Coast Microseris (Microseris bigelovii) COSEWIC assessment and status report: chapter 15
Biographical Summary of Report Writers
Matt Fairbarns has a B.Sc. in Botany from the University of Guelph (1980). He has worked on rare species and ecosystem mapping, inventory and conservation in western Canada for approximately 20 years.
Andrew MacDougall is an NSERC post-doctoral research fellow in the Department of Biology at the University of Regina. He did his Ph.D. at UBC (2004). He has worked on issues of rare plant species and the design of regional protected area networks in New Brunswick. He was the endangered species biologist with the New Brunswick Department of Natural Resources and Energy in 1997-98.
Adolf Ceska, Prof. Biology (=M.Sc.) Charles University in Prague, Ph.D. (Victoria), botanist and plant ecologist, recently semi-retired and freelance consultant, former Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Victoria, Curator of Botany in the Royal British Columbia Museum and Program Ecologist, Conservation Data Centre. Author of several floristic and taxonomic papers and treatments, co-inventor of a computer technique for vegetation classification and an electronic publisher of BEN (Botanical Electronic News). Personal herbarium of over 30,000 specimens is deposited in the Royal British Columbia Museum.
Oldriska Ceska, Prof. Biology (=M.Sc.) Charles University in Prague. Oldriska Ceska is a tireless field botanist with extensive experience throughout the Pacific Northwest. Mrs. Ceska has over 35 years experience in ecological research, mycology, and botany, with special emphasis on rare plant inventory and surveys. As a chemotaxonomist she developed techniques for chemical identifications of water milfoils and discovered the as yet undescribed chemical compound coriandrin from cilantro. She has participated in numerous floristic and vegetation studies throughout British Columbia, focusing on cryptogams, fungi, and taxonomically difficult plants. She has taken part in many professional field trips throughout the Pacific Northwest in Washington, Oregon, and northern California. She has authored or co-authored over 50 papers, many of them in reviewed scientific journals.