We love getting out and about!
Aug 2024 - Dr Thais Pfeilsticker (centre) at her PhD graduation, pictured with supervisors Rebecca Jones and Brad Potts
2024 - Rebecca Jones (UTAS) and Magali Wright (EnviroDynamics) showcasing their collaborative recovery project for Eucalyptus morrisbyi at the Outdoor Health Conference field trip
2024 - Brad Potts is awarded the Bjarne K Dahl Medal in recognition of his significant and sustained contribution to the science of eucalypts in the field of eucalypt genetics. Brad is pictured here with the Chair of the Board of Eucalypt Australia Prof Ros Gleadow. (Photo: Eucalypt Australia)
2024 - Brad Potts (right) visited the ENCE nursery near Huelva in southern Spain where he was hosted by Federico Ruiz Fernández (left) and colleagues. During the day they visited a nearby eucalypt arboretum (Arboreto del Villar) where large blocks of approximately 70 eucalypt species were planted in the mid-1950s over an area of 70 hectares. Such species tests were early planted a several sites throughout Spain and are now proving a valuable resource for guiding identification of species with potential for future climates. The ENCE nursery specialises in the vegetative propagation of Eucalyptus globulus and also has a containerised controlled pollination facility.
2023 - Erin Bok collecting manna samples for her PhD with curious onlookers
2023-2024 Dean's Summer Research Student Zander Field assessing the severity of ginger tree syndrome in populations of Eucalyptus viminalis
Mt Brown, on the occasion of Rene's retirement 4 Nov 2023
2023 - Rebecca Jones on a field trip with UTAS KPZ308 Biodiversity Conservation students
2023 - PhD candidate Ellen Gunn at International Congress of Genetics
2023 - Thais Pfeilsticker presents her PhD research at the International Congress of Genetics in Melbourne
2023 - postdoc Jak Butler at the International Congress of Genetics in Melbourne
2023 - KPZ309 student assessing an E. pauciflora restoration field trial near Bothwell for their major assignment for the unit
2023 - PhD candidate Ellen Gunn at the International Congress of Genetics in Melbourne
2023 - Visiting PhD candidate Kasey Pham (University of Florida) and Rene Vaillancourt visiting the E. cordata population at Meehan Ranges, near Hobart
2023 Planting Euc morrisbyi at Okehampton, near Triabunna, with Maria Island's Bishop and Clerk in the background
2023 - Rene Vaillancourt at a conservation field trial near Swansea on the east coast of Tasmania
2023 - Rebecca Jones at Currency Creek Arboretum, South Australia
2023 - PhD candidate Gabi Hartill at Currency Creek Arboretum, South Australia, with just a subset of her samples!
April 2023 - Connorville restoration trial
2022- Nana Yaw Sarpong and Paul Tilyard measuring field experiments
2022 - Rebecca Jones planting a field trial on the east coast of Tasmania
2022 - Rebecca Jones at Woodleigh Nursery with thousands of seedlings ready to be planted in field experiments
Alex Wilson (Wilson trees) and Ellen Gunn (PhD candidate) with samples from The Centurion, the tallest eucalypt (and flowering plant) in the world
Ellen Gunn sampling leaves from the canopy of E. viminalis trees at Symmons Plains, Tasmania
2019 - Paul Tilyard, Rene Vaillancourt, Thais Pfeilsticker, Dot Steane, Rebecca Jones, Blake Lane and Declan Reeves assessing E. risdonii-amygdalina seedling recruitment post fire for Thais' PhD
2019 - PhD student Thais Pfeilsticker tracking down old tree tags from the 1990s thanks to Brad's brother's metal detector! Thais assessed the survival of hybrid and pure phenotypes In a natural Eucalyptus risdonii - E. amygdalina hybrid swarm after 29 years.
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2019 - Thais with one of her study species, E. risdonii
2019 Rebecca Jones and Brad Potts after finishing the Marchwiel planting of the endangered Eucalyptus morrisbyi
2019 Thais Pfeilsticker
2019 Brad Potts, newly retired but research active, measuring Eucalyptus morrisbyi seedlings before planting out at Marchwiel
2019 - Delegates at 'Eucalypt genetics - Fundamental and applied research in a post-genome era', Hobart, Tas, 18-21 February 2019 - hosted by the UTAS Eucalypt Group
2019 - Rebecca Jones presenting at the National Convention of Churchill Fellows
2019 - on a trip to Tasman Peninsula following EucGen19
2019 - EucGen19 conference dinner. Past PhD students of the group Marian Wiltshire and Rebecca Jones, with Jim and Trish Reid
2019 - EucGen19 conference dinner - Gay McKinnon, Neil Davidson, Julianne O'Reilly-Wapstra
2019 - EucGen19 conference dinner - Tanya Bailey, Neil Davidson, Jim Reid
2019 - EucGen19 conference dinner. Brad Potts with past PhD students Craig Hardner and Heidi Dungey
2019 - EucGen19 conference dinner. Brad (centre front) surrounded by past and present PhD students
2019 - EucGen19 conference dinner at Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
2019 - EucGen19 conference dinner
2019 - Organising committee for the 2019 Eucalypt Genetics conference: Brad Potts, Rebecca Jones, Dot Steane, Paul Rymer (University of Western Sydney), Rose Andrew (University of New England), Rene Vaillancourt.
