Botanical Projects
a favorite plant of mine that I grew and photographed over the course of several seasons
http://www.phytoneuron.net/2018Phytoneuron/84PhytoN-AbutilonIDs.pdf
From my masters thesis: Rain lily (Zephyranthes atamasco)
Wayne County, Mississippi 2013-04-08 http://aquila.usm.edu/masters_theses/149/
Seed Cones of California Pines (an educational poster)
Free digital copy available at: http://herbarium.ucdavis.edu/pdfs/Posters/Seed_Cones_of_California_Pines.pdf. Printed copies available for sale, details here: http://herbarium.ucdavis.edu/taxonomicresources.html
Habitat photos from my masters thesis: The Vascular Flora of Wayne County, Mississippi
http://aquila.usm.edu/masters_theses/149/
Cover photo for the journal Castanea, September 2016
http://castaneajournal.org/toc/cast/81/3
Platanus leaf fossil from the Miocene of Mississippi
In the fall of 2014, I helped find a really cool plant fossil site outside of Hattiesburg, Mississippi. After several years of research we've put our thoughts here: https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2019/2540-miocene-plants-of-mississippi
A diagram of different leaf venation photography methods for the journal Phytoneuron
www.phytoneuron.net/2015Phytoneuron/39PhytoN-ImagingVenation.pdf
Cover photo for the journal Castanea, March 2017
castaneajournal.org
I needed to confirm that a fossil cuticle was, in fact, Platanus, so I prepared some modern Platanus cuticle for comparison. The upper cuticle is on the left (with all the stomata) and lower cuticle is on the right. http://cuticledb.eesi.psu.edu/cuticle/1583
Seed of the newly descriped species, Lycianthes textitlaniana, for the journal Phytologia
http://www.phytologia.org/uploads/2/3/4/2/23422706/99_4_241-248dean_et_al_lycianthes_new_speciesed11-29-17.pdf
Cover photo for the journal Castanea, June 2016
Pinewoods milkweed (Asclepias humistrata) and a female leafcutting bee (in the genus Megachile). Identification of the bee was provided by Robbin Thorp (University of California, Davis). castaneajournal.org
For the journal JBRIT about the aquatic Blyxa aubertii
www.brit.org/brit-press/jbrit
Triarch Botanical Images Awards
source: http://www.amjbot.org
Me and my Araucaria friend for the "Graduate Research Assistant of the Year Award"
Washington Park Arboretum, 2015