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Helena Hespanhol

I grew up in the city of Vila Nova de Gaia, located south of the city of Porto, in the North of Portugal. Although living in a city, I grew up with a lot of contact and sense of respect for nature, raised mainly by my grandparents and my parents who often took me and…

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Cristiana Vieira

Nature has always been a safe and magical place, full of possible discoveries for me. The smallest organisms allowed the most unexpected discoveries and the plants were the permanent element of my life growing up on a farm. I grew up without really knowing what I wanted to be “when I grew up”. At secondary…

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Annie Martin (aka Mossin’ Annie)

I am a mosser. Known to most folks as Mossin’ Annie, I have been fascinated with mosses since childhood. Today, my life’s passion is advocating and promoting bryophytes (mosses) as viable horticultural choices in today’s landscapes. I wear many hats — moss rescuer, small business owner of a Mossery (moss nursery) and online Moss Shop,…

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Noris Salazar Allen

Part-time scientific staff Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (Panama)Retired Professor, Department of Botany, University of Panama I was borne in a small town (San Francisco) on the outskirts of Panama City. As such there were trees around the house, a large backyard where my grandmother had rabbits, chickens, and turkeys. It was like living in the…

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Elizabeth Lavocat Bernard

My passion for bryology started on quite an unusual path. I was born in a small village in the east of France. As a child, I was already very close to nature; I enjoyed observing the little ferns and mosses on the old walls along the river. After my high school final exam, I worked…

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Laura Briscoe

I grew up in Salt Lake City, Utah, and spent a lot of my childhood outdoors, always noticing small things. ?I actually wanted to be an entomologist, and started volunteering in the entomology collections at the Natural History Museum of Utah starting at age 14. I continued to be interested in entomology, and it wasn’t…

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D. Christine Cargill

I was born in the Gippsland country town of Bairnsdale in the state of Victoria, close to my mother’s hometown. Growing up, my siblings and I spent every school holiday on my grandparent’s farm, playing in the garden, helping with the animals, picnicking in the local countryside. I do remember that one of Christmas gift…

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Rossarin Pollawatn

I am a lecturer in the Department of Botany at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand. I was born on 8 April 1970 in Trang, a small town located on the western side of the Buntad Mountain in southern Thailand. When I was young, I would look to the mountains and wonder about the life forms…

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Morghan McCool

I was born in Monterey, California but was born into a military family. This lifestyle doomed me to live a sporadic life bouncing between states for 18 years. Regardless of the city or state in which I found myself, the one thing that remained constant was nature. Wherever I went, there was always something new…

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Manju C. Nair

I was born on 1st May 1975 in Peerumadu, a hilly village in the Western Ghats of Idukki district in the south Indian state of Kerala. I am the child of a civil servant and was educated in different schools in different districts. I went to school in Vellikulam, Vagamon of Idukki district, High School…

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