Glew, Ph.D., Katherine

Katherine Glew, Ph.D. is Curatorial Associate of lichens 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