Donna Lewis
Curation Lead
Donna joined the TERN Ecosystem Surveillance team in 2020 as Curation Lead. Donna is responsible for enhancing the management of TERNs digital and physical plant specimen, leaf tissue and soil sample collection. With the team, she ensures the collection is well curated, discoverable, and available to researchers for various scientific studies. Donna has a particular interest in botany, vegetation classification and working collaboratively to ensure the collection of standard field metrics.
Donna has over 20 years’ experience in field botany and vegetation science and was responsible for co-ordinating and conducting flora and vegetation surveys across the Northern Territory. Donna’s most recent role was with the Northern Territory Herbarium where she contributed to the curation of the herbarium collection, held various roles on national working groups and developed and managed flora and vegetation corporate systems. Donna also has experience in vegetation mapping and remote sensing applications. She gained a PhD in 2012 through the University of Queensland to evaluate field and image data to map vegetation communities in tropical savanna environments.