Flora of New Zealand Series

D.J. GALLOWAY, MSc, PhD, DSc (Otago), FRSNZ, FLS, FRGS, CBiol, MIBiol, was born in Invercargill in 1942, and is currently a member of the Biosystematics Programme of Landcare Research (based in Dunedin) where he has worked part-time since 1996. From 1997 until 2002 he was also a part-time Professorial Research Fellow in the Department of Biochemistry, University of Otago, working on lichen-based projects under grant from the Mardsen Fund. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Department of Botany, University of Otago, and a Research Associate of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Earlier in his career he worked for Botany Division, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, from December 1972 until March 1982, for much of that time seconded to the Botany Department of the Natural History Museum in London. From November 1982 until November 1994 he was Senior Research Fellow and subsequently Principal Scientific Officer and Head of the Lichen Section at the Natural History Museum in London. From 1987 to 1992 he was President of the International Association for Lichenology (he is now an Hon. Life President of the IAL), and from 1992 to 1994 Vice President of the British Lichen Society. He returned to New Zealand to live late in 1994 after 22 years in London. He has served on the editorial boards of a number of lichenological and botanical journals, and on the councils of several scientific societies including the British Lichen Society, the Linnean Society of London, the Systematics Association, and the Society for the History of Natural History. Apart from lichenological interests in his native New Zealand, he has collected lichens widely in Chile (from the Bolivian border to Tierra del Fuego), in Australia, Malaysia, Baja California and the Arctic. He has published over 200 papers on lichenology and historical botany, including Flora of New Zealand Lichens (1985), Tropical Lichens: their Systematics, Conservation, and Ecology (1991), Checklist of New Zealand Lichens (1992) and is co-author (with W.M. Malcolm) of New Zealand Lichens, Checklist, Key and Glossary (1997). His specialist interests are in systematic and environmental problems in Pacific lichenology, with particular reference to the lichen mycobiotas of New Zealand, Australia, Chile, and Malaysia; the role of lichens in high-latitude and highaltitude ecosystems; lichen biogeography and ecochemistry; and the history of lichenology.