THE JEPSON GLOBE A Newsletter from the Friends of The Jepson Herbarium

VOLUME 17 NUMBER 2 SEPTEMBER 2006

New National Science Foundation Curator’s Column Funding for Vernal Pool Research by Bruce G. Baldwin Advances in Floristics California vernal pools are unique ecological communities that I had the pleasure this sum- form in shallow depressions in grass- mer of attending Botany 2006, held lands. The pools fill with water during this year in California (Chico), and an the winter rainy season and dry up in international meeting on Compositae summer. Vernal pools are occupied by systematics in Barcelona, Spain, orga- a diverse array of annual species, nized by The International Compositae many of which are found exclusively in Alliance (TICA). Both meetings of- California, and they harbor endangered fered abundant evidence of progress in Chelsea D. Specht, Hawai’i, Mauna Kea, 2004 fairy shrimp and tiger salamanders. It understanding the origins and relation- Chelsea Specht is estimated that >90% of the original ships of California’s native , with vernal pools of California have been Assistant Professor significant new findings in, for example, destroyed by urbanization and agricul- Aquilegia, Arctostaphylos, Artemisia New Curator of Monocots ture. These threats persist, together with and relatives, Asclepias, Athysanus, the added uncertainty of the effects of Atriplex and relatives, Boerhavia, Chelsea completed her Mas- global climate change. Brodiaea, Calochortus, Camassia, ter’s and Ph.D. programs at New David Ackerly and Bruce Camissonia and relatives, Castilleja, York University in affiliation with Baldwin have received a NSF grant to Cheilanthes, Dissanthelium, Draba, the New York Botanical Garden and, study “Niche conservatism, functional Eriogonum and relatives, Fagaceae, following a postdoc at the Smithso- trait evolution and the diversification Garrya, Gentianopsis, Isoëtes, Lycium, nian (NMNH), joined the faculty of of the California vernal pool flora.” Maianthemum, Monardella, Pedic- Plant and Microbial Biology in the Nancy Emery, currently completing her ularis, Pellaea and relatives, Penste- fall of 2005. After her second year in Ph.D. at UC Davis, will join the team mon, Phacelia, Pinus, Rubus, Sidalcea, graduate school, she received a Ful- Sisyrinchium, Smilacina, Thalictrum, bright scholarship to go to Bolivia to Continued on page 4. Thysanocarpus, Trifolium, and many study the use of evolutionary biology lineages of Compositae. Phylogenetic in local conservation efforts. She first ALSO IN THIS ISSUE studies at deep- and fine-scale levels by worked with the local conservation Herbarium Graduate Students a wide diversity of national and inter- organization “Fundacion Amigos national research teams are revealing de la Naturaleza” and later with the Moss 2006, review many surprising findings. The time is World Wildlife Fund. She (somewhat Botany 2006, awards and honor fast approaching when a comprehensive unexpectedly) stayed in Bolivia for new assessment of evolutionary patterns three years, working with WWF first Weekend Workshop in review across the California flora will be pos- in the Bolivia Program office as the sible. Amazonian Conservation Program Volunteer Opportunities One exciting outcome of re- Officer and later as the Ecoregional Announcements cent studies has been the resolution of Coordinator for the Southwest Amazon Continued on page 6. Continued on page 6. Graduate Students University and Jepson Herbaria

