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
Jesse E. D. Miller 