WHerry award winners
2022
Jessie Pelosi
University of Florida
Here we go again (and again): repeated rounds of polyploidy and biased gene retention in ferns
2021
Ana Gabriela Martinez
National Autonomous University of Mexico
Disentangling the systematics of the Elaphoglossum petiolatum complex (Dryopteridaceae)
2020
Amanda Grusz
University of Minnesota-Duluth
An environmentally-based model for the origin of obligate apomixis in ferns: insights from the pellaeid clade (Pteridaceae; Cheilanthoideae)
2019
Hannah Ranft
Johns Hopkins University
Sometimes it only takes one to tango: using natural history collections to assess the impact of asexuality in the fern genus Pteris
2018
Ariana Eily
Duke University
A glimpse at genes critical to the Azolla-Nostoc symbiosis
2017
Alejandra Vasco
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Leaf evolution and development: building better models from fern leaf diversity
2017
Elisabeth A. Hooper
Truman State University
The current status of Aleuritopteris (Pteridaceae) based on recent molecular analyses
2016
Li Bing Zhang
Missouri Botanical Garden
Circumscription and phylogeny of the fern family Tectariaceae based on plastid and nuclear markers, with the description of two new genera: Draconopteris and Malaifilix (Tectariaceae)
2015
Emily B. Sessa
University of Florida
Exploring potential asymmetric hybridization in a Mediterranean fern complex: the Asplenium obovatum group
2014
Fay-Wei Li
Duke University
Massive horizontal gene transfer of a chimeric photoreceptor within ferns
2014
Joanne M. Sharpe
Sharplex Services
Hindsight is 20/20: highlights from a 20-year ecological study of 20 fern species in the Luquillo rainforest of Puerto Rico
2013
Sally Stevens
Purdue University
No place like home? Testing for local adaptation and dispersal limitation in the fern Vittaria appalachiana (Vittariaceae)
2012
Weston Testo
Colgate University
Comparative gametophyte ecology of the American hart's-tongue fern and associated fern taxa: evidence for recent population declines in New York State
2011
Monique McHenry
University of Vermont
Investigating morphological diversity of Andean Polystichum (Dryopteridaceae): seeking explanations for incongruence between sequence variation and morphological variation
2010
Susan Sprunt
Miami University of Ohio
Of genes, scales and venation: detecting patterns of variation in the Pleopeltis polypodioides species complex (Polypodiaceae)
2009
Michael Sundue
New York Botanical Garden
Silica bodies and their systematic implications in the Pteridaceae
2008
Mary Stensvold
USDA Forest Service
Genetic diversity in the Botrychium lunaria (Ophioglossaceae) complex
2007
Renee A. Lopez-Smith
Southern Illinois University
Sperm cell architecture and the neck canal in diploid and tetraploid Ceratopteris cytotypes: does size matter?
2007
Melanie Link-Perez
Miami University
Toward a redefinition of Adiantopsis Fée (Pteridaceae)
2006
Eric Schuettpelz
Duke University
Toward a comprehensive phylogeny of extant ferns
2005
James (Eddie) Watkins
University of Florida
Stress physiology of fern gametophytes: consequences for distribution and abundance
2004
Harald Schneider
University of Goettingen (Germany)
Radiations in drynarioid ferns: evolution of humus collectors as a putative morphological key innovation
2003
Michael Barker
Miami University Ohio
Microlepidopteran soral mimics in the Caribbean
2002
David S. Barrington
University of Vermont
New insights into the phylogeny of Asian Polystichum (Dryopteridaceae) from expanded rbcL data
2001
Sabine Hennequin
Universite Pierre et Marie Curie (France)
Systematics of the fern genus Hymenophyllum s.l. (Hymenophyllaceae) inferred from rbcL and rps4 nucleotide sequences and morphology
2000
No awardee
Not applicable
Not applicable
1999
Catherine Cardelus
University of Connecticut
Habitat selection of epiphytic and terrestrial ferns
1999
Patricia Sanchez-Baracaldo
University of California Berkeley
A recent radiation of Neotropical fern genera in paramo ecosystems
1999
Petra Korall
Stockholm University
Phylogeny of Selaginellaceae based on rbcl gene sequences
1998
No awardee
Not applicable
Not applicable
1997
James P. Therrien
University of Kansas
Evolution and diversification of the Selaginellaceae
1996
Warren D. Hauk
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
A comparison between tmL-F intergenic spacer and rbcL DNA sequence data: an example from Ophioglossaceae
1995
Gerald Gastony
Indiana University
Cheilanthoid fern phylogeny inferred from an enlarged database of rbcL nucleotide sequences
1994
Robert Joel Duff
University of Tennessee
Chloroplast DNA restriction site variation and evidence of structural rearrangements in lsoetes
1993
Gar Rothwell
Ohio University
Heterosporous aquatic ferns in the Upper Cretaceous of western North America
1992
No awardee
Not applicable
Not applicable
1991
David S. Conant
Lyndon State College
Phylogenetic implications of chloroplast DNA variation in the Cyatheaceae
1991
Tom A. Ranker
University of Colorado
Genetic evidence for multiple colonizations of Asplenium adiantum-nigrum onto the Hawaiian Archipelago
1990
Judith E. Skog
George Mason University
The relationship of the fossil fern Schizaeopsis to Schizaea and Actinostachys
1989
Cathy A. Paris
University of Vermont
Evolutionary genetics of the Adiantum pedatum complex: phylogeny and biogeography
1989
George Yatskievych
Missouri Botanical Garden
A reconsideration of the genus Pityrogramma in the southwestern United States
1988
Kathleen M. Pryer
National Museum of Natural Sciences (Canada)
A re-examination of Gymnocarpium dryopteris (L.) Newman in North America
1987
Rodney J. Scott
University of Tennessee
Genetic analyses of antheridiogen sensitivity in Ceratopteris richardii
1986
Michael D. Windham
University of Kansas
Reassessment of the phylogenetic relationships of Notholaena
1985
Charles R. Werth
University of Kansas
The origin of the log fern Dryopteris celsa: allozyme evidence
Pteridological Section Award (prior to 1985)
1984
W. Carl Taylor
Milwaukee Public Museum
Megaspore evolution in Isoetes of northeastern North America
1983
Joan E. Nester
Iowa State University
Comparison of GA3-induced spore germination in Anemia mexicana and Anemia phyllitidis
1982
Hillel Cohen
Dartmouth College
Biochemistry of fern spore germination: partial characterization of the amniopeptidase from spores of ostrich fern
1981
James A. Tanno
University of Connecticut
Plastid ultrastructure in Selaginella martensii forma albovariegata
1980
Michael Cousens
University of West Florida
Gametophyte colonization following tree fall
1979
Christopher H. Haufler
University of Kansas
Biosystematic study of Bommeria and its significance to the delimitation of suprageneric groups
1978
Diana B. Stein
University of Massachusetts
Phylogenetic relationships in the Osmundaceae: evidence from DNA sequence studies
1977
Leslie G. Hickok
Mississippi State University
Somatic recombination and duplicated loci in Ceratopteris