2022 Symposium Speakers
TREENET Symposium 2022 features experts in their field discussing a range of topics in urban forestry.

Kelly Bramhill
Kelly Bramhill has worked at the Botanic Gardens and State Herbarium since 2015 in a variety of roles in the Public Programmes team. Kelly has

Mayor Michael Hewitson
Michael graduated from Adelaide University with honours as a microbiologist and as a Pilot Officer with the RAAF. He taught maths and sciences at State

Brian Gepp
Prior to graduating with a BSc Hons and MSc, Brian assisted with research projects on seagulls, seals and termites. His Honours Degree focussed on the

Simon Strauss
Simon attended his first international Clean Air conference at Melbourne University as a student in the 1970s. After working in the UK and Europe in the

Dr Jacob Mills
Jacob’s upbringing on the family sheep station and time spent with Indigenous peoples formed and established his connection with nature early in life. His appreciation

Russell King
Russell is a civil engineer with a passion for integrated, sustainable green urban form and function. As Senior Assets Lead with the City of Unley

Paul Winter
Paul Winter is Senior Horticultural Curator at the Adelaide Botanic Gardens. Every day he witnesses staff and visitors reap the benefits of decisions made 20,

Dr Greg Moore OAM
Greg is a Senior Research Associate of Burnley College, University of Melbourne, where he was Principal from 1988 to 2007; he was Head of the School

Quang Vu
Quang has recently completed his Bachelor of Environmental Science and Bachelor of Science (Honours) degrees at the University of South Australia. Quang is an active

Linda Collins
Linda has been a volunteer flying-fox rehabilitator, trainer, consultant and researcher for 33 years. She has worked in numerous colonies throughout New South Wales and

Patricia Torquato
After graduating in forestry from the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, Patricia completed a Master of Natural Resources Ecology and Management at the Oklahoma State

Catrina Luz Aniere
Catrina is co-founder and CEO of Millennium Kids, a non-profit environmental youth organization. Grown from a youth led annual conference in 1996, Millennium Kids is

Lilith Tremmery
Lilith is a Horticulturist at the Adelaide Botanic Gardens, currently tending to the First Creek Wetland and International Rose Garden. Outside the Botanic Gardens she

David Jenkins
David is CEO of the Institute of Public Works Engineers Australasia (IPWEA), a role he has held for the past three years following experience in

Thomas Burke
Thomas Burke commenced employment with the Botanic Gardens and State Herbarium in 2018 as a trainee. His expert knowledge and understanding of best horticulture practice

Dr Greg Moore OAM
Apart from a general interest in horticultural plant science, revegetation and ecology, Greg has a specific interest in all aspects of arboriculture, which is the
Phil Holzknecht
After studying history and anthropology during his early decades in Papua New Guinea Phil relocated to Queensland and completed post-graduate studies in agricultural science. His

Penny & Clive Blazey AM
Penny and Clive founded Diggers in 1978 where they pioneered the preservation of heirloom vegetable seeds and garden-worthy ornamental flowering plants. In 2011, Clive, Penny

Leanne Gillies
Leanne is an expert horticulturist and nurserywoman with over 25 years of experience in commercial plant propagation and production. In her role as Research and

Prof Stefan Arndt
Stefan is an ecologist with 20 years of experience in applied ecosystem science. His research centres around how plants and entire ecosystems cope with changes

Ruby Wilson
Ruby is an experienced horticulturist and arborist, having worked in local government in Victoria before moving to Tasmania where she is Program Leader of Arboriculture

Ian McAlister
Ian has 33 years of experience in the design, construction and management of local government public open space, including five years as Manager Recreation and

Jack Collard
Jack is a young and proud Whadjuk-Ballardong Nyoongar man from Boorloo (Perth). In 2018 he was awarded a MADALAH tertiary scholarship to study at the

Shelley Shepherd
Shelley is a Director of Urbaqua, a not-for-profit environmental organisation that works to support and deliver water and environmentally sensitive outcomes in Western Australia. She