 | Katherine Glew, Ph.D.
Visit Biology Program Organizer, Curatorial Associate Lichens
kglew@u.washington.edu
Box: 355320
Office: 206-221-6891
Visit Biology, SILS, QUILS - Web Site | | Bio:
Katherine Glew, Ph.D. is Curatorial Associate of lichens and bryophytes at the University of Washington Herbarium, Burke Museum, where she manages historic collections and processes lichens from the Russian Far East. In addition to curation responsibilities, her research interests include alpine lichen community structure on Mount Rainier and lichens from island ecosystems.
Katherine had 20 year career as a high school biology teacher. She then returned to the University of Washington for her Ph.D. There her research focused on lichen taxonomy and alpine vegetation ecology in the northeast Olympic and North Cascade Mountains. Following graduation she pursued post-doctoral research in Bergen, Norway and the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago.
From 2000 through 2003, Katherine taught biodiversity, ecology, and cryptogamic botany at the University of Puget Sound. She mentored four students, while at the university, resulting in undergraduate senior theses. The students’ research documented alpine community phytosociology from Mount Rainier.
During the summers of 2001 and 2003, Katherine joined Ted Pietsch, from the University of Washington, in the International Sakhalin Island Project (ISIP) to study the lichen biodiversity of temperate regions from the Russian Far East, http://artedi.fish.washington.edu/okhotskia/isip/index.htm. The results will be part of a larger floristic and faunal study, including researchers from the Russian Far East Institute and Japanese universities.
Katherine’s interests also include lichens found from the smaller islands in Washington's San Juan Archipelago, lichen succession occurring after the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens and from frost boils in Alaska’s arctic tundra. She is actively involved with conservation in the lichenological community.
Katherine is the Program Organizer for the Visit Biology Project in the Department of Biology, funded by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. This program offers opportunities for students and teachers to be involved with research projects in the Biology Department.
Katherine heads a lichen study group, meeting weekly at the University of Washington.
She is on the board of the American Bryological and Lichenological Society, Northwest Scientific Association. and Vice President of Northwest Lichenologists.
Research Interests:
 Lichens from alpine and island ecosystems.
Phytosociology of lichens with vascular plants.
Floristics of the Pacific Northwest, focusing on Washington State.
Lichen succession in Alaskan Arctic frost boils. |
Selected Publications:
Fryday, A.M., K.A. Glew. 2003. Stereocaulon nivale comb. nov., yet another crustose species in the genus. The Bryologist 106(4): 565-68.
Joneson, S., K. Glew. 2003. Range Extension of the Lichen Acroscyphus sphaerophoroides(Ascomycotina, Caliciaceae) into western Washington State, U.S.A. The Bryologist. 106(3): 443-446.
Glew K.A. 2003. Survey of Rare Alpine Lichens & General Inventory for Camp Muir. Report for Mount Rainier National Park. 11 pages.
Eversman, S., C.M. Wetmore, K.A. Glew, & J.P. Bennett. 2002. Patterns of Lichen Diversity in Yellowstone National Park. The Bryologist 105(1): 27-42.
Gold, W.G., K.A. Glew, and L.G. Dickson. 2001. Functional influences of cryptobiotic surface crusts in an alpine tundra basin of the Olympic Mountains, Washington, USA. Northwest Science 75(3): 315 - 326
Glew, K.A. 2001. Rare lichens of Washington State. In: Conservation of Washington's Rare Plants and Ecosystems. Proceedings from a Conference of the Rare Plant Care and Conservation Program of the University of Washington. Eds. S.H. Reichard, P.W. Dunwiddie, J.G. Gamon, A.R. Kruckeberg, and D.L. Salstrom. pp. 39-46.
Glew, K.A. 1999. Rinodina aspersa (Borrer) Laundon new to North America. Evansia. 16(4): 168-169.
Glew, K.A. 1998. Alpine Lichens of Washington I. Lichens from the Northeast Olympics and North Cascades Mountains. Mycotaxon: Lichenographa Thomsoniana, North American Lichenology in Honor of John W. Thomson. pp. 261-280.
Teaching Interests:
Biology with a ecological focus, Lichenology, Mycology.
Educational projects - Summer Institute for Life Sciences (SILS - environmental approach), Quarterly Institute for Life Sciences (QuILS - focus on the human body, Visit Biology - activities for schools to use when visiting the Botany Greenhouse and UW Medicinal Herb Garden. | | | |
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