Vicente Garcia My research Eric SJ Harris I am interested in interests encompass vascu- human uses of bryophytes, a field lar-plant systematics, floristics, of study sometimes called “ethno- and conservation with an em- bryology.” I have been researching phasis on systematic and phy- two medicinally important mosses: logenetic studies. I am particu- Plagiomnium and Rhodobryum. Pla- larly interested in the historical giomnium has been used to treat skin biogeography, reproductive biology, , evolutionary infections and swelling by the Bella ecology, and ethnobotany of the Piper (Piperaceae). Coola and Oweekeno First Nations of The pepper genus consists of well over 1,000 species in a western Canada. I have been studying the phylogeny and pantropical distribution. It includes several commercially phytochemistry of Plagiomnium to understand the evolution grown and ethnobotanically important species such as black of putatively bioactive chemicals in this genus. Rhodobryum pepper (Piper nigrum), betel (Piper betle), and kava is used in Southwest China to treat minor heart problems. I (Piper methysticum). have been conducting ethnobotanical research to understand the variation in use and knowledge of Rhodobryum in the Danica Taylor Harbaugh My areas of Southwest China where this moss is used. I hope doctoral dissertation research to use my research to shed light on the biological processes focuses on the hemi-parasitic that make mosses amenable to human use, and the cultural plant genus Santalum (San- processes that incorporate mosses into human life. talaceae), which includes the economically and ethnobotan- Ruth Kirkpatrick I study the ically important sandalwoods, fern genus Pellaea and other commonly used in incense and cheilanthoid relatives. Cheil- perfume. A phylogeny of the entire genus, which includes anthoid ferns have a world- nearly 30 named taxa, has been reconstructed using a com- wide distribution and thrive in bination of nuclear ribosomal (ITS, ETS), low-copy nuclear exposed rocky habitats where (3’waxy), and chloroplast (3’trnK) gene regions. The phy- there are extended dry periods logeny has elucidated novel biogeographic patterns across during part of the year. These the Pacific Basin, including two independent colonization ferns have evolved structural and chemical adaptations that events to Hawaii, and at least one dispersal out of Hawai’i. enable them to tolerate drought and desiccation, making The phylogeny will be used to examine patterns in ethnobo- them an ideal group to study for understanding genetic, tanical uses, as well as to revise the taxonomy of the genus. morphological and physiological changes associated with drought and desiccation tolerance. Understanding how plants Anna Larsen I am studying the have responded to changes in their environments in the past historical co-movement of plants will allow us to be better prepared to make more accurate and people in Oceania from a predictions about their response to current and future envi- phylogenetic perspective. Within ronmental change. the last 5,000 years, the Lapita Andrew Murdock My dis- people migrated from Southeast sertation research focuses on Asia or Near Oceania as far east as the evolution of the tropical Fiji and Tonga. Following at least fern family Marattiaceae, a 1,000 years of cultural isolation, “living fossil” lineage whose an ancestral Polynesian culture emerged in the Samoan morphology has seemingly and Tongan archipelagoes and evolved as humans spread changed very little for millions through the islands of the Polynesian triangle over the next of years. For this research, I two thousand years. Consequently, variation in Polynesian have collected ferns throughout the Pacific and Asia and cultural traditions, artifacts, and indicator plants reflects the have studied the morphological and DNA sequence evolu- chronology of island settlement. I am using two sources tion across the diversity of the Marattiaceae. Additionally, I of data to reconstruct the human migration route: genetic am studying genomic and morphological evolution of green variation in the Candlenut tree (Aleurites moluccana (L.) plants, working on floristics projects in the Carquinez Strait Willd.) and variation in the production, decoration and use region of California and on the island of Moorea, French of Polynesian barkcloth (tapa). Polynesia, and actively pursuing research on ferns in Cali- fornia, , and .

