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Editors of the Second Edition of The Jepson Manual |
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Convening Editor, Dr. Bruce G. Baldwin |
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Dr. Bruce G. Baldwin is Curator of the Jepson Herbarium and Professor of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley. His research is centered on questions concerning evolution of the California flora, especially the indigenous lineages of Compositae. His work, and the work of his students, has resulted in over 40 scholarly publications on California plants. In addition to research, Dr. Baldwin serves as Convening Editor of The Jepson Flora Project, an initiative to produce regional manuals of Californian plants, new editions of The Jepson Manual: Higher Plants of California, and a reworked Flora of California. He has worked on several book projects that resulted in successful publication including the Jepson Desert Manual: Vascular Plants of Southeastern California (2002, UC Press) and Tarweeds and Silverswords: Evolution of the Madiinae (Asteraceae) (2003, Missouri Botanical Garden Press). He also serves as chairman of the committee that oversees the Lawrence R. Heckard Endowment Fund, established by the late Dr. Heckard to fund research at UC Berkeley on systematics of Californian plants.
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Editor, Steve Boyd |
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Steve Boyd is Curator of the Herbarium at Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden in Claremont, California, and a southern California native and life-long resident of Riverside. He received his B.S. in biology and M.S. in botany from UC Riverside in 1980 and 1983 respectively, and prior to beginning work at Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden in 1985, worked as a biological consultant, helping found the environmental consulting firm Tierra Madre Consultants. His research interests include systematics, conservation, and floristics, with a focus on vascular plants of southern California. Steve has been an author, or co-author, of over 40 scientific publications, as well as numerous technical reports, most relating to botanical resources of the Angeles and Cleveland National Forests. During the past two decades he has also served in several capacities on the Southern California Botanists board of directors, including terms as president, vice-president, and director-at-large; he was a member of the California Native Plant Society's Rare Plant Scientific Advisory Committee, where he was active in the effort to secure state and federal protection for Allium munzii and Ceanothus ophiochilus; and most recently, he served on the Scientific Review Panel advising the County during development of Riverside County's Multiple Species Habitat Conservation Plan for the western portion of the county. |
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Editor, David J. Keil |
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Dr. David J. Keil is Professor of Biology at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, and Director of the Robert F. Hoover Herbarium. He received his Ph.D. in 1973 from Ohio State University. His research has focused on Asteraceae systematics and floristics of western North America. He has contributed numerous scientific papers, was a major participant in the development of The Jepson Manual, and has coauthored textbooks on Vascular Plant Taxonomy and California Vegetation. He teaches classes on Vascular Plant Taxonomy, Field Botany, and Biogeography. He has served as editor of Madroño. |
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Editor, Robert Patterson |
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Dr. Robert Patterson is Professor of Biology at San Francisco State University. He received his Ph.D. in 1975 from the University of California at Santa Barbara, studying evolution and systematic relationships of perennial members of Linanthus. He joined the SFSU faculty in 1979, where he teaches courses in plant taxonomy, plant anatomy, plant evolution, and introductory biology, and serves as coordinator of the graduate program in biology. Dr. Patterson has been president of the California Botanical Society and editor of Madroño, and is a Fellow of the California Academy of Sciences. He has authored treatments for the Jepson Manual, the Manual of the Flowering Plants of Hawaii, and the Flora North America project. The principle research foci of his lab include phylogenetic relationships in Polemoniaceae and Hydrophyllaceae. |
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Editor, Thomas J. Rosatti |
