BORN: 25 April 1953, Boise, Idaho.

EDUCATION:

• Ph.D. (biology): 1983, City University of New York, (joint program with The New York Botanical Garden). Major advisor: A. Cronquist. Dissertation topic: Revision of the Juncus triformis complex, a group of dwarf rushes centered in California. Described 3 new taxa: Juncus luciensis, J. tiehmii, and J. leiospermus var. ahartii.
  
• M.S. (botany): 1977, University of Maryland, College Park. Major advisor: J. Reveal. Thesis: Revision of Oxytheca, an annual derivative of Eriogonum centered in southern California. Described 2 new taxa: Oxytheca parishii var. goodmaniana and O. parishii var. cienegensis.
  
• B.S., summa cum laude (biology): 1975, [Albertson] College of Idaho, Caldwell. Major advisor: P. Packard. Senior honors paper: Wetland plants of southwestern Idaho and adjacent Oregon.

• Curator of Western North American Flora, University Herbarium and Jepson Herbarium, University of California at Berkeley, 1994--present. Conduct and coordinate research, develop outreach programs, and build collections, focused on the flora of western North America.
• Administrative Curator (formerly Collections Manager), University Herbarium and Jepson Herbarium, University of California at Berkeley. 1985--present. Responsible for overseeing day-to-day operations of 1,800,000-specimen collection, planning for relocations and expansions, hiring and supervising support staff, collecting for general exchange program, and answering public service queries.
  
• Research Associate, California Academy of Sciences, 1987--present.

• 1982--85: Herbarium Curator, University of Texas at Austin. Curated 800,000-specimen herbarium, including planning and overseeing move to new quarters, collecting and identifying new accessions.
  
• 1984: Lecturer, Department of Biology, University of Texas at Austin. Taught 2 sections of a course in evolution and ecology for non-majors.
  
• 1980: Contract supplier, USDA Economic Botany Laboratory. Funded summer field work by collecting plants for anti-cancer screening.
  
• 1978--82: Graduate Herbarium Fellow, New York Botanical Garden. Included training in various curatorial tasks; collecting and identifying specimens for Intermountain Flora.
  
• 1975--78: Graduate Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Botany, University of Maryland at College Park. Lab sections of plant taxonomy, general botany.
  
• 1975--76: Biological Aide, Big Game Range Inventory Project, Idaho Fish & Game Dept., Region 3. Plant survey of Bennett Hills and southeastern Idaho.
  
• 1974: Biological Aide, NSF-funded study of Sawtooth National Recreation Area, Idaho. Provided plant list of study area.
  
• 1974: Park Technician, Lucky Peak Reservoir, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Boise, Idaho.
  
• 1972--73: Biological Aide Trainee, Northwest Watershed Research Center, Bureau of Land Management. Identified plants from Reynolds Creek Watershed, Owyhee Co., Idaho.
  
• 1972: Provided plant list for EIS of Stuart Gulch in Boise foothills at proposed Army Corps of Engineers dam site.
  
• 1971--72: Work-study student, College of Idaho herbarium.

• NSF DEB-80-07546, Doctoral Dissertation Research in Systematic Botany; PI = A. Cronquist.
  
• National Geographic Society, Committee for Research and Exploration of the National Geographic Society, Grant 6489-99 ($2,400): "Invitation to collect plants and visit universities in Iran."

       Lawrence R. Heckard Fund for research on California systematics
  

• 1995: travel to Prague for apomixis workshop.
  
• 1996: 1) California ground roses, 2) reproductive biology of Potentilla hickmanii.
  
• 1997: 1) Mt. Diablo flora, 2) aquatics illustrations, 3) weed illustrations, 4) literature search for potential additions to Inventory of Rare and Endangered Vascular Plants of California.]
  
