Curator, Western Australian Herbarium.
Kevin manages and provides scientific leadership for the curation and information technology aspects of the Herbarium.

1. Plant systematics, with research interests in the families Proteaceae (especially Banksia and Dryandra), Rhamnaceae and Violaceae
2. Biodiversity informatics, with a particular focus on interactive identification tools.
3. International standards in biodiversity informatics, particularly through collaborative development of the Structure of Descriptive Data (SDD) standard
4. Conservation ecology of grassy woodland ecosystems, focusing on understanding key ecological processes of degradation, recovery and resistance

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

BSc (Hons., First Class; University of Melbourne, 1986) A cladistic and biogeographic analysis of Angophora Cav.

PhD (University of Melbourne, 1993) A cladistic analysis of Banksia L.f.

POSITIONS HELD

2006- Curator, Western Australian Herbarium, Department of Environment and Conservation

1995-2006 Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Biological Information Technology, The University of Queensland

1995-2006 Botanical Consultant, Ecological Interactions, with Dr. Suzanne Prober

1993-5 Botanist, Australian National Herbarium, CSIRO Division of Plant Industry, preparing Flora of Australia treatment for the family Rhamnaceae.

1992 Contract Botanist, Australian National Botanic Gardens Herbarium.

1992 Contract Botanist, Endangered Species Unit, Australian National Parks and Wildlife Service.

1990-8 Tutor, Council of Adult Education, Melbourne, leading natural history tours in Victoria, Western Australia and Central and Northern Australia (see below)

1989 Botanical illustrator at New South Wales National Herbarium.

1988-9 Tutor, Plant Identification course, Council of Adult Education, Melbourne.

1985 Graduate research assistant, Australian National Herbarium, CSIRO, Canberra, working on systematics of Melaleuca.

1984 Botanical illustrator at Melbourne University, illustrating Blechnum for Prof. T.C. Chambers.

1983 Technical Assistant, National Herbarium of Victoria.

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

2006- Delegate, Scientific Sub-Committee for Outreach and Capacity Building of the Global Biodiversity Infrastructure Facility
1995- Member, Taxonomic Databases Working Group
1990- Member, Australian Systematic Botany Society

1. Development of an interactive key to the genera of macrofungi in Australia
2. Studies in the comparative evolutionary history of south-western and south-eastern Australia, with an emphasis on testing hypotheses of species richness and endemism patterns
3. Taxonomic studies on various genera of Western Australia flora, with an emphasis on rapid methods of species delimitation and description of new taxa

(34 items)

2009

Thiele K (ed) (2009). Nuytsia. Volume 19, number 1 (2009). Department of Environment and Conservation, Kensington, WA. pp. 1–202

2008

Hollister C, Lander N, Thiele K (2008). Key to grevilleas of Western Australia. Department of Environment and Conservation, Kensington, WA.

Hollister C, Lander N, Thiele K (2008). Key to hakeas of Western Australia. Department of Environment and Conservation, Kensington, WA.

Hollister C, Lander N, Thiele K (2008). Key to Conospermum of Western Australia. Department of Environment and Conservation, Kensington, WA.

Hollister C, Lander N, Thiele K (2008). Key to banksias (including dryandras) of Western Australia. Department of Environment and Conservation, Kensington, WA.

Hollister C, Lander N, Thiele K (2008). Keys to the Proteaceae of Western Australia. 1 March 2008. Department of Environment and Conservation, Kensington, WA. 1 CD-ROM

Hollister C, Lander N, Thiele K (2008). Key to Petrophile & Isopogon of Western Australia. Department of Environment and Conservation, Kensington, WA.

Hollister C, Lander N, Thiele K (2008). Key to banksias (including dryandras) of Western Australia. Department of Environment and Conservation, Kensington, WA.

Hollister C, Lander N, Thiele K (2008). Key to hakeas of Western Australia. Department of Environment and Conservation, Kensington, WA.

Hollister C, Lander N, Thiele K (2008). Keys to the Proteaceae of Western Australia. 29 August 2008. Department of Environment and Conservation, Kensington, WA. 1 CD-ROM

Hollister C, Lander N, Thiele K (2008). Key to grevilleas of Western Australia. Department of Environment and Conservation, Kensington, WA.

Hollister C, Lander N, Thiele K (2008). Key to Conospermum of Western Australia. Department of Environment and Conservation, Kensington, WA.

Hollister C, Lander N, Thiele K (2008). Key to Petrophile & Isopogon of Western Australia. Department of Environment and Conservation, Kensington, WA.

