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The Pemberton Collection
Botany Section - Research

Collection Manager Tim Hogan collects specimens in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains
Collection manager Tim Hogan collects specimens in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains
Current research being conducted by Herbarium faculty, staff, students and associates

Tim Hogan, Collection Manager: Floristic research, Colorado; conservation Biology.

Nan Lederer, Collection Manager: Floristic research, Colorado, including conservation easement baseline inventories, plant identification.

Dina Clark, Museum Associate: Floristic surveys of the eastern plains of Colorado

JoAnn Flock, Curator Adjoint: Bryophyte flora of Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska

William Weber, Curator Emeritus: Flora of Colorado

Ron Wittmann, Museum Associate: Flora of Colorado

Former Graduate Research Assistants
(With M.S. thesis and current employment)

  • Pam Regensberg (2007) A Floristic Survey of the Baca National Wildlife Refuge, San Luis Vally, Colorado; Botany consultant, The Wildlife Experience, Parker, CO.
  • Monique McHenry (2005) Ferns and lycophytes of the Southern Rocky Mountain Region; Ph.D. student at University of Vermont, Burlington, evolution of the fern genus Polystichum in Latin America.
  • Mary Damm (2002) Controls of alpine vascular plant species diversity; Ph.D. student at University of Indiana.
  • Erin Robertson (2000) Limits to female reproductive success in the bottle gentian Pneumonanthe bigelovii (Gentianaceae); Conservation Biologist, Center for Native Ecosystems, Denver, CO
  • Rea Orthner (1999) Flora of the Buffalo Peaks Wilderness Area and vicinity, Mosquito Range, Colorado; Wetland Biologist, Western Ecological Resource, Boulder, CO
  • Julie Korb (1997) Vegetation dynamics in four ecosystems along an elevational gradient in the Front Range, Colorado; Professor of Ecology, Fort Lewis College, Durango
  • Dina Clark (1995) A floristic survey of the Mesa de Maya region, Las Animas County, Colorado; Consulting Botanist, Denver, CO

Research projects supported by the Hazel Schmoll Research Fellowship in Colorado Botany

2006

  • Mary Jamieson, "Effects of Nitrogen Availability on Plant Performance and Secondary Chemistry"
  • Pamela Regensberg, "Baca National Wildlife Refuge Floristic Survey"

2005

  • Bianca Breland, "Anthropogenic Landscape Disturbance and the Common Sunflower"

2004

  • Nehalem C. Breiter, "How Selective are Biological Controls? Evaluating the Potential for Non-Target Herbivory through Field Testing and Regional Ecological Risk Assessment"

    2003

    • Courtney L. Meier, "Ecophysiology of alpine plant communities on Niwot Ridge"
    • Cristina Rumbaitis-del Rio, "Compound Disturbances: Do Pre-Fire Disturbances Influence Post-Fire Regeneration?"

    2002

    • Eric Dechaine, "Pleistocene Impacts on Genetic Diversity in Sedum lanceolatum (Crassulaceae)"
    • Rosemary Sherriff, "The Historic Range of Variability of Ponderosa Pine in the Northern Front Range: Past Fire Types and Fire Effects"

    Publications for Sale

    The following publications may be purchased for U.S. $5.00 each, plus U.S. $1.00 postage within the U.S. or U.S. $2.00 postage outside of the U.S. Make cheques payable to "The University of Colorado" and mail to:

    University of Colorado Museum Herbarium
    350 UCB
    Boulder, CO, 80309-0350, USA

    • Hogan, T. 1992. A floristic survey of the Eagle Nest Wilderness Area in the southern Gore Range of Central Colorado. 35pp.
    • Hogan, T. 1993. A floristic survey of the Boulder Mountain Park, Boulder, Colorado. 63pp.
    • Maley, A. 1994. A floristic survey of the Black Forest of the Colorado Front Range. 31pp.
    • Weber, W. A. 1995. Checklist of vascular plants of Boulder County, Colorado. 66pp.
    • Clark, D. A. 1996. A floristic survey of the Mesa de Maya Region, Las Animas County, Colorado. 44pp.
    • Michener-Foote, J. and T. Hogan. 1999. The flora and vegetation of the Needle Mountains, San Juan Range, southwestern Colorado. 39pp.

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