• 1998: 1) ITS phylogeny of ivesioid Potentilleae, 2) Mt. Diablo flora, 3) Dempster Plectritis
  
• 1999: Images for web site development
  
  Although UC-Berkeley normally allows only members of the Academic Senate to be Principal Investigator on grants, a major portion of the following were prepared by Ertter:
  
• NSF BSR-89-07439 ($418,995), Extension of "Curatorial Support for University and Jepson Herbaria"; PI = Thomas Duncan
  
• NSF proposal ($313,930), "Compactorization of the University Herbarium and Jepson Herbarium, University of California at Berkeley"; PI = Brent Mishler

  Service:
  

• 10-11 Feb 2000: served on panel for NSF Biotic Inventories program
  
• Reviewer of NSF and National Geographic Society proposals for both research and facilities support, including Research Opportunities for Women.

• Fall 2000: guest instructor for 1 lecture for IB 168: Vascular Plants Systematics (primary instructor: Bruce Baldwin): "The Classical Tradition/Floristics"
  
• Fall 1995--1998.: guest instructor for 2 lectures of IB 168: Vascular Plants Systematics (primary instructor: Bruce Baldwin): "The Classical Tradition" (all years), "Rosidae" (1995, 1996), "Floristics" (1997)
  
• 1992: informal semester-long seminar series on collections management techniques for UC-Berkeley plant taxonomy students.
  
• 1985--present: tours of herbaria to various classes at UC-Berkeley and local colleges, covering the techniques, function, and significance of taxonomic research.
  
• Fall 1984: Lecturer, Department of Biology, University of Texas at Austin. Taught 2 sections of a course in evolution and ecology for non-majors.
  
• 1975--78: Graduate Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Botany, University of Maryland at College Park. Lab sections of plant taxonomy, general botany.
  
  Advising:
  
• 1999--present: on masters committee for Joy Handley, University of Wyoming Botany Dept.
  
• 1995--1996: on doctoral committee for Patricia Moore, UCLA History Dept.
  
• 1985--present: informal advising to UC-Berkeley plant taxonomy students. [de facto supervisor for 2 undergraduate independent studies by T. Morosco, 1 by Amy Rusev]
  

  Friends of Jepson Herbarium Weekend Workshops:
  

• 6--8 October 2000: instructor, aquatic plants.
  
• 21--23 July 2000: instructor, Juncaceae.
  
• 30 April--2 May 1999: instructor, the flora of Mount Diablo.
  
• 24--25 August 1998: instructor, aquatic plants.
  
• 17--19 July 1998: instructor, Juncaceae.
  
• 11--13 & 18--20 July 1997: assistant instructor, Eriogonoideae (instructor: Jim Reveal).
  
• 21--22 Sept 1996: instructor, aquatic plants.
  
• 3 Feb 1996: instructor, basic botany lecture on western North American biogeography
  
• 21--23 July 1995: instructor, Potentilleae. [Also assisted L. Constance with Apiaceae workshop]
  

• 1994--present: editorial panel, Jepson Flora project (one of 6 editors). Special interest in web-based options, including "Jepson Clearinghouse" for updates affecting the California flora (prototype at http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/jltemp.html) and interfaces with other on-line floristic information sources.
  
• 1998: family reviewer of Juncaceae for Flora of North America North of Mexico.
  
• 1993--present: regional reviewer for Flora of North America North of Mexico.
  
• 1983--present: reviewer for papers in Brittonia, Great Basin Naturalist, Madroño, Novon, Phytologia, Sida, and Systematic Botany.
  
• 1985--89: Board of Editors, Madroño (journal of California Botanical Society).
  
• 1981--82: Collaborator, Index to American Botanical Literature, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club.
  
• 1980--82. Student editor, Brittonia.

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

• Floristics, biogeography, and evolution of western United States flora (esp. California and Idaho); island biogeographical principles illustrated by elevational and edaphic "islands"; development of electronic alternatives to printed floras, capitalizing on web technology and incorporating electronic publication. Current projects: East Bay flora, including update of Mt. Diablo Flora; Tehama Co., CA; western Salmon River Mts., ID; Bennett Hills, ID.
  
