology, environmental science and natural sciences.

Even in her spare time, Rose can be found conducting plant propagation experiments, travelling into the bush and lending a hand at the Roma Bush Gardens. She lives and breathes the Boobook mission and loves sharing her love of flora and fauna with all she comes into contact with, especially through our eco tours.

Favourite species and why

“This has to be the most unfair question to ask a biologist…! To pick one?! Currently one is the Long-styled Grevillea (Grevillea longistyla) because they look spectacular. I’m in awe of how they survive and thrive in dry, fire-prone environments – and they are a great native plant to attract nectar-eating wildlife to the home garden.”

Rosamund's main areas of expertise

Rose’s main areas of expertise are:

Surveying vegetation communities as part of ecological assessments
Conducting threatened flora surveys
Regional ecosystem identification and mapping
Identification of agricultural and environmental weeds
Native plant identification
BioCondition assessments
Protected plant (blue circle) flora surveys
Field collection, preservation and submission of botanical specimens for both the Boobook and Queensland Herbarium
GIS mapping of surveyed sites for technical reports.

What our clients say

Craig did a brilliant environmental audit and pointed out things that we didn’t even know existed. He scientifically mounted an argument by looking at numbers and regions using botanical names to classify each of the plants and animals – it’s that rigour that makes the biodiversity offset application so credible.

Boobook’s service has been used over a number of years on various projects in South Western Queensland including fauna spotting/catching, EVNT flora surveys and invasive plant surveys. In this time, Boobook’s owners and staff have been personable and highly knowledgeable in their various fields.

We’ve worked with Boobook for a long time now, you can be confident with what you are going to get, and you deal with the same people too. We can talk to Craig or Meryl or the senior people, and we get the same level of understanding. We’ve always been very happy with the Boobook service.

I wouldn’t hesitate recommending Boobook for consulting work – they collaborate really well and they are so good at dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s. They have a really good set of skills across the board.

If you want locally applied knowledge with a group of people who understand what it means to play an active and meaningful role in a community then Boobook are the ones for you. It’s a small company that has a high level of attention to detail and provides a great customer experience that isn’t lost in the workings or mechanics of a large nationally based company.

The science of a shared world

Boobook Ecological Consulting has built its success on decades I first-hand knowledge of the natural ecosystems of the southern Queensland drylands combined with practical understanding of the complex pressures that impinge on Australia’s fragile environment.

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BOOBOOK ECOLOGICAL CONSULTING

Our team

Rosamund Aisthorpe

Botanist

Favourite species and why

Rosamund's main areas of expertise

What our clients say

The science of a shared world

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