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Museum of Paleontology
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1079
email: rburnham@umich.edu
PRESENT POSITION
Associate Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and Associate Curator of Paleontology, University of Michigan
ADJUNCT POSITIONS
Smithsonian Institution Research Associate
Adjunct Curator, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO
Associate Professor, Geological Sciences, U. of Michigan
Associate Curator, Herbarium, U. of Michigan
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Population biology, biogeography, and systematics of neotropical lianas
Conservation status of neotropical lianas; corridors and preserves as biodiversity banks
Angiosperm migration, radiation, and phylogeny in northern South America
Biodiversity, ecosystem structure, and biotic change during Andean uplift
Censusing Lianas in Mesic Biomes of the Midwest RegionS (CLIMBERS)
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Botany, University of Washington 1987
M.S., Botany, University of Washington 1983
B.S., Botany, University of California, Berkeley 1980
PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS HELD
1997 - present Associate Professor, Biology and Associate Curator of Paleobotany, U Michigan
1991 - 1997 Assistant Professor, Biology and Assistant Curator of Paleobotany, U Michigan
1990 - 1991 Curator, Botany and Paleobotany, New Mexico Museum of Natural History
1989 - present Smithsonian Research Associate
1988 -1989 Smithsonian Postdoctoral Fellow
1987 Lecturer, Department of Botany, University of Washington
EDITORSHIPS & SERVICE:
Editor, Paleobiology, Term 2004-2007
Grant Funding Panel, Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resources Management (US-AID)
Moore Medal Committee, Society for Economic Paleontologists & Mineralogists 2000-2003
International Committee, Third Ecuadorian Botanical Congress October 2000
Scientific Board, Tiputini Biodiversity Station, Yasuní National Park, Ecuador 1997- present
Reviewer for scientific journals: Biotropica, Journal of Tropical Ecology, Ecology, Palaios, Palaeontographica, Paleobiology, Paleo-3, Science, Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, American Journal of Botany, Forest Ecology & Management, Journal of Tropical Ecology, Geology, Bulletin Geological Society of America, Journal of South American Earth Sciences, New Phytologist, Journal of Biogeography, Canadian Journal of Botany
SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS:
Association for Tropical Biology International Organization of Paleobotany
Botanical Society of America New Mexico Geological Society
Latin American Botanical Association Paleontological Society
Fundación Botanica (Ecuadorian Bot. Assn) Soc. Economic Paleontolog. & Mineralogists
Intern. Association of Wood Anatomists ICAN - Canopy Research Association
GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, and AWARDS:
2006 CTFS Award for Research on Lianas in Two Western Amazonian Forests ($4000)
2005 Amazonian Conservation Association Grant for Exploratory Field Research ($7000)
2005 UM LSA IT Grant to Support Plant Biodiversity and Electronic Field Guides ($84,550)
2005 NCEAS Award for Organization of the Liana Workshop Santa Barbara, CA ($50,000)
2004 Gil Whittaker Grant to Support the EEB Biodiversity Research Initiative ($10,000)
2003 NSF ADVANCE Program - Elizabeth Caroline Crosby Award ($20,000)
2003 WISC (AAAS) – Women’s International Science Collaboration Travel Grant $4,000
2001 Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellowship (Ecological Society of America)
1999 Fulbright Comission Follow-up Fellowship (1 month) ~$5,000
1998 Fulbright Comission Senior Scholarship in Ecuador (3 months) ~$25,000