• Systematics, evolution, phylogeny, and conservation of Potentilleae (Rosaceae), with special expertise in Ivesia, Horkelia, Horkeliella, and western United States Potentilla. Current projects: treatments of Potentilleae for Arizona, Rocky Mountains, and Flora of North America; reviewer for Potentilla for Flora of China project; a re-evaluation of sect. Subviscosae, with new taxa from Mexico and their relevance to the evolution of Ivesia; native Rosa in California and adjacent states.
  
• Systematics, evolution, and conservation of Juncus subg. Graminifolii, with special expertise in the J. triformis complex; scanning electron microscopy of seed coats as a significant character; taxonomy of California Juncaceae. Current projects: involvement in a worldwide monograph of Juncaceae for Species Plantarum.
  
• Systematics, evolution, and conservation of the Eriogonoideae (Polygonaceae), with special expertise in Oxytheca and Chorizanthe.
  
• History of botany, primarily in western North America; special expertise on Katherine Brandegee and Carl A. Purpus. Current projects: early history of California resident botanists; development of website (http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/Purpus/index.html) [with T. Schweich], incorporating focused on Purpus's years in western North America, incorporating translations from German of Purpus's published articles, photographs of collecting localities, transcriptions of letters, lists of Purpus's types and collecting localities [by A. Tiehm]; special study of Purpus's Colorado collections (1893-94) at Field Museum [with R. Beidleman].
  
• Development and sociology of systematics, including the fundamentals of taxonomy as science, floristic models and taxonomic hypotheses, relevance to conservation and land management; gender-related issues.
  

SCHEDULED FOR PUBLICATION IN 2001
    The Flowering Plants and Ferns of Mount Diablo, California, 2nd edition. M.L. Bowerman & B. Ertter. California Native Plant Society, Sacramento.
    Content and relationships of the [Mount Diablo] flora, supplement A. pp. 86--95 in Bowerman, M.L. & B. Ertter, The Flowering Plants and Ferns of Mount Diablo, California, 2nd edition. California Native Plant Society, Sacramento.
    The Jepson Desert Manual: Vascular Plants of Southeastern California. Baldwin, B. G., S. Boyd, B. Ertter, R. W. Patterson, T. J. Rosatti, and D. H. Wilken, editors (Margriet Wetherwax, managing editor). University of California Press, Berkeley.
    "Juncaceae" and "Rosaceae" in: Baldwin, B. G., S. Boyd, B. Ertter, R. W. Patterson, T. J. Rosatti, and D. H. Wilken, editors (Margriet Wetherwax, managing editor). The Jepson Desert Manual: Vascular Plants of Southeastern California. University of California Press, Berkeley.
    Native roses of California. In: symposium proceedings, Out of the Wild and Into the Garden. Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden.
    Inventory of Rare and Endangered Plants of California (6th edition). Rare Plant Scientific Advisory Committee [chair: B. Ertter] (David Tibor, Convening Editor). California Native Plant Society, Sacramento.

MANUSCRIPTS IN ACTIVE PREPARATION:
    Synopsis of additions to the spontaneous flora of California (with F. Hrusa et al.)
    Our undiscovered heritage: future prospects for field exploration. In: symposium proceedings, Jepson Herbarium 50th Anniversary Celebration and Scientific Symposium on Discovery, Communication, and Conservation of Plant Biodiversity in California.

ELECTRONIC SITES:
    1995. History of the University and Jepson Herbaria. (with T. Duncan & L. Constance) http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/herb_his.html
    1998. Keys to Juncus and Luzula of California. http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/jk.html
    (work in progress) Carl Albert Purpus and his collecting activities in western North America. (with T. Schweich) http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/Purpus/index.html
    1999. Far West Floristic Initiative: a collaborative framework for a distributed information system for the native and naturalized plants and lichens of the Far Western states. http://ucjeps. herb.berkeley.edu/far_west_initiative.html
    2001. Joint Program in Botany between Iranian Institutions and University Herbarium. http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/iran.html
    

INVITED TALKS AND SYMPOSIA:

• 1984, Native Plant Society of Texas, Central Region: "Overlooked plants: mosses, liverworts, algae, and fungi".
  
• 3 September 1986, Northern Nevada Native Plant Society: "Miles and Miles of Wildflowers, Texas Style".
  
