Organization for Flora Neotropica

Back MatterSource: Flora Neotropica, Vol. 58, Calymperaceae (Jan. 22, 1993), p. 102Published by: New York Botanical Garden Press on behalf of Organization for Flora NeotropicaStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4393835 .

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102 Flora Neotropica

William Dean Reese was born on 10 September 1928 in Baltimore, Maryland. He was awarded a B.S., with a major in botany, from the University of Maryland, College Park, in 1953, and an M.S. in 1955 and Ph.D. in 1957, both from Florida State University, Tallahassee. Since 1957 he has been in the Department of Biology, University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette as Assistant Professor (1957-1962), Associate Professor (1962-1966), Professor (1966-1987), and Stephens Honor Profes- sor Emeritus (1987-). He held the position of Head of the biology department 1974-1977 and 1981-1986.

He served as Secretary-Treasurer of the American Bryological and Lichenological Society, 1969-1970, President of the Society 1979-1981, and Editor of The Bryologist 1970-1975 and 1988-1992. From 1985-1988 Reese held the appointmentof External Examinerin Botany, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur. He was appointed as a Research Associate of the Missouri Botanical Garden in 1988.

Reese has participated in bryophyte collecting expeditions to Mexico, western and south-central Amazonia in Brazil and Bolivia, the West Indies, tropical Australia, and tropical China (Hainan Province). His research interests lie primarily with the family of mosses, Calymperaceae, on a world basis, but also with the mosses of the North American Gulf of Mexico Coastal Plain. Reese has written two books and over 100 research articles.

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