Dr. Scott Sundberg

Research Assistant Professor, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University.
E-mail to: sundbers@bcc.orst.edu

Dr. Sundberg is a Research Assistant Professor at the OSU Herbarium. He is also the coordinator of the Oregon Flora Project, the goal of which is to write a new flora of Oregon.

His interest in plant systematics began when he took a course at the University of Oregon taught by Dr. George Carroll. The course, which was rigorous, but one of the best taught ones he's taken, introduced him to the splendid diversity of flowering plants throughout the world.

After receiving a B.S. in Biology at the U of O, Scott worked as a botanist at the Coos Bay District of the Bureau of Land Management for three years. He then moved to the University of Texas at Austin, where he pursued a Ph.D. in the systematics of a subgenus of Aster, under the supervision of Dr. Billie Turner.

Following receipt of the Ph D., he spent a year at Ohio State University, where he was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship to work with Dr. Tod Stuessy on species isolating mechanisms in the sunflower family and the Flora de Nicaragua.

He then moved to Seattle, Washington, where he was on the research faculty at the University of Washington, and later a consultant working on wetland and rare plant studies.

Scott then moved to Corvallis in 1994 to coordinate the integration of the University of Oregon Herbarium into the OSU Herbarium. He initiated the Oregon Flora Project that spring.

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