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

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

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

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

Landscape at one of the California statewide serpentine survey sites I did for Susan Harrison – one of the best jobs I’ve ever had!

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

Collecting plant community data in the White River Hills of Missouri

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

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

Phil Hahn sweepnets grasshoppers for our multitrophic diversity project

Guerrilla field plant ID lab during Ozarks fieldwork

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

Amanda points out pine beetle galleries in the Walker Fire – whitebark pine forest above Gibbs Lake, Mono County, CA

Lichens spreading happiness

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Measuring lichen photosynthetic capacity in my ecology research class – 2019

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

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

Study plot in Victoria Glade, Jefferson Co., Missouri

Fieldwork visitor

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

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

Looking at lichens at the CALS annual meting

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

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

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

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

Lichen night at the Exploritorium – 2019

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

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

dry forest lichen community on the Modoc Plateau

Benefits of Botanizing – Gifford Pinchot National Forest, summer 2020

Wolf lichen on a tree bole

Campsite during fieldwork in Ozark National Forest near Optimus, 2012

Word cloud based on my research paper abstracts

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

Fieldwork in post-fire red fir forest, Yosemite

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

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

Friendly locals in Ozark National Forest

Echinacea I seeded in 2015 blooms in 2019

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