Kellermann J, Rye BL, Thiele KR (2008). Nomenclatural notes, typifications and name changes in Trymalium (Rhamnaceae: Pomaderreae). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 132, pp. 18–28

Kellermann J, Thiele KR (2008). Lectotypifications and nomenclatural notes on Rhamnaceae from northern Australia. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 22, pp. 33–35

Kendrick P, Thiele K, Davis R (2008). Desert tracks: plants and animals of the Canning Stock Route, 10-22 August, 2008: expedition briefing. DEC, Kensington, WA. Department of Environment and Conservation, Western Australia, Landscope Expeditions 47 p.

Thiele K (2008). An introduction to biological descriptions (ABSTRACT). In The proceedings of TDWG: provisional abstracts of the 2008 Annual Conference of the Taxonomic Databases Working Group: 19-24 October 2008, Fremantle, Australia (eds A Weitzman, L Belbin). Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG), Fremantle. pp. 15–16

Thiele K (2008). Dryandras are banksias. 12(3), pp. 6–7

Thiele K (2008). DEC’s Flora Conservation and Herbarium Program : an overview: PowerPoint presentation given at: NGO Industrial Environment Forum, 4-5 December 2008, Western Australian Herbarium and Perth Zoo. Department of Environment and Conservation, Kensington, WA. 1 PDF

Thiele K (ed) (2008). Nuytsia. Volume 18 (2008). Department of Environment and Conservation, Kensington, WA. pp. 1–344

Thiele KR, Wylie SJ, Maccarone L, Hollick P, McComb JA (2008). Pilostyles coccoidea (Apodanthaceae), a new species from Western Australia described from morphological and molecular evidence. Nuytsia 18, pp. 273–284

2007

Chapman AR, Thiele K (2007). Bid to host BIS TDWG 2008 in Fremantle Western Australia: TDWG executive meeting, Sunday 16th September 2007: PowerPoint presentation given at Biodiversity Information Standards TDWG: the Proceedings of TDWG: Abstracts of the 2007 Annual Conference of the Taxonomic Databases Working Group: 16-22 September 2007, Bratislava, Slovakia. 13 digital slides

Gibson N, Coates DJ, Thiele KR (2007). Taxonomic research and the conservation status of flora in the Yilgarn banded iron formation ranges. Nuytsia 17, pp. 1–12

Hollister C, Lander N, Thiele K (2007). Key to grevilleas of Western Australia. Available at http://florabase.calm.wa.gov.au/keys/. Department of Environment and Conservation, Kensington, WA.

Kellermann J, Rye BL, Thiele KR (2007). Blackallia, Serichonus and Papistylus: three closely related genera of Rhamnaceae (Pomaderreae) from south-western Australia. Nuytsia 16, pp. 299–316

Mast AR, Thiele K (2007). The transfer of Dryandra R.Br. to Banksia L.f. (Proteaceae). Australian Systematic Botany 20, pp. 63–71

Prober S, Thiele K, Lunt I (2007). Effects of fire frequency on composition and diversity of temperate grassy woodlands: a 12 year study (ABSTRACT). In ESA 2007, Program and Abstracts: Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre, Perth, Australia, 2007, Monday 26th November to Friday 30th November 2007 Conference Organising Committee, Perth. p. 142

Prober SM, Thiele KR, Bramwell M (2007). Intense fires promote uncommon post-fire ephemerals in currawang, Acacia doratoxylon, dry scrubs of Little River Gorge, east Gippsland. Victorian Naturalist 124, pp. 320–331

Prober SM, Thiele KR, Lunt ID (2007). Fire frequency regulates tussock grass composition, structure and resilience in endangered temperate woodlands. Austral Ecology 32, pp. 808–824

Thiele K (2007). WA's national parks: home to a Noah's Ark of flora. Landscope 23(1), pp. 32–38

Thiele KR (2007). Two new species of Australian Stenanthemum (Rhamnaceae), with a conspectus and key to species outside Western Australia. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 21, pp. 63–70

Thiele KR, Brown AP (2007). Recombinations in Western Australian Orchidaceae. 1. Nuytsia 16, pp. 473–474

Thiele KR, Mast AR (2007). Further recombinations of Dryandra into Banksia. Nuytsia 16, p. 475

1992

Quinn FC, Cowley KJ, Barlow BA, Thiele KR (1992). New names and combinations for some Melaleuca (Myrtaceae) species and subspecies from the south-west of Western Australia considered rare or threatened. Nuytsia 8, pp. 333–350