Porsild's bryum (Haplodontium macrocarpum) COSEWIC assessment and status report: chapter 15

Biographical Summary of Report Writer

Natalie Cleavitt earned her B.Sc. in the Department of Natural Resources at Cornell University in 1993. Her preoccupation with bryophytes began in 1991 when she became determined to identify the Sphagnum species in the peatlands where she was tracking seasonal greenhouse gas fluxes. She took her first bryophyte identification course at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland in 1992 during a semester abroad. She has a special interest in the bryophyte flora of New Hampshire and in bryophyte ecology and has conducted several surveys and held many bryophyte identification contracts with the US Forest Service and N.H. Natural Heritage Program. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Alberta in 2002 and is now a Postdoctoral Associate at Cornell University. Her Ph.D. work was a comparative study of the ecology of rare and common mosses in the Rocky Mountains of Alberta and M. macrocarpa was one of her study species.

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