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Valerie Flechtner, John Carroll University |
Val's area of research is desert soil algae. She identifies and quantifies
cyanobacteria, chlorophytes, and xanthophytes from desert soil sites in the western U.S.A.
She advises students working on bacterial and algal floras from desert soils. We have been
collaborators for almost a decade.
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Larry St.
Clair, Brigham Young University |
Larry's area of research is lichen florisitcs and ecology. He has collaborated on
studies of cryptogamic crusts, providing expertise on both lichen and bryophyte taxonomy.
He is curator of the extensive Herbarium of Nonvascular Plants at the Monte L. Bean Museum
at Brigham Young University. We have been collaborators for over 15 years.
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Rex Lowe,
Bowling Green State University |
Rex has considerable research experience in algal ecology and floristics, and has
particular strength in diatom taxonomy. We thus have considerable overlap in
interest. Lately we have been conducting studies together in the Great Smoky
Mountains National Park. We are both involved in the All Taxon Biodiversity
Inventory spearheaded by the park and Discover Life in America.
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Miles
Coburn, John Carroll University |
Miles's area of research is fish development and ecology. He has
collaborated with me on projects in which we are examining fish stomach contents for
diatoms, with the intent to do water quality assessment based on these fish-collected
samples. We have collaborated on several student projects in this field, and are
also interested in research at the Woodlake Environmental Field Station in the Cuyahoga
Valley National Park.
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Dave
Evans, University of Arkansas |
Dave has studied the contribution of cryptogamic crusts to the nitrogen budgets of
semiarid and arid lands. He specifically determines relative contributions of nitrogen
fixing organisms to the desert nitrogen budgets through determination of nitrogen isotope
ratios. We have been collaborators for several years.
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Louise
Lewis, University of Connecticut |
Louise has extensive expertise in green algal systematics, and is interested in
phylogenetics of the basal portion of the green plant clade. She is a current
collaborator on our NSF-funded BSIR survey of biotic diversity in microbiotic crusts of
western North America. She uses both morphological and molecular approaches to algal
systematics.
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Steve
Warren/Gwyn Howard, U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratory |
Steve has collaborated in our cyanobacterial amendment research from its inception in
1992. Since Steve left USACERL we have also collaborated with his replacement
at CERL, Gwyn Howard, as well as continuing to involve Steve in his new position at the
University of Colorado.