Achievements

Kevin Landaw (co-authors: Shaughnessy, F. J., Jones, A. , Glazebrook, M. , Tyburczy, J. , Ray, J. , Nelson, T., Abell, J.)

Biological Sciences

Poster. ADJUSTMENTS TO EELGRASS LEAF AREA INDEX IN HUMBOLDT BAY BASED ON DESICCATION AND WASTING DISEASE LESIONS. Western Society of Naturalists, Tacoma, WA.

http://www.wsn-online.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/WSN_2018_Short_Pro…

Frank Shaughnessy (co-authors:Abell, J. , Tyburczy, J. , LeBlanc, E. , Jones, A. , Ray, J. , Lopiccolo, J. , Nelson, T., Raether, S. , Landaw, K.

Biological Sciences

Poster: SPATIAL DIFFERENCES IN EELGRASS BED CONDITIONS IN HUMBOLDT BAY, CA THAT COULD AFFECT THE CO2 DRAW-DOWN FUNCTION OF THE PLANT. Western Society of Naturalists, Tacoma, WA.

http://www.wsn-online.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/WSN_2018_Short_Pro…

Gerardo Ureno (co-authors: Nelson, T., Abell, J., Bespalova, D. V., Encinas, K. M., Shaughnessy F. J., Jones, A., LeBlanc, E., Landaw, K., Ray, J., Tyburczy J.

Biological Sciences

Presented poster: VARIABILITY OF INVERTEBRATE COMMUNITIES AMONG EELGRASS BEDS IN HUMBOLDT BAY: IMPLICATIONS FOR CO2 DRAWDOWN. Western Society of Naturalists, Tacoma, WA.

http://www.wsn-online.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/WSN_2018_Short_Pro…

Mihai Tomescu (with co-author Andrew Groover - USDA-FS & University of California Davis)

Biological Sciences

Invited paper in the Tansley Review series published by the journal New Phytologist: "Mosaic modularity: an updated perspective and research agenda for the evolution of vascular cambial growth"

https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.15640

Mihai Tomescu

Biological Sciences

Paper presented at the national meeting of the Botanical Society of America in Rochester, Minnesota: "Fossil plants at the intersection of evo-devo and phylogeny: celebrating the contributions of Gar W. Rothwell to biodiversity and evolution"

Adolfina Savoretti (visiting student from Argentina), Alexander Bippus, Mihai Tomescu (with R.A. Stockey and G.W. Rothwell)

Biological Sciences

Peer-reviewed article in Annals of Botany: "Grimmiaceae in the Early Cretaceous: Tricarinella crassiphylla gen. et sp. nov. and the value of anatomically preserved bryophytes"
https://academic.oup.com/aob/article/121/7/1275/4850661

Sandra Strayer, Mihai Tomescu (with S. Noetinger)

Biological Sciences

Peer-reviewed article in American Journal of Botany: "Origin of Equisetum: Evolution of horsetails (Equisetales) within the major euphyllophyte clade Sphenopsida"
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ajb2.1137

Kelly Pfeiler, Mihai Tomescu

Biological Sciences

Peer-reviewed article in Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society: "An Early Devonian permineralized rhyniopsid from the Battery Point Formation of Gaspé (Canada)"

https://academic.oup.com/botlinnean/article-abstract/187/2/292/4939107

Mihai Tomescu (with A.T. Groover)

Biological Sciences

Paper presented at 10th European Paleobotany-Palynology Conference in Dublin, Ireland: "Deconstructing secondary growth as developmental potential: a perspective on the evo-devo of wood"

Brian Tissot

Biological Sciences

Brian was elected as the President of the Western Society of Naturalists for 2019.

http://www.wsn-online.org/about-wsn/governance/