Ozark woodland study plot in Ozark National Forest near Fayetteville, Arkansas
Lichen night at the Exploritorium – 2019
Sketches from a student in my Jepson Herbarium lichen workshop (by Mary Ann King)
Looking at lichens on a magnolia with students in my Jepson Herbarium workshop
Fieldwork in post-fire red fir forest, Yosemite
Field camp during the 2016 survey of the Long Fire near Kyburz, California
Collecting plant community data in the White River Hills of Missouri
Walking down the mountain after a long day surveying for rare plants in Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument, 2007
Ozark endemic Echinacea paradoxa in Ha Ha Tonka State Park, Missouri
One of the most beautiful soil crust lichens – Acarospora schleicheri – from the 2009 central Oregon soil crust survey with Heather Root
Chaparral hills at the UC Davis Quail Ridge Reserve, home of several exciting lichen projects
Study plot in Victoria Glade, Jefferson Co., Missouri
Echinacea paradoxa hybridizing with E. pallida – coolest thing ever!
Teaching field botany on Scotch Creek, Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument
Red fir forest canopy in Yosemite
Field crew 2017 demonstrating rigorous commitment to daily data backup – during our survey of the Rim Fire
Savanna and oak woodland in the foothills of the central Sierra Nevada, near a study site for the California statewide survey
Island fieldwork with undergrads at Bamfield Marine Science Center, Vancouver Island, BC – 2019
Phil Hahn sweepnets grasshoppers for our multitrophic diversity project
Sagebrush steppe landscape near Burns, Oregon – one of our study sites in the 2009-2010 soil crust survey with Heather Root
Quadrat view of a veg plot near the New Hogan Reservoir in the Sierra Foothills for Susan Harrison’s California statewide plant community survey, 2009
Stunted conifer forests on serpentine, Horse Mountain, Humboldt County, California. One of the many places I visited on the statewide survey.
Friendly locals in Ozark National Forest
Leading a lichen walk with CNPS on San Bruno Mountain in 2020
High lichen biomass and diversity in an old-growth chaparral stand, Napa Co, CA
Epiphytic lichens on a coastal ridge at the UCSB Rancho Marino Reserve
Loberlia spicata is an indicator of unplowed prairies, says Dr. Kelly Kindscher – 2019
Epiphytic lichen community on valley oak in Moore Creek Park, Napa County–a field site for my UC Davis lichenology course
Word cloud based on my research paper abstracts
Island biogeography seminar on the beach with undergrads at Bamfield Marine Science Center, Vancouver Island, BC – 2019
Study plot among huge red firs in the Rim Fire, Yosemite National Park
Prickly poppies bloom the year after the Walker fire (summer 2016, Mono County, California)
The glade specialist Delphinium treleasii
Looking out at the Little Applegate Valley’s mix of veg types in southern Oregon circa 2008
keying plants with a view at the Rancho Marino Reserve
Teaching field botany on the McCloud River circa 2009
Lichens spreading happiness
The commute home after a long day surveying the Grouse Fire in Yosemite
Teaching winter tree ID in the general ecology class at UW-Madison
Fieldwork visitor
Angelica lineariloba with a view of the eastern Sierra in the area that burned in the 2015 Walker Fire
Amanda points out pine beetle galleries in the Walker Fire – whitebark pine forest above Gibbs Lake, Mono County, CA
Guerrilla field plant ID lab during Ozarks fieldwork
Leading a lichen walk with CNPS on San Bruno Mountain in 2020
Teaching mushroom identification at the Opal Creek Ancient Forest Center, circa 2008
Island fieldwork with undergrads at Bamfield Marine Science Center, Vancouver Island, BC – 2019
Echinacea I seeded in 2015 blooms in 2019
Campsite during fieldwork in Ozark National Forest near Optimus, 2012
Landscape at one of the California statewide serpentine survey sites I did for Susan Harrison – one of the best jobs I’ve ever had!
Measuring lichen photosynthetic capacity in my ecology research class – 2019
Oak savanna in Jackson County, Oregon, where I surveyed for rare plants in 2008
