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BIRGIT SEMSROTT

bs8@axe.humboldt.edu

TITLE:

    Undergraduate student, Department of Botany, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98195, U.S.A.

EDUCATION:

    B.S. candidate, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98195, U.S.A.

    Preschool/Special-Education Teaching-Certificate, Fachschule fuer Sozialpaedagogik, Stephansstift, Hannover, Germany, 1989.

POSITIONS:

    Teacher, Building Blocks Children's Center, Seattle, 1989-1994.

    Laboratory Assistant, Department of Zoology, University of Washington, Seattle, June 1993-February 1994.

    Field Assistant in Lichenology, Department of Botany, University of Washington, Seattle, 1995.

    Research Assistant, International Kuril Island Project, University of Washington, 1995-1996, 1996-1997

PROJECTS AND SPECIAL INTERESTS:

    Volunteer, University of Washington Herbarium, 1994-1997.

    Pursuing the study of lichens with the Seattle Lichen Guild, 1995-1997.

    Independent study, with University of Washington, Department of Botany graduate student Ingrid Parker, on ant seed-dispersal of Scotch broom, summer 1995.

    Co-organizer of the Botany Undergraduate Club, 1995-1997.

    General interest in plant taxonomy, evolutionary ecology, and entomology.

    Gardener and professional vegetable farmer.

MEMBERSHIPS:

    Washington Native Plant Society

    Puget Sound Mycological Society

    University District Farmer's Market

PUBLICATIONS:

  • Currently assisting in the preparation of manuscripts on the floras of Raikoke, Ekarma, Kharimkotan, and Chirinkotan islands, Kuril Archipelago.


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