1998 Mellon Foundation Visitor to ECP Program, Field Museum Chicago (3 mos) ~$20,000
1997 National Geographic Society: Miocene Fossils in Bolivia and Ecuador ($21,000)
1995 Career Development Award - University of Michigan ($5000)
1995 American Philosophical Society Michaux Award ($4500)
1994 National Science Foundation Grant - Paleontology & Stratigraphy ($201,000)
1994 University of Michigan Office of Vice President for Research ($5930)
1993 American Philosophical Society Michaux Award ($2000)
1993 Geology Department Turner Award (U. of Michigan) ($2000)
1992 National Geographic Society: Ecuador (Co-Investigator) ($20,908)
1992 University of Michigan Rackham Graduate School Grant ($10,000)
1991 American Philosophical Society Michaux Award ($1400)
1991 Smithsonian BIOLAT Program Fieldwork award: Peru ($3500) and Peru ($1763)
1991 Smithsonian CCRE Program Fieldwork award: Belize ($1000)
1990 Smithsonian BIOLAT Program Fieldwork award: Peru ($1900)
1989 Smithsonian BIOLAT Program Fieldwork award: Peru / Bolivia ($3600)
1989 Smithsonian CCRE Program Fieldwork award: ($800)
1989 Smithsonian BIOLAT Program Fieldwork: Co-Investigator ($5,864)
1989 Smithsonian Scholarly Studies Grant: Co-Investigator ($31,507)
1988 Smithsonian Research Opportunities Grant ($1813)
1988 Smithsonian Postdoctoral Fellowship ($18,000)
1986 Achievement Rewards for College Scientists Foundation Dissertation Fellowship
1986 Geological Society of America, Outstanding Mention Grant ($1200)
1983 Sigma Xi Graduate Research Grant ($350)
1983 Geological Society of America, Graduate Grant ($800)
1982 National Science Foundation 3-year Graduate Fellowship ($10,000/each year)
PUBLICATIONS
Gerwing,J.J., S.A. Schnitzer, R.J. Burnham, F. Bongers, J. Chave, S.J. DeWalt, C. E.N. Ewango, R.B. Foster, David Kenfack, M. Martinez-Ramos, M. Parren, N. Parthasarathy, D.R. Pérez-Salicrup, F. E. Putz, and D.W. Thomas. 2006 A Standard Protocol for Liana Censuses. 2006. Biotropica 38(2): 256-261.
Burnham, R.J., K. R. Johnson, and B. Ellis. 2005 Modern tropical forest taphonomy: Does high biodiversity affect paleoclimatic interpretations? Palaios 20:439-451.
Burnham, R.J. and Carranco, N.L. 2004. Miocene winged fruits of Loxopterygium (Anacardiaceae) from the Ecuadorian Andes. American Journal of Botany 91(11): 1767-1773.
Burnham, R.J. and Johnson K.R. 2004. South American paleobotany and the origins of neotropical rainforests. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, series B. 359:1595-1610.
Burnham, R.J. 2004. Alpha and Beta Diversity of Lianas in Yasuní National Park, Ecuador. Forest Ecology and Management 190:43-55.
Burnham, R.J. 2002. Dominance, diversity and distribution of lianas in Yasuní, Ecuador: who is on top? Journal of Tropical Ecology 18:845-864.
Burnham, R.J., 2002. Climbers of Yasuní National Park, Ecuador and their importance in tropical forests. Memorias del Tercer Congreso Botanico del Ecuador. Editores; A. Freire-Fiero y D. Neill. Pp.181-210.
Burnham, R.J. 2001. Is Conservation Biology a Paleontological Pursuit? Palaios 16(5):423-424.
Burnham, R.J., N. C. A. Pitman, K. R. Johnson and P. Wilf. 2001. Habitat-related error in estimating temperatures from leaf margins in a humid tropical forest. American Journal of Botany, 88(6): 1096-1102.
Sanchez-Villagra, M.R., R.J. Burnham, D. Campbell, R.M. Feldmann, E.S. Gaffney, R.F. Kay, R. Lozsan, R. Purdy, and J.G.M. Thewissen, 2000. The Fauna and Flora from a new near-shore marine assemblage of early Neogene age from northwestern Venezuela. Journal of Paleontology 74(5):957-968.
Burnham, R.J. 2000. Plants (Adaptive Strategies). In R. Singer, ed. Encyclopedia of Paleontology. Fitroy Dearborn Publishers.
Burnham, R.J. and A. Graham 1999. The History of Neotropical vegetation: new developments and status. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 86:546-589.
