Elizabeth Farnsworth New England Wild Flower Society
Senior Research Ecologist. Elizabeth Farnsworth joined the Society staff in 1999 and has directed several special projects, including the completion of more than one-hundred Conservation and Research Plans for rare plants, and the building and promoting of Go Botany. She has conducted research on plant ecology, physiology, evolution, and responses to climate change in both temperate and tropical ecosystems, and serves on several graduate faculties. She has authored and/or illustrated seven books and is Editor-in-Chief of the botanical journal, Rhodora. She holds a PhD in Biology from Harvard University, a MSc in Botany from the University of Vermont, and a BA from Brown University.