• 1987, White Mountains Research Station 2nd Biennial Symposium, Plant Biology of Eastern California [Mary DeDecker Symposium]: "C. A. Purpus: His Collecting Trips in the Sierra Nevada and Owens Valley, California, 1895-1898"
  
• 25 May 1988, California Native Plant Society, East Bay Chapter: "On the trail, with Purpus, in California"
  
• 7 March 1989, Sonoma State University, Biology Department Colloquium: "In the Footsteps of Purpus [California emphasis]"
  
• 7 September 1989, Northern Nevada Native Plant Society: "In the Footsteps of Purpus [Nevada emphasis]"
  
• 11 November 1989, Wayne Roderick Lecture Series, East Bay Regional Parks Botanic Garden: "Tracking the Elusive Ivesia across the West: Adventures in Monography"
  
• 15 December 1990, Wayne Roderick Lecture Series, East Bay Regional Parks Botanic Garden: "Texas: Mesquite, Wildflowers, and Ballmoss"
  
• 14 November 1991, Banquet speaker for Botany Program Workshop, U.S. Forest Service Pacific Southwest Region (5): "Tracking the Elusive/Illusive Ivesia"
  
• 14 January 1992, Biosystematists: "Back to the Basics of Systematics; or, a Rose by Any Other Name Would Have as Sharp a Thorn"
  
• 25 January 1992, Wayne Roderick Lecture Series, East Bay Regional Parks Botanical Garden: "Botanical Gems of the Rockies: Explorations in Idaho"
  
• 27 March 1992, Boone Symposium on Idaho Botany, Idaho Academy of Sciences Annual Meeting: "Floristic Regions of Idaho"
  
• 21 May 1992, California Botanical Society: "Islands in the Western Desert: Distribution and Evolution of Ivesia"
  
• 9 December 1992, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology: "What is Snow-wreath Doing in California and Why Wasn't It Discovered Earlier?" [variation on same talk given to East Bay Chapter CNPS, 24 February 1993; Northern Nevada Native Plant Society, 4 March 1993; New York Botanical Garden, 26 March 1993; Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, 27 May 1993; BSA/ASPT annual meeting, Ames, Iowa, August 1993; Sonoma State University, 2 November 1993; Santa Clara Chapter CNPS, 25 March 1994; California State University at Hayward, Colloquium Series, 28 April 1994; Boise State University, 29 April 1994; Southern Oregon College/Oregon Native Plant Society, 13 May 1994; Yerba Buena Chapter CNPS, 22 March 1995; Wayne Roderick Lecture Series, East Bay Regional Parks Botanical Garden, 13 January 1996]
  
• 1 June 1993, Arizona Native Plant Society: "In the Footsteps of Purpus in Arizona"
  
• 23 June 1993, California Native Plant Society, Yerba Buena Chapter: "The Jepson Manual Project" [last minute stand-in for S. D'Alcamo]
  
• 20 January 1994, California Botanical Society: "Problems and Progress in Potentilla" [variation on same talk given at Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 4 April 1994; Davis Herbaria Society, 7 April 1994; Sequoia Chapter CNPS, 16 May 1995; Sacramento Chapter CNPS, 14 February 1996]
  
• 14 May 1994, Oregon Native Plant Society Annual Banquet: "The Changing Face of Western Botany"
  
• 25 May 1994, East Bay Chapter CNPS: "Overview and Annotated Checklist of the East Bay Flora"
  
• 4 June 1994, Friends of the Jepson Herbarium Symposium on The Future of California Floristics and Systematics: "The Changing Face of California Botany" [variation on same talk given to Marin Chapter CNPS, 8 January 1996]
  
• 29 April 1995, symposium on Sierra Nevada Biodiversity: Exploring the Richness and Functional Role of Wild Species, California Academy of Sciences: "Contemporary Sierran Flora: Diversity and Endemism" (with J. Shevock)
  
• 6 June 1995, workshop on Managing the Modern Herbarium, Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections annual meeting, Toronto, Canada: "Ten Years of Moving Herbaria" (poster)
  
• 29 July 1995, symposium on Evolution and Adaptations of the Arctic and Alpine Flora, International Organization of Plant Biosystematists, Tromso, Norway: "Evolutionary radiation of Potentilla and Ivesia (Rosaceae) in the mountain islands of western North America"
  
• 10 August 1995, Apomixis workshop, National Museum in Prague, Czech Republic: "Apomixis vs. the biological species concept: insights from the Potentilleae"
  
• 12 September 1995, Southwestern Rare and Endangered Plant Conference, Flagstaff, Arizona: "New and rare Potentilla (Rosaceae) in Arizona".
  