Mirle, C. and Burnham, R.J. 1999. Identification of asymmetrically winged samaras from the Western Hemisphere Brittonia 51:1-14.
Burnham, R.J. 1997. Stand characteristics and leaf litter species composition of a dry forest hectare in Santa Rosa National Park, Costa Rica. Biotropica 29(4): 384-395.
Burnham, R.J. 1997. Diversity of Tropical Forest Leaf Litter at Pakitsa, Peru. Pp127-140,in D.E. Wilson and A. Sandoval, eds. Manu: La Biodiversidad del Sureste del Perú. Smithsonian Institution Press: Washington.
Burnham, R.J. 1996. Republic leaf deposits and Eocene ecology. Washington Geology 24(2):19.
Burnham, R.J. 1995. A new species of winged fruit from the Miocene of Ecuador: Tipuana ecuatoriana (Leguminosae). American Journal of Botany 82(12):1599-1607.
Burnham, R.J. 1995. Plant invasions: one measure of ecosystem change. Geotimes 40(8):16-18
Burnham, R.J. 1994. Plant deposition in modern volcanic environments. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 84:275-281.
Burnham, R.J. 1994. Patterns in tropical leaf litter and implications for Angiosperm paleobotany. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 81:99-113.
Burnham, R.J. 1994. Paleoecological and floristic heterogeneity in the plant fossil record: an analysis based on the Eocene of Washington. United States Geological Survey Bulletin 2085B:1-36.
Burnham, R.J. 1993. Reconstructing richness in the plant fossil record. Palaios 8(4):376-384.
Burnham, R.J. 1993. Time resolution in terrestrial macrofloras. in S. Kidwell and A.K. Behrensmeyer, eds. Taphonomic Approaches to Time Resolution in Fossil Assemblages. Paleontological Society Short Courses in Paleontology No. 6.
Burnham, R.J., S.L. Wing and G.G. Parker. 1992. The reflection of deciduous forest communities in leaf litter: implications for autochthonous litter assemblages from the fossil record. Paleobiology 18(1):34-53.
Burnham, R.J. 1990. Some Late Eocene depositional environments of the coal- bearing Puget Group of western Washington state, U.S.A. International Journal of Coal Geology 15:27-51.
Burnham, R.J. 1990. Paleobotanical implications of drifted seeds and fruits from modern mangrove litter, Twin Cays, Belize. Palaios 5:364-370.
Burnham, R.J. 1989. Relationships between standing vegetation and leaf litter in a Paratropical Forest: Implications for Paleobotany. Review of Paleobotany and Palynology 58:5-32.
Burnham, R.J. 1988. A large-volume lightweight coring device for use in shallow water and soft sediments. Journal of Paleontology 62(3):477-478.
Burnham, R.J. 1988. Paleoecological approaches to analyzing stratigraphic sequences. Paleontological Society Special Publication No. 3. Pp 105-125.
Burnham, R.J. & R.A. Spicer. 1986. Forest litter preserved by volcanic activity at El Chichon, Mexico: A potentially accurate record of pre-eruption vegetation. Palaios 1(2): 158-161.
Burnham, R.J. 1986. Morphological Systematics and the Ulmoideae. Pp 105-121 in R.A. Spicer and B.A. Thomas, eds. Systematics and Taxonomy in Paleobotany. Systematics Association Special Volume 31. Oxford University Press: Oxford.
Burnham, R.J. 1986. Foliar Morphological Analysis of the Ulmoideae (Ulmaceae) from the early Tertiary of North America. Palaeontographica Abt B. 201:135-167.
Spicer, R.A., R.J. Burnham, P.R. Grant, and H. Glicken. 1985. Pityrogramma calamelanos: the primary colonizer of Volcan Chichon, Chiapas, Mexico. American Fern Journal 75(1):1-7.
Burnham, R.J. 1982. The Eocene in Washington: Almost Another World. University of Washington Arboretum Bulletin 45(3):32-36.
PAPERS IN PRESS
Burnham, R.J. (in press) Hide and Go Seek: What does presence mean in the fossil record? Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden.
