Emeritus Research Botanist
Botany
National Museum Institute of the History of Art, Conservation and Museology
United States of America
Ph.D.(1975) Department of Biological Sciences and Marine Science Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara (Adivsors: M. Neushul & I.A. Abbott).`M.A. (1971) Department of Marine Biology and Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, San Francisco State University (Adivsors: G. Oberlander & I.A. Abbott). `B.A.(1968)Department of Biology, San Francisco State University (Advisor: H.D. Thiers).
Biodiversity of marine algae; systematics, biogeography, floristics and ecology of tropical and subtropical marine macroalgae.