• 6 October 1995, A. Isabel Mulford Commemorative Luncheon, Missouri Botanical Garden: "Botany: A Woman's Place in Science?"
  
• 17 October 1995, Berkeley Garden Club: "An Island in an Urban Sea: Diversity and Stewardship of Albany Hill" [variation on same talk given to El Cerrito Garden Club, 8 March 2001]
  
• 27 October 1995, University and Jepson Herbaria lunchtime series: "Potentilla"
  
• 15 November 1995, symposium on Conservation and Management of Oregon's Native Flora, Native Plant Society of Oregon and Oregon State University, Corvallis: "Taxonomic Grays vs. Black-and-White Expectations: Implications for Conservation Management of Biodiversity"
  
• 13 April 1996, Cal Day talk: "From Lewis and Clark to DNA: What Are All Those Dead Plants For, Anyway" [version of same talk given to East Bay Chapter CNPS, 24 April 1996]
  
• 18 June 1996, Monterey Chapter CNPS: "Native Roses of California". [variation on same talk given to Dorothy King Young Chapter CNPS annual banquet, 15 December 1996; Wayne Roderick Lecture Series, East Bay Regional Parks Botanical Garden, 18 January 1997; East Bay Chapter CNPS, 26 March 1997; Horticultural symposium, Rancho Santa Ana Botanical Gardens, 27 March 1999; Sonoma County Master Gardeners, 14 June 2000]
  
• 24 January 1997, University and Jepson Herbaria lunchtime series: "Update of the Flora of Mount Diablo".
  
• 17 April 1997, California Botanical Society: "Kate Brandegee and the Roots of California Botany" [variation on same talk (as "Love and War in the 1800's; The 'Lost Years' of California Botany") given at Cal Day, 19 April 1997; Sonoma State University Biology Colloquium, 4 November 1997; Yerba Buena Chapter CNPS, 4 December 1997; Northern Nevada Native Plant Society, 2 April 1998; Oakland Museum weekend docents, 17 May 1998; Wayne Roderick Lecture Series, East Bay Regional Parks Botanical Garden, 23 January 1999; Milo Baker Chapter CNPS, 19 September 2000]
  
• 24 January 1998, Wayne Roderick Lecture Series, East Bay Regional Parks Botanical Garden: "Having a Devil of a Time: The Mount Diablo Flora Update". [variation on same talk given at University and Jepson Herbaria botany lunch series, 13 February 1998]
  
• 19 May 1998, CSU-Hayward Seminar in Biology Series: "Islands in the Western Desert: Biogeography of the Ivesioid Potentilleae (Rosaceae)"
  
• 4 August 1998, AIBS/ASPT annual meetings in Baltimore: "Monophyly of the ivesioid Potentilleae (Rosaceae) based on ITS sequence data"
  
• 5 August 1998, AIBS/ASPT annual meetings in Baltimore: "The Mount Diablo flora update: a case study in dynamic floristics and floristic hypotheses".
  
• 10 October 1998, 45th Annual Systematics Symposium, Missouri Botanical Garden, Our Unknown Planet: Recent Discoveries and the Future: "Floristic Surprises in North America". [variation on same talk given at University and Jepson Herbaria botany lunch series, 2 October 1998; East Bay Chapter CNPS, 18 November 1998; Idaho Rare Plant Workshop, 11 February 1999; Cal Day, 17 April 1999; California Horticultural Society, October 1999; Marin Chapter CNPS, 3 January 2000; East Bay Regional Parks 60th Anniversary celebration, 13 May 2000; Native Plant Society of Oregon Annual Banquet, 24 June 2000; Sonoma State University Biology Colloquium, 19 September 2000]
  
• 6 November 1998, Conference on the Institutions of Natural History, California Academy of Sciences: "People, plants and politics: the early years of California botany."
  
