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Dana Griffin, III, Ph.D.

Emeritus Professor of Botany

• griffly3@yahoo.com

Biography

Dana Griffin, III was born in Fort Worth, Texas and grew up in north Texas and southern Colorado. It was while as a student at Texas Tech University that he became interested in bryophytes. This interest deepened as a result of his having enrolled in a bryology course at the University of Michigan's field station on Douglas Lake. Later, he would carry this focus on lower plants into a doctoral program at the University of Tennessee from which institution he graduated in 1965. Dana is married and the father of two grown children. He lists photography and fly fishing among his leisure time interests.

Education

• Ph.D., University of Tennessee, 1965
• M.S., Texas Technological University, 1962
• B.S., Texas Technological University, 1960
• Thesis title:
  "A Population Study of Chara zeylanica in Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico."
• Dissertation title: "The Taxonomy of Chara zeylanica Klein ex Willd."

Academic Positions

• Instructor in Botany, University of Tennessee, 1967
• Visiting Professor in Bryology, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia, Manaus, Brasil, 1974

Research Interests / Major Research Achievements:

Bartramiaceae of North America. Bryology of the sandstone glades of the Southeastern United States. Taxonomy and floristics of bryophytes, especially of tropical floras, plant geography, ecology and phytosociology of Florida's bryophytes.

Present Research

Mosses of Venezuela's Paramos.Taxonomy of Bartramiaceae & Oreoweisia. The Bartramiaceae of North America and Greenland.

Membership in Professional Organizations:

• British Bryological Society
• American Bryological & Lichenological Society

Grants received

• Grant from the National Science Foundation for a 3 year study of the Musci of the Venezuelan paramos.
• Grant from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences for a 1 year study of the bryophytes of Broxton Rocks Ecological Preserve, Georgia.

Selected Publications

Griffin, Dana III. 1998. Axillary hairs in Bartramia Section Strictidium. Evansia 15: 81-83.

Griffin, Dana, III & Frankie Snow. 1998. Broxton Rocks Ecological Preserve: Bryophyte Refugium of South Georgia. Tipularia 13: 23-28.

Seppelt, Rodney & Dana Griffin, III. 1997. Ditrichum (Musci, Ditrichaceae) in the Americas. 1. Ditrichum venezuelanum, a synonym of Ditrichum bogotense (Hampe) Broth. Bryologist 100(2): 212-216.

1995. Sillett, Stephen C., S. R. Gradstein and D. Griffin, III. Bryophyte Diversity of Ficus tree crowns from cloud forest and pasture in Costa Rica. Bryologist 98(2): 251-260.

1995. Churchill, S. P., D. Griffin, III and M. Lewis. Moss Diversity of the Tropical Andes. Biodiversity and Conservation of Neotropical Forests, ed. S. P. Churchill et al., pp. 1-12. The New York Botanical Garden.

1995. D. Griffin, III, R. C. Harris and W. R. Buck. The Bryophytes and Lichens of Rock Hill Preserve, Florida. Evansia 12(1): 31-39.

1994. D. Griffin, III, F. Snow and W. R. Buck. The Bryophytes of Georgia's Sandstone Outcrops: I. The Broxton Rocks Ecological Preserve. Evansia 11(3): 83-87.

1994. D. Griffin, III. Prionodontaceae. In The Moss Flora of Mexico, pp. 696-701. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. No. 69 (vol. II).

1994. D. Griffin, III. Bartramiaceae, In The Moss Flora of Mexico, pp. 537-574. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. No. 69 (vol. I).

1993. D. Griffin, III and W. S. Judd. Hylocomium brevirostre new to Jamaica. Evansia 10(2): 45-46.

1992. D. Griffin, III. The distribution and synonymy of Breutelia microdonta (Mitt.) Broth. with additional notes on certain taxa of Breutelia. Trop. Bryol. 5: 55-59.

1991. D. Griffin, IIIl Philonotis buckii sp. nov. from Southern Mexico. The Bryol. 94(4): 216-219.

1990. D. Griffin, III. Floristics of the South American Paramo Moss Flora. Tropical Bryology 2: 127-132.

1990. D. Griffin, III. The use of axillary hairs in the taxonomy of two neotropical Bartramiaceae. J. Bryol. 16(1): 61-65.

1989. Griffin, D., III and W. R. Buck. Taxonomic & phylogenetic studies on the Bartramiaceae. Bryologist 92(3): 368-380.

1989. Gradstein, S. R., G. B. A. von Reenen, and D. Griffin, III. Species richness and origin of the bryophyte flora of the Colombian Andes. Acta Bot. Neerl. 38(4): 439-448. (senior author S.R. Gradstein).

1989. Griffin, D., III. Oreoweisia erosa (C. Muell.) Kindb. - an African- neotropical disjunct. Cryptogamie 10(2): 297-300.

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