Island fieldwork with undergrads at Bamfield Marine Science Center, Vancouver Island, BC – 2019
Oak savanna in Jackson County, Oregon, where I surveyed for rare plants in 2008
Island biogeography seminar on the beach with undergrads at Bamfield Marine Science Center, Vancouver Island, BC – 2019
Friendly locals in Ozark National Forest
Epiphytic lichens on a coastal ridge at the UCSB Rancho Marino Reserve
Hiking in the Santa Cruz Mountains with Stanford bio grad students and friends – 2022
Nora Bales surveying deep on Bear Ridge south of Mt. Eddy.
Study plot among huge red firs in the Rim Fire, Yosemite National Park
Checking out lichens on an old curch in Devon, England with April Windle and John Douglass
California Lichen Society at SugarloafRidge SP. Strong wind from the left, apparenlty..
Loberlia spicata is an indicator of unplowed prairies, says Dr. Kelly Kindscher – 2019
2024 California Lichen Society Meeting at the Sedgwick Reserve near Santa Barbara
We finally found Lobaria virens! W/ April Windle and John Douglass in Devon, England – May 2024
Savanna and oak woodland in the foothills of the central Sierra Nevada, near a study site for the California statewide survey
Hiking with Stanford grads, spring 2022. We found a rare plichen growing on a rare plant!
Epiphytic lichen community on valley oak in Moore Creek Park, Napa County–a field site for my UC Davis lichenology course
Looking at lichens at the CALS annual meting – 2019
Teaching a field class at Jasper Ridge – 2022
Wolf lichen on a tree bole in the Sierra – 2016 post-fire monitoring fieldwork
Landscape at one of the California statewide serpentine survey sites I did for Susan Harrison – one of the best jobs I’ve ever had!
Thin soils and big skies at Columbia Hills Natural Area in Klickitat County, Washington – spring 2023
Collecting plant community data in the White River Hills of Missouri
Post-fire landscape at the Quail Ridge reserve, fall 2020
Echinacea paradoxa hybridizing with E. pallida – coolest thing ever!
The glade specialist Delphinium treleasii
Walking down the mountain after a long day surveying for rare plants in Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument, 2007
Angelica lineariloba with a view of the eastern Sierra in the area that burned in the 2015 Walker Fire
High lichen biomass and diversity in an old-growth chaparral stand, Napa Co, CA
Toasting the completion of the 2023 Eriogonum codium census with Callie Zender and Walter Fertig
Surveying Bradshaw’s lomatium using hula hoops as plot frames – April 2024
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
Visiting Kew Gardens with my brother Aber
keying plants with a view at the Rancho Marino Reserve
Study plot in Victoria Glade, Jefferson Co., Missouri
Sagebrush steppe landscape near Burns, Oregon – one of our study sites in the 2009-2010 soil crust survey with Heather Root
The endemic Klickitat lomatium, on a high slope above the Klickitat River in Washington State
Teaching a field class at Jasper Ridge – 2022
Fire ecology: sometimes you find morels
Sketches from a student in my Jepson Herbarium lichen workshop (by Mary Ann King)
Leading a group of state botanists from around the country through old growth forest at Mt. Ranier National Park. Here we’re checking out goblin’s gold moss!
Phil Hahn sweepnets grasshoppers for our multitrophic diversity project
Leading a lichen walk with CNPS on San Bruno Mountain in 2020
In the field with Idaho State Botanist Lynn Kinter
Echinacea I seeded in 2015 blooms in 2019
Lichens spreading happiness
Field crew 2017 demonstrating rigorous commitment to daily data backup – during our survey of the Rim Fire
Lichen night at the Exploritorium – 2019
Field trip for lichen workshop at Reed College, October 2023
Ozark woodland study plot in Ozark National Forest near Fayetteville, Arkansas
Lichen fieldwork in the East Bay with Stanford undergrads Eric and Isabella – 2021
Leading a lichen walk with CNPS on San Bruno Mountain in 2020
Lichen walk at Sam P Taylor State Park with Golden Gate Parks Conservacy – November 2023
Visiting tall western penstemon with Elaine Stewart, who originally found the population – June 2024
Exploring caves at Lava Beds National Monument with John Villella for our cave lichen survey
Campsite during fieldwork in Ozark National Forest near Optimus, 2012
Fieldwork in post-fire red fir forest, Yosemite
Teaching winter tree ID in the general ecology class at UW-Madison
Fieldwork with Quamash EcoResearch staff studying White Bluffs bladderpod
Chaparral hills at the UC Davis Quail Ridge Reserve, home of several exciting lichen projects
dry forest lichen community on the Modoc Plateau
Benefits of Botanizing – Gifford Pinchot National Forest, summer 2020
Ozark endemic Echinacea paradoxa in Ha Ha Tonka State Park, Missouri
Surveying the Darlingtonia bog in the Klamaths
The commute home after a long day surveying the Grouse Fire in Yosemite
Island fieldwork with undergrads at Bamfield Marine Science Center, Vancouver Island, BC – 2019
Teaching field botany on Scotch Creek, Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument
The lovely, serepentine-associated Darlingtonia california
One of the most beautiful soil crust lichens – Acarospora schleicheri – from the 2009 central Oregon soil crust survey with Heather Root
Field camp during the 2016 survey of the Long Fire near Kyburz, California
Sketches from a student in my Jepson Herbarium lichen workshop (Mary Ann King)
April and John get deep on the lichens on an ancient oak in Devon, England
Surveying Castilleja victoriae on Iceberg Island, June 2024
Teaching field botany on the McCloud River circa 2009
A population of the very rare Railarella pringlei in the Klamath Mountains
Stunted conifer forests on serpentine, Horse Mountain, Humboldt County, California. One of the many places I visited on the statewide survey.
With former Washington State Botanists Joe Arnett and Walter Fertig at the 2024 Botany Study Weekend meeting
Serpentine trees
Leading a rare plant and lichen field trip in the Olympics, June 2024
Guerrilla field plant ID lab during Ozarks fieldwork
Poppies bloom two years after the Hennessey Fire at Quail Ridge, the site of our long-term post-fire lichen monitoring projects – 2022
Teaching mushroom identification at the Opal Creek Ancient Forest Center, circa 2008
Fieldwork visitor
Obscure buttercup (Ranunculus triternatus) – endemic to the eastern Columbia gorge
Red fir forest canopy in Yosemite
Amanda points out pine beetle galleries in the Walker Fire – whitebark pine forest above Gibbs Lake, Mono County, CA
Derek Young expriences, esentially, enlightment upon observing a big clump of conifer seedlings. Does it get any better than early and abundant tree regneration post-fire?!?!
Word cloud based on my research paper abstracts
Measuring lichen photosynthetic capacity in my ecology research class – 2019
Prickly poppies bloom the year after the Walker fire (summer 2016, Mono County, California)
Looking out at the Little Applegate Valley’s mix of veg types in southern Oregon circa 2008
Looking at lichens on a magnolia with students in my Jepson Herbarium workshop
Jesse E. D. Miller 