Irwin M. Brodo

Irwin M. Brodo (born 1935) 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 Brodo was honored in 1994 with an Acharius Medal presented to him by the International Association for Lichenology.[1]

Brodo did his undergraduate 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.[1] He later went on to teach at Université Laval and the University of Alaska, and he also supervised masters students at the University of Ottawa and Carleton University.[2]

Brodo's list of publications includes 75 research papers, 8 popular articles, 22 reviews and 6 editorials and obituaries. One of Irwin Brodo's great achievements was the publication of the 795 page book, "Lichens of North America" which is filled with high quality photographs of lichens taken by Sylvia Sharnoff and Stephen Sharnoff. It won the 2002 National Outdoor Book Award (Nature Guidebook).[3] 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".[2]

Eponyms

Several lichen taxa have been named to honour Brodo. These eponyms include:

  • Brodoa Goward (1987)[5]
  • Bactrospora brodoi Egea & Torrente (1993)[6]
  • Bryoria trichodes subsp. brodoana Bystr. & Fabiszewski (1998)[7]
  • Lecanora brodoana Lumbsch & T.Nash (1995)[8]
  • Lecidea brodoana Hertel & Leuckert (2004)[9]

References
  1. Kärnefelt, Ingvar (19 August 1994). "Acharius Medallists: Irwin M. Brodo". International Association for Lichenology. Retrieved 10 January 2021.
  2. "Carleton Presents Renowned Lichenologist With Honorary Doctorate". Carleton University. 11 June 2013. Retrieved 16 January 2021.
  3. Watters, Ron. "Winners of the 2002 National Outdoor Book Awards". National Outdoor Book Awards. Retrieved 10 January 2021.
  4. IPNI.  Brodo.
  5. Goward, Trevor (1986). "Brodoa, a new lichen genus in the Parmeliaceae". Bryologist. 89 (3): 219–223. doi:10.2307/3243288. JSTOR 3243288.
  6. Egea, J. M.; Torrente, P. (2007). "The lichen genus Bactrospora". The Lichenologist. 25 (3): 211–255. doi:10.1006/lich.1993.1028.
  7. Bystrek, Jan; Fabiszewski, Jerzy (1998). "Materials to North American lichen flora". Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae. 67 (1): 87–93.
  8. 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.
  9. Nash, T. H. III; Ryan, B. D.; Diederich, P.; Gries, C.; Bungartz, F. (2004). Lichen flora of the greater Sonoran Desert region. 2. Lichens Unlimited. p. 290. ISBN 978-0-9716759-1-9.
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