Thomson, Bruce Gordon   (fl. 1980s - 1990s)

He started working for the NT Herbarium in Alice Springs in about 1982 and left in 1993.

He was transferred to the Herbarium from the then Conservation Commission of the NT, Wildlife Research Section after encouragement from John Maconochie.

At the time, the Herbarium was part of the Dept of Primary Production and so the main emphasis was on livestock poisonings by plants and other related things. Only about a year after he started, John Maconochie was killed in a car accident in Somalia.

He worked with Peter Latz and various others including Tom Henshall.

Whilst in Alice Springs he conducted some limited taxonomic work and published a number of new Euphorbia species from WA and the Victoria River region of the NT. Other publications included numerous botanical field surveys.

In 1993 he moved to Queensland where he worked with Qld Parks and Wildlife until 2008.

He then formed a private consulting company, working primarily in the Surat Basin on gas projects.

He retired in 2020.

He is a prominent wildlife photographer and for much of his life he had a strong interest in bats, publishing 'A field guide to bats of the Northern Territory' in 1991.

In retirement he has become involved with the Queensland 'Biodiversity Conservation Trust'.

Source: Extracted from:
Bruce Thompson, Pers.Comm. email (2025)
https://www.instagram.com/p/DBFcMlpPpJ5/?locale=zh-hans
https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/catalog?q=%22Thomson%2C+Bruce+G.+%28Bruce+Gordon%29%22&search_field=author
Portrait Photo: Biodiversity Conservation Trust, https://www.instagram.com/p/DBFcMlpPpJ5/?locale=zh-hans.

Collecting localities for 'Thompson, B.G.' from AVH (2025)

Data from 596 specimens