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Dr. Thomas J. Rosatti is Scientific Editor of the Second Edition of the Jepson Manual (TJM2) and the Jepson Online Interchange for California Floristics, and Founding Editor of the Index To California Plant Names (ICPN). He received a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1983, under the co-supervision of Dr. Edward G. Voss (Rapporteur-general for botanical nomenclature at the XIII International Botanical Congress; author of Michigan Flora) and the late Dr. Warren H. Wagner, Jr. (member of the National Academy of Sciences; mentioned by name in a Hollywood film, A New Leaf, starring Walter Matthau). As a postdoctoral scholar at the New York State Museum, Tom published treatments of several families for the Generic Flora of the Southeastern United States (based at Harvard University) before coming to UC Berkeley in 1987 as Scientific Editor of The Jepson Manual. Tom served as Project Coordinator of the SMASCH (Specimen Management System for California Herbaria) Project from 1993 to 2000, when he was appointed as an Editor of the Jepson Flora Project (JFP). Within the JFP, Tom has been involved with: development of taxonomic philosophies and editorial conventions; selection of outside contributors; authorship of a Guide for Contributors (including updated, expanded glossary); creation and maintenance of the Index to California Plant Names; scientific editing of treatments submitted for publication in TJM2; and authorship of electronic identification (MEKA) keys, as well as complete floristic treatments in some cases, to native and naturalized vascular plants of California. |
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Editor, Dieter Wilken |
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Dr. Dieter Wilken is Vice President for Programs and Collections at the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden. He received his Ph.D. in 1971 from UC Santa Barbara, and served on the faculty at Occidental College and Colorado State University, moving to the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden in 1993, where he oversees programs in education, research, and conservation. His research and publications have focused on the Polemoniaceae, floristics of western North America, rare plant reproductive biology, and most recently on Ceanothus. He has been involved in a number of floristic projects, including the Flora of the Great Plains, The Jepson Manual, and the Flora of North America. |
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Jepson Flora Project Staff |
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Collection Research Specialist, Jeffrey Greenhouse |
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Dr. Jeffery Greenhouse began his association with the University and Jepson Herbaria in 1999 as a volunteer helping with collection research and editing for production of the Jepson Desert Manual. After publication of the manual he continued as a volunteer with various collection management projects including maintenance of the Jepson Reference Collection and curation of unaccessioned California and Baja California specimens left by Annetta Carter. This led to his appointment to the staff of the Jepson Flora Project as Collection Research Specialist (began in 2001). His current project activities include nomenclatural and phytogeographical editing of accounts for the second edition of The Jepson Manual.
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Project Manager, Staci Markos |
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Dr. Staci Markos has been a staff member since 1999. Dr. Markos was the Coordinator of Public Programs until October 2003 when she became Project Manager for the Jepson Flora Project. She is responsible for managing two, large, collaborative projects: (1) the production of the Second Edition of The Jepson Manual and (2) the development of the Consortium of California Herbaria, a collective database of information from California plant specimens. Dr. Markos is also the Development Coordinator for the Herbarium and is responsible for procuring funds to support the Jepson Flora Project.
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Technical Specialist, Richard Moe |
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Dr. Richard Moe has been on staff at the University and Jepson Herbaria since 1992. He has particular strengths in plant taxonomy (including seaweeds), collection management, databases, and web applications. Currently, he is the database administrator for an online relational database of over 355,000 Californian plant specimens, webmaster, and developer of the Online Interchange for California Floristics and the Online Horticultural database. He is well versed in several computer languages including Perl, html, and SQL. Dr. Moe is also supervising the geo-referencing project for Californian plant specimens housed at UC/JEPS.
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Collection Research Specialist, Scott Simono |
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Scott Simono has been with the Jepson Herbarium since 2006. He obtained his BS in botany at San Francisco State University, where he investigated the molecular systematic relationships of day and night blooming populations of Linanthus dichotomus, and studied the floristics of montane meadows of the northern Sierra Nevada. He returned to California after a brief exploration of graduate studies in molecular systematics at Cornell University and the New York Botanical Garden, to pursue his interest in California landscapes and flora.
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Managing Editor, Margriet Wetherwax |
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Ms. Margriet Wetherwax began working in the Herbarium in 1989 as a Curatorial Assistant. By 1991, Ms. Wetherwax had become a fulltime employee of the Herbarium and a valuable member of the production team for the 1993 edition of The Jepson Manual. She was the author for 14 taxonomic treatments in the Manual, mostly in the Scrophulariaceae. Ms. Wetherwax also served as Managing Editor for the Jepson Desert Manual: Vascular Plants of Southeastern California. |
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