Hi Everyone
 

My name is Charles Clarke and I have been meaning to join this forum for almost a year! As some of you may know, I am living in KL where I work at Monash University. I had the pleasure of meeting quite a few of you at the flower show in Penang last year. Sadly, I wasn't able to make it to the most recent event there, but I hope to make it back to Penang quite a few times over the next couple of years.

For those members that I haven't met yet, my main interest is in Nepenthes, especially their ecology. I'm getting quite a few research projects up and running at Monash this year and I hope that some of these will involve, or be useful to, some of you.

Cheers,

Charles

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Welcome Charles, hope to see more of your research and hope to see you posts more frequent here.

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Hi there Dr. Charles! A big welcome to you. It is an honor to have you on the forum and we hope to learn from you. We will eagerly look forward to your findings in your research projects. Thanks in advance for sharing it with us.

For those who do not know, Dr. Charles M. Clarke is a botanist and taxanomist specialising in Nepenthes. He has been studying the ecology of Nepenthes since 1987 and has spent many years in Borneo for this purpose. He has described five species (correct me if I am wrong) of Nepenthes and has published numerous books such as Nepenthes of Sumatra and Peninsular Malaysia, A Guide to the Pitcher Plants of Sabah, A Guide to the Pitcher Plants of Peninsular Malaysia, A Pocket Guide: Pitcher Plants of Sarawak, etc.

He has graciously agreed to be one of the judges for the quarterly competition that I will be running on the forum, details of which can be found in the "Events" category under "PetPitcher Plant Competition".

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Welcome Charles to the forum. Hope we can learn more from you.

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It would be exciting to be involved in the projects you are working on with regards to Nepenthes. Do let us know what you need. :smile:

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Welcome Charles to PetPicher Forum.

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Hi Charles! are you a lecturer in Monash? Which faculty?

Im doing Monash Uni Foundation Year *biggrin2*

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Hi, Charles... Welcome to the forum.. I actually have one of your books.. :D Care to autograph it? :p

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Hi Everyone, thanks for the nice comments - it's good to feel welcome!

nickjamie - I'm in the School of Science at Monash.
paphioboy - sure... if you think that's a good idea!!!! Are you in KL?

Cheers,

Charles

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most welcome charles.

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Hi Charles,

It is really nice to have someone who had been visiting so many neps habitat all over the places. Please share us your great knowledge of neps growing. I am from Medan, North Sumatra, if you have plan to come back to re-visit the habitat in Sumatra let me know.

Ed

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A BIG welcome to you Charles, hope we all benefit from your experience and research, thanks in advance. :1thumbup:

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Welcome to PP Dr. Charles, hope you'll enjoy your stay here.

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Hi Ed,

You can count on it! I'll definitely be visiting Sumatra again over the next few years and it would be great to have some local contacts to visit and travel with.

Cheers,

Charles

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Nice to see you here Dr Charles. Welcome.

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Welcome Charles,
I am sure we all can learn a lot from you!

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Welcome Dr.Charles,i'm feeling really honor to know that you are a member of PP forum.I've read your books of 'Nepenthes of Borneo', 'Nepenthes of Sumatra and Peninsular Malaysia', 'A Guide to Picther Plants of Sabah', 'A Guide to Picther Plants of Peninsular Malaysia' and 'A Pocket Guide: Picther Plants of Sarawak'.Do you have any other books that i may not have yet and any book soon to be published?...
I'm waiting forward to learn more from you....

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Hello,

Gosh, I missed that! Charles Clarke joined a forum!
I'm really happy to see you here Charles.
I will soon send you a mail about my findings in Cambodia.


François (Mey).