User:Capebio

About User Capebio
Name: David Gwynne-Evans

Home Location: Cape Town, South Africa

Tertiary Education:

1996 BSc University of Cape Town.

1997-2000 National Diploma in Horticulture, Cape Technikon, now Cape Peninsula University of Technology.

2003 BSc (Botany, Environmental & Geographical Science), University of Cape Town.

2004 Hons (Botany, & Systematics), University of Cape Town.

2005-6 Masters (Systematics), University of Cape Town, upgraded to PhD

2007-2014 PhD (Systematics), University of Cape Town.

Personal History of David Gwynne-Evans and Online Presence

I am a freelance botanist, conservationist, and a social and environmental activist.

For my Masters and PhD, I have focused on a thorough taxonomy of the genus Hermannia (Malvaceae).

I have also been developing my NGO, CASABIO - The Home of Biodiversity. The NGO is based on three interlinked pillars: conservation, education and research. At its core is the development of biodiversity software known as CASABIO's Biodiversity Search Engine. This will allow users to submit images with attached locality and associated metadata to the CASABIO website, and the floral and faunal taxa in the images will be identified by the public. This software which has been under stochastic development since 2002, is slated for public release in 2014.

In May 2008 I created the CASABIO blog, primarily to log advances within the NGO.

In November 2012 I created the blog and user identity "The Naked Bloganist" in order to promote conservation projects. Bloganist is a portmanteau between botanist and blogger, i.e. a botanical blogger. This blog contains both botanical pages, and general naturalist, activist, and ecological postings.

In March 2014 I will create the identity and blog "The Naked Botanist" to log and detail topics of botanical interest as well as to log the schedule and findings of The Naked Botanist during his UK and Eurotour, taking place from May 2014 onwards.

The Eurotour details will also be updated via twitter using the handle @tnbloganist

Wikipedia Activity

1) 7 January 2014 - Updated a herbarium list to include a missing herbarium.

2) 11 Feb 2014 - Added interesting flower details about Mirabilis jalapa.

3) 11 Feb 2014 - Added counter-argument against an article biased towards fracking South Africa.

4) 13 Feb 2014 - Added floristic information about the Brandberg, Namibia, and uploaded a link to a species list of plants.

5) 16 Feb 2014 - Added information about snow in South Africa, particularly on Table Mountain.

Planned Wikipedia Activity

Create a comprehensive page on the genus Hermannia.