Les Mehrhoff Botanical Research Award
2026
Jess Rubin & Kevin Melman
Les Mehrhoff Botanical Research Award
“Gathering baseline fungal data in red oak hardwood forest with and without Beech Leaf Disease in UVM Jericho Research Forest“
Levi Smith
Les Mehrhoff Botanical Research Award
“Habitat characterization of Ophioglossum pusillum and mapping of suitable habitat to survey for additional populations in Vermont.”
Naya Banerjee
Les Mehrhoff Botanical Research Award
“Epiphytic bryophyte and lichen survey in the canopy of a northern hardwood forest“
2025
Erik Hagen and Michael Lew-Smith
“Finding Floerkea: Using herbarium specimens and biogeographic modeling to search for new populations of the recently rediscovered Floerkea proserpinacoides in Vermont”
Alex Karasoulos
“Targeted surveys for rare vascular plants in the brackish marshes of Massachusetts”
Emmi Kurosawa
“A survey for 15 introduced populations of critically endangered Aldrovanda vesiculosa in New England, and characterization of ecological requirements for successful cultivation”
Catherine Wessel and Will Durkin
“Targeted surveys for Agalinis neoscotica: Historic and rare populations in coastal Maine"
2024
2023
Andrew Strongbearheart Gaines, Jr.
"Weaving traditional stories into present day: Wild rice (Zizania palustris & Zizania aquatica) inventory in Nipmuc Territorial Lands”
Matt Peters
“Finding Foggii: Expanding documentation of the globally imperiled Fogg’s Goosefoot (Chenopodium foggii)” Report
Christian Schorn
“Targeted surveys for Salicornia maritima in downeast Maine” Report
2022
2021
Peter P. Grima
“Botanical details from the archived writings of Lorin Low Dame” Report
Emily T. Magleby
“Targeted survey for
Matt Peters
“Vermont’s rare Red Cedar Woodlands: Are they pre-settlement forests?” Report
Amanda Weise
“An evaluation of and survey for disjunct East Coast sandplain species in Minnesota” Report
2020
Sarah Bois
“Naturalized Scotch Broom (Cytisus scoparius) on Nantucket, Massachusetts: Assessing the extent of the problem” Final Report
Melissa Cullina and Jennifer Pye
“Investigation and assessment of the herbarium specimens for Monhegan Museum, Maine” Final Report
James Graves
“Conserving the Green Mountain College Herbarium, Vermont” Final Report
Christopher Mangels
“A search for populations of Provancher’s fleabane (Erigeron philadelphicus var. provancheri) along the Housatonic River in Connecticut and Massachusetts” Final Report
2019
Matthew P. Charpentier and Laura Green
“Habitat characterization and assessment of the northern range limit of the regionally rare Crepidomanes intricatum in Northeast North America” Final Report
Karolina Fučíková
“Desmids of selected New England ponds – a comparison to historical data” Final Report
Marion Andrews Holmes
“Testing the influence of land-use history and forest stand age on the distribution and abundance of parasitic plants at multiple scales” Final Report
Paige Howard and Eric Doucette
“Bryophyte and macrolichen survey of the MCLA forest and creating the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts Herbarium” Final Report
2018
Peter Grima
“Investigating the putative hybrid Carex baileyi x Carex lurida” Final Report
Matt Peters
“Exploring the eastern apline: Botanical inventory in Uapishka (Les Monts Groulx), Quebec” Final Report
2017
Dorothy Allard with Arthur Gilman, Ruth Hagerman, Aaron Marcus, Erika Mitchell, Matthew Peters, Anne Reed, Eric Sorenson, Elizabeth Thompson, and Hilda White
“A Targeted Search for New, Rare, and Historically Known Bryophyte Species in Vermont: Ephemeral Wetlands, Alpine Summits and Acidic Cliffs” Final Report
Danny Haelewaters
“A survey of Russula species (Fungi, Basisiomycota, Agaricomycetes) at the Boston Harbor Islands National Park area, Massachusetts” Final Report
Ya Min
“Unveiling the Karyotypes of New England Utricularia Species” Final Report
Morgan W. Southgate
“Ecological Niche Differentiation of the Adiantum pedatum complex in the Green Mountains” Final Report
