Members of the IPC Board
Brief Biographies

  • Carol T. Bradford

    Carol Bradford is a garden writer, photographer, lecturer and consultant. Carol has been writing two weekly columns and a monthly feature article for The Post-Standard since 1994. She is an instructor for OASIS at SUNY Upstate Medical University and has been a Judge for the Culinary Arts Department of the NYS Fair since 1988. She serves on the Advisory Board of Cornell Plantations and on the Cornell Cooperative Extension Community Horticulture Program Work Team. Carol received a Master of Science in Molecular Biology from Syracuse University (1983) and a Bachelor of Science in Nutritional Sciences from Cornell University (1974).

  • Steven Clemants, PhD

    Starting as a Botanist with the New York Natural Heritage Program, Steve Clemants has worked for the Brooklyn Botanic Garden since 1989. Serving in various capacities at the BBG, since 2000 he has been Vice President of Science. In this role, he manages the Science, Publications and Plant Information Departments, is co-Director of the Center for Urban Restoration Ecology, and editor of the on-line journal, UrbanHabitats. Among other professional involvement, Steve is Program Chair of the Torrey Botanical Society, Chairman of the Local Flora Committee for the Long Island Botanical Society, and a Graduate Faculty Member of both the City University of New York and Rutgers University. He has been convenor of international plant symposia, authored or co-authored numerous articles on plants from local to international publications, and edited the 1999 New York Metropolitan Flora Woody Plant Workbook. Steve received a Ph.D.and M.Ph.in Biology from The City University of New York, an M.S. in Botany with a minor in Horticulture from the University of Minnesota, and a B.S. in Botany from the University of Minnesota.

  • John Dickerson

    John Dickerson is the owner of Finger Lakes Conservation Services, near Marcellus, New York, providing planning and application assistance in conservation and reclamation, specializing in plant-based solutions. He operates a small nursery to provide plant materials for applications such as soil bioengineering, living snow fence, and revegetation with native grass-forb mixtures. Current work in FLCS includes assistance to the private sector, the military, and units of government in New York, Pennsylvania, and Manitoba. John retired from the Plant Materials Program of USDA-NRCS in 2003 after 35 years in the conservation plant selection, field testing, and production arena. John has worked in the Midwest, Middle Atlantic, and Northeast Regions. John was lead author of Vegetating with Native Grasses in Northeastern North America (a joint publication of USDA and Ducks Unlimited-Canada, 1997) and was principle organizer and co-chair of the Second Eastern Native Grass Symposium, Baltimore, 1999. John received his B.S. in Forest Science and M.S. in Forest Hydrology from Penn State, back in the Dark Ages.

  • Ed Frantz

     

  • Paul Fuhrmann

    Paul Fuhrmann is Corporate Horticulturist with Ecology and Environment (E & E), Inc. With 31 years experience, Mr. Fuhrmann specializes in revegetation, native plants, landscape ecology, and horticulture. He has provided expert consultation to landscape architects, site designers, and contractors for projects in both the United States and Canada. He is chairman of the Erie County Water Quality Committee for 2001 and a member of the New York State Wetlands Forum, Western New York Nursery and Landscape Association, Erie County Environmental Education Institute, and Niagara Frontier Wetlands Initiative. He also represents E & E in support of an integrated pest management strategy to introduce Eurasian beetles to regional marshlands as a biological control for the invasive purple loosestrife. Paul has an A.A. in Ornamental Horticulture, State University of New York Agricultural and Technical College at Alfred.

  • George Robinson, PhD

    George R. Robinson is Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, University at Albany, SUNY, where he is Coordinator of the Graduate Program in Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, and Co-Director of the Master's Program in Biodiversity, Conservation and Policy. He also holds an appointment as Associate Scientist, NY State Museum. He received his Ph.D. in Botany from the University of California, Davis in 1989, followed by post-doctoral appointments at the University of Kansas and Rutgers University. His research, funded by NSF, US EPA, and USGS, includes conservation biology, disease ecology, and ecological restoration. He is a founding IPC Board member and former Treasurer, and also serves on the Scientific Working Group of the NYS Biodiversity Research Institute, and on the Board of Directors, E.N. Huyck Preserve and Biological Research Station. He holds professional certification as Senior Ecologist from the Ecological Society of America. He lives in Albany with his wife Dr. Ingrid Peters Robinson and their parrot, Lycopersicon.

  • Paul Salon, PhD

     

  • Troy Weldy

    Troy Weldy was the botanist for the NY Natural Heritage Program for nine years and is now the Director of Ecological Management for the Eastern New York Chapter of The Nature Conservancy. As TNC's lead land manager, Troy is overseeing the development of regional invasive species partnerships throughout eastern New York. Troy is also the senior author of the New York Flora Atlas (http://atlas.nyflora.org/) and immediate past-chair of the New York Flora Association. He has a Bachelor of Science in Biology with honors from Butler University and a Masters of Arts in Biology from the College of William & Mary. Troy has numerous publications to his credit, including principal author of the 2002 New York Flora Atlas, as well as author or co-author of numerous rare species and ecological community reports, and has made many presentations to professional organizations and at the Northeast Natural History Conference.

  • Tim Wenskus

     

  • Leslie Weston, PhD

    Leslie Weston has extensive experience in the areas of weed ecology and physiology with an emphasis on the development of both traditional and alternative approaches for weed management in the landscape including turf, ornamentals, nursery crops, Christmas trees and roadside settings. Her research has focused on the use of allelopathy and competition for weed suppression by cover crops, turfgrasses and ornamentals including herbaceous groundcovers. In the laboratory, work has focused on the isolation and identification of novel bioherbicides or allelochemicals from higher plant root exudates for weed suppression and the biosynthetic pathways for production of these allelochemicals. In addition, the study of invasive terrestrial perennial weeds has been emphasized with respect to their ecology, biology, genetic diversity and management. Research has recently focused on the study of spread, interference and genetic diversity present in North American populations of mugwort, Japanese knotweed and pale swallowwort.

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