Several years of recent fieldwork in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, have turned up taxonomic problems that can’t be answered with the traditional methods of lichenology. A member grant from the Philadelphia Botanical Club has allowed some of these problems to be addressed using modern molecular techniques. This talk will look at several examples of these problems and how DNA sequencing goes where other methods don’t.
Dennis P Waters is a scientist, author, and retired internet entrepreneur who has been studying the lichen flora of the mid-Atlantic region for fifteen years.
