I was born in Newcastle, New South Wales Australia. I became interested in bryophytes during my third year Botany studies at the University of Sydney, Australia, with lectures from Tony Martin. I was intrigued at their dominant haploid generation, enabling, as I thought, a fairly direct influence of their environment on their growth. My fourth…
I grew up in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada on the central prairies of North America and spent a lot of my summers in the boreal forests of Manitoba and northwestern Ontario. The bryophytes and lichens around me were inspiring and fascinating, but my love of canoe tripping brought me to limnology and phycology during my BSc…
I was born in Moscow in a family of researchers. My mom was a geomorphologist, and my dad was a geobotanist. I had my first field work experience when I was 7 years old, when my parents took me on an expedition to the Khantayka River, a tributary of the Yenisei, one of the largest…