Botanical Projects

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
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

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
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

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