2 Graduate Students University and Jepson Herbaria

Bianca Knoll Several ferns in Stephanie Stuart I am using the her- the family Pteridaceae are the bariums’ collections of different species only plants known to hyperaccu- of modern Azolla, a water fern, to help mulate arsenic. My dissertation build a morphological phylogeny of goal is to discern the phyloge- plants from this genus. Although my netic relationships of these taxa work focuses on fossil specimens from in order to place the arsenic the University of California Paleontol- hypeaccumu-lation trait into an ogy Museum, access to a wide range of evolutionary perspective. Hope- modern specimens is crucial if I am to fully, this will allow me to make suggestions for non-weedy identify the fossil plants and place them in an evolutionary species that can be used in arsenic phytoremediation. I focus context. I have also used specimens from the herbarium in on the fern genera Pityrogramma and Pteris, and conduct my teaching students to identify plants – students really appre- fieldwork in Central America and South America. ciate being able to see , and other reproductive structures at any time of year. Abby Moore I am studying the genus Grindelia (Astera- Rebecca Welch I am interest- ceae). Members of the genus ed in the evolution of the full grow in a wide variety of hab- range of symbiotic interaction, itats and many different soil from virulence to cooperation. types including salt marshes, Bryophyte hornworts in the coastal dunes, serpentine soils, genera Anthoceros and Phae- dry roadsides, and open pine oceros, and their cyanobacte- woodlands. In addition to this diversity of habitats, Grindelia rial symbiont, Nostoc are my shows a wide range of morphologies from sub- and study organisms. What are the evolutionary dynamics of upright, much-branched perennials to plants with unbranched intimately interacting species at the molecular level? What stems growing from a basal rosette and prostrate forms. role do ecological factors such as community structure and However, all of these forms are connected by intermediates life history strategies play in those dynamics? In particular, and it is not clear how much gene exchange there is and how do different hornwort reproduction strategies (vegetative vs. much of the variation is phenotypic. I am currently examin- sexual) result in differing co-evolutionary outcomes for their ing the phylogeny of the genus using gene sequence data. In respective Nostoc partners? the future I hope to examine the morphological variation in western North American species more closely using common Elizabeth H. Zacharias My garden experiments and investigate gene flow among the dissertation research inves- populations growing in different habitats using population tigates the evolutionary, bio- genetics approaches. geographical, and ecological history of North American Michael Park I am interested members of the saltbush genus in the evolution of leaf hetero- Atriplex (Chenopodiaceae) and blasty (seasonal heterophylly) related genera. I am integrat- in Eryngium (Apiaceae) of ing molecular phylogenetic methods with ecological and the New World and its con- physiological data to understand the processes and patterns sequences for adaptation to of plant evolution. Atriplex provides an extraordinary op- vernal pool habitats or other portunity for comparative evolutionary studies; Atriplex taxa seasonally water inundated exhibit important ecological and physiological diversity, with environments. I am working with Bruce Baldwin on the many taxa appearing well adapted to stresses such as high pollination syndrome in Collinsia, specifically the link temperature, limited water supply, and high salinity. Besides between size and self-fertilization. I am also taking contributing to a better understanding of evolutionary rela- a fresh look at the systematics of Collinsia as well as col- tionships and processes, the phylogenetic framework allows laborating with Robert Preston on the Eryngium treatment me to test hypotheses about physiological and morphological for the second edition of The Jepson Manual. I am working change in an ecological context, such as the evolution of C3 on the conservation of the annual Mount Diablo buckwheat and C4 photosynthesis, the origin of arid systems, and the and researching the role of disturbance (landslide and animal evolution of salinity tolerance in angiosperm diversification. use) and competition in the maintenance of the only known I am especially interested in how physiological differences population. among plants contribute to evolutionary divergence.

3 Vernal Pools, continued from page 1. as a post-doctoral re- Herbarium visit to searcher and Michael Bar- bour, also at UC Davis, Rockpile Ranch and Vineyard will be a collaborator on the project. The project June 2006 will study the diversity and ecology of vernal pool This past summer, faculty, staff, and plants to understand how students of the herbaria spent a spe- these unique communities cial day at Rockpile Vineyard, home arose in relation to chang- of Jepson Trustee, Rod Park and his ing climates over the past wife Cathy. Rod and Cathy hosted 5-10 million years, and to the group in a lovely outdoor setting determine how the species with a “wild” pig roast and tastings of partition the environment wine from the vineyard. After lunch, of the vernal pools, for ex- the group went on a short excursion ample, by living in deeper to view petroglyphs and add to the vs. shallower locations, allowing many plant list that was started during the species to coexist. Brent Mishler, Rod Park, and the group. herbarium’s first trip to the ranch in Results of this project will be of the early 1990’s. direct value for vernal pool conservation and restoration projects. Knowledge gained in this project will be disseminat- ed to the public through web pages, edu- cation of docents at parks and reserves, and a conservation white paper aimed at resource managers responsible for land- use planning and management of vernal pool complexes. Photo: D. Ackerly at Jepson Prairie

Lunch on the front lawn. The fabulous buffet.

Moss 2006 Forest Service Funding for geo-referencing An international meeting of moss experimental biologists, Moss The Herbarium thanks Julie 2006, was held at UC Berkeley from June 26th through July 1st, Nelson, Forest Botanist, Shas- 2006, hosted by University and Jepson Herbaria Director Brent ta-Trinity National Forest for Mishler (greatly assisted by Sonia Nosratinia). The meeting, at- procuring funding to geo-ref- tended by 70 participants from all over the world, was timed to erence records from Shasta coincide with the completion of sequencing of the full nuclear and Trinity counties. Using genome of the moss Physcomitrella at the Joint Genome Insti- data from the Consortium of tute (JGI); Dr. Mishler was one of two co-PIs on this project. California Herbaria, there are This moss genome, nearly 500 million nucleotides in size, is the just under 12,000 localities first land plant genome sequenced outside the flowering plants. from the two counties. We The project is being carried out by an international group of col- expect to start the work this laborators — the Moss Genome Consortium — a fall and complete it by Octo- remarkably interdisciplinary team. Many func- ber 2007. tional and evolutionary insights are already being discovered and were presented at Moss 2006. Thank you to Julie and the For more details, see: http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/ Forest Service! bryolab/Moss2006/