Burnham, R.J. (in press) Liana Diversity and Abundance in Yasuní National Park, Ecuador. Inside CTFS, 2005.
Fine, P.A.V., Ree, R. and Burnham, R.J. (in press) Disparity in Tree Species Richness Between Tropical, Temperate and Boreal Biomes: The Geographic Area and Age Hypothesis. in Tropical Forest Community Ecology, W.P. Carson and S.A. Schnitzer (eds.), Blackwell Scientific.
PAPERS SUBMITTED
Rauscher, A. K. and Burnham, R. J. in revision. Phylogenetic Comparison of the Patterns of Human Use in the Menispermaceae (Moonseed Family). Submitted to: Annals of the Missouri Botnaical Garden.
PAPERS IN PREP
Burnham, R. J., E. S. Jules, and A. J. Shaw. (in prep) Population structure across 100 km of Amazonian forest in the neotropical liana, Machaerium cuspidatum (Fabaceae). To be submitted to Molecular Ecology or American Journal of Botany by February 2006.
BOOK REVIEWS
Burnham, R. J., 2004. Review of P. Karieva and S. Levin, The Importance of Species: Perspectives on Expendability and Triage. Princeton University Press. Plant Systematics and Evolution. 248: 243-244.
Burnham, R. J. 2003. Review of: Chazdon, R.L. & T.C. Whitmore (eds.) 2002. Foundations of Tropical Biology, 862p. University of Chicago Press. Plant Systematics and Evolution.
Burnham, R. J. 2003. Review of: D. J. Beerling & F. I. Woodward Vegetation and the Terrestrial Carbon Cycle: Modelling the First 400 Million Years. Quarterly Review of Biology. 78:238-9.
Burnham, R.J. 2001 Review of: Morley, R. J. 1999. Origin and Evolution of Tropical Rainforests. 362p. John Wiley & Sons. Plant Systematics and Evolution 226(1/2):115-117.
Burnham, R.J. 2000. Review of: Graham, A. 1999. Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic History of North American Vegetation. 350p. Oxford University Press. Quarterly Rev. of Biology 75(4):477-478.
Burnham, R.J. 2000. Review of: Morley, R. J. 1999, Origin and Evolution of Tropical Rainforests. 362p. John Wiley & Sons. Palaios 15(6):580-581.
Burnham, R.J. 1993. Review of: J.D. Damuth, W.A. DiMichele, R. Potts, H.-D. Sues & S.L.Wing, Eds. 1992. Terrestrial Ecosystems Through Time - Evolutionary Paleoecology of Terrstrial Plants and Animals. University of Chicago Press 568 pp. Plant Science Bulletin 39(1):12-14.
DiMichele, W.A., Burnham, R.J. and Sues, H.D. 1988. The Origins of Angiosperms and Their Biological Consequences, edited by E.M. Friis, W.G. Chaloner and P.R. Crane (1987): Cambridge University Press. Palaios 3(4): 449-452.
FIELD GUIDES AND UNREVIEWED LITERATURE
Burnham, R.J. (1999) Guia Practica: Lianas del Parque Nacional Manu. Patrocinado por Andrew Mellon Foundation; Environmental & Conservation Program, The Field Museum, Chicago.
Burnham, R.J. and E.J. Lott (1999) Guia Practica para las Plantas Trepadoras del Bahia de Chamela. Patrocinado por Andrew Mellon Foundation y Environmental and Conservation Program, The Field Museum, Chicago y National Science Foundation.
Burnham, R.J. (1998) Guia Practica para las Lianas y Epifitas de Parque Nacional Yasuní, (emphasis on Tiputini Biodiversity Station and Estacion Cientifica Yasuní). Patrocinado por Andrew Mellon Foundation y Environmental and Conservation Program, The Field Museum, Chicago.
Burnham, R.J. (1999) Guia Fotografica de las lianas comunes del Parque Nacional Yasuní, Ecuador. Patrocinado por Andrew Mellon Foundation y Environmental and Conservation Program, The Field Museum, Chicago.
