Person
Paton, Penelope Ann (Penny)
AM
- Occupation
- Ornithologist
Summary
Penny Paton, the wife of David Paton (q.v.), is interested in ornithology and its history and has worked on Birds Australia projects, including the Historical Atlas. She has been an active participant in conservation organisations in South Australia, including as a member of assessment panels of the South Australian Threatened Species Network, Presiding Member of the South Australian National Parks and Wildlife Council, and Chairman of the Biodiversity Conservation Working Group of the Adelaide and Mount Lofty Ranges Natural Resources Management Board. Between 2001 and 2004 Paton was President of the South Australian Ornithological Association and for the Association edited the South Australian ornithologistfrom 1996 to 2000.
Details
Chronology
- 1995 - 1998
- Career position - National Estate SA Project Officer, 1995-1998
- 1996 - 2000
- Career position - Editor, South Australian ornithologist
- 1996 - 2004
- Career position - Member, South Australian National Parks and Wildlife Council
- 1997 - 2005
- Career position - Member, Torrens Catchment Water Management Board
- 1999 - 2000
- Career position - Project Coordinator, Mount Lofty Ranges Southern Emu-wren and Fleurieu Peninsula Swamps Recovery Team, Conservation Council of South Australia
- 2000 -
- Career position - Chairman, Mount Lofty Ranges Southern Emu-wren and Fleurieu Peninsula Swamps Recovery Team, Conservation Council of South Australia
- 2000 - 2004
- Career position - Chairman, Birds for Biodiversity Recovery Program, Conservation Council of South Australia
- 2000 - 2005
- Career position - Chairman, Threatened Species Schedule Sub-Committee, South Australian Threatened Species Network
- 2000 - 2006
- Career position - Member, State Assessment Panel for Community Grants, South Australian Threatened Species Network
- 2001 - 2004
- Career position - President, South Australian Ornithological Association
- 2001 - 2004
- Career position - Chairman, Urban Forest Biodiversity Program
- 2002 - 2004
- Career position - Presiding Member, South Australian National Parks and Wildlife Council
- 2005 -
- Career position - Chairman, Regional Investment Strategy, Adelaide and Mount Lofty Ranges Natural Resources Management Board
- 2005 -
- Career position - Member, Adelaide and Mount Lofty Ranges Natural Resources Management Board
- 2006
- Career position - Member, Premier's Round Table for Sustainability
- 2007
- Career position - Chairman, Biodiversity Conservation Working Group, Adelaide and Mount Lofty Ranges Natural Resources Management Board
- 2008
- Award - Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for service to conservation and the environment through the management of natural resources and ecosystems, and as a contributor to environmental and ornithological research projects
Related entries
Published resources
Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions
- McCarthy, Gavan; Morgan, Helen; Smith, Ailie; van den Bosch, Alan, Where are the Women in Australian Science?, Exhibition of the Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, First published 2003 with lists updated regulary edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, 2003, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/wisa/wisa.html. Details
Resources
- 'Paton, Penny', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1475642. Details
See also
- Member (AM) in the General Division of the Order of Australia [Queen's Birthday 2008: M-Z], Governor General's Office, Canberra, 2008, https://web.archive.org.au/awa/20130329080918mp_/http:/www.gg.gov.au/sites/default/files/files/honours/qb/qb2008/Media%20notes%20AM%20%28M-Z%29%20%28final%29-web.pdf. Details
- Collier, Roger; Hatch, John; Matheson, Bill; Russell, Tony ed., Birds, Birders and Birdwatching 1899-1999: celebrating one hundred years of the South Australian Ornithological Association (Adelaide: South Australian Ornithological Association, 1999), 244 pp. Details
- Robin, Libby, The Flight of the Emu: a Hundred Years of Australian Ornithology 1901-2001 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2001), 492 pp. Details
Rosanne Walker and Helen Cohn
Created: 19 April 2001, Last modified: 15 October 2019
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