4 The Jepson Herbarium Honors and Awards Projects & Resources received at national The Jepson Flora Project Second Edition of The Jepson Manual botany conference Online Interchange for California Florisitcs Jepson Desert Manual Online Horticultural Database Electronic Publication of Jepson’s A Flora of California Danica Harbaugh, graduate student in the Jepson Herbarium, was awarded Ecological Flora of California the George R. Cooley award for best contributed paper in plant systematics. The American Society of Plant Taxonomist’s Cooley Award recognizes the Publications & Current Research Proj- ects best paper in systematics given at the annual meeting by a botanist in the ear- Constancea: University of California ly stages of his/her career. Danica’s paper was titled “Unraveling the complex electronic publications in botany history of sandalwoods (Santalum, Santalaceae)” and was co-authored with DeCew’s Guide to the Seaweeds Bruce Baldwin. Unravelling the dynamics of mating-system evolution in tribe Collinsieae Building the Tree of Life ⎯ A National Re- Alan R. Smith, University Herbarium, and John T. Mickel, New York Bo- source for Phyloinformatics and Computa- tanical Garden, were awarded the prestigious Engler Medal in Silver by the tional Phylogenetics International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT) for The Pteridophytes Deep Green Plant Phylogenetics: Novel of Mexico, an authoritative book describing and illustrating all known ferns Analytical Methods for Scaling Data from in Mexico. Genomics to Morphology Beyond “Deep Green”: Towards an Integra- tion of Plant Phylogenetics and Plant The IAPT’s Engler Medal in Silver recognizes leading work in plant science. Genomics Established in 1990, it is awarded annually to the author(s) of an outstanding Demography and Germination Ecology of publication in the scientific classification of plants. In his presentation of the the Endangered Santa Cruz Tarplant award, IAPT officer Warren Wagner praised the “magnum opus” of Mickel Phylogeny and evolution of the true thistles, and Smith, The Pteridophytes of Mexico, calling it a “magnificent, monu- genus Cirsium (Compositae) Niche conservatism, functional trait evolu- mental, and comprehensive treatment” of one of the largest fern floras in the tion and the diversification of the Cali- world. It was judged by the IAPT to be the most outstanding publication in fornia vernal pool flora The fabulous buffet. floristic or monographic plant systematics for 2004 and one of the most com- plete tropical fern floras [listings of all plants of a region] ever written. Educational Services & Resources Botanical Workshops & Courses Plant Identification About The Pteridophytes of Mexico 2,200,000+ Worldwide Plant Specimens The Pteridophytes of Mexico was published by The New York Botanical Botanical Library and Slide Collection Garden Press in June 2004. It is the first attempt at a country-wide fern flora since early in the 20th century, and fills the gap between two other recent Administration major fern floras, those for north of Mexico and for Meso- Trustees: Vice Chancellor Emeritus Rod- america. eric Park, Chairman; UC Botanical Garden Director Paul Licht; Professors John Taylor and Brent Mishler (ex officio) The book presents 1008 species and 16 additional varieties and subspecies, Director: Professor Brent Mishler each fully illustrated and described. Forty new species are named in this Curator: Professor Bruce Baldwin book. These newly described species attest to the richness, novelty, and poor- Research Associate: Bridget Wessa ly studied nature of ferns in Mexico. Maps are included for all, so that the Jepson Flora Project Staff: Project Research Sp.: Jeff Greenhouse reader can see the fern’s distribution in Mexico at a glance. Because many Project Manager: Staci Markos species also occur in countries both adjacent to as well as surprisingly distant Webmaster: Chris Meacham from Mexico, this book is useful well beyond that country’s boundaries. The Database Admin: Richard Moe book is a welcome and useful reference for scientists around the world, as Scientific Editor: Tom Rosatti well as for conservationists and gardeners. Managing Editor: Margriet Wetherwax Administrative Curator: Andrew Doran Senior Museum Preparator: Ana Penny Alan R. Smith was also honored in a special Centennial awards ceremony Assistant Museum Scientist: Kim Kersh that honored scientists who have significantly contributed to the advancement Development & Globe Editor: of botanical studies and the Botanical Society of America. Staci Markos Public Programs: Cynthia Perrine 5 Curator’s column, continued from page 1. Californian or western North American where woody endemics often have been pathogen, Phytophthora ramorum. lineages that are far more diverse than regarded as likely relicts, two woody As the second edition of The previous data had suggested. In other species of Compositae — each treated Jepson Manual winds toward comple- words, California and the West in gen- within a diverse genus in The Jepson tion, we plan to highlight other changes eral have evidently served as sites for Manual — are now placed in monotypic in understanding of our native plants more extensive evolutionary radiations genera, Constancea (C. nevinii) and the with important