Irwin Murray Brodo (born November 7, 1935 in New York City) is an emeritus scientist at the Canadian Museum of Nature, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He is an authority on the identification and biology of lichens.
Irwin M. Brodo | |
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 Brodo in Maine on 2 September 2001, receiving the first copy of Lichens of North America | |
| Born | 7 November 1935 |
| Alma mater | City College; Cornell University; Michigan State University |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Lichenology |
| Institutions | Canadian Museum of Nature |
| Author abbrev. (botany) | Brodo[1] |
Early life and education
editBrodo grew up in the Bronx and attended City College in Manhattan as an undergraduate.[2] He went on to do his graduate studies at Columbia University, and received a master's degree from Cornell University. He earned a Ph.D. in lichenology under the supervision of Henry Imshaug at Michigan State University.[3]
Career and research
editIn 1965, Brodo was hired by the National Museum of Canada (now the Canadian Museum of Nature), where he continues to work as a research scientist emeritus. Over his career, he has built the lichen collection (CANL) into one of the best in North America.[2] His research includes in-depth studies on challenging genera such as Bryoria, Lecanora, and Ochrolechia. His 1968 work on the lichens of Long Island and the effects of air pollutants was pioneering in the field.[2]
In 1970, Brodo started to edit the exsiccata series Lichenes Canadenses exsiccati.[4]
Selected publications
editBrodo's list of publications includes approximately 100 scientific articles, 8 popular articles, 22 reviews and 6 editorials and obituaries. One of his great achievements was the publication in 2001 of the 795 page book, Lichens of North America with high-quality photographs of lichens taken by Sylvia Sharnoff and Stephen Sharnoff. It won the 2002 National Outdoor Book Award (Nature Guidebook).[5] In 2016, the trio, with additional collaborator Susan Laurie-Bourque, produced Keys to Lichens of North America: Revised and Expanded. More recently, Brodo has published Keys to Lichens of North America, a spiral-bound workbook of over 400 pages including keys to 2045 species.[2]
Teaching and mentorship
editBrodo has taught at Université Laval and the University of Alaska, and he also supervised master's students at the University of Ottawa and Carleton University.[6] He has also taught graduate-level courses and given numerous introductory workshops, including a popular field-course on crustose lichens at the Eagle Hill Institute in coastal Maine.[2]
Professional Leadership
editBrodo has held several leadership positions in professional organizations. He served as President of the International Association for Lichenology for a four-year term, President of the American Bryological and Lichenological Society for a two-year term, and Editor-in-Chief of the scientific journal The Bryologist for several years.[2]
He has also been involved in public service, including work with the Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club and the Ottawa-Hull chapter of the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society.[2]
Honors and awards
editBrodo has received numerous honors throughout his career. In 1994, he was honored with an Acharius Medal presented to him by the International Association for Lichenology.[3] In 1993, Brodo was awarded the Mary E. Elliot Service Award for his meritorious service to the Canadian Botanical Association[7] — and in 2003, for lifetime achievement, the association's George Lawson Medal.[8] In 2013, Brodo was presented with an honorary doctorate from Carleton University, "in recognition of his distinguished career in lichenology and scientific leadership in the international biosystematics community".[6]
Eponyms
editA lichen genus and several lichen taxa have been named to honor Brodo. These eponyms include:
- Brodoa Goward (1987);[9] Bactrospora brodoi Egea & Torrente (1993)[10] Lecanora brodoana Lumbsch & T.Nash (1995);[11] Megalaria brodoana S.Ekman & Tønsberg (1996);[12] Bryoria trichodes subsp. brodoana Bystr. & Fabiszewski (1998);[13] Lecidea brodoana Hertel & Leuckert (2004);[14] Ochrolechia brodoi Kukwa (2011);[15] Lepraria brodoi Lendemer & Tønsberg (2014);[16] Rinodina brodoana Sheard, Lendemer & E.A.Tripp (2014);[17] Acarospora brodoana K.Knudsen, Kocourk. & M.Westb. (2016);[18] Alectoria brodoana Essl. (2016);[19] and Catinaria brodoana R.C.Harris & W.R.Buck (2016).[20]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Brodo, Irwin Murray (1935–)". International Plant Names Index. Retrieved 29 September 2024.