• 19 February 1999, University and Jepson Herbaria lunchtime series: "Far West Floristic Initiative: proposal for a collaborative framework for a distributed information system for the native and naturalized plants and lichens of the Far Western States (California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Nevada)
  
• May 1999, special seminar at the College of Agriculture of the University of Tehran (16 May), University of Mashhad (19 May), University of Mazandaran (22 May), and University of Tabriz (26 May), Iran: "Biogeographic comparison of western North America and Iran"
  
• 18 June 1999, University and Jepson Herbaria lunchtime series: "Images of Iran"
  
• 2 August 1999, XVI International Botanical Congress, symposium on Rosaceae: "The radiation of ivesioid Potentilleae (Rosaceae) in western North America"
  
• 15 January 2000, Wayne Roderick Lecture Series, East Bay Regional Parks Botanical Garden: "Twenty Years After the Revolution: A Glimpse at the Biogeography, Botanical Science, and Land Use Practices in Iran" [variation on same talk given at Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, 31 January 2000; Huntington Library & Botanic Garden, 1 February 2000; University and Jepson Herbaria lunchtime series, 4 February 2000; Dept. of Botany, Smithsonian Institution, 9 February 2000; New York Botanical Garden, 14 February 2000; Dept. of Botany & Plant Sciences, University of California at Riverside, 3 March 2000; East Bay Chapter CNPS, 22 March 2000; Dept. of Environment, Ecology, & Conservation Biology, University of Nevada at Reno, 20 April 2000; Albertson College of Idaho, 24 April 2000; Native Plant Society of Oregon, 23 June 2000; UC Botanical Garden, 9 January 2001]
  
• 17 June 2000, Jepson Herbarium 50th Anniversary Celebration and Scientific Symposium on Discovery, Communication, and Conservation of Plant Biodiversity in California: "Our Undiscovered Heritage: Future Prospects for Field Exploration"
  

MISCELLANEOUS ACTIVITIES, SERVICES, AND OTHER ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• Designed new quarters and coordinated move of herbarium at University of Texas at Austin.
  
• Assisted with design of both interim and renovated quarters for herbaria at University of California at Berkeley; planned and coordinated move into interim quarters.
  
• Served on panel for U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service to determine status of Chorizanthe robusta var. hartwegiana, with L. Constance and L. R. Heckard.
  
• Served as academic representative on California Native Plant Society planning committee to produce Rare Plant Handbook for the East Bay.
  
• Participated in three Forest Service sponsored collecting expeditions in California and Idaho.
  
• Conducted focus survey of Oxytheca parishii var. goodmaniana and var. cienegensis for California Department of Fish & Game Natural Diversity Database.
  
• Organized memorial gathering for Annetta Carter, expert on Baja California flora and former herbarium staff member.
  
• Jointly prepared report on alternate pest control techniques for museums at the request of the head of the Project Planning Committee for renovated Life Sciences Building, UC-Berkeley.
  
• Regularly assist with identifications for Oakland Museums annual Wildflower Show.
  
• Organized volunteers to tag rare plant folders in the University and Jepson herbaria so as to notify the Natural Diversity Database of additions and changes.
  
• Served as herbarium representative to building and safety committees.
  
• Assisted in the planning for Idaho Floristics Symposium at Albertson College of Idaho for Idaho Academy of Sciences 1992 annual meeting.
  
• Invited to contribute to book on botanical collectors in Pacific Northwest.
  
• Invited to participate in Flora of China project.
  
• Invited to speak at memorial for A. Cronquist at New York Botanical Garden.
  
• One of fourteen field botanists to whom vol. 4 of Intermountain Flora is dedicated.
  
• One of three finalists for Jepson Curator search, resulting in becoming Curator of Western North American Flora.
  