scientific or conserva- of plants than was already suggested on resurrected Munzothamnus (M. blairii). tion implications. Stay tuned! the basis of earlier biosystematic work. Those taxonomic changes were based Excellent examples of such on results of studies conducted at the Specht, continued from page 1. species-rich lineages are now evident in Jepson Herbarium that indicate more our most diverse plant family, the Com- ancient divergence of the Channel Ecoregion, which includes Amazon positae or . As noted in these Island endemics than of genera that lowland forest in Peru, Bolivia and pages recently, work at the Jepson Her- previously included the island species Brazil. She eventually returned to New barium by Dean Kelch has established (i.e., Eriophyllum and ). York to continue her graduate studies, that most endemic Californian true On the other hand, woody tarweeds but her experience in local and regional thistles (Cirsium), previously thought to from the California Islands (Deinandra) conservation administration enables represent various groups of worldwide appear to include an example of recent her to direct her research goals towards distribution, instead constitute a natural diversification there (neoendemism), studies that may be important to the group that probably descended from a in support of a novel hypothesis by conservation of the global patterns and common Californian ancestor. Other Californian botanist Sherwin Carlquist. biological processes that drive diversifi- work here has shown that California tar- On the Californian mainland, a bizarre cation and maintain biological diversity. weeds are part of a more diverse lineage member of Compositae endemic to Chelsea’s research interests center of mostly Californian species, including the Death Valley region, Hecastocleis on the processes and patterns involved woolly sunflowers (e.g.,Eriophyllum ), shockleyi, with compound heads and in the evolution and diversification of goldfields (Lasthenia), and alpinegolds spinose , has recently been shown plants, especially the monocots. She (Hulsea), and the more wide ranging by Jose Panero (Univ. of Texas, Austin) uses a phylogenetic framework to test arnicas (Arnica). In the chicory or and Vicki Funk (Smithsonian Inst.) to hypotheses of morphological evolution dandelion tribe, ex-Jepson postdoc be the only living representative of an and to analyze temporal and spatial Joongku Lee (in collaboration with L. extremely ancient lineage that proba- patterns of plant speciation. D. Gottlieb, UC Davis) established that bly predates most Compositae tribes Research in the Specht lab em- the principally North American genera represented in the California flora. In phasizes the use of systematics in (e.g., Malacothrix, Microseris, Steph- light of those findings, Panero and Funk comparative plant biology. Current lab ano-meria), including highly diverse recently treated H. shockleyi as the sole projects focus on (1) the evolution of Californian lineages, represent a single member of a new subfamily (Hecasto- developmental genes and the role of group that is distinct from other parts cleoideae). differential gene expression in gener- of that mostly Old World tribe. At the Perhaps the most timely, recent ating floral diversity of monocots, (2) Barcelona TICA conference this sum- molecular phylogenetic finding for Cal- systematics and rates of diversification mer, results to date reported by Pieter ifornia botany from a conservation per- in tropical gingers, (3) co-radiation of Pelser (Miami Univ.) and collaborators spective was presented by Sang-Hun Oh plants and their pollinators, especially working on the senecio tribe suggest and Paul Manos (Duke Univ.) at Botany in Zingiberaceae, and (4) conservation that the exceedingly disparate herbs 2006, where their results to date showed genetics and the use of genetic tools and shrubs constituting our endemic that tanoak (Lithocarpus densiflora) is to elucidate patterns of gene flow that western North American genera, all only distantly related to the other, Asian enable us to trace historical migrations well represented in California (e.g., Ca- members of Lithocarpus and appears to and distributions and to predict future caliopsis, Crocidium, Lepido-spartum, have diverged from a common ancestor threats to genetic diversity of extant Luina, Tetradymia), and the ancestrally with all of New World Quercus prior plant populations. She and members of Californian probably to diversification of the American red, her lab, including IB graduate student stem from a common ancestor here in white, and intermediate oaks. From that Ruth Kirkpatrick, are also collaborating the far West. perspective, tanoak is clearly a Califor- with the Instituto de Ecologia in Xalapa, New understanding of paleo- nia Floristic Province paleoendemic and Mexico, to study the evolution of des- endemics or evolutionary relicts in should be given even more conservation iccation tolerance in cheilanthoid ferns the California flora also has emerged priority than is warranted by its major and to develop a model for ancestral recently from systematic studies. In ecological importance and extreme ecology reconstruction of these ferns. the Channel Islands, for example, vulnerability to the sudden oak death 6 2006 Weekend Workshops in Review

