Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum, Berlin-Dahlem Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum, Berlin-Dahlem

Scientific staff

Harrie J. M. Sipman

Contact:
Dr. Harrie J. M. SIPMAN,
Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Freie Universität Berlin, Königin-Luise-Straße 6-8, D-14195 Berlin, Germany.
Phone: (+4930) 838-50149, Fax: (+4930) 84 17 29-49, E-mail: h.sipman at) bgbm.org.

Functions:

  • Curator of the Lichen Herbarium.
  • Collaborator Department of Biodiversity Informatics and Laboratories.


Curriculum:

1972-1976: Assistant at the herbarium of the Institute of Systematic Botany, State University, Utrecht, The Netherlands; 1976-1982: Research Associate at the Institute of Systematic Botany in Utrecht; 1983: PhD degree at Utrecht State University, Utrecht, The Netherlands; 1983-now: Curator of Lichens at the Botanischer Garten & Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem; from 1995-1998 also Deputy Curator of Bryophytes and since September 1996 collaborator of the Department of Biodiversity Informatics and Laboratories.


Committee memberships:

  • member Flora Neotropica Commission, since 1993.
  • member IAPT Nomenclature Committee for Fungi, since 1993.
  • member of Comité de lecture Bulletin de la Société linnéenne de Provence, since 1990.
  • member of editorial board International Lichenological Newsletter, since 1997.
  • member of advisory board Acta Botanica Fennica, since 1997.
  • member of the Consejo Editorial of Caldasia, since 1998.


Research interests:

  • Lichen flora of Colombia; a preliminary checklist is in draft stage.
  • Lichen flora of the Guianas; currently in preparation are treatments of Graphidales and Cladonia, the latter with T. Ahti, Helsinki (draft key available); also available on server of Smithsonian Institution in Washington: key to genera and checklist. Meeting in Berlin, August 2006
  • Lichens of New Guinea, in collaboration with A. Aptroot (Baarn, The Netherlands), E. Sérusiaux (Liège, Belgium) and others); currently in preparation are treatments of Graphidales.
  • Guide to, and placement of lichen determination keys, lichen illustrations and ZSCHACKIA in the Internet.
  • Maintaining of pre-1949 lichen literature database in the Internet: Mattick's Literature Index.
  • Key to the lichen genera of the Neotropics; web version available.
  • Revision of the genus Hypotrachyna in the Neotropics, in co-operation with J. Elix (Canberra, Australia) and T. Nash (Tempe, USA), supported by DFG; preliminary key available.
  • The lichen flora of selected Aegean islands (Greece) and their phytogeographical and historical significance, in collaboration with Dr. Raus; current: inventory of Karpathos supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgesellschaft; illustrated web-catalog in preparation.
  • The lichen flora of Costa Rica. Participation in the Ticolichen Programm of Robert Lücking, and the Inventario National de Biodiversidad of INBio.
  • The lichen flora of Iran, in collaboration with Iranian and foreign scientists.
  • Participant in the Plants and Lichens of Saba project, in cooperation with Conservation International and the New York Botanical Garden.

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