- ^ a b c d e f g Weber, Evi; Lutzoni, François; Clayden, Stephen; Lendemer, James; Goward, Trevor; Hawksworth, David L.; Verkley, Gerard; Robert, Vincent (2015). "Awards and Personalia". IMA Fungus. 6: A51–A55. doi:10.1007/BF03449353.
- ^ a b Kärnefelt, Ingvar (19 August 1994). "Acharius Medallists: Irwin M. Brodo". International Association for Lichenology. Retrieved 10 January 2021.
- ^ "Lichenes Canadenses exsiccati: IndExs ExsiccataID=760360419". IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae. Botanische Staatssammlung München. Retrieved 16 July 2024.
- ^ Watters, Ron. "Winners of the 2002 National Outdoor Book Awards". National Outdoor Book Awards. Retrieved 10 January 2021.
- ^ a b "Carleton Presents Renowned Lichenologist With Honorary Doctorate". Carleton University. 11 June 2013. Retrieved 16 January 2021.
- ^ "Award for Irwin Brodo" (PDF). International Lichenological Newsletter. 27 (1): 13–14. 1994. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-07-19. Retrieved 2022-04-28.
- ^ "Past Recipients of the Lawson Medal". Canadian Botanical Association/L'Association Botanique du Canada.
- ^ Goward, Trevor (1986). "Brodoa, a new lichen genus in the Parmeliaceae". Bryologist. 89 (3): 219–223. doi:10.2307/3243288. JSTOR 3243288.
- ^ Egea, J. M.; Torrente, P. (2007). "The lichen genus Bactrospora". The Lichenologist. 25 (3): 211–255. doi:10.1006/lich.1993.1028.
- ^ Lumbsch, H. Thorsten; Nash, Thomas H. (1995). "New species and new records of Lecanora s.str. from Western North America". The Bryologist. 98 (3): 398–401. doi:10.2307/3243379. JSTOR 3243379.
- ^ Ekman, Stefan; Tønsberg, Tor; Tonsberg, Tor (1996). "A new species of Megalaria from the North American west coast, and notes on the generic circumscription". The Bryologist. 99 (1): 34–40. doi:10.2307/3244435.
- ^ Bystrek, Jan; Fabiszewski, Jerzy (1998). "Materials to North American lichen flora". Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae. 67 (1): 87–93. doi:10.5586/asbp.1998.012.
- ^ Nash, T. H. III; Ryan, B. D.; Diederich, P.; Gries, C.; Bungartz, F. (2004). Lichen flora of the greater Sonoran Desert region. Vol. 2. Lichens Unlimited. p. 290. ISBN 978-0-9716759-1-9.
- ^ Kukwa, Martin (2011). The lichen genus Ochrolechia in Europe. Gdańsk: Fundacja Rozwoju Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego. p. 100. ISBN 978-8375311709.
- ^ Lendemer, J.C.; Tønsberg, T. (2014). "Lepraria brodoi (Stereocaulaceae, Lichenized Ascomycetes), a new species from the temperate rainforests of western Canada and southeastern Alaska, U.S.A.". Opuscula Philolichenum. 13: 20–25.
- ^ Lendemer, James C.; Tripp, Erin A.; Sheard, John (2014). "A review of Rinodina(Physciaceae) in Great Smoky Mountains National Park highlights the growing significance of this "island of biodiversity" in eastern North America". The Bryologist. 117 (3): 259–281. doi:10.1639/0007-2745-117.3.259.
- ^ Knudsen, Kerry; Kocourková, Jana; Westberg, Martin; Wheeler, Tim (2016). "Two new species of Acarosporaceae from North America with carbonized epihymenial accretions". The Lichenologist. 48 (5): 347–354. doi:10.1017/s0024282916000256.
- ^ Esslinger, T.L. (2016). "Alectoria in Mexico". In Herrera-Campos, Maria; Pérez-Pérez, Rosa Emilia; Nash, Thomas H. III (eds.). Lichens of Mexico. The Parmeliaceae – Keys, distribution and specimen descriptions. Bibliotheca Lichenologica. Vol. 110. Stuttgart: J. Cramer. pp. 69–80. ISBN 978-3-443-58089-6.
- ^ Lendemer, James C.; Buck, William R.; Harris, Richard C. (2016). "Two new host-specific hepaticolous species of Catinaria (Ramalinaceae)". The Lichenologist. 48 (5): 441–449. doi:10.1017/s0024282916000438.