Beach pinweed (Lechea maritima) COSEWIC assessment and status report: chapter 15

Biographical Summary of Report Writers

David Mazerolle completed an undergraduate degree at the Université de Moncton with a major in biology and a minor in geography. He then went on to complete a master’s degree in environmental studies at the Université de Moncton, where he studied the geography of exotic vegetation in Kouchibouguac National Park and created a strategy for the management of the park’s exotic invasive flora. David Mazerolle presently works as an assistant botanist for the Atlantic Canada Conservation Data Centre. Prior to this he was coordinator for rare plant survey and monitoring projects at the Bouctouche Dune Irving Eco-Centre from 2003 to 2006, where his work focused on the rare coastal plants of New Brunswick’s Northumberland Coast. An accomplished field botanist, he has over seven years’ experience working on various research, survey and monitoring projects and has authored and coauthored several technical reports pertaining to rare plants in Atlantic Canada.

Sean Blaney is the Botanist and Assistant Director of the Atlantic Canada Conservation Data Centre (AC CDC), where he is responsible for maintaining status ranks and a rare plant occurrence database for plants in each of the three Maritime provinces. Since beginning with the AC CDC in 1999, he has conducted an extensive fieldwork program across the Maritimes region, discovering dozens of new provincial records for vascular plants and documenting several thousand rare plant locations. Sean is also a member of the COSEWIC Vascular Plant Species Specialist Committee, the Nova Scotia Atlantic Coastal Plain Flora Recovery Team, and has co-authored several COSEWIC and provincial status reports. Prior to employment with AC CDC, Sean received a B.Sc. in Biology (Botany Minor) from the University of Guelph and an M.Sc. in Plant Ecology from the University of Toronto, and worked on a number of biological inventory projects in Ontario as well as spending eight summers as a naturalist in Algonquin Park, where he co-authored the second edition of the park's plant checklist.


Collections Examined

Specimens were examined from the Connell Memorial Herbarium, University of New Brunswick (UNB) and the New Brunswick Museum (NBM). Information on New Brunswick specimens had already been compiled for the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (GH), Agriculture and Agrifoods Canada, Ottawa (DAO) and the National Museum (CAN). Ruth Newell of the E.C. Smith Herbarium, Acadia University (ACAD) and Marian Munro of the Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History (NSPM) examined collections of Lechea intermedia at their institutions and communicated results to us.

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