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students in botanical fieldwork projects since 1995.
Learn more about their exciting research and fields
of study.
City University of New York/ New York
Botanical Garden Ph.D. expected 2006
BIA funded fieldwork (2003 through 2006)
Peru and Mali - Cross-cultural medical
ethnobotany.
Nat has also invented and developed a
sustainable technology called the Talking
Book, to pass along traditional plant
knowledge in indigenous communities.
Darron Collins, Ph.D.
Tulane University, 2001.
BIA funded fieldwork (1998 - 2000),
Guatemala - ethnobotany of the Q’eqchi’
Rachel Collins, Ph.D.
University of Pittsburgh, 2003.
BIA funded fieldwork (2000 - 2003), West
Virginia & Pennsylvania – oak forest
regeneration.
Adam Edwards, M.Sc.
Florida International University, 2004.
BIA funded fieldwork (2002 - 2004),
Southeastern North America - caffeine
content of Ilex vomitoria.
Christiane Ehringhaus, Ph.D.
Florida International University, M.Sc.
1997.
BIA funded fieldwork (1996 - 1997), Brazil:
medicinal uses of Piperaceae by
Kaxinawa.
Yale University School of Forestry, Ph.D.
2005.
BIA funded fieldwork (2003 - 2005), Brazil -
non -timber forest products in the Amazon.
Vicente Garcia
University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D.
expected 2006
BIA funded fieldwork (2004 - 2005) Pacific,
Thailand, South East Asia -
biodiversity/ethnomedicine of Piper
Michael Gilmore, Ph.D.
Miami University (Ohio), 2004.
BIA funded fieldwork (2001 - 2004),
Peruvian Amazon - Maijuna ecology and
ethnobotany
Danica Harbaugh
University of California, Berkeley: Ph.D.
expected 2007
BIA funded fieldwork ( 2003 - 2006), Pacific
and Australia - ethnobotany of Sandalwoods
Christopher Heckel
University of Pittsburgh, Ph.D. expected
2009
BIA funded fieldwork (2006 - ) Western PA -
effect of deer on Jack-in-the-Pulpit
Anya Hinkle, Ph.D.
University of California, Berkeley, 2005.
BIA funded fieldwork (2001 - 2004), French
Polynesia - dispersal of introduced
medicinal plants
Bruce Hoffman, M.Sc..
Florida International University, 1998.
BIA funded fieldwork ( 1995 - 1997)
Sustainable harvest of Heteropsis flexuosa
in Guyana.
University of Hawaii’i, Ph.D. expected
2007.
BIA funded fieldwork (2001 - 2005)
Suriname - traditional plant knowledge of
Amerindians and Maroons
Karen Crawley Kearney, Ph.D.
City University of New York/ New York
Botanical Garden, 2005
BIA funded fieldwork (1998 - 2005) Mexico -
traditional plant pharmacology of Quichol
women
Sarah Khan
City University of New York/ New York
Botanical Garden, Ph.D. expected 2006
BIA funded fieldwork (2002 - 2005) India
and China - traditional anti diabetic
medicinal plants
Tiffany Knight, Ph.D.
University of Pittsburgh, 2002.
BIA funded fieldwork (2002) Western PA -
how deer herbivory affects Trillium
grandiflorum
Bianca Knoll
University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D.
expected 2009
BIA funded fieldwork (2006 - ) Costa Rica,
Bolivia, Madagascar: Ferns which clean up
arsenic pollution
Dennis Milanowski, Ph.D.
Washington University, 1998.
BIA funded fieldwork (1996 - 1998) Peru -
medicinal compounds of Croton section
Cyclostigma
Emily Mooney
West Virginia University, Ph.D. expected
2007.
BIA funded fieldwork (2004 - 2006) PA, NY,
MD and West VA- ethnobiology of
American Ginseng
John Paul
University of Pittsburgh, Ph.D. expected
2007 Panama,
BIA funded fieldwork (2003 - 2006), Costa
Rica - causes of rarity in Psychotria
(Rubiaceae)
Cassandra Quave
Florida International University, Ph.D.
expected 2008
BIA funded fieldwork (2006 - ), Italy -
Antimicrobial plant extracts to combat drug-
resistant staph.
Armand Randrianasolo, Ph.D.
Missouri Botanical Garden, 1998.
Madagascar - Rhus, Micronychia, Protorhus
BIA funded fieldwork Fieldwork funded by
BIA: 1996 and 1997
Lauren Raz, Ph.D.
New York University/New York Botanical
Garden, 2004.
BIA funded fieldwork (2000 - 2003), Cuba -
West Indian Dioscoreaceae, revision of
Rajania.
Sylvain Razafimandimbison, Ph.
D.
Missouri Botanical Garden, 2000.
BIA funded fieldwork (1996 and 1997,
2000), Madagascar - revision of Rubiaceae.
Pio Saqui
University of Florida, Ph.D. expected 2009.
BIA funded fieldwork (2006 - ), Belize -
ethnobotany and traditional ecological
knowledge of Maya.
Stefan Schnitzer, Ph.D.
University of Pittsburgh, 2001.
BIA funded fieldwork (1997 - 2001),
Panama, Costa Rica & PA - Treefall gaps
play a large role in forest regeneration and
the maintenance of species diversity.
Kristine Stewart, Ph.D.
Florida International University, 2000.
BIA funded fieldwork (1997 - 1999),
Cameroon - ethnobotany of Prunus africana.
Arika Virapongse, M.Sc.
Khon Kaen University 2006.
BIA funded fieldwork (2004 and 2005),
Thailand - traditional plant medicines of
Kui healers.
Cassandra Quave
Cassandra is researching
plant remedies to fight
drug-resistant Staph
infections ( S. aureus ),
research which hopefully will
have important clinical
applications. Cassandra has
also received funding until
2008 by the National Institute
for Health (NIH) and the
National Center for
Complementary and
Alternative Medicine
(NCCAM). BIA is happy to
assist in funding Cassandra's
fieldwork with a $3,000 grant
Brazil 1995
