Janice Glime’s Bryological journey: I began my bryological journey in Maryland in the eastern United States. As an undergraduate I was disappointed that none of the professors of botany could answer my questions about bryophytes or help me identify them. When I began my Master’s degree, I intended to tackle the flora at the Girl…
My name is Gaik Ee Lee and I was born in Ipoh, Malaysia. As I look back, it never crossed my mind that I would become a biologist or bryologist, to be specific. I must thank God for His leading and provision for the past 18 years on this path of never-ending discovery of these…
ISYEB (Institut de Systematique, Evolution, Biodiversité), Sorbonne Université, Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, FRANCE I was born in Paris, France. After training in biology and geology, I studied botany on European plants, ecology and evolution in France. I teach at the Sorbonne Université (Paris, France) in Master’s degrees for high-school teacher training and I belong…
My name is Ariadna Ibarra-Morales. I was born in Tapachula, Chiapas, México, a small town very close to the border with Guatemala. As both of my parents are scientists, and growing up surrounded by mangroves, mountain forests and coffee plantations, my love for nature started at a very young age. I studied biology at the…
Join us this summer for a week-long, natural history seminar taught by taught by an expert field biologist! Eagle Hill is located on the coast of Maine, between Acadia National Park and Petit Manan National Wildlife Refuge. See below for the list of week-long field seminars we have confirmed for the summer of 2022. Additional…
Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, 10330, Thailand I am recently working as an honorary research associate in the Department of Botany at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok. Although my current research focuses on taxonomy of Orchidaceae and Asclepiadaceae, my first research project was on bryophytes. My interest in all kinds of small…
Suva-based but born and raised in Nadi, FIJI. My first encounter with bryophytes was via a textbook while undertaking an introductory plant biology course during my undergraduate days. I was not particularly keen on having to learn the life cycle of an organism that I could not relate to or had never heard of before….
Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Burapha University, Chonburi, 20131, Thailand Email: ppsukk@gmail.com, phiangphak@buu.ac.th I am an associate professor at Burapha University in Thailand. I completed my primary and secondary schools in Nan, where I was born in 1982. Later, I continued my high school and Bachelor’s degree in Chiang Mai because I obtained the…
Nirmala Pradhan, Professor of Botany and a reputed bryologist started her bryophyte research about three and half decades back when there were almost no one working on this lower plant group in Nepal. Dr. Pradhan who was born in Kathmandu started her bryophyte research when she was doing her Master’s dissertation on this plant in…
I grew up in Nevada’s Great Basin Desert, so plants were never a significant part of my daily life. The occasional bush would hide snakes or scorpions and should be avoided, and a rare tree was just a respite from the sun. My upbringing meant that flowers, trees, and botanical things were largely alien and…