Hermsen Lab

Santa Cruz Province, Argentina From January 2-19, I traveled to Patagonia, Argentina with members of the Gandolfo Lab (Plant Biology Section, School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University) to do fieldwork in Santa Cruz and Chubut Provinces. Other members of the trip were affiliated with the Museo Paleontológico Egidio Feruglio (MEF, Trelew, Chubut, Argentina) and the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria (Melbourne, Australia). The trip focused on two fossil floras, one from the Miocene of Santa Cruz Province and the other from the Paleocene of Chubut Province. The specimens we collected will fuel future research in the years to come.

Modern Azolla  sporophytes, cultivated The Botany 2018 meeting was held from July 21-25 in Rochester Minnesota. I was involved in two projects presented at the meeting: " Taxonomic composition of the Neogene Gray Fossil Site carpoflora (Tennessee, USA) " was presented and authored by E.J. Hermsen. " An organismal concept for fossil  Azolla  from the early Paleocene (Danian) Salamanca Formation, Patagonia, Argentina " was presented by Nathan A. Jud (Cornell University) and authored by Jud, F. De Benedetti (Museo Paleontológico Egidio Feruglio), E.J. Hermsen, and M.A. Gandolfo (Cornell). It was part of the colloquium  " Fossil plants at the intersection of evo-devo and phylogeny: Celebrating the contributions of Gar W. Rothwell to biodiversity and evolution ."

The Public Market, Seattle, Washington The Geological Society of America annual meeting for 2017 was held in Seattle, Washington. I presented a paper on mosquito ferns coauthored with scientists from Cornell University, Nathan Jud and María A. Gandolfo. You can read the abstract here .