I grew up in the lush green hills of Tennessee but wasn’t interested in plants until I moved to the temperate rainforests of Western Oregon where plants quickly consumed me. Ironically, I still didn’t notice the lush mosses within these forests until after moving to Portland, OR to start college. I was extremely fortunate that…
I hold a MSc degree in Animal Ecology from Marburg University, Germany from 2009. You may wonder why I am now writing for this project organised by the IBA. Well, my passion for the inconspicuous yet beautiful and important plants developed shortly after this…in Wales! I moved here, to Bangor, to start my PhD entitled…
My name is Juçara Bordin. I was born in 1978 in Caxias do Sul, in the south of Brazil. Since I was a child I was always in touch with nature because I helped my parents with some work on the farm. My brother and I liked to walk in the woods, find pine nuts…
I have always been a friend to the small and unappreciated. My mother likes to tell stories of how when I was a kid, we’d go into a toy store for some special occasion, where she would tell my brother and I we could each pick one toy. My brother would take his time, weighing…
My name is Catalina Montoya Molina, and I am a recent Biology graduate from the University of Antioquia. I was born in Medellín, a city in the department of Antioquia, Colombia. What made me love biology at first was the fact that I lived in a house in the field, so during all my…
My name is Andrea Sass-Gyarmati, I was born in Cluj-Napoca city in Romania. I did my Bachelor and Master studies at the Eszterházy Károly University in Eger, Hungary. I currently work as the curator of the Cryptogmic Herbarium in Eger (EGR) and as a research fellow in the Botanical Department. My childhood wish was always…
The information here is borrowed heavily from ABN newsletter no. 49 where a testimony was prepared for Helen’s 75th year. Helen has been described as a bryologist who has witnessed the development and expansion in the latter 20th century of bryology in Australia and has herself contributed significantly and continues to do so. Helen completed…
From the Guatemalan cloud forest to the Hawaiian rain forest, my professional journey as a bryologist has been an interesting one. My research interest was not always bryophytes, I started as an ethnobotanist in the coasts and highlands of my beautiful homeland, Guatemala. I was granted a Fulbright scholarship, that allowed me to complete a…
I was born in inner Mongolia in China. I love nature. My first experience with identifying plants was in my childhood when I needed to find some food for my rabbits. I studied biology at the University of Science and Technology of China. At that time, I found plants were my favorite. Then I went…
Born in Guatemala City and graduated from the University of San Carlos de Guatemala with a Bachelor in Biology. I began my studies on bryophytes in 2005 in a research project in which I participated with Dr. Virginia Freire. On that occasion I supported the study of Hepatic flora for the Guatemalan cloud forest, conducted…