| Steve W. Woodmansee
Research Associate
Stevewoodmansee@bellsouth.net
A South Florida native, Steve earned a B.S. in Biology from the University of Miami in 1996. Prior to IRC, he worked for two years as a research assistant at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden (FTBG). His duties included vascular plant identification, vegetation mapping and monitoring, and rare plant research. He also served as a naturalist at the Deering Estate at Cutler in Miami for three years. While at the University of Miami , he served as a field assistant to Dr. Carol Horvitz, helping conduct post-hurricane vegetation monitoring in Miami-Dade County . In 1997, he joined IRC assisting with the Floristic Inventory of South Florida, the results of which were published as the book Rare Plants of South Florida : Their History, Conservation, and Restoration (Gann, Bradley & Woodmansee 2002). Since then, Steve has participated in many IRC projects and contributed to a number of exciting botanical discoveries, including a significant new population of an endemic cactus in Biscayne National Park (Bradley & Woodmansee 2002). He has also managed several IRC projects including the floristic inventories of conservation areas in Lee, Martin and Monroe counties. He has deposited over 1400 herbarium specimens at FTBG, including additions to the South Florida flora, and many new county records. His current responsibilities at IRC include project management and public outreach. Since 2000, he has served as co-chair of the Miami-Dade Native Plant Workshop (NPW), a free program co-sponsored by IRC which educates the public in plant identification techniques. Since then, he has given programs on and assisted with the formation of NPWs in several other Florida counties. He is currently president of the Dade Chapter of the Florida Native Plant Society, where he has served as a member of the board since 2002; he served on the board of the Florida Native Plant Society from 2002 to 2004.
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