Burnham, R.J. and R.B. Foster (2000) Guia Fotografica de las lianas comunes del Parque Nacional Manu, Peru. Patrocinado por Andrew Mellon Foundation y Environmental and Conservation Program, The Field Museum, Chicago.
CONTRIBUTED PAPERS (National and International Meetings)
Burnham, R.J. 1983. Diversification and stable distribution with respect to temperature in early Tertiary Ulmoideae of western North America. Amer. Journal of Botany 70(5):68.
Burnham, R.J. and R.A. Spicer 1984. Preservation of forest litter in volcaniclastic sediments of El Chichon, Mexico. International Org. of Paleobotany, Edmonton.
Burnham, R.J. 1985. Deposition and preservation of plants in a modern paratropical basin. American Journal of Botany 72(6):890.
Burnham, R.J. 1986. Depositional interpretation of Eocene plant fossil assemblages. American Journal of Botany 73(6):695
Burnham,R.J. 1988. Criteria for recognition of angiospermous mangroves with an example from the Eocene of Washington. American Journal of Botany 75(6):104.
Burnham, R.J. 1989. Paleolandscape reconstruction: the effect of sampling scale on interpretation. Mid-Continent Paleobotanical Colloquium.
Burnham, R.J. and S.L. Wing 1989. Temperate forest litter accurately reflects stand composition and structure. American Journal of Botany 76(6):159.
Burnham, R.J., S.L. Wing and G.G. Parker. 1990. Plant diversity and the fossil record: how reliable are the estimates? Int. Cong. Systematic & Evol.y Biol. College Park, Maryland.
Burnham, R.J. 1991. Ecological reconstructions of fossil floras: are all floras created equal? American Journal of Botany 77(6).
Burnham, R.J. 1992. Patterns in tropical leaf litter and implications for angiosperm paleobotany. International Org. of Paleobotany, 4th Conference, Paris, France.
Wing, S.L., Hickey, L.J. and Burnham, R.J. 1992. Exceptional Maastrictian flora shows that high diversity does not imply ecological dominance. GSA Program & Abstracts, OH.
Burnham, R.J. 1993. Time Resolution in Terrestrial Macrofloras. Geological Society of America Annual Meetings, Boston, MA.
Burnham, R.J. 1994. A preliminary report of Miocene plant fossils from central and southern Ecuador. American Journal of Botany 81(6):89.
Madden, R.H., R. Burnham, C.C. Swisher III, A.A. Carlini, A.H. Walton 1994. Mammalian Paleontology, paleobotany and geochronology of the Miocene intermontain basins of southern Ecuador. Society for Vertebrate Paleontology, Seattle, WA.
Burnham, R.J. 1994. Investigations of modern leaf litter & their importance in evaluating the taphonomy of Neogene plant deposits of the western U.S. Geol. Soc. Amer., Seattle, WA.
Burnham, R.J. 1995. Middle and Late Miocene plant fossils from central and southern Ecuador. American Journal of Botany 82(6):84.
Burnham, R.J. 1996. Stand characteristics and leaf litter species composition of a dry forest hectare in Santa Rosa National Park, Costa Rica. Intl. Org. Paleobotany Conference V.
Kowalski, E. and Burnham, R.J. 1997. Miocene Coussapoa (Cecropiaceae) from the Nabon Basin, Ecuador, South America. Midcontinent Paleobotanical Colloquium, Athens, OH.
Burnham, R.J. and A. Graham 1997. The History of Netotropical vegetation: new developments and status. Annual Symposium of the Missouri Botanical Garden, October 1997.
Burnham, R.J. 1998. The Great American Interchange: Does the plant record echo the mammalian record? Midcontinent Paleobotanical Colloquium, Denver, CO.
Burnham, R.J., Nigel C. A. Pitman, and Kirk R Johnson. 2000, Habitat-related error in estimating temperatures from leaf margins in a humid tropical forest. Midcontinent Paleobotanical Colloquium, Chapel Hill, NC.
