Eastern prairie fringed-orchid COSEWIC assessment and status report: chapter 17

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Biographical Summary of Contractors

Vivian R. Brownell received an honours B.Sc. from the University of Guelph in 1978 with a specialization in field botany. After graduating, she worked for several government departments including the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and the Canadian Parks Service, Ontario Region. Since 1983, she has worked as a biological consultant for municipalities, conservation authorities and government agencies. Her work primarily involves biological inventory and evaluation, rare species management, evaluation of natural areas and wildlife habitat and natural heritage systems planning. In 1996 she developed a computer software program (NADEP) that incorporates a databasing system and facilitates the evaluation of natural areas. She has authored or co-authored many papers in scientific journals and books on the subject of alvars, prairies, savannas, sand and rock barrens, orchid classification and plant geography. A partial list of papers, articles and reports can be obtained from the Canadian biodiversity guide to botanical specialists and literature, which is accessible on the internet at http://www.cciw.ca/eman-temp/scientists/botanists/intro.html.

Paul M. Catling received an honours B.Sc. from the University of Toronto in 1975, with specialization in botany, and a Ph.D. in botany from the University of Toronto in 1980. From graduation to the present, he has worked as a research scientist with Agriculture and Agri-food Canada in Ottawa. He is curator of the largest herbarium collection of vascular plants in Canada, which contains specimens mounted on approximately one million sheets. His work involves the maintenance and development of the collection as well as systematic and ecological research on native wild plants of economic importance, including medicinal crops, berry crops, and invading alien plants. He has served as President of the Canadian Botanical Association and on many national and international expert committees. A partial list of his papers, articles and reports can be obtained from the Canadian biodiversity guide to botanical specialists and literature, which is accessible on the Internet at http://www.cciw.ca/eman-temp/scientists/botanists/intro.html.