Small-flowered lipocarpha (Lipocarpha micrantha) COSEWIC assessment and status report: chapter 14

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BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY OF CONTRACTORS

Tyler W. Smith has a B.Sc (Ecology) from the University of Guelph.  He has been the Field Botanist for Royal Botanical Gardens since 1998.  In this position he is responsible for restoration monitoring and planning, herbarium curation, and rare species conservation.  He chairs the recovery team for Trichophorum planifolium, for which he authored the Recovery Plan.  He is also conducting research as a member of the recovery teams for Morus rubra and Pycnanthemum incanum.

George W. Douglas has a M.Sci. (Forestry) from the University of Washington and a Ph.D (Botany) from the University of Alberta, Edmonton. George has worked with rare plants for over 20 years. He was senior author of The Rare Plants of the Yukon (1981), co-authored The Rare Plants of British Columbia (1985) and was senior author of the Rare Native Plants of British Columbia (1998). He is also the senior editor for the Illustrated Flora of British Columbia (1998-2001) and has been the program botanist for the British Columbia Conservation Data Centre since it’s inception in 1991. George has written or co-written 18 COSEWIC status reports during this period.

Al Harris is a biologist with 16 years experience in northern Ontario.  He is cofounder of Northern Bioscience, an ecological consulting company based in Thunder Bay Ontario.  He also spent seven years as a biologist with OMNR.  His most recent focus has been on land classification and wetland ecology in northwestern Ontario.  He is senior author of Wetland Ecosystem Classification for Northwestern Ontario; co-author of Terrestrial and Wetland Ecosites for Northwestern Ontario and Wetland Plants of Ontario.  Al has also been heavily involved in woodland caribou population monitoring, habitat assessment and management guidelines development in northwestern Ontario. He is past president of the Thunder Bay Field Naturalists, served as regional co-ordinator for the Atlas of the Mammals of Ontario, and co-author of Checklist of the Plants of Thunder Bay District.