Burnham. R.J. 2000. Bejucos del Parque Nacional Yasuní y su importancia en los bosques tropicales. III Congreso Botanico del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador.
Kowalski, E. A. y R.J. Burnham 2000 La Flora y Vegetación del Mioceno Superior de la cuenca de Nabón, Ecuador. III Congreso Botanico del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador.
Burnham. R.J. 2002. Alpha and beta diversity of lianas in Yasuní National Park, Ecuador. Association for Tropical Biology Annual Meeting; Panama City, Panama.
Burnham, R.J. 2003. Amazon Basin Angiosperms from Low Altitudes in the Bolivian Andes Midcontinent Paleobotanical Colloquium, Chicago, IL
Burnham, R.J. 2003. Blowing in the wind: abiotic dispersal, ecology, and phylogeny in South American Tertiary Floras. Geological Society of America, Seattle, WA.
Burnham, R.J. and K. R. Johnson. 2004. Biological hotspots: South American paleobotany and the origins of neotropical rainforests. Plant Phylogeny and the Origin of Major Biomes, Conference by the Royal Society of London, March 2004.
Burnham, R.J., K. R. Johnson, and B. Ellis 2004. Modern tropical forest taphonomy: How does high biodiversity affect paleoclimatic interpretations? International Organization for Paleobotany Conference, Bariloche, Argentina, March 2004.
Burnham, R.J. 2006. Hide and Go Seek: What Does Presence Mean in the Fossil Record? BSA Meetings, Chico, CA August 2006.
ORGANIZED WORKSHOPS
NCEAS (National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis) Working Group on Lianas and Tropical Forest Dynamics. February, 2005 and April, 2006. Santa Barbara California.
Workshop Organizer: Techniques for Assessing Biodiversity, sponsor: Museo de Historia Natural, Lima Peru & Smithsonian Institution. Sept. 10-24, 1990, Lima and Tambopata, Peru.
Workshop Organizer: Techniques for Assessing Biodiversity: sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and the Facultad de Ciencias Biologicas y Geografia UNSAAC. Jan. 27 - Feb. 10, 1992 in Cusco and Tambopata, Peru.
TEACHING
2005, 2006 Plant Diversity Biology 255, U. of Michigan
1997, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005 Neotropical Plants - Biology 463, U. of Michigan
2000 Topics in Plant Morphology: An Organographic Approach, U. of Michigan
1998 Tropical Field Ecology - for Boston University Program Abroad in Ecuador
1995, 1996, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2004 Spring Flora - Biology 215, U. of Michigan
1997 Organization for Tropical Studies Undergraduate Program - Resource Biologist
1995, 1997 General Biology - Biology 154, U. of Michigan
1994 Directed Reading in Evolutionary Biology - Biology 730 U. of Michigan
1994, 1995 Honors Biology -Biology 195 - U. of Michigan
1993 Plant Biology - Biology 255 U. of Michigan
1993, 1994 Morphology and Evolution of Vascular Plants Biology 461-U. of Michigan
1992, 1993, 1996 Terrestrial Ecosystems Through Time Biology 800 U. of Michigan
1987 Survey of the Plant Kingdom - Botany 220 U. of Washington
1984 Short Course on Paleoecological Methods U. of Washington
1981-1987 Teaching Assistant for Departments of Botany and Geology, U. of Washington
FIELD RESEARCH
1993, 1995-2006 Paleobotanical research in Andean sedimentary basins of Ecuador and Modern Lianas: systematics & ecological distribution of climbers in Amazonian forests, Ecuador.
2002 Initiation of field surveys of lianas of Caixuana, Para, Brasil. Sponsored by Missouri Botanical Garden.
1999-2006 Initiation of long-term study of climbing plants in the Department of Manu, Peru.
1998 & 2001 Research on Miocene fossil plants in the altiplano & eastern lowlands of Bolivia.
1994 Dry forest research: Santa Rosa National Park, Costa Rica and Estación de Biología de Chamela, Mexico.
1990-94 Paleobotanical research in the Raton Basin of Northeastern New Mexico.
