Ryan Schmidt Email & Phone Number

I am currently a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow completing my PhD in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Havard University. I am a botanist generally interested in understanding the intersection between plants and people with a strong focus on the human impacts to botanical biodiversity, from ferns to weeds to trees. My research utilizes a combination of fieldwork, historical research, and natural history collections—both historic and contemporary—as tools to answer botanical questions that span large temporospatial scales. I am particularly interested in the establishment and spread of historical nonnatives and the impacts that humans have had and continue to have on plant distributions.