Vicki Funk
Vicki Funk | |
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| Born | Victoria Ann Funk 1947 |
| Alma mater | B. S., Murray State University, Biology and History, 1969, M.S., Murray State University, Biology, 1975; PhD, Ohio State University, 1980 |
| Known for | Botanist and curator |
| Awards | 2001 Queensland Fellowship, awarded by the Government of Queensland, Australia
2002 President’s Award for Service, Society of Systematic Biologists 2006 National Museum of Natural History, Science Achievement Award |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | New York Botanical Garden, Smithsonian Institution, George Mason University, Duke University |
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Vicki Funk (born 1947) is a Senior Research Botanist and Curator at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. She is known for her work on thistles and sunflowers, and for her work collecting Compositae, Bryophytes, Pteridophytes and Spermatophytes.[1][2][3]
Biography
Funk studied Biology and History at Murray State University in Kentucky and received her B.S. in 1969. In 1975, she received an M.S. in Biology in 1975 where her thesis was A Floristic and Geologic Survey of Selected Seeps of Calloway County, KY. In 1980, she graduated from the Ohio State University with a Ph.D. writing her thesis on The Systematics of Montanoa Cerv. (Asteraceae). In 1981, she was a postdoctoral intern at the New York Botanical Garden.[4]
Funk's research includes detailing evolutionary relationships and history using plant DNA.[5] Funk co-discovered the critically endangered Bidens Meyeri in Rapa Iti, Tahiti. Funk's work shows that this Bidens species may represent the end of migration of the plant from North American to Tahiti.[6]
Since 1988, she has served as Head of the Biological Diversity of the Guiana Shield program (BDG), at the Smithsonian Institution. She is also an adjunct professor at George Mason University and Duke University.[3]
Bibliography
The standard author abbreviation V.A.Funk is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[7]
- Funk, Vicki (2004). "100 Uses for an Herbarium (Well at Least 72)" (PDF). Division of Botany, The Yale University Herbarium. Retrieved 2015-03-27.
- "An opinion:Down with Alphabetically Arranged Herbaria (and alphabetically arranged floras too for that matter)" (PDF). Plant Science Bulletin Volume 49 Issue 4. Retrieved 2015-03-27.
References
- ^ "Botany Staff - Vicki Funk". Smithsonian National Museum of Natural HIstory. 2015. Retrieved Mar 27, 2015.
- ^ "Thistles and Sunflowers". The Science Show. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 27 May 2000. Retrieved 27 Mar 2015.
- ^ a b "Funk, Victoria Ann (Vicki) (1947-) on". Global Plants on JSTOR. Retrieved 2015-03-27.
- ^ "Department of Botany Staff, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution". botany.si.edu. Retrieved 2015-11-21.
- ^ Weaver, Janelle. "Daisy family shows its roots". Nature.com. Macmillan Publishers Limited. Retrieved 27 March 2015.
- ^ Cohn, Tony (21 January 2015). "New South Pacific cliff flower is critically endangered". SmithsonianScience.org. Retrieved 27 March 2015.
- ^ International Plant Names Index. V.A.Funk.
External links
- "Ask-a-Biologist Transcript – Vol 051 – (Guests: Vicki Funk and Richard Pyle)" (PDF). asu.edu. 2004. Retrieved 2015-03-27.
