
Savanna and oak woodland in the foothills of the central Sierra Nevada, near a study site for the California statewide survey

The glade specialist Delphinium treleasii

keying plants with a view at the Rancho Marino Reserve

Oak savanna in Jackson County, Oregon, where I surveyed for rare plants in 2008

Teaching winter tree ID in the general ecology class at UW-Madison

Teaching field botany on Scotch Creek, Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument

Island fieldwork with undergrads at Bamfield Marine Science Center, Vancouver Island, BC – 2019

Poppies bloom two years after the Hennessey Fire at Quail Ridge, the site of our long-term post-fire lichen monitoring projects – 2022

Hiking in the Santa Cruz Mountains with Stanford bio grad students and friends – 2022

Looking at lichens at the CALS annual meting – 2019

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

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?!?!

Field camp during the 2016 survey of the Long Fire near Kyburz, California

Sketches from a student in my Jepson Herbarium lichen workshop (by Mary Ann King)

The lovely, serepentine-associated Darlingtonia california

Guerrilla field plant ID lab during Ozarks fieldwork

Exploring caves at Lava Beds National Monument with John Villella for our cave lichen survey

Looking at lichens on a magnolia with students in my Jepson Herbarium workshop

Sagebrush steppe landscape near Burns, Oregon – one of our study sites in the 2009-2010 soil crust survey with Heather Root

Angelica lineariloba with a view of the eastern Sierra in the area that burned in the 2015 Walker Fire

Surveying the Darlingtonia bog in the Klamaths

Wolf lichen on a tree bole in the Sierra – 2016 post-fire monitoring fieldwork

Lichens spreading happiness

Walking down the mountain after a long day surveying for rare plants in Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument, 2007


Island biogeography seminar on the beach with undergrads at Bamfield Marine Science Center, Vancouver Island, BC – 2019

Leading a lichen walk with CNPS on San Bruno Mountain in 2020

Epiphytic lichens on a coastal ridge at the UCSB Rancho Marino Reserve

Island fieldwork with undergrads at Bamfield Marine Science Center, Vancouver Island, BC – 2019

Ozark endemic Echinacea paradoxa in Ha Ha Tonka State Park, Missouri

Loberlia spicata is an indicator of unplowed prairies, says Dr. Kelly Kindscher – 2019

Fieldwork visitor

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!

Epiphytic lichen community on valley oak in Moore Creek Park, Napa County–a field site for my UC Davis lichenology course

Lichen night at the Exploritorium – 2019

Teaching field botany on the McCloud River circa 2009

Teaching a field class at Jasper Ridge – 2022

Chaparral hills at the UC Davis Quail Ridge Reserve, home of several exciting lichen projects

Phil Hahn sweepnets grasshoppers for our multitrophic diversity project

Ozark woodland study plot in Ozark National Forest near Fayetteville, Arkansas

Sketches from a student in my Jepson Herbarium lichen workshop (Mary Ann King)

Looking out at the Little Applegate Valley’s mix of veg types in southern Oregon circa 2008

Teaching mushroom identification at the Opal Creek Ancient Forest Center, circa 2008

The commute home after a long day surveying the Grouse Fire in Yosemite

Echinacea paradoxa hybridizing with E. pallida – coolest thing ever!

One of the most beautiful soil crust lichens – Acarospora schleicheri – from the 2009 central Oregon soil crust survey with Heather Root

California Lichen Society at SugarloafRidge SP. Strong wind from the left, apparenlty..

Study plot in Victoria Glade, Jefferson Co., Missouri

Field crew 2017 demonstrating rigorous commitment to daily data backup – during our survey of the Rim Fire

High lichen biomass and diversity in an old-growth chaparral stand, Napa Co, CA

Teaching a field class at Jasper Ridge – 2022

Stunted conifer forests on serpentine, Horse Mountain, Humboldt County, California. One of the many places I visited on the statewide survey.

Measuring lichen photosynthetic capacity in my ecology research class – 2019

Post-fire landscape at the Quail Ridge reserve, fall 2020

Study plot among huge red firs in the Rim Fire, Yosemite National Park

Benefits of Botanizing – Gifford Pinchot National Forest, summer 2020

Hiking with Stanford grads, spring 2022. We found a rare plichen growing on a rare plant!

Nora Bales surveying deep on Bear Ridge south of Mt. Eddy.

Collecting plant community data in the White River Hills of Missouri

Red fir forest canopy in Yosemite

Word cloud based on my research paper abstracts

Fire ecology: sometimes you find morels

Leading a lichen walk with CNPS on San Bruno Mountain in 2020

Prickly poppies bloom the year after the Walker fire (summer 2016, Mono County, California)

Friendly locals in Ozark National Forest

A population of the very rare Railarella pringlei in the Klamath Mountains

Fieldwork in post-fire red fir forest, Yosemite

Echinacea I seeded in 2015 blooms in 2019

Lichen fieldwork in the East Bay with Stanford undergrads Eric and Isabella – 2021

Serpentine trees

dry forest lichen community on the Modoc Plateau