Gregory A. Wahlert

I received a Ph.D. in Environmental and Plant Biology from Ohio University in 2010, and I am currently the Senior Museum Scientist and Assistant Researcher at the University of California, Santa Barbara. My research focuses on the taxonomy of several Malagasy groups (Malvaceae, Meliaceae, Polygalaceae), the diversity of Lupinus (Fabaceae) from Western North America, and the systematics of the Violaceae.  For the last several years I have led field studies to produce a floristic inventory of the Mesenia-Paramillo Reserve, a botanically unexplored cloud forest from the Cordillera Occidental in the Colombian Andes.