Plant photography CV

A selection of photos from published research, journal covers, social media, awards, and on-going projects.

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
Cover photo (Catalina ironwood leaf) for the literary journal Sun Star Review, Spring 2016
Me and my Araucaria friend for the "Graduate Research Assistant of the Year Award"
The University of Southern Mississippi wanted a "professional photo" for this ward, so I got out the tripod and made this awkward composition at the Washington Park Arboretum in Seattle. At least there's a cool plant in the photo!
Cover photo (Gingko leaf) for the literary journal Sun Star Review

Cover photo for the journal Castanea, March 2017
castaneajournal.org
Platanus leaf fossil from the Miocene
In the fall of 2014, I found a new fossil plant locality near Hattiesburg, Mississippi. This Platanus fossil was one of the first complete leaf fossils that I excavated from the site. The site is turning out to be one of the richest plant fossil sites for this time period in Eastern North America. More details here about this ongoing project here: http://botanyconference.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=191
A diagram of different leaf venation photography methods for the journal Phytoneuron
www.phytoneuron.net/2015Phytoneuron/39PhytoN-ImagingVenation.pdf
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

Social media post for UC Davis Center for Plant Diversity
https://www.facebook.com/UCDherbarium/
Platanus occidentalis cuticle
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
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, 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
Triarch Botanical Images Awards
source: http://www.amjbot.org
Specimen image from University of Southern Mississippi Herbarium
http://sernecportal.org/portal/

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