About Roberta Townsend
Born 1954. Roberta Townsend is an Australian botanist.
Roberta Ann Townsend (born 1954) is an Australian botanist, phycologist and archivist. She is also known as a plant collector under the name Roberta Ann Cowan.
Life Townsend was born in 1954 in Melbourne, Victoria. She completed a BSc (hons) in 1976 at the University of Melbourne. She later graduated from the University of Sydney in with a PhD for her thesis "The Sporolithaceae : its place in the Florideophycidae" in 1995.
In 1994 Townsend's interest in researching algae led her to edit the Australian Marine Algal Name Index.
Townsend is working at the Western Australian Herbarium on coralline algae.
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Australian botanist
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Roberta Townsend was born on 21 September 1954 in Mornington.
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