2018 - scoping out potential locations for the EucGen19 conference field trip, and crossing our fingers that this Tasmanian weather wouldn't get inflicted on our visitors in February. In the end it was extensive bushfires, road closures and smoke haze we needed to worry about.
Calverts Hill
2018 Rob Wiltshire planting Eucalyptus morrisbyi trial at Calverts Hill
National Eucalypt Day 2018
Telling stories about the early French collections of eucalypts beside the Tasmanian floral emblem, Eucalyptus globulus on National Eucalypt Day (23 March 2018). The authors of the popular eucalypt field guide “Eucaflip”, Professor Brad Potts and Dr Rob Wiltshire, conducted a tour of notable eucalypts growing in the gardens of the Sandy Bay campus.
Eucalypt leaves contain tannins and flavonoids that are released by heat to produce fixed dyes. Dr Gay McKinnon (artist and eucalypt geneticist) demonstrated eco-dyeing at the 2018 National Eucalypt Day morning tea. Our aim was to make a silk version of the popular field guide “Eucaflip”.
2017 ARC Centre for Forest Value Postdoctoral fellow Dr Tanya Bailey and students Stuart MacDonald, Claire Ranyard, Nicolo’ Camarretta, Yolanda Hanusch and Akira Weller-Wong attended the “Restore Regenerate Revegetate” conference at the University of New England, Armidale NSW from 5th-9th of February 2017. Tanya gave an oral presentation “Is local best? Testing forest tree provenancing strategies using field trials embedded in restoration plantings in Tasmania” in the seed genetics and management symposium and Stuart presented his talk on “Recalcitrant soil C:N ratios, alternate states persist in woodland restoration” in the Soils and Restoration symposium. Posters by Claire, Nicolo’, Yolanda and Akira were well received. From left to right: Sebastian Burgess (Greening Australia), Yolanda Hanusch, Claire Ranyard, Akira Weller-Wong, Nicolo’ Camarretta, Tanya Bailey, Stuart MacDonald and Neal Davidson (Greening Australia).
2015 Peter Harrison with Eucalyptus ovata planting at Ross Greening Australia restoration trial
2015 Tanya Bailey at Dungrove Greening Australia restoration trial
2015 Tanya Bailey with wombat burrow at Dungrove Greening Australia restoration trial
2016 Deer damage on Eucalyptus pauciflora at Dungrove Greening Australia restoration trial
Collection of Eucalyptus ovata capsules at Little Swanport for the Northern Midlands restoration project. (L to R: Stuart Macdonald and Steven Amy). (Photo: Peter Harrison)
Collecting Eucalyptus ovata capsules near Hamilton on the hottest day recorded for Tasmania! (L to R: Sophie Stuart Macdonald). (Photo: Peter Harrison)
2013 - Rene Vaillancourt and Jean-Marc Gion at the Dungrove Greening Australia trial
2011 Archana Gauli at Dungrove Greening Australia restoration trial
2013 Archana Gauli at Dungrove Greening Australia restoration trial
2002 Brad Potts and Rene Vaillancourt on Maria Island
2011 Grassy Hut Bothwell Greening Australia restoration trial.
2023 Paul Tilyard with new visitor information sign at Meadowbank Greening Australia restoration trial site
2019 Belle Monk and Paul Tilyard planting E. viminalis seedlings at Liffey trial
2021 Nicola Potter and Paul Tilyard measuring E viminalis trees at Liffey trial
2019 Julianne O'Reilly-Wapstra assessing post fire regeneration at Geeveston Eucalyptus globulus trial
2019 Establishing Eucalyptus viminalis trial at Ross
2019 Establishing Eucalyptus viminalis trial at Symmons Plains
2013 Sascha Wise and Tanya Bailey assessing Eucalyptus pauciflora trees at the Dungrove Greening Australia restoration trial
2013 Tanya Bailey at the Grassy Hut Bothwell Greening Australia restoration trial
Eucalyptus ovata at in the Southern Midlands of Tasmania
Enjoying the wide open spaces of Greening Australia’s restoration plantings near Ross, Tasmania, are CSIRO ecophysiologists Libby Pinkard and Suzanne Prober, and UTAS/CSIRO geneticist Dorothy Steane. These scientists are key members of a newly formed collaboration between CSIRO and the University of Tasmania that is investigating the genetic basis of adaptation in Australian native woodland species. (Photo: B. Potts, 06/02/2016)
Peter Harrison collecting Eucalyptus ovata at Redpa, Tasmania. (Photo: Tanya Bailey)
Island of Eucalyptus nitida among a button-grass plain, with Mount Anne poking through the mist. (Photo: Peter Harrison)
Post-planting photo of the revegetation site at Connorville, near Cressy (Photo: Peter Harrison)
Mario Vega celebrating the awarding of his PhD (12/8/2016), with his supervisors Mathew Hamilton, Chris Harwood and Brad Potts.