During the Field Macro-photography workshop at Hastings Reserve, May Chen (left) gains assistance in lining up a shot from instructor Da- vid Gubernick (center, kneeling) with Gary Monroe (right) assisting.

San Luis Obispo County workshop participants gather for a group photo atop a coastal terrace at the county’s northern boundary. Many thanks to our instructors and participants for another unforgettable and scenic workshop sea- son

See you next year! Joel Perlstein (left) and Neal Kramer (right), engage Vegetation Classification and Mapping workshop instructor Todd Keeler-Wolf in a discussion on their way to “Total Steve Matson heads back to the boat after a day on Vegetation Awareness.” San Miguel Island.

Lava Beds workshop participants gather to key an unknown on Gillen Bluff with Mt. Shasta in the background. (Paul Grunland) Janice and Tara Forbis pause during the Mt. Ashland workshop to enjoy the view from Mt. McLaughlin. (Photos by C. Perrine unless otherwise credited) (Anna Larsen) 7 VOLUNTEERS NEEDED TO HELP CALIFORNIA BOTANICAL SOCIETY WITH UC/JEPS BACKLOG FREE LECTURES

One Saturday of each month (from 10 AM to 4 PM) is a Sep 21 Invasive Spartina in San Francisco Bay: the Group Volunteer Day in the Herbaria at the University of trouble with hybrids, Debra Ayres, UC Davis California at Berkeley.

Our focus will be chipping away at the unmounted backlog Oct 19 Comparative water relations of semi-arid plant of pressed plant collections, from California and around the communities in California and Mexico, Radi- world, some brand new, some decades old. Volunteers are ka Bhaskar, Stanford University greatly needed to mount, sort, and file these collections and to assist with related projects. No previous herbarium experi- Nov 16 The diversification of the world’s redwoods: ence is necessary. California and beyond, Jarmila Pittermann, UC Berkeley To be added to the Group Volunteer reminder list, please call Ana Penny (510) 642-2465. Opportunities are also available Lecture starts at 7:00 p.m. Refreshments will be served during the week (9-5, M-F). before (starting at 6:45 p.m.) and after.

Group Volunteer Saturdays for 2006-2007 : Sep 9, Oct 14, 2063 Valley Life Sciences Building, UC Berkeley Nov 18, and Dec 9 www.calbotsoc.org

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Meet the Jepson Manual Authors The Friends are seeking the right person to join our Potentilla (B. Ertter); Eriogonum (J. Reveal); Chorizanthe team as a Field Leader for our workshop program. (J. Reveal); Poaceae (T. Columbus); Lupinus (T. Shol- The field leader will be responsible for implement- ars) ing a sub-set of the weekend workshops and duties Weekend Workshops including pre- and post-trip loading, driving to and Imperial County (J. Rebman); Bryophyte Inventory Tech- from workshops, transporting participants during field niques (J. Shevock); Pohlia and related genera (J. Shaw); excursions, maintaining trip itinerary, assisting cook as Panamint Range (D. York); White Mountains (J. Morefield); needed with meal preparation and clean-up, and han- Mimulus in Sequoia & Kings Cyn (S. Schoenig) dling any workshop leadership as needed. The right Special Series candidate will posses outdoor leadership skills, current Mycchorizae in Mendocino (M. Garbelotto and T. Sholars); first aid/CPR and/or wilderness first aid certification A Comprehensive History of California Tanoaks (F. Bow- (may be obtained after hiring), clean DMV record cutt) and experience driving high occupancy, 12-passenger Topics in Wildlife Ecology vans. Botanical experience is preferred. Interested Ecology of Lyme Disease (Bob Lane & Reg Barrett) parties should inquire about this part-time, temporary opportunity by contacting Cynthia Perrine or Staci Tree of Life Series Markos at (510) 643 – 7008 or [email protected] Free-living Soil Microbes and the Origins of Life (D. Buck- ley); Fungi (D. Hibbett) or [email protected].

For more information, contact Cynthia Perrine (510) 643-7008, [email protected] or visit: http://uc- jeps.berkeley.edu/jepwkshp.html