Glenn Wightman

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Glenn Mitchell Wightman PSM (born 1961) [1] is an ethnobotanist working for the Department of Environment Parks and Water Security, [2] in Palmerston. [3] He works closely with various aboriginal language groups to document plant and animal names and their usage in the culture. [4] [5] [6] In doing so, he has been helping to preserve some 48 Aboriginal languages in collaboration with some 252 Indigenous co-authors. [7] He has also done biocultural work in Indonesia. [8] [9] [3]

Wightman was born in 1961 at Leongatha, Victoria, [10] and graduated from Monash University in 1982 with a BSc, majoring in botany and geology. [7]

In 2008 he curated Replant: A New Generation of Botanical Art, an exhibition held at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Sydney of illustrations of water lilies by six indigenous and non-indigenous artists in collaboration with the Nauiyu community in the Northern Territory. [11] The exhibition of prints was displayed in the Cowra Regional Art Gallery in central New South Wales in 2011. [12]

He has published one plant name: Atalaya brevialata Cowie & Wightman. [13]

The standard author abbreviation Wightman is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name . [14]

Honours and recognition

In the Australia Day Honours of 2011, he was awarded the Public Service Medal for "For outstanding public service to the maintenance of Indigenous languages and culture in the Northern Territory, particularly Indigenous biological knowledge of plants, animals and landscapes". [15]

In 2021 he won the Northern Territory's Natural Resource Management's lifetime achievement award. [16]

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References

  1. ↑ "Wightman, Glenn M. (Glenn Mitchell) (1961–)". trove.nla.gov.au. Retrieved 7 November 2021.
  2. ↑ "Department of Environment Parks and Water Security". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 7 November 2021.
  3. 1 2 Inggit Puji Astuti; Syamsul Hidayat; Esti Munawaroh; Glenn Wightman (December 2001). "The Conservation Status of Plants Used in ikat Cloth Production in Melolo, East Sumba, Indonesia" (PDF). The Beagle. 17: 1–5. ISSN   0811-3653. Wikidata   Q108329559.cite Q
  4. ↑ Patricia Marrfurra McTaggart; Molly Yawalminny; Mercia Wawul; et al. (2014). "Ngan'gikurunggurr and Ngen'giwumirri plants and animals". Northern Territory Botanical Bulletin. 43. Wikidata   Q106088130.
  5. ↑ Bessie Doonday; Charmia Samuels; Evelyn (Martha) Clancy; et al. (2013). "Walmajarri plants and animals". Northern Territory Botanical Bulletin. 42: 1–242. Wikidata   Q106088428.
  6. ↑ Justin Puruntatameri; Kitty Kantilla; Glenn Wightman (2001). "Tiwi Plants and Animals : Aboriginal Flora and Fauna Knowledge from Bathurst and Melville Islands, northern Australia". Tiwi Plants and Animals : Aboriginal Flora and Fauna Knowledge from Bathurst and Melville Islands, northern Australia: 192. Wikidata   Q109442600.
  7. 1 2 "Bringing Indigenous languages back from the brink". Monash Lens. 27 October 2019. Retrieved 7 November 2021.
  8. ↑ Hidayat, S.; Wightman, G. (December 2001). "The Medicinal Value of 'lalap' (Raw Vegetable) in Sundanese Society at Bogor, West Java, Indonesia". The Beagle (in English and English). 17: 7–11. ISSN   0811-3653. Wikidata   Q108329560.
  9. ↑ Inggit Puji Astuti; Syamsul Hidayat; Glenn Wightman (December 2001). "The Traditional Use of Mangroves in East Sumba, Indonesia". The Beagle. 17: 13–19. ISSN   0811-3653. Wikidata   Q108329562.
  10. ↑ "Wightman, Glenn Mitchell – biography". www.anbg.gov.au. Retrieved 7 November 2021.
  11. ↑ Skatssoon, Judy (4 July 2008). "Water lilies more than pretty flowers". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 7 November 2021.
  12. ↑ "New exhibitions – REPLANT: a new generation of botanical art and RACHEL ELLIS: New Works". Cowra Regional Art Gallery. 16 October 2011. Retrieved 8 November 2021.
  13. ↑ Cowie, I.D.; Stuckey, B. (2012). "Atalaya brevialata (Sapindaceae), a new species from the Northern Territory, Australia" (PDF). Nuytsia . 22 (6): 363–370. doi:10.58828/NUY00645. ISSN   0085-4417. Wikidata   Q98565598. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 April 2018.
  14. ↑ International Plant Names Index.  Wightman.
  15. ↑ "AUSTRALIA DAY 2011 HONOURS". Commonwealth of Australia Gazette. Special. 26 January 2011. Retrieved 6 November 2021.
  16. ↑ "NT NRM AWARDS". TNRM Conference. Retrieved 22 April 2022.
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