Postdoctoral researcher Dr Rebecca Jones with Conservation Volunteers Australia (CVA) setting up an experimental restoration planting of E. morrisbyi at the declining Calverts Hill site. The planting is one part of a collaborative project between UTAS, NRM South, Tasmanian Parks and Wildlife Service, DPIPWE, CVA/Understorey Network, Threatened Plants Tasmania and the Royal Botanical Gardens of Tasmania, which aims to help secure this critically endangered species.
Weird and wonderful eucalypt reproductive structures on display for National Eucalypt Day – collected from Dean Nicolle’s Currency Creek Arboretum (Photo: Rebecca Jones).
Brad Potts with Eucalyptus regnans "Centurion", the world's tallest flowering plant.
Dr. Rebecca Jones, Prof. Pauline Ladiges (University of Melbourne), Dr. Suzanne Prober (CSIRO), Dr. Tanya Bailey and Prof. Brad Potts at the 2016 Bjarne K. Dahl Trust – Royal Society of Victoria eucalypt symposium ‘Conserving Eucalypts – the why and the how‘. Pauline Ladiges has a long history in the study of eucalypt adaptation, evolution and historical biogeography and is one of the members of the Bjarne K. Dahl Trust Board of Managing Trustees. Suzanne Prober is an ecophysiologist who collaborates with Dr. Dot Steane on the genetic basis of adaptation in Australian native woodland species. Presentations included themes of eucalypt evolution and climate change response, insights into the future of Australian forests, woodlands and biota.
Peter Harrison presents his poster “Identifying seed provenances using climate analogues” at the 2016 Species on the Move International Conference. (Photo: D. Steane)
2015 Christina Borzak and Adam McKiernan at their PhD graduation ceremony in December 2015 with their happy supervisors Julianne O’Reilly-Wapstra and Brad Potts.
A sad state of affairs for E. gunnii ssp. divaricata at Shannon Lagoon, Tas. (Photo: Rebecca Jones)
2015 - Rene Vaillancourt and Brad Potts at Projection Bluff, Tasmania (Photo: Rebecca Jones)
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2013 - Honours student Sam Adlard, Rebecca Jones and Paul Tilyard
Rebecca Jones and Rene Vaillancourt in the field on the eastern shore of Hobart
Brad Potts at Caverts Hill
Matt Larcombe assessing flowering in E. globulus plantations in Portugal
Rebecca Jones at Currency Creek Arboretum
Matt Larcombe pollinating eucalypts at Currency Creek Arboretum
Rebecca Jones at Currency Creek Arboretum
Matt Larcombe at Dean Nicolle's Currency Creek Arboretum, South Australia
2011 - Peter Harrison at Hellfire Bluff, a beautiful spot overlooking Marion Bay, Tasmania, collecting specimens of the Tasmanian endemic Eucalyptus cordata for his Honours project (Photo: Rebecca Jones)
2011 Collecting Eucalyptus cordata and E. globulus for a hybridisation study near Orford, East Coast of Tasmania
Eucalypt research group 2011. Clockwise from top left: Adam McKiernan, Brad Potts, Rene Vaillancourt, Matthew Hamilton, Rebecca Jones, Jen Schweitzer, Natasha Wiggins, Jules Freeman, Guy Roussel, Peter Harrison, visiting student, Archana Gauli, Julianne O’Reilly-Wapstra, Dot Steane, Matt Larcombe, Joe Bailey, Paul Tilyard.
Dr Rebecca Jones and undergraduate Inger Visby assessing the purity of seed collected from the critically endangered Eucalyptus morrisbyi (Photo: Rob Wiltshire)
2009 ABC Stateline
Mass Supplementary Pollination in a grafted Eucalyptus globulus seed orchard managed by seedEnergy
Brad Potts collecting seed at an ancient E. bicostata population at Mt Bryan, South Australia (Photo: Rebecca Jones).
Sampling E. globulus at Port Davey in Western Tasmania (Photo by Dot Steane)
The Euc Genetics group was asked to provide ultra-high-quality Eucalyptus globulus DNA to be "re-sequenced" for the Eucalyptus genome project. This honour fell to Dorothy Steane, pictured here (heart in mouth), posting the precious cargo to the USA.
Rene Vaillancourt in the middle of an ancient E. bicostata clone at Mt Bryan, South Australia (Photo: Wendy Potts).
Land manager David McDonald, Rebecca Jones, Rene Vaillancourt and Brad Potts at an ancient E. bicostata population at Mt Bryan, South Australia (Photo: Wendy Potts).
Rebecca Jones collecting bluegums at Jenolan Caves, NSW (Photo: James Marthick)
Members of the group in 2006, after a day planting trees for Corey Hudson’s PhD
2006 - Martyn Lavery of Arianda Pty Ltd on a field trip helping PhD student Rebecca Jones collect bluegums (E. globulus) at the isolated Nadgee River, NSW.
2022 - Pam and Doug Soltis visited Meehan Range E. cordata population, which is the field site for their PhD student Kasey Pham. Doug and Pam (middle) accompanied by Dorothy Steane, Brad Potts and René Vaillancourt
2005 - oysters and beer with Martyn Lavery (Arianda Pty Ltd)