AIɫɫ

Helen Barnes has a background in conservation and land management and is now responsible for the curation of the first-floor, vascular component of AIɫɫ's (MEL) collection and the Victorian Reference Set—a specialised reference collection of Victoria’s native and non-native plants employed by RBGV’s Identifications Botanist to assist with the identification of plant material gathered within Victoria.

Helen’s work includes the databasing of both Australian and foreign-collected specimens, nomenclature verification, the processing of loan and exchange material, supervision of Collections volunteers and the provision of assistance to visiting researchers working with the MEL collections. Helen also assists with MEL's Integrated Pest Management (IPM) program, helping ensure the preservation of the Collection against insect damage.