1988-92 Tropical Forest Research: Manu N.P., Peru; Carrie Bow, Belize; Barro Colorado Island, Panama. Plant collecting, forest mapping, litter collection, sediment coring.
1988-92 Paleobotanical Research Bighorn Basin Wyoming. Collaboration on research utilizing results from modern taphonomic research with S.L. Wing.
1988-89 Temperate Forest Research at Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, Maryland. Forest mapping and plant litter collection.
1984-87 Geological Field Research in King County, Washington. Investigation of sedimentary environment of megafossil floras.
1983-86, 1992 Tropical Field Research: San Pedro River, Tabasco,and Volcan Chichón, Chiapas, Mexico. Plant collecting, sediment coring, plant litter.
INVITED SEMINARS, COURSES, & SYMPOSIA
Royal Society of London & Goldsmiths' College, University of London, March 1985.
Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists -A.A.P.G. Atlanta: June 1986.
Paleobotanical Section, A.I.B.S. Short Course on Paleoecological Methods, August 1987.
Chicago Field Museum, Department of Geology. February 1988.
Arizona State University, Department of Botany and Microbiology. March 1988.
State University of New York at Binghamton, Biology. October 1989.
University of Pennsylvania, Geology. November 1989.
University of New Mexico, Biology. February 1990 and December 1990.
University of Florida, Gainesville, Museum of Natural History. April 1991.
Royal Society of Edinburgh Symposium on East Kirkton Exceptional Biota. September 1992.
Bowling Green State University, Geology. October 1992.
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Instituto de Geologia. March 1994.
University of Michigan, Department of Geology. April 1994.
University of Iowa, Departments of Biology and Geology. October 1994.
Universidad Nacional del Ecuador, Departamento de Biología. February 1995.
Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Ecuador, August 1996.
Michigan State University, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Program, November 1996.
Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Ecuador, April 1997.
Organization of Tropical Studies Undergraduate Program, Costa Rica, October 1997.
Missouri Botanical Garden Fall Symposium November, 1997.
Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Departamento de Ciencias Ambientales, December 1998
Herbario Nacional de Ecuador (QCNE) March 2000
Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Departamento de Ciencias Ambientales, March 2000
Univ. Washington, Department of Botany, Sept. 2000, Invited Speaker: 100 Years of Botany
Univ. of California, Berkeley, Integrative Biology, April 2001 Jane Gray Memorial Lecture
Univ. of California, Berkeley Winter 2001 - Plant Biology Group
Duke University, Systematics Series Seminar Speaker, October 2002
Mid-Continent Paleobotanical Colloquim, Chicago Illinois, May 2003
Geological Society of America, South American Biota Symposium, Seattle, November 2003
Royal Society of London, Plant Phylogeny and the Evolution of Major Biomes, March 2004
Intl. Org. of Paleobotany Symposium on Plant Taphonomic Processes, Argentina, March 2004
College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, ME - College Invited Speaker -November 2004
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institution - Invited Speaker, Panama, December 2004
Cornell University – Graduate Student Invited Speaker April 3, 2006.
RECENT DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE
EEB Executive Committee 2004-2006; EEB Diversity Committee 2004-2006; EEB Curriculum Committee 2003-2004; EEB Herbarium Search Committee & Fungal Systematics Committee: 2003-5; EEB and Herbarium Search Committee for Plant Systematist (2 positions) 2004-2005
LOCAL EXTRA-DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE
Faculty Advisor to UM-SEEDS Undergraduate Ecology Group
Faculty Advisor to Society of Biology Students, Univeristy of Michigan 2003
University of Michigan Senate Assembly Term 1995-1998
Paleobotanical Advisor to Exhibit Museum: Renovation of Plant Exhibits 1994-present
Search Committee: Invertebrate Paleontology Position 1994-95
Docent Training Lecturer, Matthaei Botanical Gardens 1994-1996
Geology Department (U of Michigan) Turner Award Committee 1992-1995
Scientific Advisor to the Hands-On Museum, Ann Arbor, MI 1992-1994 |
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