First-year graduate student Rebekah Mohn received the ASPT award for her t-shirt design using the Minnesota native plant Linnaea borealis. She also received the TRIARCH Botanical Image travel grant to Botany 2018 for her photo, Dewy Tentacles. Thanks to Alex Eilts from the CBS Conservatory for letting Rebekah sample and photograph his plants!
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This summer, Rebekah took the six-week-long Tropical Plant Systematics Course offered by the Organization of Tropical Studies in Costa Rica. During the course, she visited four different research stations and enjoyed everything from the high-altitude paramo and cloud forest to the lowland tropical dry forest and rainforest. While there, she found and studied blue-green fluorescence under UV light of spike mosses (Selaginella) and club mosses in response to desiccation stress.
In addition, Rebekah has been using her Zoological Society Fund Natural History Award from the Bell and her J.S. Karling Graduate Student Research Award from the Botanical Society of America to collect sundews (Drosera) from New Jersey, Virginia, Idaho, Montana, and, soon, northern Minnesota.
Way to go, Rebekah!
In addition, Rebekah has been using her Zoological Society Fund Natural History Award from the Bell and her J.S. Karling Graduate Student Research Award from the Botanical Society of America to collect sundews (Drosera) from New Jersey, Virginia, Idaho, Montana, and, soon, northern Minnesota.
Way to go, Rebekah!
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