• On Technical Advisory Committee for FEMA-funded East Bay Hills Vegetation Management Consortium, 1993--1995 (subsequently approached for professional advice on topic from various sources: UC-Berkeley, Lawrence Livermore Lab, East Bay Regional Parks District)
  
• Contributed treatments of 132 taxa for the Jepson Manual.
  
• Invited to speak at tribute for L. Constance at UC Botanical Garden.
  
• Attended one-day introductory workshop on Geographic Information Systems at UC-Davis (ca 1991).
  
• Serve as academic liaison to Interagency Botanists.
  
• Participated in rare plant symposia in California, Idaho, Nevada, and Oregon.
  
• Assisted with the identification of specimens from TNC's survey of the Cosumnes River Preserve.
  
• Filmed for "Way Cool Scientist" segment of "Bill Nye, Science Guy" [apparently never aired]
  
• Participated a one of 3 panelists for Biosystematists meeting on unit of conservation, 12 Nov 1996
  
• Participated as one of 5 co-leaders of post-conference field trip to Nevada and California, in conjunction with 5th International Organization of Palaeobotany conference, 1996, Santa Barbara.
  
• As chair, reactivated and reorganized the Rare Plant Scientific Advisory Committee of the California Native Plant Society, in response to the loss of the Rare Plant Botanist position.
  
• Invited to participate in worldwide Juncaceae monograph project.
  
• Attended 2-day workshop on Managing Endangered Species, UC-Davis Extension, May 1997.
  
• In conjunction with an on-going involvement with site stewardship activities on Albany Hill, organized a public presentation by Peter Raven ("Biodiversity and Stewardship: Our Common Responsibility") and associated Stewardship Fair on 21 April 1998.
  
• Prepared Cal Day displays on site stewardship (part of permanent display); Raven's manzanita (turned over to UC Botanical Garden); noxious weeds ("Insidious Beauty"); Potentilleae maintained as living collection at UCBG used for research by herbarium staff (turned over to UCBG); various aspects of the rare plant Potentilla basaltica (part of permanent display); examples of "Beyond Jepson" additions to the California flora; "Botanicals on Parade" display of currently popular herbal products matched with herberium specimens
  
• Served on Scientific Advisory Committee for the East County Biodiversity Working Group (a proto-Habitat Conservation Plan for eastern Contra Costa and Alameda cos.), 1997-98
  
• Member of Advisory Council, Friends of the Regional Park Botanic Garden
  
• Presented paper on "Floristic Surprises in North America" presented at Missouri Botanical Garden symposium on 10 October 1998 [see publications for 2000] that generated spin-off publicity in U.S. News & World Report (16 November 1998, p. 64), Science News (2 January 1999, 8--10), Wisconsin Public Radio's "To the Best of our Knowledge (week of 7 February 1999), AAAS Science Update "New Plants," aired 3 September 1999; National Wildlife (Dec-Jan 2000, p. 52-55), and WAMU Public Radio's "Public Interest" (7 February 2000; archived at www.wamu.org)
  
• At the invitation of several universities in Iran, spent 3 weeks in May 1999 in Iran, lecturing at universities, meeting with faculty, staff, and students, and collecting plants, in conjunction with efforts to reinitiate scientific interchange between the United States and Iran. Followed by series of talks to appropriate American institutions on the biogeography and land use management of Iran.
  
• Nominated for Albertson College of Idaho Distinguished Alumni Award, May 2000.
  
• Helped plan and then participated in scientific symposium Discovery, Communication, and Conservation of Plant Biodiversity in California, as part of Jepson Herbarium 50th anniversary celebration 16--18 June 2000; presented talk, moderated panel on "What's Where? Rebuilding the Framework for Species-Level Inventories," and led field trip to Mount Diablo.
  
• Video interview for documentary on the Klamath-Siskiyou Public Television Special: "Saving Bigfoot's Home," 13 August 2000
  
• Audio interviewed by Utah Public Radio, 13 Dec 2000, on topics spanning "Floristics Surprises" and "Iran: the 'Great Basin' of the Middle East"