Details

Name

Keith Watson

Brief Biography

Glasgow Museums Staff, Curator, 1991 -

Occupation

Curator of Botany

Description

Keith Watson is Curator of Botany. He joined Glasgow Museums’ Natural History department in 1991, having previously supervised a botanical project at Glasgow University. His remit covers the botany collections which represent a resource of more than 120,000 specimens including dried and labelled specimens of flowering plants, ferns, mosses, liverworts, algae, fungi and lichens.

Keith graduated in 1985 with an MSc in Plant Taxonomy before coming to Glasgow. He played a leading role in conducting other surveys of the Glasgow area in preparation for The Changing Flora of Glasgow publication, which he co-authored in 2000. Following many years of detailed surveying of the old county of Renfrewshire, he wrote the Flora of Renfrewshire, which was published by Glasgow Museums in 2013.

He remains active in surveys of vascular plants, bryophytes, lichen and fungi, and in supporting nature conservation throughout the Clyde area.

Collections

Lichens (British and Irish Isles) Curator

Lichens (Overseas) Curator

Slime Moulds Curator

Mosses and Liverworts (British and Irish Isles) Curator

UK Liverworts Curator

Mosses and Liverworts (Overseas) Curator

Microfungi Curator

Macrofungi Curator

Microscopic Algae Curator

Marine Algae (British and Irish Isles) Curator

Marine Algae (Overseas) Curator

Freshwater Algae Curator

Timber, Fruits and Seeds Curator

Algae Curator

Flowering Plants and Ferns Curator

Lichens Curator

Fungi Curator

Natural History Curator

Botany Curator

Mosses and Liverworts Curator