Wood-poppy (Stylophorum diphyllum) COSEWIC assessment and status report: chapter 14

Biographical Summary of Report Writers

J. Bowles

Jane M. Bowles received her PhD from the University of Western Ontario in 1980. She has over 25 years of experience as freelance ecologist in southern Ontario, doing life science inventories, pursuing research in conservation ecology and working with species at risk. She has been conducting research studies and recovery activities on Stylophorum diphyllum since 1997 and is author of the Recovery Strategy. She has been a member of the Vascular Plant Specialist Sub-Committee of COSEWIC since 2002 and a member of COSSARO since 2006. She also sits on the Recovery Teams for wood-poppy, Lake Huron Dune Grasslands/Pitcher’s thistle, Tallgrass, Carolinian Woodlands and Walpole Island First Nation. She is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Western Ontario where she has also been Curator of the Herbarium and Director of the Sherwood Fox Arboretum since 1995.

S. Brinker

Samuel R. Brinker received a Bachelor of Environmental Studies (BES) from the University of Waterloo. He has over 8 years of experience researching species at risk and evaluating natural areas. Sam began field surveys as an inventory biologist conducting a Natural Areas Inventory in the City of Hamilton. Since then he has held a number of positions for Ontario Parks and the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources as a park naturalist, and more recently as a species at risk biologist. Sam is currently a consulting ecologist, where he conducts species at risk assessments for a range of vascular plant and reptile species, as well as wetland and life science inventories in parks and protected areas. He also sits on the Recovery Team for branched bartonia (Bartonia paniculata ssp. paniculata), and has been involved in the development of the eastern prickly-pear cactus – Lake Erie Sand Spit Savanna Ecosystem Recovery Strategy.

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